Saturday, October 31, 2009

2009 5A State Champions

The 2009 Guthrie BlueJay Cross Country won the 5A State title, Saturday afternoon, at Mitch Park, in Edmond.

The Jays finished with a team low 43 points. Deer Creek came in at second with a score of 58 points. There is more information at GuthrieSportsPage.com.

GSP broke the news and wants to thank Nicah Boxley with all the updates.

Coach Clay Tarter won his seventh cross country state title, including six on the boys side. The GHS Hall of Famer added a Track and Field State title last May. The first in GHS history for the track program.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Cobbs switches to Texas

Oklahoma's top rated high school football athlete Demarco Cobbs has switched his oral commitment from Tennessee to now Texas.

The Tulsa Central Brave announced his decision on Thursday.

Cobbs along with Booker T Washington's Eric Bennett, who is orally committed to Arkansas, are two of the biggest names in the Tulsa area this year that are leaving the Sooner state.

Sorry, but I like Carl Albert's Tre' Porter better then both Cobbs and Bennett as an overall athlete. I know Porter may not have the right amount of stars next to his name as the other two, but I would take 'em.

Oh, Porter is leaving the state too and headed to Texas Tech. Well, maybe? Signing Day is not until early February when oral commitment's become official.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

More trouble swarming around Hornets

Booker T. Washington is being investigated, once again, by the Tulsa Public School system after finding out academic eligible checks were not being conducted until Oct.

Findings could result in more forfeited games for the Hornets athletic teams. The varsity football team has forfeit two games and the softball team 13 games already.

Read more at: http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/highschool/article.aspx?subjectid=227&articleid=20091029_227_B1_Theuse16952

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Hornets operation stung

Booker T. Washington became the second school this season to be hit with stiff penalties from the OSSAA for using ineligible players. Both coaches and school personnel from Booker T. and Jenks have been affected.

Really no surprise from Jenks, but I am "little" shocked about Booker T. using the ineligible player(s). The one thing I thought Booker T would be guilty of is controlling their enrollment which is not illegal.

For complete story following this link: http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/highschool/article.aspx?subjectid=2&articleid=20091027_227_0_TulsaP123331

If Pryor wins either this week or next week then Booker T. is out of the play-off's this year and I think that will happen when Pryor takes down Miami this week. We shall see. Booker T fans are BIG Pryor fans this week.

Scary thing is that if Booker T. does make the play-off's it will be in the fourth spot and if they win their first game and if Guthrie wins their first game then it is a rematch from last season's triple overtime thriller.

5A Play-off Crystal Ball

Okay, okay, I know. We still have two weeks left in the regular season, but I took a look into my crystal ball and here is what I am forecasting for the 5A bracket. For the most part, it appears to be set except for 5A-4. We know who the four teams will be, but no idea what order they will finish.

El Reno vs Ardmore
McAlester vs Bixby

T. Kelley vs T. Central
Carl Albert vs Lawton Mac

*How about a possible El Reno vs McAlester and a T. Kelley vs Carl Albert second round match-up?

Shawnee vs Deer Creek
Booker T. vs Ada

T. East Central vs T. Hale
Duncan vs Guthrie

*How about a possible Shawnee vs Booker T. second round match-up?

As I have said before, finishing third in 5A-2 may not be the worse thing. Sure, play-off opponents are all tough, but no Shawnee, Carl Albert, Booker T., T. Kelley, or El Reno in the second round. I think I would take my chances

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Super Saturday for Jr. Jays

The 7th Grade football team needed a little help from Western Heights, Tuesday night, and they got it by defeating Deer Creek, 6-0, to land the Jays in the Suburban Conference championship game with Shawnee.

Shawnee defeated the Jays in the first game of the season 28-2. The game is set for 4:00 at Carl Albert High School.


The 8th Grade Guthrie team will play Chickasha, at Chickasha, for the 3rd place game beginning at 2:30 pm and the 9th Grade Jays will play Harrah, at Noble, for 5th place with a game time of 2:00.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Schedule comaprison

Guthrie travels to Shawnee Friday night and for the second straight week the Jays will not be the favorites as they go up against the undefeated Wolves.

