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NEW PODCAST: Spring sports spotlight and much more
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Ben Johnson
It's hardware galore as spring sports wind down. Michael and Ben dissect baseball, slowpitch softball, golf, track & soccer as teams and individuals enter the final weekend of competition for this athletic season.
Find out which performances this spring have impressed the guys the most, and listen in as they give props to the outstanding offensive performances at the slowpitch state tournaments that happened to close out the school year.
All that, plus some coaching moves to mention, including Justin Brown filling the shoes left by Larry Callison at Tahlequah Sequoyah. And also some football recruiting tidbits.
Thanks as always for listening.
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SPRING SPORTS: State golf recaps (boys and girls)
| Ben Johnson
Girls golf - state championship results
FIND FULL TOURNAMENT RESULTS HERE
Class 6A
Team1. Edmond North - 621 - Huskies second straight championship and ninth overall
2. Jenks - 629
3. Edmond Memorial - 649
Individual
1. Sydney Hermann (Ponca City) - 144 (73-71) - Went from finishing in a tie for 10th at last year’s state tournament to winning this year’s title
2. Emma Shelley (Bartlesville) - 148 (71-77)
3. Emily Miller (Edmond North) - 150 (76-74)
Class 5A
Team1. Durant - 666 - Lions pick up second title in program history (first was in 2016)
2. Duncan - 680
3. Ardmore - 737
Individual
1. Blayne Barker (Durant) - 146 (75-71) - Was last year’s seventh-place finisher in 5A.
2. Jaelynn Unger (Noble) - 150 (72-78)
3. Mika Ramos (Bishop Kelley) - 152 (75-77)
Class 4A
Team1. Hilldale - 616 - Hornets first championship since 2015 and fifth overall.
2. Wagoner - 723
3. Muldrow - 724
Individual
1. Kenzie Kirkhart (Hilldale) - 146 (76-70) - Joins sister Katie Kirkhart as an individual state champion.
2. Maddie Kamas (Kingfisher) - 147 (73-74)
3. Jordan Clayborn (Hilldale) - 149 (74-75)
Class 3A
Team1. Plainview - 582 - A move down to 3A this year secured the Indians’ third straight championship and fourth overall.
2. Purcell - 675
3. Dickson - 684
Individual
1. Reagan Chaney (Plainview) - 136 (66-70) - Was the fourth-place finisher in 4A last year before winning this year’s crown.
2. Taylor Towers (Rejoice Christian) - 143 (72-71)
3. Adeline Noron (Plainview) - 144 (70-74)
Class 2A
Team*1. Oklahoma Christian School - 750 - Saints celebrated their first-ever girls golf championship in dramatic fashion.
2. Regent Prep - 750
3. Mooreland - 754
*Won in a playoff
Individual
1. Jenni Roller (Regent Prep) - 142 (73-69) - Roller wins the title in Regent Prep’s first year competing for the OSSAA championship.
2. Brooklyn Benn (Oklahoma Christian School) - 146 (73-73)
3. Sarah Sherrard (Christian Heritage) - 154 (75-79)
Boys golf - state championship results
FIND FULL TOURNAMENT RESULTS HERE
Class 6A
Team1. Owasso - 897 - A second-round 284 propelled the Rams to their first championship since 2015, while ending Edmond North’s three-year run of titles.
2. Edmond North - 901
3. Stillwater - 901
Individual
1. Jordan Wilson (Edmond North) - 213 (68-70-75) - Went from fourth place last season to state champion this year.
2. Cooper Wilguess (Edmond Memorial) - 217 (72-70-75)
3. Kyle Peterson (Bixby) - 218 (74-74-70)
Class 5A
Team1. Guthrie - 916 - Beat Bishop McGuinness by eight strokes to win last year’s state championship, and this year enjoyed a 28-shot cushion for the program’s fifth crown.
2. Bishop McGuinness - 944
3. Bishop Kelley - 949
Individual
1. Luke Morgan (Guthrie) - 213 (69-68-76) - Was eight shots off the winning pace last year for third place, but this season beat all other golfers and won by four strokes.
2. Hunter Oden (Piedmont) - (71-72-74)
3. David Woodliff (Bishop Kelley) - 223 (74-74-75)
Class 4A
Team1. Heritage Hall - 911 - Chargers snagged their third straight title and 13th overall.
2. Cascia Hall - 950
3. Holland Hall - 951
Individual
1. Max Roberts (Ada) - 213 (70-72-71) - Had a seventh-place finish last year in the state tournament, but was one of three players to shoot a final-day 71 to claim the title.
2. Drew Mabrey (Holland Hall) - 217 (72-73-72) -
3. William McDonald (Heritage Hall) - 219 (75-69-75)
Class 3A
Team1. Regent Prep - 882 - First program in school history to win its second championship. Rams won 2A last year and now 3A this season.
