The Clinton basketball program just had to look to an opposing sideline to find its next boys’ head basketball coach in Carnegie head coach and former Elk City head coach Lucian Bliss.
Over a three-day span, the Clinton baseball team (12-10 overall, 7-4 in district) will play five games headlined by their final three district games of the season, which will decide where they’ll finish in the 4A-4 standings.
CHICKASHA – Build elite win-loss records, set up a shot at a district title sweep and repeat – that’s the order of operations that both Clinton soccer teams have followed for three-straight seasons, and so far, it’s headed in that same path for the 2021 campaigns.
WOODWARD – In its third tournament in eight days, the CHS boys finished as the runners-up at Woodward’s Tournament Monday, with senior, No. 1 bag Tyson Miller shooting his season-low of 79 to earn fourth as an individual.
Clinton seventh grader Titan Malone dribbles up the field, during a CMS soccer game against Elk City last week. CDN
It was the definition of scrappy, but the Clinton baseball team (12-10 overall, 7-4 in district) did enough in its 4A-4 district doubleheader against second-place Bethany (16-10, 10-3) Monday at home, to split the season series.
ELK CITY – In Monday’s conference meet, the high school girls’ discus came up all Clinton, with sophomore Lola Hester and freshman Kat Meacham finishing first and second.
A chippy, foulladen district battle between the Clinton girls’ soccer team and Cache came down to penalty kicks Friday night at the Tornado Bowl, after a 2-2 tie maintained at the end of regulation and two extra-time periods.
WOODWARD – The Clinton girls’ golf team played in its fourth tournament in 12 days Friday at Boiling Springs Golf Course and exited with a runner-up team trophy and two individual placings.
There would’ve been more chances to play and start for Clinton senior first baseman Grant Kauk, had the 2020 season not been lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.