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.
Arapaho-Butler junior Brett Griffith looks to steal in a game earlier this year. No. 18 A-B (12-5 overall) bounced back from its win-streak-snapping loss to Vici Monday, to pick up backto-back wins, defeating Thomas Tuesday, 3-2, and Cement, 12-0, Thursday.
Spring sports at the college level are kicking into high gear, and a few young Clinton graduates are already making impacts on their respective teams.
Boys Soccer (11 games)
Goal Scorers
Devin Keel 13
Jose Perez 11
Jorge Marquez 9
Martin Zapien 6
Samuel Velez 5
Daniel Thompson 4
Ezequiel Nolasquez 3
Opponent own goal 3
Alex Martinez 2
Emerson Dominguez 1
As much as Clinton boys’ head basketball coach Chad Pugh is proud of his team’s accomplishments over his five years, he’s more so proud of the culture he created in the program and that he calls the once-rivaled city his home now.
Nice weather at the start of the Clinton girls’ golf team’s home tournament Wednesday proved to be short-lived as a cold wind, and later, rain kept the poor weather streak going for the season, in a fourth-place team finish for the Lady Reds.
In less than a week’s time, the Clinton soccer program sealed up its I-40 sweep, defeating Weatherford on the road Thursday and returning home to shut out Elk City Tuesday night.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – It’s been a year of accolades and a new record for University of Arkansas at Little Rock hurdler and 2017 Clinton graduate Ka’Neisha Jackson.
Clinton sophomore midfielder Clariza Ramos tries to take the ball from a Weatherford player, during a junior varsity game last week. CDN
WEATHERFORD – The Clinton baseball team (11-8 overall, 6-2 in district) put numerous hits deep into the outfield and at the warning track but nearly all found the grasp of Weatherford (17-9, 10-1) in a 9-3, Custer County Conflict, district defeat Monday night.