2. Oklahoma Christian School - 890
3. Kingston - 930
Individual
*1. Jaxon Dowell (OCS) - 202 (67-69-66) - Dowell edged out Goodman for last year’s championship by three strokes, and this time the Oklahoma commit won in a playoff.
2. Drew Goodman (Chr. Heritage) - 202 (63-69-70)
3. Jackson White (Regent Prep) - 207 (69-69-69)
Class 2A
Team1. Turner - 924 - First team title since 2004 was never in doubt, thanks a 306 and a 308 in the first two rounds of the tournament.
2. Linc. Christian - 955
3. Community Christian - 956
Individual
1. Conner Boydston (Big Pasture) - 210 (66-74-70) - His first round 66 held up over the next two rounds, as he went from finishing fourth last season to first this year.
2. Brayden Strickland (Linc. Christian) - 215 (70-71-74)
3. Jackson Hoelker (Okla. Bible Academy) - 219 (71-71-77)
* Photo credit - Kevin Farr
LEEDEY'S BROADBENT TO TAKE OVER RED OAK GIRLS PROGRAM
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Michael Swisher
Luke Broadbent will be in the same type of situation.
He’s just moving to the other side of the state to do it.
Broadbent on Monday was approved as the new girls basketball coach at Red Oak.
The Cashion native has spent the last five years coaching the Leedey girls program.
His teams were 90-55 in that stretch went to the Class B state quarterfinals three of the last four years.
Broadbent, who has family roots in the western Oklahoma community, didn’t come by the decision to leave easily.
“I love Leedey. I love this community and, especially, I love my kids here,” he said.
“They are such incredible kids. We have been blessed with a lot of success during my time here.”
Yet, Broadbent, his wife and newborn baby will be packing up and moving 300 miles to the southeast.
“I will always have fond memories of being here,” Broadbent said of Leedey. “But Red Oak offered me something that I just could not turn down.”
The schools are reflective of one another.
Both are in rural settings.
Both have strong softball traditions (Leedey has eight slow pitch titles; Red Oak has seven slow pitch, including 2023, and eight fastpitch crowns).
Both have realized their share of success in girls basketball as well.
Leedey has made 22 total trips to state with one title.
Red Oak has been 10 times, eight of those trips since 2011.
The Lady Eagles have been in the state finals three times during that stretch, but haven’t reached Oklahoma’s elite eight since 2019.
The 2023 squad was 22-5 under Casey Butcher and reached the Class A area finals before dropping consecutive games to Riverside and Quinton. Butcher will remain the Lady Eagles' softball coach.
Red Oak will offer the same type of circumstances for Broadbent, just in a different setting. While Broadbent admits the move is a “a big one,” he also says the opportunity for success awaits.
“I think Red Oak is one of - if not THE - staples of small schools east of I-35,” he said. “ It’s got great administration, great kids and great coaches and tremendous tradition.”
SKORDLE'S FINAL 6A SOCCER RANKINGS
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Korry Rogers
It's postseason time in Oklahoma high school soccer and this year’s playoffs in 6A boys and girls are shaping up to be elite competition.
Here is a look at our final rankings of the season, the playoff brackets and our picks for the "final four" in each bracket:
6A Girls Final Rankings
- Norman North (14-0) (7-0) W14
- Edmond North (10-2) (6-1) W4
- Deer Creek (10-4) (7-0) W7
- Union (13-1) (6-1) W3
- Jenks (9-2) (6-1) W2
- Owasso (12-2) (6-1) W5
- Bixby (9-5) (6-1) W5
- Edmond Memorial (10-3) (6-1) L1
- Yukon (9-3-1) (5-2) W3
- Westmoore (8-5) (6-1) W6
- Mustang (10-4) (5-2) W1
- Broken Arrow (7-4) (5-2) W1
- Norman (10-5) (4-3) L2
- Booker T. Washington (7-5) (5-2) L1
- Edmond Santa Fe (6-8) (4-3) W3
- Enid (9-5) (4-3) L2
Playoff Brackets - 6A Girls
#4 Deer Creek vs. #15 Edmond Santa Fe
#10 Westmoore vs. #9 Yukon
#7 Bixby vs. #16 Enid
#5 Jenks vs. #12 Broken Arrow
