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4- The Elk City News Sports December 21, 2022 Elk City Boosters holds end Merritt vs Canute-Tournament in Arapaho of season Championship Tournament By Shonda Little Over the weekend, the Elk City Boosters Club League held its first annual league championship tournament. Init, kids aged fourth through the sixth grade from all over western Oklahoma competed for the top prize. Bracket standing was determined based on the team’s re- cord during the regular season. In the 6th Grade Girls Gold Division, Merritt and Cordell kicked off the tournament for a chance to play Burns Flat-Dill City for third place on Sunday. Cordell beat BFDC for the third place win. Elk City and Hammon played in the championship game with Elk City winning first place. In the 6th Grade Boys Division, Elk City with Coach Price played Cordell for the third place prize. Elk City won. Cheyenne and Weatherford played for first and second plac- es with Cheyenne winning first. Ashlee Sosa. Staff photo by Rose Cummings. In the 4th and Sth Grade Boys Division, Canute and Merritt played for third place with Canute winning. Elk City with Coach Sanford played Mangum for first and OU women’s basketball: second place with Elk City winning first. In the 4th Grade Girls Division, Clinton and Elk City played for third place with Elk City winning. Cheyenne played Arapaho for first and second places with Cheyenne winning first. Sooners get 6th straight win behind dominant second half TAUCKING Tarik Masri, The Norman shot is going to go down,” OU things — whether it's defend- Wednesday at the Jumpman Transcript head coach Jennie Baranczyke ing, whether it’s diving on the Invitational against Florida. SERVICES said. “(Poor shooting perfor- floor, whether it’s getting re- Big 12 play begins 10 days later ELK CITY,OK. Oklahoma entered the sec- mances) are going to happen bounds — I just think they're with a road game against West year! ond quarter against Southern every once in a while. It’s not doing a really good job.” Virginia before hosting Baylor with just a one-point lead after going to happena lot because The Sooners only allowed at the Lloyd Noble Center on aslow start shooting from out- we're good shooters, but when the Jaguars to score nine side and five turnovers in the it does happen you've got to points in the second quarter to Jan. 3rd. first five minutes of the game. find other ways and I think we “Can we keep the game sim- take a 35-28 lead into halftime. In years past the com- know that.” ‘Ana Llanusa helped the ple?” Baranczyk said. “I'm so We want to wish our bination of poor shooting The Sooners’ five made Sooners break open the game excited to see if we can do that, and turnovers might've been three’s in the game were its with nine points in the third because if we can travel with area teams a great enough to put the Sooners’ on fewest since going 3-16 against quarter on __ three-of-three the defense, we can travel with upset alert. Utah. shooting. Taylor Robertson, the rebounding that we've had Drive-In, season and we look On Sunday, the Sooners But on Sunday, Oklahoma who entered the game riding in these last few games, you never ended up finding their was able to overcome that by a S1-game streak of hitting at forward to watching stroke from behind the arc, fin- shooting 64.9% on all its shots least one 3-pointer, was score- give yourself a much better ishing 5-22 (23%) from deep from inside the arc. It also out- less until late in the fourth shot than hoping you can out- you succeed! and they turned the ball over rebounded the Jaguars 54-26 quarter. shoot other people. six times in the fourth quarter and only allowed 14 points in- Robertson knocked down “For us, I think we had a lot to finish with 23 turnovers in side the paint. an outside shot midway of experience in the non-con- the game. Madi Williams _ finished through the fourth quarter to ference to see what type of Still, the Sooners managed with 14 points on seven of 13 extend the streak to 52 games. team we can be even when ev- to pull away for a comfortable shooting and seven rebounds. She finished with five points Good Luck Area Teams! 