Sports

SOUTHEAST Blue River: October 10. Elevation is normal and stable, water temperature 75°F and clear. (USGS Lake Level) Largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass good on crankbaits, jerk baits, topwater lures, and tube jigs around brush structure, channels, rocks, shorelines, and weed beds. Channel catfish fair on chicken liver, punch bait, and stinkbait around brush structure, channels, and rocks. Report submitted by Ethan Lovelace, biologist at the Blue River Public Fishing and Hunting Area.

The Sayre Eagle football team presented Coach Craig Hixon on his 50th birthday his 50th career victory as a head coach on Eagle field against the Merritt Oilers by the score of 30 to 20 last Thursday evening. Sayre took the opening kickoff and drove 52 yards in 12 running plays to put an early touchdown on the scoreboard. Jaden Mosser zipped the ball into the end zone from 3 yards out. Ayden Hendershot ran for the PAT and the score read 8 to 0 with 6:15 left in the first quarter. Mosser was on fire as he ran for 3 of the Eagles four touchdowns on the night and ended with 130 yards on 14 carries for a 9.3 yard per carry average.

Canton: October 2. Elevation is normal and stable, water temperature 80°F and clear. (USACE Lake Level) Channel catfish slow on stinkbait and worms around main lake. Report submitted by Brayden Hicks, game warden stationed in Blaine County.

The Sayre Eagles made the long road trip to Fairview last Friday evening where they were soundly defeated by the # 1 team in class A, Yellowjackets, by the score of 69 to 8. The powerful Yellowjacket team rolled up 242 yards rushing and 257 yards passing against the Eagles as they scored in every quarter of the contest. The Eagles’ pile driving running back, Ayden Hendershot had a good performance against the # 1 team when he rammed ahead 35 times for 154 yards and a 4.4 yard per carry average. Hendershot scored the Eagles only touchdown on a one yard plunge late in the fourth quarter following a ten play march that began on the Sayre 28 yard line. Camden Plummer tacked on the 2 point PAT giving the Eagles their 8 points for the night.

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MARRIAGE LICENSES

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family Ray Dean Sites, whose service was held this past Monday, 10/9, at the Beckham County Activity Barn in Sayre. Ray Dean was raised in the Sweetwater-Mayfield area and graduated from Sweetwater Public School. Happy Anniversary wishes for this coming week go to JD and Lyndsay Shedd on 10/11; my son and daughter-in-law, Will & Chelsie Pritchard on 10/12, and to Kade & Trasey Johnson who will celebrate on 10/14. Birthdays to celebrate for this issue will be: 10/11-Donna Sanders, Aunesty Crosby, Cathy LeGrand & Missy Henry King; 10/12- Kate Cunningham, Robert Jones, Carla Eslick & Hunter Flanagan; 10/13Jean Ann Street, Brenton Stanford & Jaci Needham; 10/14-LaCinda Miller & Traci Calhoun Sanders; 10/15-Lora Nicholson; 10/16-Marianne Greer, Danny P. Miller, Aaron Hobbs, Julie Fischer & Bethany Penny; and on 10/17-Brad Spitzer & Fisher McGuire. If you enjoy reading this column and would like to help keep it interesting, please call me at 580-243-8923, or mail your news to me at P.O. Box 773, Erick, OK 73645. For your convenience, you can email your items to me at [email protected]. It would be nice to be able to post any showers, meetings, and town happenings etc..., for the people of Erick and the Mayfield-Sweetwater areas to be aware of. Sometimes seeing it on Facebook is too late for the paper’s deadline of Friday by noon for the following week’s edition. The deadline for this column is by Friday by noon for the following week’s edition.

MISDEMEANORS

NORTHWEST Foss: September 25. Elevation is 1 ft. below normal and stable, water temperature 75°F and clear. (USACE Lake Level) Walleye fair on worms. Striped bass hybrids fair drifting hard baits. Catfi sh fair. Crappie slow. Report submitted by Eric Puyear, B & K Bait House.

Catch Geno named “Player of the Game” in close match-up

The Sayre Eagles took on the Hooker Bulldogs at Eagle Field where they were upended by the score of 49 to 6 last Friday evening. The score does not reflect the exciting and disciplined play in the first half when the Eagles controlled 17 of the 24 first half minutes of the game clock by going on a pair of long distance drives of 14 and 21 plays each. The first one began at the Sayre 16 yard line following the opening kickoff and ended in a touchdown when Ayden Hendershot plunged into the end zone from 3 yards out. Hooker took the ensuing kickoff and 13 plays later matched the Eagle score when Justin Palacios carried the ball into the end zone from one yard out.

The Sayre Eagle football team traveled to Thomas to engage in their first district contest where they were tamed by the Terriers 40 to 16 last Friday evening. Thomas picked up the first of their 6 touchdowns on the night in the first quarter of play and added three more in the second quarter to take a 26 - 0 halftime lead over the Eagles.