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Tuesday,
April 17, 2001
Chickasha High's Krista Dedmon had four goals at Taft Stadi-
um on Monday night to set the single season scoring record at 62.
four beyond the 58 mark set by a Deer Creek player last year.
In district action. Chickasha’s girls and boys teams met little
opposition in coasting to 10-0 victories against John Marshall
on Monday night.
The Fightin Chicks play a tougher opponent than John Mar-
shall tonight when they visit Heritage Hall in another district
game.
Both the boys and girls play at Weatherford on Friday night.
Dedmon scored her first goal Monday night about 45 sec-
onds into the match, and got the second one about 45 seconds
later, this one with her left foot.
In addition to the single season mark, Dedmon holds the
career scoring record for state high school players.
With playoffs just around the corner, Coach Jimmy Hampton
has projected that the Fightin' Chicks could possibly host
Classen and Capitol Hill in the first two rounds, and visit Carl
Albert in the semifinals. There are numerous other possibilities
with several good boys soccer teams on the west side this year.
On the girls side, Chickasha’s toughest competition for a
return trip to the state championship game could come from
Deer Creek and Carl Albert, two teams Chickasha has beaten
this year. Another possible opponent in the plavoffs might be
Noble.
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Chicago
Houston
Cincinnati
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
West Division
Monday's Games
Boston 4, N Y Yankees 1
Baltimore 6, Tampa Bay 2
Kansas City 5, Minnesota 3
Oakland 6, Anaheim 3
Seattle 9, Texas 7
Tuesday's Games
N.Y. Yankees (Keisler 0-0) at Toronto
(Loaiza 2-0), 7:05 p.m.
Cleveland (Burba 0-1) at Baltimore (Mer-
cedes 0-2), 7:05 p m
Chicago White Sox (Biddle 1-0) at Detroit
(Mlicki 0-1), 7:05 p.m
Boston (Ohka 1 -0) at Tampa Bay (Harp-
er 0-1), 7:15 p.m
Kansas City (Meadows 0-2) at Minneso-
ta (Romero 0-1), 8 05 p m
Texas (Helling 0-2) at Seattle (Moyer 1-
0), 10:05 p.m.
Oakland (Hudson 1-1) at Anaheim (Ortiz
2-0), 10:05 p.m.
By LEE W HITE
Express-Star Sports Editor_______________
Rankings or
if it's the OSSAA state baseball playoffs, rankings are every-
thing. At least for the top 20 teams. It's only the unranked teams
in Class 5A that are seeded by record, everyone else by the rank-
ings of the baseball coaches.
Based on this week's rankings, Chickasha at No. 11 could be on
the bubble as to which schools land one of eight Class 5A region-
als. The OSSAA plans to announce pairings, and regional sites, by
no later than Friday.
Although a No. 11 ranking probably won't get Chickasha a
regional, the Fightin' Chicks are leading the Suburban Conference
race with three games remaining.
Shawnee suffered its second conference loss Monday. a 4-3
upset at the hands of Western Heights. Chickasha, a 6-4 winner
Monday at Carl Albert. has but one league defeat, at El Reno. In
other conference games. Guthrie defeated El Reno. 7-6. and Noble
beat Harrah. 14-7.
In defeating Carl Albert on Monday. Chickasha got a home run
from Kris Palesano and another strong pitching performance from
Matt Kennell. He went 6 2/3 innings with Brock Eaton getting the
final out in relief. Kennell is 8-0 this season.
At 5 p.m. today, Chickasha and Carl Albert play at Elliott Field
The conference title most likely will be determined next Mon-
day and Tuesday when Shawnee and Chickasha meet. The first
game, Monday, is at Chickasha.
Despite having a better record (17-6) than most teams ranked
ahead of it. Chickasha has not broken into the top 10 this year In
the past three weeks, the Fightin’ Chicks have moved from No. 14
to No. 12 to No. 11.
Theoretically, the OSSAA strives to have eight balanced
regional tournaments, four teams in each, four regionals on each
side of the state.
In past years Guthrie. Shawnee, and Ardmore have been swing
schools; that is, they might be east teams one year, and west teams
another. Only the eight regional champions advance to the state
championship round.
Last year, Chickasha participated in the Shawn regional won
by Shawnee. The year before. Chickasha was a regional host, los-
ing out to Guthrie for a spot at the state tournament.
