Mike Kays

1 month ago | cnhinews.com | Mike Kays

Three times. Three painful outcomes. All 2-1 scores. On Thursday at Hornets Stadium, Hilldale ripped those three monkeys off its back. The Hornets (15-1-1) still have work to do, but some weight is off their shoulders after another 2-1 outcome, this time defeating the same Clinton program that handed them heartbreaks in two semifinal defeats and a championship loss from 2021 to 2023.

1 month ago | cnhinews.com | Mike Kays

It didn't go as planned. If you repeat as champs you want to celebrate after an 18-hole march on that final green. Instead Fort Gibson's celebration of its repeat championship took place Tuesday in the Shawnee Country Club clubhouse as officials declared Monday's 18 holes to be it for 2025 due to rain, giving the Lady Tigers back-to-back Class 4A titles and their third overall with the other being in 2016. "They really love golf.

2 months ago | cnhinews.com | Mike Kays

Hilldale has a pair of Hornets heading to NFL camps, and it’s the first time that’s happened in the 30 years of the school’s existence. After stints at Northeastern A&M, Old Dominion and most recently at New Mexico, defensive lineman Devin Brandt-Epps signed an undrafted free agent deal with the Buffalo Bills on Saturday. Also this weekend, Devin Hembry, a cornerback out of North Dakota, was a rookie minicamp invite by the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs.

2 months ago | cnhinews.com | Mike Kays

Scott Hensley, who coached Braggs to back-to-back state quarterfinal appearances in Class B boys basketball, has been hired at Porter to lead the boys program. Hensley coached there in 2022-23 before taking the Braggs job, but coached girls. It's been a back and forth journey between the genders for Hensley, whose first head coaching job was with the boys at Quinton.

2 months ago | cnhinews.com | Mike Kays

Hilldale took care of the business it needed to in game one of the home-and-home showdown with Sallisaw with the district title on the line. After clinching 4A-8 with the 9-3 road win Monday, the Hornets saw their 15-game winning streak come to a halt in a sea of what-ifs at home Tuesday, dropping a wild 15-13 contest to the Black Diamonds. That's 28 runs on the night with Hilldale (23-3 and finishing league at 11-1) having 17 of the 31 hits.