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SPORTS 6+ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025 The Elk City News Maverick McNealy f ny CHA™2 ION cours TR Canute’s Kendall Schuster Canute’s Destiny Jackson Elk City's Presley DeLeon Elk City's Abby Brown Elk City's Campbell Garbarino Canute Fans Amateur & Local Sports By Alex Alvarez trict Tournament will start on (A) and Feb 26 vs Kentucky (A). Ole Miss (-33), South Caroli- Class “2A” Friday, Feb 21. ‘The Conference leaders are the na (-32) and LSU (-31). Ryder BASKETBALL AROUND Merritt Boys (Coach Donnie Auburn Tigers with an overall Cowan shot rounds of 67-72-68 THE AREA... Husband) The Boys finished the NCAA PRELIMINARY record of 23-2 and 11-1 in con- for 9 under par and a tie for 9th, Class “A” regular season with a record of MARCH MADNESS 16 ference. He was the best Sooner player. The Canute Trojai 11-13. The boys lost the last two TOP TEAMS Drew Goodman was next at 6 Brock Steffes) and games, to Hobart 32-41 and the South Region: #1-Auburn; OKLAHOMA STATE UNI- under par and 16th place indi- have moved on to Regional district game against Frederick #2-Texas A&M, #3-Wisconsin, VERSITY BASKETBALL vidually. Tournament after winning in 35-39, #4-Texas Tech The Cowboys went down one the District Tournament. The Meanwhile, the girl Oilerettes West Region: —#1-Florida, more spot in the standings in the OKLAHOMA STATE Trojanettes beat Arapaho-But- (coach Jeff Daugherty) continue #2-Houston, #3-Kentucky, Big-12 Conference after consec- UNIVERSITY GOLF ler 56-37 and the boys also beat a great season with a record to #4-Michigan utive losses. Their overall record The Cowboys had their first Arapaho-Butler 56-36. The girls date of 23-2 and rank 7th in the Midwest Region: #1-Ala- is 12-13 with a 4-10 conference tournament at the “Gators In- game began very close, and ear- state. Their last They won their bama, #2-Purdue. #3-lowa State. record. They lost to TCU 72-73 vitational’, where they finished ly in the game, fell behind 20-17 last regular season game against #4-Kansas in a thriller and lost to 955-93. to the Florida Gators by 1 shot: with a defense that could not get Hobart 72-43 and in the District East Region: #1-Duke, #2-Ten- Coming up Feb 19 vs UCEF (A); Florida won with 17 under par their position. But soon enough,Game they beat Frederick 67-27. nessee, #3-Arizona, #4-St. Johns Feb 22 vs Kansas (H) and Feb 25 and Oklahoma State finished at the defense began doing their Regionals will be February 2-22. Towa St (A). Conference leaders 16 under par. Preston Stout was job and the girls pulled away. Class “4-A” OKLAHOMA COLLEGES are the Houston Cougars with low man for the Cowboys with Regional games will be Thurs- Elk City Boys (Coach Tyler OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY an overall record of 21-4 and 6 under par with rounds of 70- day-Saturday February 20-22, Foale). Current record 2-18 af- BASKETBALL 13-1 in conference. 68-66. Second best Cowboy was after this issue’s news are due, so ter losses to Cache 35-41 and to The Oklahoma Sooners went Eric Lee at 4 under par. results will be published in the Kingfisher 31-68. down one spot in their standings OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY next issue. After Friday the 15th, Elk City Girls (Coach Sean in the Southeast Conference af- GOLF OKLAHOMA WRESTLING The Girls have a record of 22-3 Hamm). Current Record 16-7 af- ter losses to LSU 79-82 and Mis- The Sooners participated in Oklahoma State Cowboys, (ranked #3 in the State, and the ter wins versus Cache 67-21 and souri 58-82. Their overall record their first golf tournament of with a 13-0 record are ranked #2 boys have a record of 20-6 and versus Kingfisher 44-40. Their is 16-9 and 3-9 in conference. the season by traveling to Puer- in the nation. Oklahoma Soon- are ranked 16th in the state. last regular game, on Monday, Coming up Feb 18 vs Florida to Rico and finished fifth at 26 ers, with a 7-4 record are ranked was a loss to Altus 55-58, Dis- (H); Feb 22 Mississippi State under par behind Purdue (-39), 20th in the nation. Professional Inidividual Sports By Alex Alvarez event. Tiger has won eight times rick Rodgers by five strokes. PGA CHAMPIONS TOUR the International Tennis Integri- as a professional at Torrey Pines, Scottie made a valiant