FORT COBB – Arapaho-Butler head baseball coach Jared Cudd has played and coached in hundreds of high school baseball games, but he called the Indians’ game at Fort Cobb-Broxton Tuesday night one of, if not the best, high school game he’s ever been a part of.
Much like the Arapaho-Butler baseball team, the A-B softball team didn’t get an easy season opener right out the gate, instead it traveled to 2020, Class A, state runner-up Binger-Oney Monday night.
One things certain from the first two games of the Clinton volleyball season – this bunch can scrap and fight to the end and proved that in a five-set (15-25, 25-21, 25-12, 16-25, 8-15) loss to Elgin Tuesday night at the Tornado Dome.
The season-opening practice didn’t go the way that CHS head football coach John Higbee wanted, but he said it was just a blip on the radar, as the Reds returned to form over the next two days of two-aday practices.
ELK CITY – The Clinton softball team (1-1 overall) opened up its season at the Elk City Festival Monday and split its first two games of the Shelby Anderson head coaching era, beating Vici, 4-1, in four innings, before then falling to Canute, 8-4, in four innings.
ERICK – An early, two-set lead for the Clinton volleyball team disintegrated over the next two sets, as CHS found itself in a dogfight at Erick Monday night, for the winner-takeall, fifth set.
Clinton freshman Marquis Martin reaches up to try and make a catch in a defensive back drill, at Monday’s practice. CDN
Monday morning’s practice signaled the beginning of the highly-anticipated, 2021 Clinton football season, but it wasn’t the opening practice that fourth-year head coach John Higbee envisioned.
No better way to test a squad, than to open the season against the defending Class A, spring, state champs, and that’s exactly what the Arapaho-Butler baseball team faces, when it travels to Fort Cobb-Broxton for a 4:30 p.m. contest today.
A highly-anticipated, fast-pitch season for the Arapaho- Butler softball team begins at 6 p.m. Monday at Binger-Oney, as the squad looks to further build on a 23- 13, 2020 campaign.