Regional tournaments, double elimination, will be held May 3-
5 this year. At the state tournament, there are two brackets, differ-
ent sites, with the winner of each bracket playing one game for
the state title.
Based on the rankings, regional hosts might be: East -
McAlester. Ada. Claremore. Coweta. West — Shawnee. Wood-
ward. Ardmore. El Reno. However, the OSSAA sometimes uses
other criteria other than rankings in determining the eight region-
al hosts.
If Chickasha doesn't get a regional, the next best scenario
might be an assignment to an El Reno regional. Chickasha, with
three strong pitchers to El Reno's one. would have an excellent
chance of being one of eight teams at state.
Several of the top teams in Class 5A are playing this weekend
in a McAlester tournament being billed as a preview of the state
championship tournament. Chickasha is entered in the Okmulgee
tournament.
Class 5A rankings:
1. McAlester. 2. Shawnee, 3. Woodward, 4. Ada, 5. Ardmore,
6. Claremore, 7. Coweta, 8. El Reno, 9. U.S. Grant, 10. Bixby,
11. Chickasha, 12. Durant, 13. Carl Albert, 14. Tulsa Hale, 15.
Catoosa, 16. Duncan, 17. Guthrie, 18. Bishop Kelley, 19. Capi-
tol Hill, 20. Tulsa East Central.
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NORMAN (CNHI) - The
Oklahoma men's basketball
team picked up letters of intent
from two junior college stand-
outs Monday.
Jason Detrick and Quannas
White both signed with the
Sooners.
Detrick, who hails from
Newport News, Va., was a
first-team All-American at
Southwest Missouri State at
West Plains. He averaged 23
points, 5.7 rebounds and 2.2
steals last season.
White, a native of New
Orleans, La., was a first-team
all-conference and all-region
selection at Midland (Texas)
Community College last sea-
son. He averaged 17 points, 5
assists and 4 rebounds per
game. White was also a back-
court mate of current OU
guard Hollis Price at St.
Augustine High School in
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Oklahoma City University
pitcher Lindsey Voss and Okla-
homa Baptist utility player
Destini Anderson received
Sooner Athletic Conference
honors for (heir play last week.
Voss. a sophomore from
Chickasha, threw back-to-back
two-hit shutouts against St.
Gregory's and Southern
Nazarene. She struck out 29
batters in 15 innings, including
17 in an eight-inning outing
against SNU. Voss has now
won the award four times in
seven weeks.
Anderson, a senior from
Minco, batted .273 while dri-
ving in seven runs with two
home runs. She also scored
three times in leading the Lady
Bison to a 3-1 week
Another former Minco play-
er. Leah Carrell, has the third
best pitching record (18-5.
0.783 era) in the SAC. OCU
Stars Alex Body (14-3) and
Voss (16-4) are the lop two
Bob Schaller met Josh Heupel at Big 12 Media Day in
Kansas City last July. One sportswriter on hand to send stones
, back to Nebraska, one quarterback there to provide copy on
behalf of Oklahoma.
They had lunch. They made a connection beyond the compli-
mentary pasta salad.
“Earlier, Josh had been asked about what kind of numbers
he'd like to put up and he kept talking in terms of wins, not sta-
tistics."
Schaller recalled when reached at his Colorado Springs.
Colo., home last week. “The wnters kept on about it, and he kept
answering the same way. You could see he was frustrated."
At lunch, Schaller told him so. He also thanked the quarter-
back for being sincere and said. “I interview kids the way I'd
want the media to interview my own son."
Now it was Schaller who was being sincere He had. in fact,
interviewed enough kids to pen a volume on Olympic athletes,
besides a mystery series for readers age 9 and older.
Schaller and Heupel finished lunch, parted company and went
back to their lives. Though the writer, through his contributions to
Huskers Illustrated and other Nebraska football outlets, never
really lost touch with the quarterback.
By the quarterback's crowning achievement in the Orange
Bowl, it was too much for the writer to leave be.
In February. Schaller called his publisher. His publisher called
OU sports information in Norman and the Heupel compound in
Aberdeen. S D Schaller sent along biographies he'd done with
Tom Osborne. Tommie Frazier, Don Beebe and the like. •
Everyone felt comfortable. The Oklahoma quarterback was
doing a book with the Nebraska writer.
