CPHS Junior Daton Fix wins National Championship in Las Vegas

By: Scott Emigh, Editor-in-Chief

Charles Page High School junior Daton Fix traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend to compete in the United World of Wrestling Junior Freestyle Nationals, and won his second-consecutive UWW Junior Freestyle Championship.

Fix had little difficulty in tech-falling his way through his first three competitors, handing University at Buffalo sophomore Kyle Akins a 14-4 loss in round one.

In the quarterfinals Fix was pitted against two-time Illinois State Champion Kristopher Williams and didn't give up even a single point en route to a 10-0 tech fall.

The Sandite drew tough competition in the semi-finals in Austin Gomez, who is ranked fifth nationally in 126 by FloWrestling. Gomez just finished the high school season with a 40-1 record and a State Championship, but he was no match for Fix who dealt him a 10-0 tech fall.

Fix has won his last 54-straight matches, but his UWW finals match against Gavin Teasdale was his closest battle since a 5-3 decision over nationally ranked Requir Van Der Merwe at the Geary Invitational in January. 

Fix dropped weight from 126 pounds to 121 for the tournament, while Teasdale wrestled up from 113. Both wrestlers are highly ranked by FloWrestling, with Fix sitting at second in 126 and Teasdale topping the chart at number one in 113. Teasdale has racked up four national championships while Fix's 6-5 win gives him thirteen national titles over the three disciplines. 

Up next for the young stud is a trip to New York City where he will join Team USA against Team Iran in the middle of Time Square on Thursday, May 19th. 

Rhett Rutledge leads Sandites to run-rule victory over Bartlesville

By: Scott Emigh, Editor-in-Chief

The Charles Page High School varsity baseball team (21-14) won their regular season finale with an 11-1 run-rule payback victory over Bartlesville (11-21). The Bruins had previously scored a pair of one-run upsets over the Sandites earlier this month while the Sand Springs team was in a bit of a slump.

The boys went 13-4 in March and at one point racked up a six-game win streak. This past month has been tougher for the Sandites, who won only eight of eighteen games and dropped five in a row before the Bartlesville win. The dry spell appears to be over for the Sandites, and just in time, as they nearly upset the top team in the district in a nail-bitter 11-10 loss to Owasso (24-6) on Monday and notched a significant moral victory in the Bartlesville win, setting themselves up well in district standings at fourth.

Rhett Rutledge (2-1) got it done on the mound and at the plate, pitching all six innings for the win, giving up only three hits and six walks against three strikeouts. He picked up two runs and batted in two runners on two singles. 

Bartlesville took the initial lead in the top of the first on a sacrifice fly by Trevor Doyle to score Garrett Meidl, but it would be their only run of the game.

The Sandites tied it up quickly in the bottom of the first as Rutledge picked up his first run of the game on a sacrifice by Joey Montgomery.

The big go-ahead inning came in the bottom of the second as Senior Southwestern Christian University signee Trevor Tolbert singled in Hunter Greathouse, who doubled. Rutledge reached on an error to bring in Jake Ward and Tolbert, and Tyler McCallie scored on a passed ball for the 5-1 advantage.

In the third inning Greathouse was hit by pitch and advanced to third on a double by Ward before coming home on a throw. Ward scored on a sacrifice grounder by Tolbert to push the edge to 7-1.

In the sixth inning, Malachi Walton was hit by pitch, Tolbert reached on error, and Ty Fain singled to load the bases. Walton came home on a single by Rutledge, Tolbert and Fain both scored on a double by Josh Taber, and Rutledge scored the mercy-rule run on a sacrifice fly by Montgomery.

The Regional Tournament will be held sometime next week, with Regional assignments to be issued on Monday. Photo galleries from this season can be found at https://sanditepride.smugmug.com/2016-Baseball

Cheyenne Walden remains undefeated at 3200m run; girls place 6th at Conference, boys 10th

By: Scott Emigh, Editor-in-Chief

The Charles Page High School varsity track team put up some impressive performances at the Frontier Valley Conference Track Meet at Union High School Thursday evening. The girls team placed 6th overall, coming in three points ahead of their Highway 97 rivals from Sapulpa. The boys team placed 10th. Jenks High School won the conference title in both sexes by a wide margin.

