Sand Springs Sports Roundup: Mack Taylor and Parker Haling take fourth at Skiatook tournament

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A version of this story was originally written for the Sand Springs Leader.

Cross Country

The Sandites got their first taste of the postseason Tuesday at the Frontier Valley Conference Meet in Bartlesville. The girls didn’t have a full lineup, but the varsity boys played eighth and the junior high boys placed seventh.

Jazmin Lopez led the varsity girls with a 5K time of 24:32 for 37th place. Alejandro Lopez led the varsity boys in 19:15 for 30th place, closely followed by Noah Hanlon in 19:22 for 33rd. 

Chloe Grona led the junior high girls with an 11:57 two-mile run for fourth place. Taigh Wright led the junior high boys with a time of 11:39 for 13th. 

The varsity teams will return to action Saturday, October 23rd at Mohawk Park in the 6A-East Regional.

Fishing

Sandite duo Mack Taylor and Parker Haling placed fourth at the Oklahoma BASS Nation trail event on Lake Skiatook Saturday, catching three fish totaling 6.29 pounds. On Sunday they caught one fish weighing 1.19 pounds for 37th place. 

Standings have not been updated with this weekend’s results yet, but the duo should rank among the top 10 in the state. The OBN season will take a winter break and return to action April 2nd at Lake Tenkiller.

Softball

The Charles Page High School softball team recently ended the season with an 18-15 record as Regional runners-up. 

Despite not advancing to the State tournament, the Sandites showed flashes of brilliance this year, including wins over Edmond Memorial and El Reno, who did go to State. They pitched three shutouts and won seven games by run rule.

Lauren Hammock led the team in batting average (.446), on-base percentage (.532), and hits (41). Kelsi Hilton batted .413 and led the team in slugging (.543) with a team-best four triples and 30 RBI. Raegan Rector led the team in doubles (11) and Jolee McNally led in runs (36).

Rector led the team in put-outs with 183, and Avery Tanner led in assists with 66. Rector turned 14 double plays and Tanner had 12. Rector was also among the most efficient fielders, holding a .995 fielding percentage on 204 opportunities.

Hilton was the team’s ace pitcher this season, collecting a 10-6 record with a 4.5 ERA, 1.61 WHIP, and a team-high 46 strikeouts. Nataley Crawford went 5-6 in the circle with a 4.2 ERA, 1.65 WHIP, and 42 strikeouts.

The Sandites will graduate five seniors this year: Tanner, McNally, Hammock, Rector, and Taylor Skipper.

Volleyball

Sandite Volleyball wrapped up its season with a 14-20 record, going 2-6 in Frontier Valley Conference action, and winning its home tournament.

The girls played a tougher schedule than they have in the past few years, competing at several A-league tournaments, and 12 of their 20 losses came at the hands of eventual State Qualifiers. 

Payton Robbins led the offense with 259 kills, followed by Kasidy Holland with 204, Layla Lenex with 192, and Jacelyn Smith with 147. Robbins also led the team in aces with 49, followed by Charley Fahland with 36 and Smith with 34. 

Lenex led the team in blocks with 64, Robbins had 31, and Smith had 29. Fahland had a team-high 353 digs, Robbins had 265, and Teyha Johnson had 217. Johnson handled most of the setting, recording 689 assists.

Sand Springs will graduate Smith, Holland, Fahland, and Johnson this year.

Chad Warren and Noah Daczewitz take top spots at Lake Texoma Qualifier

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Charles Page High School student Noah Daczewitz took second place among non-boaters at Sunday's BASS tournament. (Submitted).

Sand Springs made a splash at Oklahoma BASS Nation's first Qualifier of the year.

Charles Page High School Class of 2009 graduate Chad Warren took first place out of 49 boaters at Lake Texoma Sunday, April 8th. 

Warren caught the five-fish limit for 20.68 pounds, beating the runner-up by 2.23. 

CPHS student Noah Daczewitz took second place out of 48 competitors in the Non-Boater division, bringing in three fish. 

Daczewitz came in runner up by 2.76 pounds with a total of 11.22 pounds, the biggest of which was 5.14 pounds. 

The next Qualifier will be held May 20th at Keystone Lake. BASS Nation holds four Qualifiers and the top ten Pro-anglers and Co-anglers will qualify for the State team and compete at the Regional Championship.

Daczewitz also competes on the OBN High School circuit and is currently 60th in the trail standings together with teammate Hunter Hilger. The duo placed fourteenth at the State Championship event on Grand Lake last month, but that tournament did not count towards trail standings. 

 

Sandites of the Week: Hunter Hilger and Noah Daczewitz place first at Eufala Tournament

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By: Scott Emigh, Editor-in-Chief

Charles Page High School fishermen Noah Daczewitz and Hunter Hilger were selected as this week's Sandites of the Week for their outstanding performance at two weekend tournaments on the Oklahoma Bass Nation High School trail. 

OBN hosted two tournaments on Lake Eufala this weekend and the Daczewitz/Hilger duo placed first in Saturday's tournament and seventh on Sunday. Their first place performance was the first time a Sandite team has won an OBN event and it was the heaviest catch a Sandite team has ever landed.

Weighing in at 16.15 pounds for an average weight of 4.04 pounds per fish, Daczewitz and Hilger crushed their previous performances of 11.91 pounds (with five fish) and 8.88 pounds (with four fish). On Sunday's tournament they hauled in four fish totaling 11.09 pounds.

More than 100 teams competed both days, and more than 40 failed to land a single catch either day.

Click here to view previous Sandites of the Week.

Miller-Pennington fishing team takes ninth at Bass Nation season opener

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Photo: Virgil Noah

By: Scott Emigh, Editor-in-Chief

The Oklahoma High School Bass Nation fishing season officially kicked off recently at Lake Murray and Sand Springs Team #2 landed ninth place on a tough weekend where no single team caught the limit. 

Of the 86 teams that turned out for the event, only 42 landed a fish and only sixteen brought in more than one. John Miller and Caden Pennington hauled in two fish weighing 4.36 pounds for ninth place. Noah Daczewitz and Hunter Hilger caught one fish, weighing 2.58 pounds, for 24th place. Kyle and Kale Hilligoss caught one fish, weighing 2.27 pounds, for 29th place. Austin Smith and Joe Nelson caught one fish, weighing 2.03 pounds, for 32nd place. 

Last season was the first year Sand Springs had any teams participate in the Bass Nation High School Trail, and finished with three teams by the end of the season. Daczewitz and Hilger finished ninth in the standings and placed seventeenth in the State Championship. Miller and Pennington finished sixteenth in the standings and placed fourteenth at State. Braden Millican and Ty Steelman finished 36th in the standings and took twelfth at State. 

In addition to the Hilligoss team and the Smith-Nelson team, three other Sand Springs teams have signed up to participate this year. Seth Kearns and Cole Scott make up Team #5, Jerret Haley and Corbin Williams comprise Team #6, and Jacob Weathers and Bryson Wooten are Team #8. 

The Bass trail only includes one date in the fall, and won't pick up again till Spring of 2017 with back-to-back tournaments at Lake Eufaula on April 1st and April 2nd. The teams will also compete on Ft. Gibson Lake on Lake Tenkiller.