The two met in Norman over a five-day period at (he first of
March. The publisher wanted a draft by March 12. Until then, it
had never been important for a Sooner and Husker to hit it off;
now it was imperative.
“He let his guard down. He trusted me," Schaller said of his
subject.
Heupel told the stones — breaking his grandma's statue of St.
Francis with his preternaturally strong arm as a child; being sent
to scrub down cars by his father so a lesson on work ethic might
sink in at 13; being ignored by Vikings idol Darrin Nelson as an
autograph-seeking 10-year-old (chalk up another lesson) —
Schaller took the 60 pages of notes on his computer.
"The book wrote itself," Schaller said. "I got this great story
and tried not to screw it up, basically."
Finished in Norman, Shaller returned home, called Heupel’s
parents and Grandma Gladys and other family over a four-day
period. Bob Stoops wrote the foreword. Barry Switzer the intro-
duction.
And after one whirlwind pre-production, "The Road to Glory:
’ My Path of Faith to Oklahoma and a National Championship"
• went to print. (Its official release date is Wednesday, (hough
, advance copies have already been spotted around town.)
So they say Sooners and Huskers shouldn't mix? Just like
big-time jocks and the writers who cover (hem no longer co-
. , exist ’
"My son is 7. If I'd met Josh when my wife was pregnant. I'd
have asked him to be the godfather,” Schaller said. "Can you
imagine trusting anybody else more? I know that sounds sappy,
but it's the best way you can describe it.
“I know I'll never meet another one like him again."
As for Heupel. he had something to say when the last inter-
view session had been recorded and the writer was off to Col-
orado Springs to transcribe.
“’Thank you." Schaller recounted. “‘This was a really good
time in my life to find out what got me here I hadn’t thought
about that stuff in a long time.'
"Looking back, with the NFL Draft just around the corner, it
was probably cathartic for him."
It was a revelation of an experience for them both, the quar-
terback from Oklahoma, the writer from Nebraska.
Guerin Enu# is a sports writer for The Norman Transcript.
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ball Drovers lost a pair of in the second contest, April
games Monday to Southeast- McAlister and April Heck
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of 5-3 and 7-1.                  gle produced a rbi in the sixth
In the first contest, the first game
Drovers rallied for three runs USAO 000 000 3-3 2 1
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being shutout through the first Erin Coogle and April McAlister
six innings. Crystal Weaver Krstyei Markwardt Stephanie Jones
started the rally with USAO's Adrienne Stoops.
second hit of the game, a lead- USA0 90000100.1 6 1
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scoring three times.              Annette Ropp. Ton Beaver (7), and
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a couple of lopsided victories each got a turn at the plate as
at home Monday, easily defeat- pinch hitters. Royall and Wil-
ing a Mid-America Bible team son had hits.
that brought nine players, two Sooner Athletic Conference
coaches, and a scorekeeper to honors this week went to Okla-
Chickasha.                     homa City University's Mario
Both games. 10-0 and 17-0. Delgado and Oklahoma Christ-
were five-inning run rule victo- ian's Nick Aiello. Delgado is
ries.                              player of the week, and Aiello
The Drovers were to host pitcher of the week. Delgado
Oklahoma City University for batted .733 (11-15) in leading
two games Tuesday afternoon, OCU to a 4-0 week. Aiello
a step up in competition in that lowered his era to 1.29.
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Mid-America pitching, collect- Lee wins race
ing 27 hits.
Jared Ellis, a Chickasha BOSTON (AP) — Lee
freshman, started both games Bong-ju of South Korea won
at second base. As leadoff bat- the 105th Boston Marathon,
ter, Ellis, went 2-for-4 in both snapping a 10-year victory
gameseHe drovein three runs streak for Kenya. Catherine
in the first contest.                  ... . c .. 1
Herrin, hitless in the first Ndereba of Kenya won the
contest, went 3-for-3 in the women s race for the second
second game. William consecutive year.
Trisciani went 3-for-4 in the Lee raised his fist to salute
second contest, and had three the crowd as he came down
runs batted in.                    Boylston Street to finish in 2
Pitchers J.R. Royall, Jayson hours, 9 minutes, 43 seconds.