The girls placed 4th in the 4x800m relay with a time of 10:30.03. The boys placed 5th in the 4x100 relay in 46.66 and 6th in the 4x800 in 8:45.47.

GIRLS

• Cheyenne Walden picked up her ninth and tenth wins of the season, placing 3rd in the 800m run with a season-best 2:19.27, 1st in the 1600m in 5:10.92, and 1st in the 3200m in 10:51.88.

• Elizabeth Watts placed 7th in the High Jump, tying her career-best at 4'06.00" and placed 15th in the 300m hurdles in 56.89 seconds.

• Stacy Logan placed 12th in the 200m dash with a season-best 28.36 and 13th in the 100m dash in 13.77.

• Majasty Lapsley placed 17th in the 100m dash in 14.25 and 21st in the 200m in 30.64.

• Tiakeya Palmer placed 19th in the 100m dash in 14.31 and 22nd in the 200m in 30.73.

BOYS

• Colton Washington placed 8th in the Long Jump with a season-best 20'07.00".

• Aiden Baughman placed 10th in the 1600m run in 4:51.39.

• Jason Cooper placed 12th in the 110m hurdles in 18.40.

• Payton Scott placed 12th in the 100m dash in 11.89.

• Jacob Fortune placed 18th in the 100m dash in 12.07.

• Dalton Morgan placed 24th in the 200m dash in 25.75.

• Brayden Hardesty placed 25th in the 200m dash in 25.13.

The season will come to an end for many of the Sandites next Saturday at Claremore in the Regional competition which begins at 9:00 AM. The photo gallery from Thursday's event can be found at https://sanditepride.smugmug.com/20152016-Track-and-Field/42816-Frontier-Valley/

Cheyenne Walden places first at Sprocket Classic; freshman boys impress

By: Scott Emigh, Editor-in-Chief

The Charles Page High School Track and Field team traveled to Muskogee last Friday for the Sprocket Classic. The girls placed Eighth with 22 points and the boys placed thirteenth with 8 points.

The girls came in third in the 4x800 relay with a time of 10:30.06 and the boys placed fifth in 8:50.90. 

GIRLS

• Cheyenne Walden came in first in the 3200m run with a time of 10:53.63. This is her eighth first place finish this season.

• Alexis Davis came in 8th in the 1600m run with a time of 5:59.41

• Elizabeth Watts came in 10th in High Jump at 4'06.00" and 11th at 300m hurdles in 56.39.

• Stacy Logan came in 12th in both of her events, finishing the 100m dash in 13.66 and teh 200m in 28.62.

• Lauren Barkdull came in 13th in the 800m run with a season-best time of 2:56.18.

• Majasty Lapsley came in 14th in the 100m dash with a time of 13.74 and 23rd in the 200m in 29.89.

• Nia Byrd came in 15th in the 1600m run with a season-best time of 6:15.26. 

• Adrianna Tapp came in 16th in the 100m dash with a time of 13.83.

• Tiakeya Palmer came in 26th in the 200m dash with a time of 30.09.

• Erindira Cuevas came in 34th in the 100m dash with a time of 17.50.

BOYS

• Aiden Baughman came in 4th in 1600m with a career-best 4:47.10 and 9th in the 800m in 2:11.68.

• Jaelyn Jackson placed 6th in the 400m dash with a career-best 52.77.

• Landin Green came in 10th in the 1600m with a career-best 4:55.06 and 11th in the 800m in 2:13.35.

• Colton Washington placed 11th in the Long Jump at 18'07.00."

• Jason Cooper placed 13th in the 110m hurdles in 18.11.

• Austin McCaskey placed 18th in the 800m in 2:16.77 and 25th in the 3200m in 12:01.35.

• Danny Murray placed 19th in the 3200m in 11:52.96 and 42nd in the 1600 in 5:36.93.

• Jacob Garby placed 21st in the 1600m run in 5:02.30.

