April 26, 2019 Issue, Page 11 of 14

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Friday, April26, 209 The Elk City Daily News - Elk City, Oklahoma Elk City and Merritt High School Elks cruise past Clinton, to host bi-district Sports Schedule April 26 ELK CITY State FFA CDE contest State testing date 8:30 am. High school tennis tour- nament at home 9 a.m. Soccer ist round play offs 6 p.m. MERRITT High school slow pitch regional tournament. April 27 ELK CITY State FFA CDE contest Regional track meet 10 am. MERRITT High school slow pitch District Tournament. April 28 ELK CITY ECHS Choir Spring Con- cert2 p.m. April 29 Elk senior pitcher Karsen Dixon throws the ball to Elk junior firstbaseman Kasen Moran to record an out against a Clinton baserunner Monday. Staff photo by William B, Carroll. ELK CITY Regional boys golf 8 am. By William B. Carroll 5-1 lead. The Elks then broke Sports Editor the game wide open in the Regional girls tennis 9 fourth. am. In agame the Elk City high In the bottom ofthe fourth, school baseball team needed MERRITT to win to secure a home play- starting with the top of the High school boys golf off game, they took no prison- order, the Elks batted around regional tournament 8:30 ers in a 13-1 win over Clinton the order, with 13 hitters am. Monday in Elk City. coming to the plate during the The Elks came into their inning. final district contest of the April 30 season at 4-5, just a half game Asingle by DeLeon and awalk put DeLeon on the ELK CITY ahead of Chickasha at 4-6 and looking to host a bi-district second, he later stole third State FFA Convention tournament game this week. and then scored on an error Soccer 2nd round play The Elks had lost their previ- to give the Elks a6-1 lead. offs 6 p.m. ous two games against the Later another runner would Red Tornadoes including a score on a passed ball anda MERRITT 9-2 loss in district play and a double by senior Kobe Ger- High school baseball non-district 7-6 loss in Clinton at the I-40 tournament. hold would score another run regional tournament This time the Elks left no giving the Elks an 8-1 lead. doubt scoring early and often May1 in the run-rule shortened Gerhold would later score on a Clinton error to make it 9-1. State FFA Convention game. ‘Two more walks set up The Elks spotted Clinton junior Kasen Moran whose Regional baseball tour- arun in the top of the first nament inning before coming back single led to two RBIs and an with one oftheir own to tie 11-1 lead for the Elks. They State girls golf the game at 1-1. A hit batter, would add two more runs in walk and single loaded the the inning to take acom- All Sports Association bases for junior Caden Culver manding 13-1 lead. meeting whose single scored sopho- Senior pitcher Nick more Addison DeLeon from Gregory, who replaced senior MERRITT third. High school golf state In the bottom of the second, Karsen Dixon after Dixon tournament at Guthrie after three walks loaded the pitched a strong four innings, bases, senior Kobe Gerhold closed out the Red Tornadoes shota ball down the third for the Elks 13-1 win. May2 base line and brought home Next up for the Elks is ELK CITY three runners for a4-1 Elks ahome bi-district playoff Regional baseball tour- lead. nament In the bottom of the third, game against Bridge Creek Elk City junior Kelby Lowrance rounds third base as Elks head coach Quintin Nichols that started after press-time the Elks scored again cour- State girls golf gives the go ahead signal during the Elks’ 13-1 win over Clinton Monday. Staff photo by William B. Carroll. tesy of a passed balllto take a Thursday at 2 p.m. Tne IA ity News hanual Gadation Sections around the comet ENROLLMENT NOW OPEN for Practical Nursing and Dental Assisting ~e We spotight 2019 gradveles from Ek City and surtoundng fowns. Application Packets available online at www.westtech.edu Help us congratulate graduates by placing an ad showing Weatherford Practical Nursing Application Deadline: your support for our students June 1, 2019 Dental Assisting Application Deadline: Callan or rita for more infomationt June 28, 2019 a, Schedule your pre-enrollment assessment today! GOG223-300 0 stop byte ice at 206 roa, Western Technology Center 580-562-3181