CPHS Football: No. 8 Sandites pummel No. 9 Putnam City 45-24

Warr Acres - Class 6A-II No. 8 ranked Charles Page High School (1-1) rolled into Putnam City Stadium looking for their first win of the season. They got it, and then some. The Sandites dominated No. 9 Putnam City High School 45-24 and led by as much as 35 points before sending in the backups.

Senior quarterback Caden Pennington had another impressive game with 9 completions for 169 yards, three touchdowns, and no interceptions. He threw passes to six different receivers, led by Braden Foster with two catches for 49 yards and Daren Hawkins with three catches for 43 yards and two touchdowns. Colten Roberts had one touchdown. 

Seven Sandites racked up yardage on the ground, led by Joel Mackey with 150 yards and a score on thirteen carries and Trey Wilkerson with 109 yards and two touchdowns on twelve carries. 

Hayden Cramer led the Sandite defense with double-digit tackles, including a forced fumble, while Brycen Peterman led on tackles for loss. 

The visitors wasted no time in getting on the board, marching eighty yards in seven plays and scoring on a six-yard pass from Pennington to Hawkins. Jaden Weiser's point-after kick was blocked, but Pennington made up for it with a two-point run after a 62-yard touchdown run by Mackey. 

The Pirates’ first possession was a quick three-and-out and the second ended in a fumble at the Sandite 38. Pennington found Justin Roe for 30 yards and Garrett McCallie ran for 28 more to land at the Pirate two-yard line. A holding call and a pair of incomplete passes later and Weiser got to kick his first field goal of the season from 26 yards.

Sand Springs took a 17-0 lead into the second quarter, but the Pirates finally hit pay dirt on a 27-yard field goal from Sam De La Pena.

Putnam forced the Sandites to punt and marched back down to  the Sandite 29 before once again fumbling the ball away to Peterman. Eleven plays later and Pennington hit Colten Roberts from seventeen yards out. Ty Rutledge recovered a fumble on the corresponding kick return and Pennington turned to Hawkins for a 25-yard score on the next play. Weiser's point-after kicks both sailed true and the Sandites took a 31-3 lead into the locker room.

The Pirates found their mojo on the opening drive of the second half, scoring on the sixth play with a 45-yard run from Keylhan Henderson. Julian DeLoera made the extra point to put it back at a three-score game. 

Sand Springs was equally ready for action, pummeling their way down to the two yard line where Wilkerson made his first score of the night. He scored again on their next drive ,this time from 42 yards out for the final Sand Springs points of the night.

Tyrece Romesburg scored a fourteen-yard keeper on the opening play of the fourth quarter, then threw a five-yard pass to Seth Wisby with seventeen seconds to play. 

Sand Springs will play the second leg of a three-week road series next Friday at 7:00 p.m. against Arkansas 6A No. 2 Greenwood (0-1). The Pirates will travel to 6A-II No. 3 Bixby High School (1-1). 

CPHS Football Preview: No. 8 Sandites at No. 9 Putnam City Pirates

The last time the Sandites visited Putnam City Stadium they thumped Putnam West 28-14. (Photo: Morgan Miller).

Warr Acres - Charles Page High School will travel to Putnam City Stadium Thursday night for a non-district Class 6A-II football game against the Putnam Pirates. The Sandites are 0-1 against Putnam North, and 2-0 against Putnam West, but have never met the original Putnam City High School. The two will kick off at 7:00 p.m. as both look for their first win of the season.

6A-II No. 8 Sand Springs (0-1)

Head Coach: Dustin Kinard (60-61) - 12th Season.

Last Season Record: 5-6.

Last week: Defeated 41-28 by Texas 6A Mansfield Summit (1-0). Won second half 21-7. Converted seventeen first downs and lost ten yards to penalties. Caden Pennington threw 14-20-196-0 for two touchdowns, both to Jacob Snodgrass. Ran for 122 yards, led by Joel Mackey with fifteen carries for 97 yards and two scores. Mackey also averaged 30 yards on two kick returns. Jaden Weiser was 4/4 on extra points and freshman Brooks Dudley picked off the only interception of the game. 

6A-II No. 9 Putnam City (0-1)

Head Coach: Jon Garfield (0-1) - 1st Season.

Last Season Record: 7-4.

Last week: Shutout 33-0 by 6A-I Putnam North (1-0). Gave up nearly 100 yards in penalties, converted only nine first-downs. Gave up 177 yards by air and 193 on the ground. Threw two interceptions.