come- (AKA SENIOR TOUR) ty Agency (ITIA) had announced PGA TOUR - GENESIS including the U.S. Open in 2008. back on Sunday with a score of CHUBB CLASSIC in August that Sinner was free to INVITATIONAL The Genesis Invitational, for- 66, ten strokes better than the Justin Leonard, former Open play as he carried “no fault or The Genesis Invitational, merly Los Angeles Open, was day before, but finished in a tie Championship and former negligence” after testing positive which was moved for Riviera first played in 1926, and Riviera for 3rd after Ludvig Aberg, from Players Championship cham- for the anabolic steroid closte- C.C. in Los Angeles to Torrey C.C. has been host to the tourna- Sweden, who started at -6, also pion, in addition to his hero- bol twice in March, which Sin- Pines in San Diego deserves a ment for years and years, includ- shot a 66 and finished at -12 to ic play during the 1999 Ryder ner said was due to materials special mention for the change ing the early 50’s when it became win by one stoke over Maverick Cup which enabled the USA used during a massage. In Sep- of venues so close to the original known as “Hogan's Alley” as Ben McNealy who had the best tour- the greatest Sunday comeback tember, the World Anti-Doping date, which was kept. Hogan won there three times in- nament round of 64 on Sunday ever during the biennial match- Agency (WADA) appealed to the Kudos to the City of San Di- cluding the 1948 U.S. Open. finishing at 11 under. es, won his first Champions Court of Arbitration for Sport ego, their staff, the golf course The first day, with tempera- Patrick Rodgers finished at -9 Tour event at the Chubb Classic (CAS) over the verdict, seeking staff and the PGA Tour for get- tures in the low 50’s and winds tied with Scheffler, one ahead of in Naples, Florida. Justin had to impose a ban of between one ting a course ready and in im- gusting up to 25 mph, there were four golfers who finished at -8: rounds of 68-65-68/201 to fin- and two years on Sinner. The ap- maculate shape. It takes months only five scores under par, and a Patrick Cantlay, Tommy Fleet- ish four ahead of Billy Andrade peal was set to be heard in April, to prepare a course for such an few scores soared to the 80’s in wood, Tony Finau and Denny and five ahead of Darren Clarke, but WADA revealed on Saturday event, which includes hundreds this tough layout. First round McCarthy. Coincidentally, Lud- another former Open Champi- that it had reached an agreement and sometimes thousands of leader, Denny McCarthy (68) vig Aberg lost to Maverick Mc- onship winner. Hall of famer Er- with Sinner’s legal team for the volunteers. And, thank you to ended up in a tie for 5th at -8 af- Nealy in the only other tourna- nie Els, who began the day tied Italian to serve a suspension Genesis, who after the tourna- ter a 70-71-71 finish. ment that McNeally has won. with Justin Leonard had a bad from February 9 to May 4, thus, ment and in addition to millions Scottie Scheffler, the #1 player Maverick is a Stanford alumni day with a 75 and finished seven Sinner pulled out of the Qatar ofdollars raised during the tour- in the world had opening rounds and holds the best college scor- shots back. Joe Durant and Jim- tournament set to be played this nament for charity, will donate of 70-67 to pull within one ing record for Standford, ahead my Powell have the tournament week. Carlos Alcaraz, who will all of the cars that were used for shot of 36-hole leader Dennis of Tiger Woods. record with 197. now be #1 seed in the tourna- the event (over 250) to relief ef- Thompson who had rounds of Coming up is the Mexico Open ment said that he would prepare forts for the fires in Los Angeles. 70-66. But, on Saturday, Schef- in Puerto Vallarta (Feb 20-23), TENNIS the same way, as his quest, like Tiger Woods, whose mom fler shot an uncharacteristic 76, Cognizant Classic (Feb 27-Mar Jannik Sinner, World’s #1, was every world class player, is to died the week before the tour- tying his worst round on Tour 2) and The Arnold Palmer Invi- suspended for three months due reach #1. He did not address nor nament, continued to host the ever, and for the final round, tational March 6-9 to his failed doping tests in ear- comment anything about Sin- trailed the Saturday leader, Pat- ly 2024. Prior to the suspension, ner’s personally.