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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Madison Lee was named co-Offensive Player of the Year for District 6A-3.
The Charles Page High School fast pitch softball team finished 10-2 in District 6A-3 for second place this season, and the team was rewarded with six All-District appointments and two Honorable Mentions. Overall, the girls went 25-7 for their highest win total since 2016.
Senior standout Madison Lee will share the Offensive Player of the Year award with Shawnee’s Oklahoma State University commit Tatum Sparks. Lee batted an incredible .532 this season with 58 hits, 13 doubles, 3 triples, one home run, 46 runs, 19 RBI, and 20 stolen bases. She had a .734 slugging average and .580 on-base percentage.
Senior Aliyah Taff was named All-District Pitcher. Taff finished the season with a 17-6 record and was 34-20 in her career. She maintained a 1.82 ERA and 1.13 WHIP this year with 148 strikeouts. She was also solid at the plate with a .363 batting average and .510 slugging average, scoring 7 runs and 23 RBI on 37 hits, including 7 doubles and 4 triples. She also committed zero errors on the season.
Sophomore Jaden Jordan got the nod at All-District First Base, recording a team-best 16 double plays this season. She also had a .436 batting average, .500 OBP, and team-best .734 slugging average with 44 hits, 13 doubles, 2 triples, a team-best 4 home runs, 1 grand slam, 29 runs, and 40 RBI.
Junior Raegan Rector was named to the All-District Outfield. Rector batted .448 this season with a .714 slugging average and .517 OBP. She scored 35 runs and a team-best 75 RBI on 47 hits, with 20 doubles, 1 triple, and 2 home runs. She also went 1-0 in the pitcher’s circle with a 3.66 ERA, and committed no errors this year.
Junior Avery Tanner was named an All-District Utility Player with a .440 batting average and .549 slugging average, scoring 23 runs and 19 RBI on 40 hits, including 8 doubles and a triple. She also had 10 stolen bases and a team-best 10 sacrifices.
Senior Drew Hawkins also got a Utility Player nod with a .409 batting average and .656 slugging average. She scored 32 runs and 17 RBI on 38 hits, with 9 doubles, 4 triples, and 2 home runs.
Junior Jolee McNally received an Honorable Mention. She batted .414 and was .603 slugging with 24 hits, 5 doubles, 3 triples, 16 runs, and 15 RBI.
Sophomore pitcher Nataley Crawford also received an Honorable Mention. She batted .388 and was .575 slugging with 31 hits, 9 doubles, 3 triples, 13 runs, and 19 RBI. The heir apparent at lead pitcher, she was 7-1 this season with a 3.22 ERA and 1.42 WHIP, tossing 31 strikeouts.
Player of the Year: Lily Shaw (Owasso).
Pitcher of the Year: Anneca Anderson (Shawnee).
Offensive Player of the Year: Madison Lee (Sand Springs) and Tatum Sparks (Shawnee).
Defensive Player of the Year: Jessica Watson (Jenks).
Pitcher: Aliyah Taff (Sand Springs).
Pitcher: Avery Tallman (Owasso).
Pitcher: Emma Lang (Jenks).
Catcher: Emma Vickrey (Jenks).
Catcher: Carly Torbett (Shawnee).
1st Base: Jaden Jordan (Sand Springs).
2nd Base: Faith Russell (Jenks).
3rd Base: Brookley Foster (Owasso).
Shortstop: Sarah Campbell (Owasso).
Outfield: Raegan Rector (Sand Springs).
Outfield: Emily Green (Owasso).
Outfield: Hallie Wilson (Shawnee).
Utility: Avery Tanner (Sand Springs).
Utility: Kayla Adams (Jenks).
Utility: Laynie Rimer (Shawnee).
Utility: Sierra Hughes (Sapulpa).
Utility: Margaret Blackstar (Ponca City).
Utility: Drew Hawkins (Sand Springs).
Coach of the Year: Dan Rolette (Shawnee).
Honorable Mentions
Jenks: Kylie Hill, Sarah Dye, Lauren Allen, Dacia Sexton, Avery Brewer, Natalie Rodman, McKenzi Cothran.
Muskogee: Karsyn York, Jaliyah Simmons.
Ponca City: Libby Clark, Tori Freeman.
Owasso: Lauren St. John, Allie VanAtta, Madi Norton, Hallie Hance.
