B2 - THE JOURNAL,
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Sports
Bandits open
at Stillwater
The Perkins Bandits
football teams will open
their Northeast Oklahoma
Youth Football Association
seasons this Saturday on
the road at Stillwater. All
of the games will be played
at Pioneer Stadium located
at the high school.
The slate of five games
started with second grade
action at 2 p.m. followed
by the third game at 3:15
p.m. The fourth grade will
play at 4:30 p.m. and the
fifth grade at 6 p.m. The
final game of the day will
be sixth grade action at 7:
30 p.m.
Perkins will remain on
the road the next week with
fourth through sixth grade
action slated at Bristow
starting at 2:30 p.m. The
third grade will have a bye
and the second grade is not
scheduled to play.
The home portion of the
season will be on Saturday,
Sept. 21, at Mcllvain Field.
The second and third grade
teams play Cleveland start-
ing at 12 noon. The fourth
through sixth grade Bandits
play Cushing starting at 2:
30 p.m.
The Bandits will go back
on the road to Dewey on
Sept: 28, at Sperry on Oct.
5, and at Perry on Oct. 12,
before finishing the regular
season with three straight
home dates starting Oct.
19 with Cleveland, fol-
lowed by Mannford on
Oct. 26, and Stillwater and
Okmulgee on Nov. 2.
On Oct. 12, the second
graders will host Dewey
See BANDITS Page B3
Ripley's Garret Gosney slides safely into third base after
a leadoff double followed by an advance due to an error in
the third inning. That helped the Warriors to a five-run rally
enroute to an 8-3 win over MulhalI-Orlando last Tuesday at
Ripley. Journal photo by Rick Lomenick
.ors ra
Some might have been
disappointed that Okla-
homa State didn't rack up
an insane amount of offen-
sive numbers last Saturday
against Mississippi State
to begin the 2013 season.
The important thing was
getting the win and that was
attained 21-3 in Houston's
Reliant Stadium. Next was
an effective defensive effort
and that too can be checked
off the list.
Let's face it, we as Cow-
boys fans were spoiled by
the huge offensive out-
puts from the past few
years. They make for nice
headlines and highlights.
But remember in some
instances, it took those
numbers for OSU to win
as the defense would some-
times make any offense
look pretty good. But that
gs
RIPLEY - The Ripley Warriors useddler Salinas followed with a single then
a five-run third inning to help put away stole second base before reaching third on
a pesky Mulhall-Orlando squad at Ripley a passed ball. Houston Twoguns was hit
last Tuesday by an 8-5 verdict, by a pitch before Corey Sadler reached
RHS concluded the week with its annual on another M-O error that scored Salinas.
trek to Missouri. Twoguns, Sadler, and Trevor Watts also
The visiting Panthers, coached byscored for the 5-0 advantage.
first-year skipper Kirk Kinzie who is a Ripley added an insurance run in the
Perkins-Tryon graduate, took a 2-0 lead fourth inning and two more in the fifth.
in the top of the first inning with the help M-O's final run came in the top of the
of three Warrior errors that resulted in the sixth.
unearned runs. That score would hold up The Warriors were limited to three
until the bottom of the third frame when hits but took advantage of four Panthers
Ripley finally got the bats roiling, errors. Twoguns was the winning pitcher
Garret Gosney led off with a double in six innings of work. He gave up three
then moved to third base on an error. He runs on three hits but struck out 10 and
would later score on a passed ball. Chan- walked three.
ogs
' Rick Lomenick
was different Saturday. It yards on 13 carries and one
would also be something touchdown, the first scored
the OSU coaching staff may by OSU with 1:33 left in the
rely on until the offense gets first half. It was three-yard
untracked, jog that capped a six-play
Keeping a Southeastern 69-yard drive. Walsh also
Conference team out of the had the biggest play of the
endzone is no small task drive with a 46-yard run
regardless of who they then followed with a 12-
are. Hopefully that will yard scamper to the MSU
give this OSU group added three-yard line. He would
confidence as they prepare score on the next play.
for the upcoming games Tailback Jeremy Smith
against less than stellar scored OSU's two second
opponents in Texas-San half touchdowns on runs
Antonio and Lamar. More of one yard and 20 yards.
on them later. All along, the defense kept
Head coach Mike Gundy Mississippi State in check.
didn't take long to make Smith finished the game
the quarterback change to with 102 yards on 15 car-
J.W. Walsh from starter ties.
Cint Chelf. Chelf and the Considering the slow
offense was stagnant in the start OSU got off too,
two series he took snaps, the final statistics weren't
And things weren't much too shabby with numbers
better for Walsh early on as many teams would dream
MSU held a 3-0 lead thanks of getting. The Cowboys
to a 40-yard opening-drive generated 432 yards of
field goal. But thing started total offense with 286
looking better in the dos- of those rushing and the
ing minutes of the second remaining 146 in passing.
quarter. Backup tailback Desmond
The defense was already Roland finished with 46
keeping the Cowboys in the yards on 10 carries in his
game with an aggressive first significant action.
effort that was needed in In passing, Walsh was
recent years. New defensive 18-of-27 for 135 yards.
coordinator Glenn Spencer Chelf was 3-of-6 for 11
delivered that against the yards. Neither threw an
Bulldogs. interception and as a team,
Walsh became the first OSU did not turn the ball
OSU quarterback since Zac over. Josh Stewart, Tracy
Robinson to rush for over Moore, Charlie Moore, and
100 years in a game as he
notched a team-high 125 See COWBOYS Page B3
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