• Dalton Morgan placed 21st in the 200m in 24.51 and 24th in the 400m in 59.28.

• Jacob Smith placed 21st in the 3200m in 11:53.95.

• Timothy Calvert came in 22nd in the 3200m with a career-best 11:55.18.

• Phillip Elleman placed 23rd in the 3200m with a career-best 11:58.80.

• Caleb Wash placed 23rd in the 400m in 58.58.

• Payton Scott placed 25th in the 100m in 12.06.

• Brayden Hardesty placed 26th in the 200m dash in 25.13.

• Kody Krehbiel placed 43rd in the 1600m in 5:39.77.

• Konnor Rugg placed 45th in the 1600m in 5:43.49.

Owasso soundly defeats Sand Springs for district title

By: Scott Emigh, Editor-in-Chief

The Charles Page High School baseball team (20-14, 6-7) was out of the conversation for the district championship, but still had the opportunity to spoil it for top-seeded Owasso (24-5, 11-1) if they could win Wednesday afternoon. Of course, that would give Bixby the chance to win it, and the Spartan-Sandite Rivalry is quickly catching up with the Highway 97 Rivalry in terms of intensity. 

While Sand Springs has been on a bit of a slump as of late, they managed to put up one of their most impressive performances of the season earlier this week in a home game against the Rams, hitting three home runs in an 11-10 loss that came down to the wire. The Sandites hoped to build on that performance Wednesday and took a 2-0 lead early on, but the home team rallied with nine runs in the bottom of the third that proved to be more than enough for the win.

Sand Springs went through three pitchers, each throwing two innings, with the loss going to Jake Ward (4-3) who got the start. Ward gave up five hits, seven walks, and seven earned runs in his time on the mound. Kyle Petty got the win for Owasso, pitching six hits against seven strikeouts in six innings.

Sand Springs started out solidly as Josh Taber singled and survived four pickoff attempts before stealing second, and advancing to third on an error by Jake Enzbrenner. Treyce Tolbert hit a line drive double into right field to bring Taber home, but was left stranded as Petty got his second strikeout of the inning. 

Ward gave up a single and two walks in the bottom of the first, but managed to strand loaded bases as Hunter Greathouse forced out a runner at third. Petty added two more strikeouts in the top of the second, but gave up a double to Tyler McCallie that scored Mack Thompson, who also doubled.

Finally the Rams got on the board with five hits and five walks in the bottom of the third for the go-ahead. Brock Youngblood (4-1) relieved Ward as the boys trailed 5-2, but was unable to stem the Owasso tide. In his two innings on the mound he gave up only three hits, one walk, and two earned runs.

Josh Cordell (2-3) got his turn at pitching in the bottom of the fifth and gave up three walks and a double to expand the deficit to 11-2. Jake Terry managed a double in the top of the sixth but was left stranded. Cordell walked two and struck out one in the bottom of the sixth, but the Sandites were held scoreless in the top of the seventh and the Rams held on for the win. 

The Sandites will return to action Friday at 5:00 for Senior Night. Photo galleries from this season can be found at https://sanditepride.smugmug.com/

Sandite of the Week: Edgar Soberano

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By: Scott Emigh, Editor-in-Chief

This week Sandite Pride would like to recognize Charles Page High School sophomore Edgar Soberano as Sandite of the Week for his continual impressive goal keeping for the varsity soccer team.

While Sandite Pride hasn't tracked saves this season, there's no disputing that if we had a number, it would be impressive. He blocked multiple shots in an overtime win over Sapulpa last Tuesday, and was incredible in a game against a nationally ranked team from Edmond.

The Deer Creek Antlers were ranked No.18 in the Nation when they hammered the Sandites 7-0. Despite the large amount of goals, were it not for Soberano's quick wits and desperate dives, it would have been a mercy ruling in no time. The Antlers got off thirteen shots in the first twenty minutes of the game, with seven resulting in impressive saves by Soberano. 

Photo galleries from this Soccer season can be found at https://sanditepride.smugmug.com/2016-Soccer

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