Shawnee: Stormee Reed, Baylie Enright, Kali Kasterke.
Sapulpa: Lexi Cahwee, Morgan Degraffenreid, Hailey Dye, Daniah Blation, Takyah Jamerson, Kylissa Williams, Makayla Littlebear.
Sand Springs: Jolee McNally, Nataley Crawford.
Batting
.532 Lee
.448 R. Rector
.440 Tanner
.436 Jordan
.414 McNally
.409 Hawkins
.388 Crawford
.383 Alexander
.375 Burks
.363 Taff
.273 Harper
.182 Hammock
.174 Hilton
Slugging
.743 Jordan
.734 Lee
.714 R. Rector
.656 Hawkins
.603 McNally
.575 Crawford
.549 Tanner
.510 Taff
.483 Alexander
.375 Burks
.333 Harper
.304 Hilton
.182 Hammock
On Base Percentage
.580 Lee
.517 R. Rector
.500 Jordan
.500 Barnes
.440 Tanner
.432 Crawford
.429 Hawkins
.426 Alexander
.415 McNally
.375 Burks
.375 Hammock
.368 Taff
.270 Harper
.173 Hilton
Runs
46 Lee
35 R. Rector
32 Hawkins
29 Jordan
23 Tanner
16 McNally
13 Crawford
12 Harper
12 Hilton
8 Hammock
7 Taff
6 M. Rector
5 Burks
RBI
75 R. Rector
40 Jordan
23 Taff
19 Lee
19 Tanner
19 Crawford
17 Hawkins
15 McNally
14 Alexander
13 Hilton
5 Harper
2 Burks
Hits
58 Lee
47 R. Rector
44 Jordan
40 Tanner
38 Hawkins
37 Taff
31 Crawford
24 McNally
23 Alexander
9 Harper
8 Hilton
3 Burks
2 Hammock
Singles
41 Lee
31 Tanner
27 Jordan
26 Taff
24 R. Rector
23 Hawkins
19 Crawford
17 Alexander
16 McNally
7 Harper
5 Hilton
3 Burks
2 Hammock
Doubles
20 R. Rector
13 Lee
13 Jordan
9 Hawkins
9 Crawford
8 Tanner
7 Taff
6 Alexander
5 McNally
2 Harper
1 Hilton
Triples
4 Hawkins
4 Taff
3 Lee
3 McNally
2 Jordan
1 R. Rector
1 Tanner
1 Hilton
Home Runs
4 Jordan
2 Hawkins
2 R. Rector
1 Lee
1 Hilton
Grand Slams
1 Jordan
Sacrifice Hits
10 Tanner
9 Hawkins
5 Hilton
4 Lee
4 McNally
3 Harper
2 Taff
2 Alexander
1 Crawford
1 Hammock
Steals
20 Lee
10 Tanner
7 Hawkins
7 Crawford
6 McNally
5 R. Rector
4 Hilton
4 Hammock
3 Jordan
2 Taff
2 Burks
2 M. Rector
1 Harper
Double Plays
16 Jordan
11 Lee
9 Tanner
2 Crawford
2 R. Rector
1 Hawkins
1 McNally
1 Hilton
1 Alexander
ERA
1.82 Taff
3.22 Crawford
3.66 R. Rector
WHIP
1.13 Taff
1.42 Crawford
2.48 R. Rector
Strikeouts
148 Taff
31 Crawford
5 R. Rector
Record
17-6 Taff
7-1 Crawford
1-0 R. Rector
For the third night in a row the Charles Page High School varsity softball team (21-4, 8-2) pulled off a big district win on the home field, this time against Shawnee (17-3, 5-2), to move into second place in district standings. The Wolves previously beat the Sandites 5-0 in August, but the Sandites paid it back 6-3 thanks to another powerful offensive effort from Madison Lee.
Lee, a senior shortstop, is batting a team-best .595 this season and she was three-of-four against Shawnee with two runs, two RBI, and a double. As a team, the Sandites amassed 12 hits, and Raegan Rector was also three-of-four with a double and two RBI.
Lee singled on the Sandites’ first at-bat of the game and Rector brought her in soon after. Hallie Wilson tripled for Shawnee in the top of the fourth and came in on a single from Kali Kasterke to tie it. Carly Torbett singled in Tatum Sparks for the 2-1 lead.
