32 - THE JOURNAL, Thursday, July 4, 2019
Pioneer grads on many
juco baseball rosters
Recent Stillwater High
graduates will take their
baseball playing skills to
the next level with five
planning to play junior
college baseball in Kansas.
The five players will go
the junior college route in
hopes of improving during
the next two years to earn
looks from Division 1 or
Division 11 colleges in the
future.
Left~handed pitch-
ers Caleb Case and Cole
Miller signed to play at
Cowley County Commue
nity College in Arkansas
City, Kansas. Case also
could play first base for
the Tigers, Who qualified
for the Division I Junior
College World Series in
Grand Junction, Colorado
last season.
Pitchers Caden Pogue
and Eli Riggs will play at
Hutchinson Community
College while outfielder/
infielder Jackson Meyer, a
Pioneer all-state selection,
plans to attend Coffeyville
Community College.
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Riley Metzger, a 2017
SHS graduate, recently
completed two outstanding
seasons as an outfielder
with Hutchinson’s Blue
Dragons. He recently
announced on Twitter that
he would continue playing
baseball at Oklahoma State.
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In the Tulsa World’s All-
World Preseason Football
Contest for 2019, Stillwater
High junior running back
Qwontrel Walker was listed
as the No. 3 running back in
the area. He’s a candidate in
the voting for the World’s
Preseason running back
award .. ‘
Walker rushed for 2,310
yards and 35 touchdowns
on 284 carries last season '
for the Pioneers.
SHS teammates listed as
candidates at their respec-
tive positions are quarter—
back Gunnar Gundy and
receiver Anthony Bland.
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It was sad to see the
demise of American Legion
'baSeball in the state after
the start of high school
summer leagues and other
summer baseball organiza-
tions. Legion baseball was
the best in the state in the
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Monday, Sept. 9
P-THS softball hosts
Bethany, 5 pm.
Tuesday. Sept. 10
P-THS softball at
McLoud, 5 pm.
- P-T 7"'-9"‘ football at
Mannford, 5 pm.
Thursday, Sept. 12
- P-THS softball at Tulsa 7
Conference Tournament at
Cleveland through Satur-
day, Sept. 14.
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past and a source of pride
in numerous communities.
StillWater’s Han-
ner-Sharp Post 129 was
respected as one of the
better programs in the state
in years past. I
American Legion base-
ball is hanging on in the
state with a few teams
remaining. And, recent
state champions among the
group have been competi—
tive in regional tournaments
and some even reaching the
American Legion World
Series. .
Registered as Legion
teams this summer are~the
Ada Braves, Ada A’s, Ard-
more Cardinals, Bartlesville
Doenges Ford, Shawnee
Phillies and Three Rivers
Bandits. The Ada Braves
are three-time state Legion
champion.
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Tom Holliday, former
Oklahoma State assistant
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numerous options that can
be used. It is even custom-
ized for the size of weight
room P-T has. '
It is broken down to two
sides with groups 10f five
players. Each is assigned
a color and it rotates to the
different workouts with per-
centages of their maximum
lifts then need to do and the
number of repetitions. They
are also on a timer.
“Depending on the day
they get 30 seconds for
their lift and 20 seconds
to rest to change from
one lift to the next,” Wil-
liams explained. “It really
changed the dynamic of our
weight rom. We get in and
we get out and there is no
wasted time.”
The big thing he likes
is that coaches do not have
to look at a timer to blow
a whistle. They can spend
their time on coaching tech-
nique depending on the
different lifts and observe
everything taking place in
the weight room.
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seems to mirror the way the
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and head baseball coach,
is intohis second season '
coaching the Chatham
Anglers in the prestigious
Cape Cod Baseball League
in Massachusetts. '
As expected, the Angler
roster features several
O-State players, including
outfielder Cade Cabbiness,
infielder Hueston Morrill,
pitcher Parker Scott and
newcomer infielder/out—
fielder Kaden Polovich,
who is off to a productive
start this summer.
Polovich, a Deer
Creek-Edmond graduate,
played two years at North-
west Florida State College
before signing with the
Cowboys. Last season, he
hit .273 with a team—lead—
ing 12 home runs and 38
'runs—batted-in.
Another Cowboy
playing in Cape Cod this
summer is Ben Leeper, a
pitcher for Wareham.
Demons are on the practice
field with things kept on a
timing system to eliminate
wasted motion.
“The kids know that
everything is based on time
and efficiency,” Williams
said, adding there is no
wasted time. A full Summer
Pride workout session in the
weight room is 34 minutes
long. Including the con-
ditioning portion outside,
the full workout is done
in an hour. It also includes
five minutes of stretching
exercises.
This system was found
while attending a coaches
clinic. A trial version was
used last year and the
coaching staff liked the
. results so the full program
was purchased last fall.
And it isn’t just used for
Summer Pride. Williams
said it was utilized by the
body mechanics class as
well at the basketball pro-
grams and the football
off-season athletes. It was
also used during the season
5 when lifting was Scheduled.
“We’re pleased with it,”
Williams said. “I think we
get sufficient and efficient
work in by using that pro-
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Summer Pride isn’t the
only thing many of the P-T
gridders have been involved
with so far this summer.-
All Of the skill players for
both the middle school
and high school took part
in seven-on—seve’n camps
each week during June at
Stillwater High School’s
Pioneer Stadium.
I ‘fIt’s immeasurable what
it does for us,” Williams
said. Coaches went to Still-
water on Tuesdays with the
seventh and eighth graders
and on Wednesdays with
the freshmen and varsity.
Williams added it helped
the incoming seventh grad—
ers get introduced with
what to expect in school
ball with the terminology.
It is seen as a refresher for
the eighth graders.
“It’s kind of cool to see
them grow from that first
seven-on-seven to the last,”
Williams said of his middle
schoolers. “They under-
stand how it sit down in a
hole and how to work to
get open. It’s just a throw
and catch. It’s been really
good for us.”
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fourth year to attend this
event and was all about
getting valuable repetitions
for this year’s group.
“I know seven—on-seven
is not real football so I take
everything with a grain
of salt,” Williams said.
“It’s getting'a chance to
work on the timing of your
quarterback and receivers
and getting your defensive
backs to break on the ball
and, recognizing routes. It’s
just good for us.”
Williams also sees this
L as bonus practice time since
there are things that you
can do in a seven-on-seven
situation that can’t be done
in practice in the fall. And
it goes for both sides of
the ball.
“It’s strictly passing
so you kind of figure out
through seven-on-seven
how it gives you a great
idea of who’s going to be
ready to play in thefall
and compete at that level,”
Williams said.
Heading into the spring
drills, Williams and his
staff felt like they. had about
10 receivers at their dis-
posal. But after thOSe two
weeks of workouts and the
seven-on—seven camps that
number has been reduced
to about seven. However,
Williams said the others are
capable of battling playing
time.', .
And that competitive—
ness goes for theother side
of the ball with defensive
players vying for positions
and playing time.
“There’s a lot of good
that comes out in compet—
ing in‘this type‘of event,”
Williams said.
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