CPHS Football: Sandites rout Putnam City West 51-13, eight Sandites score touchdowns

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The Class 6A-II No. 7 ranked Charles Page High School football team (6-4, 4-3) rolled to a dominant 51-13 district win over No. 16 Putnam City West (0-8, 0-5) in the regular season finale Friday night at Patriot Stadium, and the game was safely out of reach for Putnam after the first half.

Sand Springs jumped out to a 44-0 lead before letting the Patriots on the board in their best first-half performance since the 2015 season opener against Nathan Hale. They scored on six consecutive possessions, and were poised for a seventh before Jaheim Butler intercepted a 50/50 ball in the end zone and ran it back 32 yards as time expired. Butler also scored Putnam’s lone touchdown of the half on a 47-yard run with only 1:20 remaining to avert the halftime shutout.

Braylon Flores and Brody Rutledge recovered a pair of muffed kicks and the Sandites took a 14-0 lead before the Patriot offense ever stepped onto the field. Blake Jones scored the first touchdown on a one-yard run, then Ty Pennington tossed a 35-yard scoring strike to Jacob Blevins.

The Patriots actually marched as far as the Sandite 8-yard line on their first possession, but Nate Caseboldt made an end zone interception for the touchback to set up an eight-play march and nine-yard touchdown pass from Pennington to Keaton Campbell.

Sand Springs took a 21-0 lead into the second quarter and scored on a fourth-down 35-yard pass from Pennington to Jamon Sisco. Pennington juked two Patriot defenders before getting the pass off to Sisco, who ran it in from the 15.

Gabe Brown made a tackle for a turnover on downs in Patriot territory, and Tyyee Atkison scored a two-yard touchdown run soon after. Atkison suffered what was supposedly a season-ending hip injury against Bishop Kelley earlier this year, but healed up ahead of schedule and carried the ball 12 times for 78 yards in his return to action.

Putnam West gave the Sandites a free safety late in the half when a bad hike traveled past the punter and out of the end zone. The Sandites followed it with a six-play 38-yard march and five-yard touchdown run from Ryan Shoemaker to make it 44-0.

The second half utilized a running clock, and the Sandites ran the ball on all but one play. Rutledge took over at quarterback and scored his first varsity touchdown from three yards out in the fourth quarter. Butler added a 44-yard scoring run for the Patriots and Saul Olvera Jr. kicked the final point of the game.

Conner Light and Trevor Stone made fumble recoveries for the Sandites in the second half, and Stone’s averted a likely Patriot score from the 8-yard line. Kesean Sadler got an interception for the home team.

Pennington ended the game 18-of-29 for 253 yards and three scores. Sisco was his top receiver with seven catches for 115 yards, followed by Campbell with five catches for 55 yards. Blake Jones had six carries for 34 yards. Heinen was 7-for-7 kicking PATs and is a perfect 26-of-26 this season.

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CORRECTION: Putnam City West announced Saturday, November 7th, that they will be playing a non-playoff post-season home game against No. 14 U.S. Grant (2-6) Thursday at 7:00 p.m. Grant has also opted out of the playoffs. Due to COVID-19-related cancelations this season, the OSSAA has ruled that teams who didn’t play a full ten games in the regular season have the option to play extra games through December 5th. The game will be billed the OKC Metro Bowl.

Next Friday Sand Springs will likely get to host a playoff game for the first time since 2013 due to the changes in typical playoff structure. In a normal year the Sandites would be traveling to No. 2 Stillwater to take on the District 1 Champions. However, if more than four teams from District 1 decide to play in the postseason, then the Sandites will get to host the No. 5 seed, which will likely be either No. 10 Lawton (4-4) or No. 9 Deer Creek (4-5).