Sports
Related Photos
-
Chickasha’s Sydney Cook (left) and Dakota Mabry mark Cache’s Jessica Scott during Tuesday’s match at Hampton Field. Freshman Hannah Elrod’s hat trick earned the Chicks a 3-2 upset of the seventh-ranked Bulldogs.
-
Chick junior Aaron Beckenkamp works the ball against two Cache defenders. Becks had one of five Chickasha scores as the team stayed unbeaten with a 5-0 shutout.
Discussion
Lady Chicks upset seventh-ranked Cache
Chickasha boys shutout Bulldogs, 5-0
Steve Scott’s soccer Chicks came away with a pair of good, solid wins over 4A power Cache Tuesday night at Hampton Field.
Freshman forward Hannah Elrod’s hat-trick got the ladies a 3-2 upset over the seventh-ranked Lady Bulldogs, and Italian exchange student Piero Valmassoi scored twice to lead the tenth-ranked Fightin’ Chicks to a 5-0 shutout in the nightcap.
Elrod gave the Chicks their first lead as they pinned Cache early with a 15-yarder from out front, but the Bulldogs’ Mallory Brown got the equalizer about 10 minutes later on a very similar setup on the other end.
“We came out this time with a little more enthusiasm and fire,” Scott said of the Lady Chicks' quick start. “We’ve usually been playing as a second half team but came out very quickly tonight.”
The girls had another strong second half to pull off the upset. Elrod got the lead back early, but Cache equalized again on a score by Samantha Gonzalez. Elrod pushed Chickasha out to the lead for good with her third goal about halfway into the half.
That would be it for the freshman as she spent the rest of the match on the sidelines icing her sore knee. The defense did the rest, playing outstanding ball control for the final 20 minutes to negate the Dogs’ potent offense and put the game away.
“Once we got into that situation, we moved some people into different spots and changed a lot of things to put more numbers behind the ball and that really helped us out,” Scott said.
Senior keeper Carly Blasingame, still playing with an achy right elbow, came up with eight saves.
The Chickasha boys dominated their match, jumping out to a 2-0 lead halftime lead on a header from senior captain Colt Dixon. The header was set up on a corner kick from sophomore midfielder Erick Hernandez.
The Chicks second goal came on a penalty kick by Valmassoi.
Sophomore forward Jaime Ruiz set up the third goal early in the second half, digging the ball out in the left corner and pushing it out to Valmassoi for a 12-yard pop from the elbow.
Junior mid Aaron Beckenkamp scored 10 minutes later, picking up a long ball out of the back and burying it from 10 yards out.
Ruiz capped off the scoring from about 20 yards out, picking up a through ball, juking his defender and quickly converting with the right foot for a 5-0 lead.
With about 25 minutes left, Scott pulled most of the front and midfield players, and the reserves still kept Cache pinned down for most of their shift to close things out.
Sophomore keeper Zach Widener had 11 saves as the Chicks stayed perfect at 3-0.
“Outside of the tournaments, we’ve been playing really well,” Scott said. “That may have had something to do with those early morning matches, but we’ve come together quite a bit.”
Their preseason schedule toughened them up pretty quickly and got them some attention.
“I didn’t tell the boys, but the rankings came out this morning and we were ranked tenth,” Scott said. “They deserve it after this game.
“Going up to the Catoosa tournament gave a lot of people a chance to see us. Every non-tournament preseason game we played we played well and tonight was just another showing of how we’ve been playing. We defended our turf pretty well.”
His young Chicks bounced back after coming away with a split from highly-ranked 4A Heritage Hall on Friday. The girls (2-1) lost 4-0 to the top-ranked Lady Chargers, but the boys beat the eighth-ranked Hall 2-0 on goals from Valmassoi and Tyler Wilson.
They’ll be off now until after the spring break when they host their annual Chickasha Invitational on Thursday, March 25.
- Sports
-
-
Duncan nips Chicks for straight-game win
Duncan got their eighth match win of the season Tuesday, beating Nancy Waters’ Lady Chicks in straight games at the Activity Center.
The Chicks looked like they had a little hangover from Monday night’s tough road loss at Tecumseh, coming out flat again and dropping their first two games by identical 25-17 scores.
They came out firing on all eight cylinders for game three, running out to a 15-9 lead on the strength of a 7-0 run with Shelby Crosley serving, but the Demons battled back to tie it late and the Chicks let it slip away, 25-21. -
STATE SPORTS BRIEFS
NORMAN (AP) — Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops has named walk-on Patrick O'Hara as the starting place-kicker for the seventh-ranked Sooners.
