Thursday, August 2, 2012
Sports
&,Fitness
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SOFTBALL
Lady Demons
host Pawnee
in scrimmage
Perkins-Tryon's
Lady Demons fast-pitch
softball team will host
a preseason scrimmage
Friday morning as a
tuneup for the upcoming
season.
The Lady Demons
will host Pawnee begin-
ning at 10 a.m. at the
P-T softball field.
The regular season
begins Tuesday when
the Lady Demons will
host Harrah and Kel-
lyville in a triangular
beginning at 4 p.m.
The later in the week,
P-T will play in its first
toumament of the season
at Cushing beginning
Thursday, Aug. 9, with
pool play action.
CALENDAR
Friday, Aug. 3
P-THS softball scrim-
mage hosts Pawnee, 10
+,
a.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 7
P-THS football
practice begins, 4 p.m.,
practice field.
P-THS softball hosts
Harrah & Kellyville, 4 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 9
P-THS softball at
Cushing tournament
through Saturday, Aug.
11.
Saturday, Aug. 11
P-THS football intra-
squad scrimmage, 6 p.m.,
Mcllvain Field.
Monday, Aug. 13
P-THS softball hosts
Meeker, 4:30 p.m., V&JV.
P-TJH softball at
Meeker, 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 14
P-THS softball at
Prague triangular with
Okemah, 4 p.m.
Coyle HS softball at
Ripley, 4 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 16
P-THS softball at
Perry tournament through
Saturday, Aug. 18.
Coyle HS/JH softball
hosts MulhalI-Orlando HS/
JH, 4 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 17
P-THS football scrim-
mage with Perry, 6:30
p.m., location TBD.
Monday, Aug. 20
P-TJH softball hosts
Mannford, 4:30 p.m.
Coyle HS/JH softball
hosts Luther HS/JH, 4:
30 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 21
P-THS softball at
Cleveland, 5 p.m., V&JV.
P-TJH softball hosts
Cleveland, 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 23
P-THS softball hosts
Mannford, 4:30 p.m.
P-THS football scrim-
mage with Hennessey, 6:
30 p.m., location TBD.
P-TJH softball at
Meeker tournament
through Saturday, Aug.
25.
Friday, Aug. 24
P-THS softball at
Hall of Fame Shootout,
Oklahoma City, through
Saturday, Aug. 25.
Stillwater Soccer
Club hosts Josh Hume
Memorial 24-hour soccer
marathon, 7 p.m., SHS.
Bandit camp participants
This group of youngsters who will make up the 2012 Perkins Bandits football
teams took part in a camp last week with their respective coaches to get some
conditioning in prior to the start of preseason practices that were scheduled
this week. It was reported this was the largest number of participants for
the four-day camp that was held on the former site of Wilhite Field. Despite
I
.Ripley.
stay,ng ,n
Class 2A
Ripley will not drop
down a classification as
reported in last week's
Journal.
RHS will remain a
Class 2A school for the
2012-2013 year based on
the average daily mem-
bership numbers released
recently by the Oklahoma
Secondary School Activi-
ties Association. A wrong
formula was being used to
determine the classifica-
tions in last week's article.
To determine schools'
classifications, the top 32
schools make up Class 6A,
followed by the next 32 that
are Class 5A. Classes 4A
and 3A include the next 64
schools, respectively. Still-
water remains a Class 6A
school while Perkins-Tryon
will drop to Class 3A, based
on ADM numbers. But the
division is different for the
three smallest classes.
All of the remaining
school districts are added
up then divided by three.
Based on the number of
schools on the OSSAA
list, that would be 388
districts. That breaks down
to 96 schools in each Class
2A down to Class B. And
based on that formula,
Ripley would be the 66 m
largest school in Class 2A
with an ADM of 149.49.
Alva is the largest and Fort
Towson is the smallest.
For other area schools,
Agra will remain in Class
A while Coyle and Carney
will be in Class B. Cushing
remains in Class 4A and
Guthrie will be in Class
5A.
the heat, it was also reported the kids had a great time. The Bandit Football
Association will host the Pistol Pete Showcase, a preseason scrimmage
event for teams from the second through the sixth grades. It will be held
Saturday, Aug. 18, with starting times to be announced at a later date.
Photo provided
P-T's newest All-Stater
Marone added late
to Large East team
By Rick Lomenick
Journal Sports Editor
TULSA- Eric Marone found out you can get another
opportunity to play baseball even while at work. It also
allowed him to have his name placed alongside those
who've played the game well at Perkins-Tryon High
School.
