The Clinton football team hosts its annual Meet the Players event at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Tornado Bowl.
The scrappy toughness that the Clinton volleyball team (3-5 overall) displayed in its first few games showed itself again in the squad’s home, Best of the West Tournament Saturday, but it came up short of placing in the top three, falling in the third-place game.
Friday afternoon saw the pads come out for the Clinton football team, and anyone that’s watched this group knows there was plenty of physicality to go around in drills that involved contact.
It didn’t take long for COVID-19 to affect athletic seasons in 2020, and the Clinton volleyball team felt that from early on, as the home, Best of the West Tournament was cancelled due to the virus last year.
FORT COBB – Arapaho-Butler head baseball coach Jared Cudd has played and coached in hundreds of high school baseball games, but he called the Indians’ game at Fort Cobb-Broxton Tuesday night one of, if not the best, high school game he’s ever been a part of.
Much like the Arapaho-Butler baseball team, the A-B softball team didn’t get an easy season opener right out the gate, instead it traveled to 2020, Class A, state runner-up Binger-Oney Monday night.
One things certain from the first two games of the Clinton volleyball season – this bunch can scrap and fight to the end and proved that in a five-set (15-25, 25-21, 25-12, 16-25, 8-15) loss to Elgin Tuesday night at the Tornado Dome.
The season-opening practice didn’t go the way that CHS head football coach John Higbee wanted, but he said it was just a blip on the radar, as the Reds returned to form over the next two days of two-aday practices.
ELK CITY – The Clinton softball team (1-1 overall) opened up its season at the Elk City Festival Monday and split its first two games of the Shelby Anderson head coaching era, beating Vici, 4-1, in four innings, before then falling to Canute, 8-4, in four innings.
ERICK – An early, two-set lead for the Clinton volleyball team disintegrated over the next two sets, as CHS found itself in a dogfight at Erick Monday night, for the winner-takeall, fifth set.