Reds ratchet up intensity in first padded practice

Friday afternoon saw the pads come out for the Clinton football team, and anyone that’s watched this group knows there was plenty of physicality to go around in drills that involved contact. With much of last year’s state runner-up squad back, no one was afraid to get after it.

Best of the West set to return today

It didn’t take long for COVID-19 to affect athletic seasons in 2020, and the Clinton volleyball team felt that from early on, as the home, Best of the West Tournament was cancelled due to the virus last year. Today that tourney is scheduled to return as of press time Friday.

A-B forces extras in loss at Fort Cobb

FORT COBB – Arapaho-Butler head baseball coach Jared Cudd has played and coached in hundreds of high school baseball games, but he called the Indians’ game at Fort Cobb-Broxton Tuesday night one of, if not the best, high school game he’s ever been a part of.

Lady Indians go 1-1 in opening two contests

Much like the Arapaho-Butler baseball team, the A-B softball team didn’t get an easy season opener right out the gate, instead it traveled to 2020, Class A, state runner-up Binger-Oney Monday night. The odds were stacked against the Lady Indians, but they competed.

CHS battles to end in Elgin loss

One things certain from the first two games of the Clinton volleyball season – this bunch can scrap and fight to the end and proved that in a five-set (15-25, 25-21, 25-12, 16-25, 8-15) loss to Elgin Tuesday night at the Tornado Dome.

Reds return to form at ensuing two-a-day practices

The season-opening practice didn’t go the way that CHS head football coach John Higbee wanted, but he said it was just a blip on the radar, as the Reds returned to form over the next two days of two-a-day practices.

Lady Reds pick up win at festival

ELK CITY – The Clinton softball team (1-1 overall) opened up its season at the Elk City Festival Monday and split its first two games of the Shelby Anderson head coaching era, beating Vici, 4-1, in four innings, before then falling to Canute, 8-4, in four innings.

Clinton volleyball wins opener in five sets

ERICK – An early, two-set lead for the Clinton volleyball team disintegrated over the next two sets, as CHS found itself in a dogfight at Erick Monday night, for the winner-takeall, fifth set. CHS won the first two sets, 25-18 and 25-22. It then lost the next two by scores of, 25-17, and 29-27.

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Clinton freshman Marquis Martin reaches up to try and make a catch in a defensive back drill, at Monday’s practice. CDN | Collin Wieder Clinton Maroon’s Cohen Bridges swings through for a hit in a game, at the OK Kids Coach Pitch State Tournament.

Clinton struggles in first practice

Monday morning’s practice signaled the beginning of the highly-anticipated, 2021 Clinton football season, but it wasn’t the opening practice that fourth-year head coach John Higbee envisioned. Clinton’s coach was less than pleased with what he saw in the early morning, defensive practice.