Aliyah Taff, Avery Tanner, and Drew Hawkins loaded the bases in the bottom of the fourth. Olivia Alexander hit an RBI single, Lee hit a two-run double, Morgan Rector scored on a ground out from Jolee McNally, and Raegan Rector hit an RBI double to make it 6-2.
Sparks, an Oklahoma State University-commit, hit a double in the sixth and scored the final run on an error. She finished the game two-of-three at the plate with two runs.
Taff (14-4, 31-18) got the win in the pitcher’s circle with six hits, nine strikeouts, and one walk. Anneca Anderson got the loss with 12 hits, 11 strikeouts, and one walk.
The Sandites’ 21-4 record is their best since 2012 and they will look to improve on that mark next week with a pair of tough district road games. Sandite Softball will travel to Owasso Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. and to Jenks Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Shawnee will host Ponca City for a district double-header Saturday.
The Class 6A No. 18 ranked Charles Page High School varsity volleyball team (10-9) got back to a winning record Saturday afternoon with a 3-0 sweep of North Rock Creek High School (6-1), earning their way into their opponent’s history books in the process. The Sandites are the first team to ever defeat the Cougars, who are in their first ever season.
North Rock Creek is a 3A dependent school district in Shawnee, whose 9-10th grade high school has only existed for a few years. Although their undefeated start to the year came to a close at the Sandites’ hands, the six-straight wins to launch the program was undeniably impressive.
The Cougars were riding high after a dominant 3-0 sweep of 5A No. 14 McAlester (5-11) in the previous match, but the Sandites caught them off guard and rolled to a 25-6 win in game one. Payton Robbins’s first attack traveled just a hair out of bounds on the opening volley, but she made up for it on the very next play to kick off a nine-point run that saw three aces from Jacelyn Smith. Robbins, Olivia Dewitt, and Charley Fahland also served aces in the set, and the team only committed two errors compared to the Cougars’ 13.
The visitors settled down in set two, and the Sandites committed 11 errors, six of which came on the serve. Although things were definitely more competitive than game one, the Sandites still pulled off a 25-17 win behind a four-kill performance from Smith and an excellent blocking record from the whole team.
Hope Hannah scored the opening kill for Rock Creek in set three, but Smith and Robbins tied it with a block and Smith scored an ace for the lead. Hannah tied it at 3-3 with an ace, but the Sandites won six in a row with two aces and a kill from Robbins. Fahland scored two more aces in a seven-point run for the 18-7 lead. Smith had a hot streak with a kill and back-to-back aces as the home team coasted to the 25-11 win.
Robbins scored eight kills, three aces, and three blocks, and Smith had five kills, six aces, and three blocks. Teyha Johnson recorded ten assists, and Madison Blaylock made nine digs. Chloe Kasterke paced the Cougars with five kills, and Abigail Smith scored four kills and a block.
Sandite Volleyball will return to action Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. when they host No. 17 Bartlesville (7-4, 2-1) in Frontier Valley Conference action. The Sandites are 1-3 in league play. North Rock Creek will travel to Oklahoma Christian Academy (0-2) Thursday at 6:00 p.m.
CPHS 3-0 NRC (25-6, 25-17, 25-11)
Kills: CPHS 24, NRC 12.
Blocks: CPHS 7, NRC 1.
Aces: CPHS 13, NRC 2.
Errors: CPHS 19, NC 31.
(Sand Springs)
Kills: Robbins 8, Smith 5, Singleton 4, Holland 3, Horton 2, Hughes 1, Lenex 1.
Assists: Johnson 10, Hughes 3, Wright 3, Blaylock 1.
Assisted Blocks: Lenex 4, Singleton 4, Smith 3, Robbins 3.
Digs: Blaylock 9, Fahland 7, Dewitt 6, Johnson 5, Robbins 2, Holland 2, Smith 1, Morrow 1, Hughes 1.
Aces: Smith 6, Fahland 3, Robbins 3, Dewitt 1.
(North Rock Creek)
Kills: Kasterke 5, Abigail Smith 4, Balmes 1, Hanna 1, Molly Smith 1.
Solo Blocks: Abigail Smith 1.
Aces: Terrell 1, Hanna 1.