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#2 Edmond North vs. #14 Booker T. Washington
#6 Owasso vs. #3 Union
#1 Norman North vs. #13 Norman
#8 Ed. Memorial vs. #11 Mustang
6A Girls Final Four Prediction:
Deer Creek vs. Jenks / Edmond North vs. Norman North
6A Boys Final Rankings
- Broken Arrow (13-2) (7-0) W7
- Norman North (10-4) (7-0) W6
- Westmoore (10-2) (6-1) W6
- Jenks (9-2) (6-1) W1
- Deer Creek (10-3) (6-1) L1
- Owasso (9-4) (6-1) W6
- Edmond Memorial (12-2) (5-2) W4
- Edmond North (9-5) (6-1) W2
- Mustang (11-3) (5-2) L2
- Putnam City West (12-2) (6-1) W3
- Stillwater (11-3) (6-1) W3
- Bartlesville (6-4) (5-2) W1
- Tulsa Union (7-4) (4-3) W3
- Northwest Classen (11-4) (4-3) L1
- Bixby (6-6) (3-4) W2
- Capitol Hill (7-4) (4-3) W2
Playoff Brackets - 6A Boys
#4 Deer Creek vs. #16 Capitol Hill
#3 Westmoore vs. #7 Edmond Memorial
#1 Broken Arrow vs. #13 Union
#8 Edmond North vs. #12 Bartlesville
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#4 Jenks vs. #15 Bixby
#6 Owasso vs. #11 Stillwater
#2 Norman North vs. #14 Northwest Classen
#10 Putnam City West vs. #9 Mustang
6A Boys Final Four Prediction: Edmond Memorial vs. Broken Arrow / Jenks vs. Norman North
LITTLEJOHN LANDS BIXBY GIRLS JOB
| Michael Swisher
The door was opened.
Rylie Littlejohn knew she had to walk through.
Littlejohn on Monday accepted the girls head coaching position at Bixby High School.
She’ll succeed Tina Thomas, who stepped away after eight successful seasons, including a pair of state runner-up finishes.
Littlejohn makes the Bixby move after three seasons at the helm of the Preston Lady Pirate program, one that got back to the state tournament this year for the first time since 2017.
“That was the hardest part,” said Littlejohn, who broke the news to her Preston team on Monday afternoon.
“If there was a reason I didn’t want to do this, it was them. Although I graduated a big core of the team, I still had three coming back that have been with me since they were freshmen.
“Leaving their senior year was not easy.”
But, she said, when the Bixby job opened up, she couldn’t help but be interested.
For starters, Littlejohn and her husband Chase, the Preston boys’ coach, live in Bixby.
“It’s five minutes from my house,” she said.
When the Littlejohns have had their opportunities, they’ve taken in some Bixby basketball games.
“When I’ve watched the program, I’ve thought, ‘I want to be a part of that,’” Littlejohn said. “Now, did I think it would happen this soon? No.
“But I feel God opened this door and if he opened it, I need to walk through it.”
The former Rylie Torrey, Littlejohn helped lead Locust Grove to a state championship as a player in 2015.
Her collegiate career landed her at Oral Roberts where she picked up both a bachelor’s and master’s degree prior to accepting the Preston job before the 2020-21 season.
Her first team won 14 games. Then 21 the next year.
The 2022-23 squad went 24-6 and made it to the 2A state tournament before being knocked out by Pawhuska.
While Bixby also graduated a large core of its talent, Littlejohn knows she doesn’t have to rebuild.
“It’s a good foundation and they know what winning looks like,” Littlejohn said. “They did graduate a big class with a lot of college talent, but hopefully there are more college-level players coming up.”
A school the size of Bixby, she said, certainly offers the opportunity.
“There’s so much to choose from and you can practically build the program the way you want,” she said.
She’ll begin that process later this spring during Bixby’s rounds of tryouts.
In the meantime, Littlejohn said she’s glad to be past the toughest part of the entire process.
“Talking to my Preston team today was brutal,” she said. “But I know this was the best career move as far as what’s best for me and my family.”
SKORDLE'S UPDATED 6A SOCCER RANKINGS
| Korry Rogers
And down the stretch they come.
District championships and playoff spots are on the line as the Oklahoma high school soccer regular season winds down the next two weeks before the playoffs launch in May.