76-50 win. Liz Scott came just a few points ‘on two of seven shooting and erything’s not clicking on one end.” With their sixth straight shy of a double-double with was one of five from behind Tarik Masri is a sports re- win the Sooners continue to eight points and 10 rebounds the arc. prove that they aren't just win- in 21 minutes of action. The easiest part of the porter for The Transcript cov- ning games, they're getting “Madi really set the tone Sooners’ schedule is now be- ering OU athletics and area better at winning games. in the first half, and I think hind them. sports. You can reach him by “We need to clean up those Liz really set the tone in the They'll close out their emailing tarikenormantran- turnovers and the 3-point second half. Just doing simple non-conference schedule on script.com Jacob Groves’ 26 leads Sooners We want to wish you a great season! past Central Arkansas Jesse Crittenden, The Sooners to an 87-76 win over three steals late in the second points after scoring 11 and 15, Norman Transcript Central Arkansas on Saturday, half to help the Sooners put respectively, in his first two helping them bounce back the Bears away. starts. 2017 W. Third | S, 1300 Main | gpbankok.com It started with a layup for from last week’s loss to Arkan- The offense did its part, However, he added a team- [ay 580-225-2265 Jacob Groves. sas, too, and it wasn’t just Groves. high nine assists against the ‘The senior posted up and “Pve been waiting for a day ‘The Sooners shot 64 percent Bears. He's now recorded 19 made an easy bucket to give like that to come,” Groves said. (35-55) as a team, made 9-of- assists in his three starts. Oklahoma an early four-point “It’s hard and sometimes your 18 3-point attempts and 8-of- OU coach Porter Moser lead. He then hit 3-pointers days just come and you're hit- 11 from the free throw line. said Uzan turned his ankle ear- Sherfield chipped in with ~ aw WOOT LUCK Teams! ‘on back-to-back possessions to push the lead to 10 points, ting shots, you're making plays and stuff like that. I think obvi- 17 points (6-of-9 shooting), lier in the week but still played despite being less than fully capping an 8-0 run by himself ously my teammates do a great Tanner Groves finished with healthy. that forced Central Arkansas job of finding me when I'm hot, 14 points and freshman Otega “So for him to come out and Oweh added 10. 1210 S. Main St, Elk City to take a timeout. getting me the ball, putting me Saturday marked the third still have nine assists and two He didn’t stop there, scor- in positions where I can score. turnovers, I thought he did a ; 580-225-0100 ing 19 of his career-high 26 And so it just happened to be straight game the Sooners have shot 57 percent or better good job with that,” Moser said www.elksupply.com points in the first half to give my day today.” from the field, which Sherfield—Injury updates: Moser the Sooners a 22-point half- That scoring punch from said is a testament to the team said sophomore guard Yaya time lead. Grant Sherfield was Groves helped the Sooners developing chemistry. Keita will miss the remainder the only other Sooner to score build an early lead, but also “Even in practice with our of the season due to shin sur- double-digit points in the first proved to be helpful in keeping five-on-zero stuff, we're just gery. half. the Bears at arm’s length. flowing in our offense real Freshman guard Benny It was a versatile and scor- ‘The Bears shot just 45 per- crisp,” Sherfield said. “Every- Schréder wasn't available Sat- We Hope You Have A Great Season! ing effort for Groves. He was cent from the floor but their thing's flowing well. And with urday due to an ankle sprain he effective inside the paint and volume 3-point shooting kept guys making shots, Jake, ev- suffered in practice earlier this beyond the arc, as the Sooners them init. They made 11-of-34 erybody on our team, we put a week, though Moser is confi- Ves Finance routinely looked for him on 3-pointers, with seven of them lot of work in, put a lot of time dent it’s a short-term injury. post-ups and spotting up on coming in the second half, and in on our games. So I feel like —Looking ahead: ‘The the 3-point line. He made 10- even cut the lead to 12 midway that's all paying off.” Sooners improved to 8-3 on of-13 shot attempts, including through the second half. Tip-ins the season with the win, 4-of-6 from the three-point ‘The Sooners made enough —No points, no problem: ‘They'll head to Florida for a 1414 W. dtd St, Elk City, OK ° 580-225-1525 line, and finished with three plays defensively down the Saturday marked the third game on Dec. 20 before start- dunks. stretch. Groves also helped de- start of the season for Milos ing conference play at home Groves’ scoring led the fensively, recording two of his Uzan, who finished with zero against Texas on Dec. 31.