Marone was selected as a replacement player for
last week's large school All-State baseball game as a
member of the East squad. Marone, a graduated senior
at P-T, replaced Donovan Walton of Tulsa Kelly early
last week.
"I thought it was fun to come here and meet new
kids and play one more game," Marone said after the
East dropped a 6-2 decision to the West squad at J.L.
Johnson Stadium on the campus of Oral Roberts Uni-
versity last Tuesday night.
Marone was contacted early the day before about
playing in the game. However, he was already at work
in Enid without his own transportation to get back.
Former P-T baseball head coach Bobby Buck told him
he would travel to the Garfield County community and
bring back to Perkins. But his boss Johnny Devine
brought him back where he eventually made his way to
Tulsa in time to check in and participate in a 30+minute
practic session before the day ended. .....
To say he was nervous would be an understatement.
This was also the first real action he had seen since the
Demons were eliminated in Class 4A regional tourna-
ment action here in early May.
'Tve thrown a couple of rocks but this is the first
since our last game I picked up a baseball," he said.
He made his All-State appearance in the bottom of
the fourth inning when he went to second base. For more
of his career, Marone had played third base when he
wasn,t pitching. He would, however, play some when
his arm was sore after a pitching assignment.
In that frame, Marone was part of two of the three
outs recorded. He caught a bloop popup that drifted into
shallow right field for the first out. Then to get out of
the inning, he cleanly fielded a ground ball and made a
pin-point throw to first base for the third out.
"I started feeling pretty comfortable out there once
I got my nerves to settle down," Marone said.
In the bottom of the fifth, Marone completed the
first part of a potential double play when he took a toss
from the shortstop and stepped on the bag at second
Eric Marone, a recent graduate of Perkins,Tryen High.
School, was a late addition to the Large East baseball
squad as part of last week's All-State games in Tulsa.
Marone played second base in the game that was played
at J.L. Johnson Stadium at Oral Roberts University. He's
also the sixth baseball AII-Stater from P-T.
Joumal photo by Rick Lomenick
base. However, the relay throw sailed over the first
baseman's head for one of seven errors committed by
the Large East in the game. It also allowed another
West run to score.
Marone got one opportunity at the plate that came in
the top of the seventh inning. He managed to foul off
a couple of pitches but was called out when he tried to
check his swing on an inside pitch. An appeal to the
first base umpire ruled he had went around enough on
his swing and was struck out.
But despite what he went through to get here,
Marone said he enjoyed his experience to play with
some of the state's best high school baseball players.
See ALL-STATE Page B3
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All Legion teams qualify for state tourney
Stillwater's American
Legion baseball team began
play in the 2012 American
Legion State Championship
Tournament earlier this
week at Oklahoma City
University's stadium.
Normally that would be
a noteworthy accomplish-
ment by the Legionnaires
but this summer state
Legion officials decided
to allow all 11 teams that
registered to play Ameri-
can Legion baseball this
summer compete in the
state tournament.
Advancing to state for
this reason takes some of
the luster off the accom-
plishment but it still gives
By Ron Holt
teams that may have win a best of three zone
struggled earlier in the tourney against another
season get a new lease on district champion. Stillwa-
their baseball life for one ter defeated McAlester two
final week. straight games to advance
In the past, qualifying for to the eight-team state tour-
the American Legion state nament.
tournament wasconsidered In short, winning a
a significant accomplish- Majors state championship
ment. in the past was considered
When Stillwater won its one of the toughest accom-
only Majors state crown plishments for a team.
in 1989, the Legionnaires With fewer teams play-
had to first win a four-team ing Legion ball in recent
district tournament, then years things have changed
on the state level. But, it's
never gotten to the point
where every team gets a
chance to play in the state
event. This is a first.
Assembling an 11-team
bracket had to be a night-
mare for state officials.
Stillwater hoped to
make the most of its
second chance when the
Legionnaires played Ada
in the first round this past
Tuesday.
A first round win would
have sent Stillwater against
the Oklahoma Outlaws, the
favorite to win the tourna-
Legionnaires to an elimina-
tion game this afternoon.
Teams receiving first
round byes in the tourna-
ment were the Outlaws,
Three Rivers and the Ard-
more Cardinals.
Stillwater and Ada
opened the tourney Tues-
day. Other first round
games Tuesday included
Edmond Sandlot playing
Oklahoma City Brass-
field, Durant taking on
the Oklahoma City Bulls
and Bartlesville testing the
Lawton Colonels.
Ada stunned the Outlaws
ment, in a winners' bracket in winning last year's state
game Wednesday. A first
round loss would send the See LEGION Page B3
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