Putnam City Stadium
5300 Northwest 50th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73122

High School 6A Football and Volleyball Rankings: 9/3/2018

Class 6A Volleyball Week 3 - OSSAA Rankings

1. Edmond Santa Fe (10-2)
2. Edmond Memorial (12-1)
3. Norman North (14-3)
4. Deer Creek (10-2)
5. Stillwater (7-5)
6. Edmond North (10-6)
7. Jenks (9-6)
8. Mustang (12-4)
9. Broken Arrow (6-6)
10. Yukon (8-3)
11. Owasso (9-4)
12. Shawnee (8-4)
13. Southmoore (5-7)
14. Bixby (6-5)
15. Choctaw (10-7)
16. Union (8-8)

Class 6A-II Football Week 2 - Sandite Pride News Rankings

1. Booker T. Washington (1-1)
2. Midwest City (1-1)
3. Bixby (1-1)
4. Lawton (0-1)
5. Stillwater (1-0)
6. Muskogee (1-0)
7. Del City (1-0)
8. Sand Springs (0-1)
9. Putnam City (0-1)
10. Choctaw (1-0)
11. Bartlesville (1-0)
12. Sapulpa (1-0)
13. Deer Creek (0-1)
14. Putnam West (0-1)
15. Shawnee (0-2)
16. Ponca City (0-0)

CPHS Football: Sandites fall 41-28 in Border Brawl, Pennington throws career high against Mansfield Summit

Class 6A-II No. 8 ranked Charles Page High School (0-1) hosted Mansfield Summit Friday night at Memorial Stadium, kicking off the 2018 season with a Border Brawl match-up. The visiting Jaguars won the bout 41-28, but Sand Springs ended on a high note with a two-touchdown comeback. 

Several Frontier Valley Conference teams hosted Mansfield high schools Friday night, and the Tulsa-Metro programs will travel to Texas next year. Bixby (1-1) defeated Mansfield Timberview 36-33. Union (1-1) defeated Mansfield Lake Ridge 36-30. Broken Arrow (2-0) defeated Mansfield High 28-6, and Jenks (2-0) defeated Mansfield Legacy 35-14. 

Texas State-committed quarterback Brysen McKinney led the Jaguars to an 8-5 record with 2,600 yards and 31 touchdowns last season. He didn't disappoint in his performance against the Sandites, throwing 13 of 22 for 243 yards and three touchdowns. 

Senior Caden Pennington was equally impressive for Sand Springs with a career-best 14 of 20 for 196 yards and two touchdowns. His previous best was 9 of 21 for 151 yards and three touchdowns last season against Muskogee. 

Sand Springs went 5-6 in 2017 with most of their offense coming in the hands of University of Central Oklahoma freshman Payton Scott, who set the all-time Class 6A single season and single game rushing records. 

Senior Track and Field star Joel Mackey made a solid replacement with fifteen carries for 97 yards and two touchdowns. His two receptions for 38 yards put him in the triple digits and he was also remarkable on kick returns. 

Mackey gave the Sandites a good start with a 37-yard kickoff return, but the first possession was turned over on downs and the Jaguars made the most of it.  The visitors marched 56 yards in five plays, scoring on a 35-yard touchdown pass from McKinney to Jaelon Travis, but Austin Meza missed the extra point.

Sand Springs's second and third drives also failed to convert. Tristian Amerson scored on a one-yard run and McKinney scored from four yards out. Meza made both of those kicks and the Jaguars were up 20-0 after one quarter.

The visitors continued to push their advantage with a six-play 72-yard march, scoring on a 23-yard pass from McKinney to Brendan Sirls. Sand Springs finally had an answer, however, and prevented the first-half shutout with a 27-yard run from Mackey.

Mansfield took nearly six minutes on their next drive, draining the clock to fifteen seconds before scoring on a fifteen-yard keeper to ride a 34-7 lead into the locker room.

The second half belonged wholly to Sand Springs. 

A huge fourth and two defensive stand gave the Sandites a turnover at their own 24, and they put together a fourteen-play march to the goal line. Mackey was piled into the endzone and Jaden Weiser hit his mark with the extra point.

McKinney responded just two minutes later on a 47-yard pass to Hal Presley just after the start of the fourth quarter. And two minutes later it was Pennington with a 24-yard pass to Jacob Snodgrass.

Freshman Brooks Dudley picked off the first interception of the season on the opening play of Mansfield's next drive, and the Sandites broke out a trick play on their next sequence. Junior backup QB Braden Foster took a lateral from Pennington and found sophomore Daren Hawkins for 41 yards, setting up a first and goal at the Jaguar seven-yard line. Pennington punched it in to Snodgrass from six yards out for the final points of the game.

Sand Springs nearly had another redzone penetration with 3:15 to play, but a fourth-and-eleven pass from Pennington to Hawkins came up just a foot short of the visitors' 25, and the Jaguars drained the clock.

The Sandites will return to action Thursday at 7:00 p.m. at Putnam City (0-1), the first leg of a three-week streak of road games. Mansfield will host Lake Travis (1-0), the Texas 6A State Runners-Up currently ranked No. 9 on the MaxPreps Xcellent 25 National Rankings. 

Head Coach Dustin Kinard is 60-61 in his twelfth year at the helm and has led the Sandites to an all-time town record with six-straight years of playoff berths.