Stoops said on his radio show Tuesday night that O'Hara won the competition with Jimmy Stevens, freshman Michael Hunnicutt and redshirt freshman Bryce Easley. -
Sooners' announcer to retire
NORMAN (AP) — Bob Barry Sr. announced Tuesday that he plans to retire as the radio play-by-play voice of Oklahoma football and men's basketball after the upcoming season.
Barry has been the radio voice of the Sooners for the last 20 years and he also had a 12-year stint in the job at the beginning of his career. In between, he handled the play-by-play for Tulsa basketball games and then for Oklahoma State football and basketball. -
Big 12 fans target Huskers during last go-round
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Cornhuskers shouldn't expect a fond farewell from fans when they go on the road this fall.
Century-old relationships will end when Nebraska leaves the Big 12 for the Big Ten in 2011, meaning this season's visits to places like Kansas State and Iowa State could be it.
Folks in those old Big Eight haunts already are planning raucous sendoffs.
The message from Iowa State fan Adam Gray: "Don't let the door hit you on the way out." -
Eagle project gives discs flight at park
Early this spring, Tanner Tibbetts, a scout from Troop 4306 in Chickasha began to plan his Eagle Scout Project. He decided on a Disc Golf Course.
He had seen a disc golf tournament at Duncan Lake while he was attending a camporee. There were more than a hundred campers who attended the weekend Disc Golf event at Duncan Lake. He continued to see this event for five consecutive years, because it was held on the same weekend as an annual scout camp.
It was surprising to him see so many people involved in an event that was unavailable in Chickasha. -
Alex visits Ryan for final scrimmage
RYAN – Alex coach Justin Savage took his Longhorns back home to Ryan Friday for their final scrimmage and came away pretty happy with his team’s performance.
With the new re-alignments, Ryan dropped to Class C this year but will still be pretty good despite losing quarterback Colby Barrett to graduation. Vype’s pre-season football magazine picked them to finish second behind Temple in a tough District C-2. -
Chicks struggle with Reds' run game
Clinton, ranked sixth in the Vype Pre-Season 4A poll, brought their powerful running game to Memorial Stadium Thursday for both teams’ final tune-up and presented Chickasha with some new challenges on both sides of the ball.
Tailback Saul Pina, who rushed for just under 1,200 yards (7.1 yards per carry) and 13 touchdowns last year, ran roughshod behind the Reds’ big front line and gave the Chick defense fits. -
Drover Baseball, softball programs host alumni weekend
The USAO baseball and softball programs, in conjunction with the Alumni Association, will host an alumni weekend in August for former players to come together socially and competitively.
“I think it’s a great thing. It keeps them involved in our programs and it provides tradition,” softball coach Jenn White-Cody said. “And I think people love to come back … It’s a way they can reconnect with the guys and gals they played ball with.”
Baseball and softball alumni will meet for dinner and drinks beginning at 5 p.m. August 28, and will follow with an alumni baseball or softball game, beginning at 1 p.m. the following day at Bill Smith Ballpark. Registration for both is $30. Any additional guests — including spouses — are $15 each. -
Chickasha splits matches in Lawton
Chickasha was at Lawton Tomlinson Thursday night for some middle school volleyball and came home with a split. The “A” team lost a close, three-game set and the “B” team won in straight games.
The “A” team prevailed in game one 27-25 but Tom answered with a 22-25 win to even things up and took the rubber game 12-15.
“Elizabeth Wilson and Chloe Moore both served for a five-point runs and Esteria Sanchez had a lot of good hits,” coach Amy Widener said.
Chickasha “B” came out on top in game one 25-19 and held Tom off 25-23 for their straight-game win. Widener said that Devyn Crosley and Athena Stallard both served well for the Chicks in that match.
“Everyone got to play and the girls were very excited,” the coach said. “They worked hard for their points, moved their feet well and never gave up.
“I was very proud of their effort tonight.”
The high school team will be at the Skiatook tournament Saturday then everyone will be back in action Monday at Tecumseh. Matches start at 4 p.m.
-
Woods struggles during second round at Barclays
PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — Tiger Woods was poised to take control at the Barclays on Friday. Instead, he went the other way.
Woods missed a 20-inch putt for one of his four bogeys over the last eight holes and shot a 2-over 73.
The difference from the rest of the year is this only cost him the lead, not a chance of winning.
Jason Day, the 22-year-old Australian who won his first PGA Tour event earlier this year, made three straight birdies late in his round and finished with a good par for a 4-under 67 that gave him a one-shot lead.
Day was at 8-under 134, one shot ahead of Kevin Streelman (63) and Vaughn Taylor (70). - More Sports Headlines
-
