If there’s one major takeaway at Clinton football’s spring practice last week, it’s that physicality and playing with an edge are already in midseason form.
There were a couple seniors that played on the scout team and junior varsity for the Clinton boys’ soccer squad this past season, and efforts like senior defender Emerson Dominguez’s were rewarded with a state title ring.
In the midst of Fidel Castro’s rise to power in Cuba, a left-handed pitcher from western Oklahoma was on the mound for the final game on Cuban soil by an American for the Rochester Red Wings, in July of 1959 against the Havana Sugar Kings.
Caught between classes filled with golfers, Clinton senior Loren Coleman always had to play above her classification or at a higher level, in order to reach the state tournament each year.
In the three decades of Clinton boys’ soccer, senior goalkeeper Anthony Costilla managed to play his one and only year on the Reds’ first state championship team and the only undefeated team in program history.
Clinton Team Maroon 12U’s Grant Serfoss steps forward to gun a throw back into the infield, during a scrimmage against Clinton’s other 12U team last week. CDN
A Clinton offense that returns seven of 11 starters and numerous other contributors knows what it has at many positons, so Tuesday’s spring practice focused more on the youth and inexperience on that side of the ball.
Class 5A girls’ state champion discus thrower Kat Meacham headlines everything about the Clinton track’s state performance, and deservedly so, but three others also managed to make their first career state appearances.
Clinton sophomore Matthew Nguyen, left, and junior Nate Jones went 4-1 in the No. 1 doubles bracket, to earn fifthplace at this past weekend’s Class 4A state tennis tournament. They managed to make the podium and earn a medal, despite having played together for a short time. CDN
OKLAHOMA CITY – A couple state placers were added to the extensive Clinton tennis history, when junior Nate Jones and sophomore Matthew Nguyen went 4-1 to finish fifth in No. 1 doubles Saturday at the Class 4A state tourney, at the OKC Tennis Center.