A year off due to the COVID-19 pandemic made Clinton Baseball Inc. miss hosting the coach pitch state tournament for the first time in four years, but for the summer of 2021, it’s back.
Clinton senior Zade Cisneros, pictured, was named to the 2021 Class 4A West All-Star roster. Cisneros also made the Western Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association All-Star game along with teammates Grant Kauk and Trey Newcomb.
Clinton 8U softball player Madilyn Ruyle heads to third base in a tournament game earlier this month. CDN
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.