Here are where the Skordle folks see the rankings for Class 6A for games played through April 14:
6A Girls
- Norman North (12-0) (5-0) W12
- Edmond North (8-2) (4-1) W2
- Tulsa Union (11-1) (4-1) W1
- Mustang (10-2) (5-0) W8
- Deer Creek (8-4) (5-0) W5
- Jenks (7-2) (4-1) L1
- Edmond Memorial (8-2) (4-0) W7
- Owasso (9-2) (3-1) W2
- Norman (10-3) (4-1) W2
- Bixby (7-5) (4-1) W3
Teams still in play-off contention:
- Yukon (7-3-1) (3-2)
- Westmoore (7-5) (5-1)
- Edmond Santa Fe (5-8) (3-3)
- Moore (8-5) (3-3)
- Enid (9-3) (4-1)
- Sand Springs (8-3) (3-2)
- Booker T Washington (6-4) (4-1)
- Broken Arrow (5-3) (3-1)
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6A Boys
- Mustang (11-1) (5-0) W7
- Jenks (8-1) (5-0) W8
- Deer Creek (9-2) (5-0) W5
- Broken Arrow (11-2) (5-0) W5
- Norman North (8-4) (5-0) W4
- Westmoore (9-2) (5-1) W5
- Edmond Memorial (11-2) (4-2) W3
- Owasso (7-4) (4-1) W4
- Edmond North (7-5) (4-1) L1
- PC West (10-2) (4-1) W1
In the Playoff Hunt still:
- NW Classen (10-3) (3-2)
- Norman (5-6) (3-2)
- Capitol Hill (6-3) (3-3)
- Stillwater (9-3) (4-1)
- Enid (8-5) (3-2)
- Union (5-4) (2-3)
- Bartlesville (5-3) (4-1)
- Ponca City (8-4) (2-2)
- Booker T Washington (4-5) (2-3)
SKORDLE'S UPDATED 6A SOCCER RANKINGS
| Korry Rogers
1) Norman North (6-0)(Ed. note: These rankings have been compiled by a committee consisting of several people associated with soccer in the state. We have dubbed them the Skordle Futbol Committee.)
With district games starting across Oklahoma high school soccer, here's how we ranked the 6A teams this week as they begin their push for playoff seeding.
6A Girls
2) Edmond North (5-1)
3) Union (7-0)
4) Jenks (3-1)
5) Owasso (3-1)
6) Mustang (6-2)
7) Broken Arrow (2-1)
8) Deer Creek (3-4)
9) Yukon (4-2-1)
10) Edmond Memorial (2-2)
6A Boys
1) Mustang (7-1)
2) Edmond Memorial (7-0)
3) Broken Arrow (6-2)
4) Deer Creek (4-2)
5) Jenks (3-1)
6) Union (3-1)
7) Norman North (4-2)
8) Westmoore (4-1)
9) Edmond North (4-2)
10) Bixby (3-2)
Skordle's Preseason Large School Soccer Rankings
| Michael Swisher
(Ed. note: Although his daughter is currently playing in three leagues and he is listed as the author, Michael Swisher is not smart enough to compile these rankings. They will be compiled each week by a committee consisting of several people associated with soccer in the state. We have dubbed them the Skordle Futbol Committee.)
6A Girls
- Deer Creek
- Edmond North
- Broken Arrow
- Norman North
- Jenks
- Union
- Edmond Memorial
- Bixby
- Yukon
- Owasso
6A Boys
- Norman North
- Jenks
- Deer Creek
- Broken Arrow
- Mustang
- Union
- Edmond North
- Bixby
- NW Classen
- Edmond Memorial
5A Girls
- Bishop McGuinness
- Piedmont
- Bishop Kelley
- Collinsville
- Noble
- McAlester
- Lawton MacArthur
- El Reno
- Sapulpa
- Claremore
5A Boys
- Santa Fe South
- Bishop Kelley
- Southeast
- Tulsa East Central
- Lawton Eisenhower
- Tulsa Will Rogers
- Tulsa Memorial
- Tulsa Edison
- Piedmont
- Bishop McGuinness
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WEEK 1 – MATCHES OF THE WEEK
Friday March 3, 2023
GIRLS
Deer Creek (6A #1) vs. Norman North (6A #4) – State Championship Rematch
Bishop Kelley (5A #3) vs. Yukon (6A #9)
Union (6A #6) vs. Owasso (6A #10)
Edmond Sante Fe vs. Edmond Memorial (6A #7)
BOYS
Broken Arrow (6A #4) vs. Mustang (6A #5)
Oklahoma Christian School (3A) vs. Heritage Hall (3A)
Jenks (6A #2) vs. Mustang (6A #5)
Edmond Santa Fe vs. Edmond Memorial (6A #10)
Deer Creek (6A #3) vs. Norman North (6A #1)
SKORDLE SAMPLER - Week 10 (2022): The Popcorn Ball
| Michael Swisher
While out trick-or-treating with my kids Monday night, I was having a discussion with some of the other parents in our group about my Halloween experiences as a kid.
I vividly remember always loving the houses that gave away homemade cookies, brownies, caramel apples and - especially - popcorn balls.
I was reminiscing and remembering the good ol’ days when people used to hand out these homemade treats and it really made Halloween special.
As my kids were about midway through the evening and collecting a ton of Halloween candy, all three of them came running back to me telling they were just given popcorn ball.
They all wanted to know what it was exactly and if it was good?
Is it good?!?!?!?!?!