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Nathaneal Ellis wrestled his way to a win by a second period pin at 152 pounds during last
week's dual with Pawnee here. Ellis is one of the seniors providing key leadership for this
year's Perkins-Tryon squad. Journal photo by Rick Lomenick
WRESTLE
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Phibbs, Ellis, and Lawson as he credits Another positive asset is the number of
them for setting the tone of practice each wrestlers on both the junior high and high
day. school teams. Love reported there are 25
"They do a really good job of making junior high grapplers while the high school
sure the room is running right and every- has 20.
one is doing what they're supposed to be "Like you saw tonight if you have a full
doing," he said. "We've got a lot of young dual team you're in almost every dual and
guys and they're learning and getting better if they have forfeits you get those points,"
as well." he said.
CHESBRO
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Coach Chesbro remains very competitive team," beginning to show signs of
optimistic about this Pie- he said. "Along with those maturity on the mat.
neer team being able to returners, Jakob Ogden and "The younger part of our
right the ship and pick up Aaron Veselak are having lineup - freshman Henry
some momentum in the good seasons and the team Warren at 106, fresh-
coming weeks, is counting on them, as man Tanner Robinson at
"If and when, we get all seniors, to get some qual- 120, sophomores Skyler
ofour best kids in thelineup ity wins. John Ritchey and Lancaster and Christian
and everyone becomes Parker Nicholas, the teams' McCutcheon and a com-
healthy, we will have a junior representatives, are pletenewcomer, SamSmith
at 285 pounds - must start
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r,ra I E F S getting into the win column
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games broadcast on KGFY COAC tournament at West- and more experience on
105.5 FM with the pregame moore through Saturday, the mat," Coach Chesbro
show at 6:15 p.m. Jan. 14.
• Agra HS basketball Monday, Jan. 16 added.
hosts Coyle, 6:30 p.m. • P-TJH wrestling at The Pioneers return to
• Ripley HS basketball at Pawnee festival, action Jan. 3 as they enter-
Oilton, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17 tain Blackwell. SHS then
• Stillwater HS basketball • P-THS basketball hosts travels to face powerful
hosts Moore, 6 p.m. Tecumseh: JV, 4 p.m.; Sand Springs on Jan. 5.
• Stillwater HS wrestling at varsity, 6:30 p.m.
The Oklahoma State
Cowboys will conclude
the 2016 football season
tonight taking on Colorado
in the Valero Alamo Bowl
in San Antonio, Texas. The
kickoff is set for around
8 p.m. A dominating win over
As of this writing, the Colorado should help with
Cowboys were a slight that decision.
underdog to the No. CN CN CN
10-ranked Buffaloes from The Cowboys basketball
the Pac-12 Conference. team continues to turn some
Many of you out there will heads as it wrapped up the
remember the days when non-conference portion
these two teams squared of the schedule last week
off back during the Big with a 92-70 home win over
8 Conference days. The Texas A&M-Corpus Christ
Buffs holds a slight series at Gallagher-Iba Arena.
lead over the No. 12-ranked The visiting Islanders
Cowboys. never really threatened as
A win by the Pokes will O-State rolled to a 52-33
earn another 10-win season lead at halftime. The visi-
to go along with the three tors were outscored 40-37
disappointing losses. It will in the second half to keep
also help take away some of them at bay.
the sting from the Bedlam Five players finished in
loss at Oklahoma earlier double figures led by Phil
this month. And hopefully, Forte with 19 points. Jeffrey
the game plan is to attack Carroll followed with 13
Colorado on both sides of and Lindy Waters added
the ball. We don't think 12. Brandon Averette and
fans can stomach another Thomas Dziagwa chipped
conservative approach, in 11 points each.
As bowl games go, this Another huge contribu-
one is steadily gaining some tion was made in rebound-
prestige. While it isn't in ing as Mitchell Solomon
the same league as the pulled down a career-high
Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl, 14 with nine of them on
or the Rose Bowl, it is one the offensive boards. That
that looks pretty good when was one short of the school
you start looking at season record. Solomon also added
records, eight points coming off the
And the San Ante- bench.
nio-area is a hotbed for Up next will be the start
recruiting in south Texas of the Big 12 Conference
too. Several members of portion of the schedule as
the current team are from the Cowboys host West
that area and we've seen Virginia at 3 p.m. Friday.
the success they've brought A win over the Moun-
to the program. We're sure taineers will increase that
there will be some prospec- respect level and could
tive recruits in attendance serve as a springboard for
to help with their decision, the rest of the season.
Of course, there's still
a lot of basketball to be
played but it sure helps
with the overall atmosphere
when you're winning.
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The Cowgirls finally
suffered their first loss of
the season when they lost
73-54 to Oregon State in
the finals of the Play4Kay
Shootout early last week in
Las Vegas, Nev.
O-State led 19=17 at
the end of the first quarter
over the Beavers but found
themselves trailing 37-32
at halftime. The other OSU
outscored the Cowgirls
36-22 in the second half.
Kaylee Jensen led the
Cowgirls in scoring with
24 points with Mandy Cole-
man following with 15.
The Cowgirls reached
the finals with wins over
Long Beach State and Santa
Clara University.
Up next is conference
action hosting Iowa State
at 5 p.m. today. Just like
the guys, a win to begin
conference play makes for
a positive start.
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