High School 6A Football and Volleyball Rankings: 8/27/2018

Class 6A Volleyball Week 2 - OSSAA Rankings

1. Edmond Santa Fe (10-2)
2. Edmond Memorial (11-1)
3. Norman North (14-3)
4. Deer Creek (9-2)
5. Edmond North (10-5)
6. Stillwater (5-5)
7. Jenks (8-6)
8. Mustang (12-3)
9. Broken Arrow (6-6)
10. Yukon (7-3)
11. Shawnee (8-4)
12. Owasso (6-2)
13. Southmoore (4-7)
14. Westmoore (6-5)
15. Bixby (5-5)
16. Muskogee (10-6)
17. Choctaw (9-7)
18. Putnam City North (9-3)
19. Union (6-8)
20. Norman (3-8)

Class 6A-II Football Week 1 - Sandite Pride News Rankings

1. Booker T. Washington (0-1)
2. Midwest City (1-0)
3. Bixby (0-1)
4. Lawton (0-1)
5. Stillwater (0-0)
6. Putnam City (0-1)
7. Muskogee (0-0)
8. Sand Springs (0-0)
9. Choctaw (1-0)
10. Deer Creek (0-1)
11. Del City (0-0)
12. Shawnee (0-1)
13. Putnam West (0-0)
14. Bartlesville (0-0)
15. Sapulpa (0-0)
16. Ponca City (0-0)

CPHS Football: Payton Scott named Oklahoma Gatorade Player of the Year

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In its 33rd year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company announced Payton Scott of Charles Page High School as its 2017-18 Gatorade Oklahoma Football Player of the Year. Scott is the first Gatorade Oklahoma Football Player of the Year to be chosen from Charles Page High School.

The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Scott as Oklahoma’s best high school football player. Now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Football Player of the Year award to be announced in December, Scott joins an elite alumni association of state award-winners in 12 sports, including Mitchell Trubisky (2012-13, Mentor High School, Ohio), Greg Olsen (2002-03, Wayne Hills High School, N.J.), Matthew Stafford (2005-06 Highland Park High School, Texas), Harrison Smith (2006-07 Knoxville Catholic High School, Tenn.), Latavius Murray (2007-08, Onondaga High School, N.Y.), Brock Osweiler (2008-09, Flathead High School, Mont.) and Leonard Fournette (2014-15 & 2012-13, St. Augustine High School, La.).

The 5-foot-5, 180-pound senior running back rushed for 2,597 yards and 33 touchdowns this past season, leading the Sandites to the Class 6A-II quarterfinals. In breaking the single-season rushing record in Class 6A, the state’s largest division, Scott averaged 31 rushing attempts and 236 yards per game and 7.6 yards per carry for the 5-6 Sandites. This fall, Scott broke school records for rushing yards and rushing TDs in a season, and also set new school marks for single-game yards (507) and single-game TDs (7). A finalist for the Shelter Insurance Mr. Football Award in Oklahoma, Scott ran for 5,826 yards and 71 touchdowns in prep career.

A state champion as a wrestler as well, Scott volunteers at the John 3:16 Mission homeless shelter while also coaching at youth wrestling and youth football camps. “I can say that unequivocally that Payton Scott is the best player I’ve seen in the state,” Bartlesville interim head coach Kyle Ppool said. “He is absolutely amazing on the field. We faced all those guys and he is the best of the group, and definitely most meaningful to his team.”

Scott has maintained a weighted 3.5 GPA in the classroom. He remains undecided on his collegiate destination.

The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selection process is administered by the Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which work with top sport-specific experts and a media advisory board of accomplished, veteran prep sports journalists to determine the state winners in each sport.

Scott joins recent Gatorade Oklahoma Football Players of the Year Brandon George (2016-17, Jones High School), Mason Fine (2015- 16 & 2014-15, Locust Grove High School), Cameron Batson (2013-14, Millwood High School), Stanvon Taylor (2012-13, East Central High School), Andrew Hearon (2011–12, Metro Christian Academy), David Glidden (2010-11, Mustang High School), and Demarco Cobbs (2009-10, Central High School) among the state’s list of former award winners.

As a Gatorade Player of the Year, Scott will be able to select a national or local youth sports organization to receive a grant as part of the Gatorade Play It Forward program. Every Gatorade Player of the Year state winner receives a $1,000 grant to donate and will have the opportunity to enter for an additional $10,000 spotlight grant by writing a brief essay explaining why their selected organization deserves additional support. 12 spotlight grants – one for each sport – will be announced throughout the year.

To keep up to date on the latest happenings, become a fan of Gatorade Player of the Year on Facebook and follow the conversation on Twitter #GatoradePOY. For more on the Gatorade Player of the Year program, including nomination information, a complete list of past winners and the announcement of the Gatorade National Player of the Year, visit http://playeroftheyear.gatorade.com/.