The Charles Page High School varsity softball team (12-3, 3-2) brought a .430 season batting average into their Thursday evening game at Shawnee, and that powerful hitting record made Anneca Anderson’s pitching performance all the more remarkable. The Shawnee sophomore (4-0, 10-4) struck out fifteen Sandites, walked none, and only allowed two hits in the 5-0 shutout.
The Wolves hit a hiccup in their first season at the 6A level last year, going 13-21, but they’ve got their feet beneath them now and are off to an undefeated 11-0 start with a 4-0 mark in district action. Oklahoma State University-committed senior Tatum Sparks has been an important part of that success, and she scored two runs and one RBI.
Anderson struck out the side in the top of the first and Shawnee came in to claim a 4-0 lead. Seminole State-commit Hallie Wilson singled and scored on Sparks’s hit. Kali Kasterke was hit by pitch and Carly Torbett doubled to score both runners. Torbett scored the final run of the inning on a ground out from Stormee Reed.
Both Anderson and Aliyah Taff struck out three batters apiece in the second inning. Sparks reached on an error in the third and scored the final run of the game on a fly out from Anderson. Shawnee stranded singles in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings.
The Sandites tried to rally in the seventh with singles from Madison Lee and Raegan Rector, but Lee was caught stealing and Anderson threw a pair of strikeouts to secure the win.
Taff (7-3, 24-17) took the loss on the mound, throwing seven hits, six strikeouts, and one walk in six innings.
Sandite Softball will return to action Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. with a district road game against Ponca City (3-11, 2-4). Shawnee will host its home tournament this weekend, beginning with a 2:00 p.m. game against Durant (3-2) on Friday.
District 6A-3 Standings
4-0 Owasso (11-1)
4-0 Shawnee (11-0)
4-1 Jenks (7-4)
3-2 Sand Springs (12-3)
2-4 Ponca City (3-11)
0-4 Sapulpa (0-5)
0-6 Muskogee (1-7)
The Charles Page High School varsity baseball team (2-2) hit a slight setback Friday night in a 9-1 home loss to Shawnee (3-0), but bounced back Saturday afternoon in Tulsa with a 12-4 rout of Edison Preparatory School (0-3). Both game were non-district.
The eight-run loss to Shawnee was actually the closest game anyone has played yet against the Wolves, who have yet to allow two runs in a game. Brycen Peterman scored the Sandites’ lone run in the bottom of the first on a ground out from Ethan Sartin.
Brock Swanson (0-1) got the start and the loss on the mound in his pitching debut, and tossed eight hits, three strikeouts, and three walks in 4.2 innings. Shawnee scored one run in the first and three in the second before Kaden Young made his pitching debut in relief. The Wolves added two more runs in the bottom of the fifth and three in the sixth for the run-rule win. Young tossed three hits, two strikeouts, and one walk in 1.1 innings.
Offensively the Sandites had their worst batting performance of the short season thus far, with four hits for a .174 average. They received only two walks and left seven runners stranded.
Saturday was a far different story as they took an 8-0 lead early on and never trailed, going .391 at the plate with nine hits, fifteen walks, and their first error-free game of the year.
Cody Pulscher scored the first run on a passed ball in the bottom of the second, then Ty Pennington scored on a ground ball form Jacob Shields.
Four straight walks in the third gave Young a free run, then Shields hit a 2RBI single to score Swanson and Pennington to make it 5-0. Gabe Glenn and Peterman hit RBI singles to score Keaton Campbell and Shields, then Glenn tagged up to score on a fly out from Sartin.
The Eagles scored four runs on two walks and three singles in the fourth but that would be their only successful inning. They also loaded the bases in the fifth, but Kaegan Murray caught a fly out to save the inning, and Peterman pitched a strikeout to strand two in the sixth.
Pennington scored his third run of the game on a ground out from Hayden Blair in the fifth. Campbell doubled in the sixth and tagged up to score, then Blair doubled and came in on a double from Peterman. Peterman scored on a single from Murray to end the game by run-rule.
Keifer Massey (0-0, 1-0) got the start on the mound but only pitched two innings and it was Jasper Adams (1-0) who came in next and got the win. Massey threw two strikeouts, two walks, and no hits in his two innings. Adams threw six his, one strikeout, and four walks in the middle three, then Peterman closed out the final inning with a two-hit, two-strikeout performance.
Sandite baseball will return to action Monday at 6:00 p.m. with a district home game against Putnam City West (2-1, 2-0).
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