B: Sports
GANS SOFTBALL
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 25, 2024
Last year at this time, both former Gans Lady Grizzlies softball coach Laney James and her assistant Jacklyn Green weren’t put in place in those coaching posts until late summer break. Thus, there was...
B: Sports
SPEEDHORSE FUTURITY
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 25, 2024
Local race horse Ima Fancy Eye, owned by Shania and Terry Dale Cox and trained by Rhonda Valvidia, won last Saturday’s Speedhorse Futurity, which took place at Tulsa’s Fair Meadows Race Track. The win...
B: Sports
SALLISAW SCHOOL ATHLETICS
July 25, 2024
The 2024 Sallisaw Black Diamond Football Camp will take place from 6-8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at Perry F. Lattimore Stadium. The camp is open to those youth who will be in grades three through six th...
B: Sports
SALLISAW WRESTLING
July 25, 2024
The Sallisaw Black Diamonds Wrestling Camp will have three sessions taking place Aug. 3 at the wrestling room inside Sallisaw Middle School. The sessions will be from 10 a.m. to noon, 12:30-2 p.m. and...
B: Sports
SALLISAW WRESTLING
Earns All-American status twice at Fargo
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 23, 2024
FARGO, N.D. — After a rough end to the Junior Freestyle Division portion of the 2024 USA National Juniors Wrestling Tournament for Sallisaw 106-pounder Cason Craft, things could not have ended any bet...
B: Sports
GORE WRESTLING
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 23, 2024
Gore has found its successor for wrestling coach Matt Hawkins, who earlier this summer took an assistant football coaching job with the Sallisaw Black Diamonds. The Gore Public Schools Board of Educat...
B: Sports
MULDROW GOLF
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 23, 2024
CATOOSA — Although she was a last-minute replacement on the East All-State Golf Team, Muldrow’s Claire Tabor made the most of her appearance in Monday’s Oklahoma Coaches Association All-State Golf Tou...
B: Sports
SALLISAW HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
By JADE PHILLIPS STAFF WRITER 
July 18, 2024
Sallisaw Black Diamonds senior football player Cole Stephens will end his prep career in the 2024 Oklahoma Coaches Association All-State Football Game next Friday night at Oklahoma Baptist University ...
B: Sports
Black Diamonds duo, Stilwell Lady Indian eliminated from tournament
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 18, 2024
FARGO, N.D. — Sallisaw Black Diamonds wrestler Cason Craft is still in line to be a national champion. At the 2024 National Junior Wrestling Tournament, Craft won his third and fourth matches at 106 p...
B: Sports
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 18, 2024
It looked as if Muldrow Lady Bulldogs senior golfer Claire Tabor’s high school career ended at last May’s Class 4A State Tournament. Then, she got perhaps the most important call to date last week. Du...
B: Sports
SALLISAW WRESTLING
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 16, 2024
FARGO, N.D. — Two Sallisaw Black Diamonds wrestlers are still in line for national titles at the 2024 USA National Juniors/Cadet Wrestling Tournament. Cason Craft, who won the Class 4A 106-pound state...
B: Sports
CENTRAL SOFTBALL
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 16, 2024
One never knows, especially a coach, what lays ahead of him or her. At the Central Public Schools Board of Education meeting last Wednesday night, it approved Central Lady Tigers fast-pitch softball a...
B: Sports
CENTRAL BASEBALL
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 16, 2024
In a bit of a whirlwind situation, Central High School was in need of filling its baseball coaching job after CHS fast-pitch softball and baseball coach Wes Green was hired as the new Sallisaw Lady Di...
B: Sports
SALLISAW WRESTLING
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 11, 2024
Three Sallisaw Black Diamonds wrestlers, Cole Mayfield, Bodie Adams and Cason Craft, will try to accomplish two things next week when they go to the 2024 USA Nationals Junior/Age 16-and-Younger Tourna...
B: Sports
ROLAND FOOTBALL
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 11, 2024
Roland High School did not have to look far to find the successor for football coach Austin Cantrell, who played his high school football with the Rangers and left this summer to take a coaching job a...
B: Sports
SALLISAW BASEBALL
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 11, 2024
Sallisaw Black Diamonds baseball pitcher Brock Streun wanted to better himself before he begins his college career at Crowder College in Neosho, Mo., with whom the 2024 graduating senior signed in May...
B: Sports
SALLISAW FOOTBALL
July 9, 2024
The 2024 Sallisaw Black Diamond Football Camp will take place from 6-8 p.m. July 29-30 at Perry F. Lattimore Stadium. The camp is open to those youth who will be in grades three through six this upcom...
B: Sports
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR 
July 9, 2024
Adrianna Chronister, a member of the Sallisaw Takedown Club and soon-tobe senior Stilwell Lady Indians wrestler, qualified for her third consecutive USA Nationals Junior/Age 16-and-Younger Tournament,...
B: Sports
SALLISAW WRESTLING
July 9, 2024
The Sallisaw Black Diamonds Wrestling Camp will have three sessions taking place Aug. 3 at the wrestling room inside Sallisaw Middle School. The sessions will be from 10 a.m. to noon, 12:30-2 p.m. and...
B: Sports
ROLAND GOLF
July 9, 2024
The first Roland High School Golf Two-Player Scramble will take place July 19 at Eagle Crest Golf Course in Alma, Ark. The entry fee per two-man team is $200, which includes golf cart, green fees and ...