Spring sports have arrived in Sand Springs, with soccer, baseball, and track kicking off their seasons this past week. Both varsity soccer teams recorded wins to start the season. The boys won 3-2 against Glenpool on Tuesday, and the girls won 5-0 against Muskogee on Friday.
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Sometimes it’s less about how many points you score, and more about when you score them.
Isabel Langenberg only had six points for the Edmond Memorial Bulldogs Thursday night, but her two baskets gave her team their only two leads of the game. Meanwhile, Journey Armstead was only 4-of-8 on free throws until the final 30 seconds of regulation, but she focused in and went 7-of-8 when it counted to lift Sand Springs to the win.
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Survive and advance. The Charles Page High School boys’ and girls’ basketball teams came up short of securing Regional Championships, but both teams won their first round games and advanced to this week’s Area playoffs.
The Sandite boys (7-10) rolled into Regionals unranked with a losing record, but that didn’t stop them from putting their foes on upset alert. First they knocked off No. 8 Jenks 43-40 on Friday, then they took No. 10 Broken Arrow to the wire in Saturday’s championship, only falling 42-38 after leading early in the fourth.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Charles Page High School’s wrestling season ended with an 18th-place finish in the Class 6A State Tournament Saturday at Jim Norick Arena.
Mitchell Smith, Blake Jones, Brooks Dudley, and Mason Harris all qualified for state by placing in top-five at Regionals, where the Sandites finished eighth as a team. At the 6A-East Regional at Broken Arrow, Smith placed third at 132 pounds, Jones was third at 152, Dudley was third at 195, and Harris was fifth at 220. Ethan Norton took sixth at 138, but only the top five advance to state.
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This year’s high school wrestling postseason is a bit unorthodox due to COVID-19 and winter weather.
The Class 6A-East Regional, held last Saturday and Monday at Broken Arrow, were delayed more than a week due to the weather. And in those regionals, all the competition in seven weight classes was held on one day and the other seven on the second day — instead of all classes spread out over two days.
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Ice, snow, and a week of sub-freezing temperatures have wreaked havoc with schools and extracurricular activities across Oklahoma. Sand Springs Public Schools lost four days of instruction before shifting to virtual learning, but unfortunately for the Sandites there is no way to play sports virtually.
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