Looking at the Wolves schedule they have only faced one team with a winning record (Carl Albert). Of course, Shawnee won that game, but were on the edge of dropping their first game before they stopped the Titans on a 4th down "questionable" play late in the game.

The combine records on the Shawnee schedule is 21-28.

This has zero to do with the Shawnee/Guthrie game, but hey its my blog. For the record, Guthrie's opponents schedule record is 26-23.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Guthrie vs Shawnee Series

What looks like a final showdown between these two schools for at least the next two seasons, this is how the seriess breaks down.

1971: Shawnee, 35-18
1986: Shawnee, 9-6 (OT)
1987: Shawnee, 36-20
1988: Shawnee, 7-6
1989: Guthrie, 34-14
1990: Guthrie, 40-13
1991: Shawnee, 25-6
1992: Shawnee, 24-12
1993: Guthrie, 14-7
1994: Shawnee, 34-12
1995: Shawnee, 6-5
1996: Guthrie, 22-6
1997: Shawnee, 21-12
1998: Shawnee, 14-12
1999: Shawnee, 23-7
2000: Guthrie, 21-15
2001: Shawnee, 10-7
2002: Shawnee, 25-14
2003: Shawnee, 28-22
2004: Guthrie, 21-7
2005: Shawnee, 35-7
2006: Guthrie, 19-7
2007: Guthrie, 42-10
2007: Guthrie, 61-34 (playoffs)
2008: Guthrie, 35-17

Overall series: Shawnee leads, 15-10
Longest Shawnee win streak: 4 (1971, 1986-88)
Longest Guthrie win streak: 4 (2006-present)
Current streak: Guthrie, 4
Playoff games: 1 in 2007 (Guthrie won, 61-34)
Overtime games: 1 in 1986 (Shawnee won, 9-6)

Biggest losses in 9 seasons

As I researched Thursday night on the radio broadcast on the worse losses (points wise) for the Jays I realized there have not been very many.

I have learned over the past few years that blow-outs are not much fun to do on the radio, but I learned quickly it is not much fun doing blow-outs when the Jays are on the receiving hand.

Here is the list of the 5 biggest losses (points wise) over the past 9 seasons for the Jays:

1. 2001 Guthrie at Douglass 43-14
2. 2005 Guthrie at Shawnee 35-7
3. 2009 Carl Albert at Guthrie 40-14
4. 2003 Noble at Guthrie 35-14
5. 2001 Altus at Guthrie 21-0

Guthrie/Duncan Rd 1?

Odds makers would say Guthrie will travel to Duncan for the first round of the play-off's.

They would say the Jays will lose to Shawnee and then collect two wins over Capitol Hill and Noble and finish 3rd in 5A-2.

They would also say after the 35-34 win over Lawton Mac this past week, Duncan will go on and get wins over Western Heights and Northwest Classen before losing to El Reno in Week 10 to finish second in 5A-1.

The only hiccup's in the Guthrie/Duncan talk would be Duncan upsetting El Reno. In that case, Guthrie would travel to El Reno for a re-match and the Jays taking down Shawnee and creating a points race with Carl Albert. It would get to confusing if Carl Albert would be upset in the final three weeks of the season.

But hey, the odds makers are just that....odds makers.

With that said...a third place finish for the Jays may turn out to be an "easier" way to the state semi's as to finishing second or even first.

I would rather take my chances with someone like Duncan and McAlester then Lawton Mac and T. Kelley, but still plenty of season is left.

Food for thought!!

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

How does Guthrie even come up?

Everyone knows by now the issues that are going on at Jenks with all the scandal and ongoing issues, in which, The Oklahoman's Jenni Carlson wrote a column about the issue and brought up other schools that needed to "turn the mirror on yourself."

Here is a portion of the column:

Every high-profile prep program in the state should consider this a wake-up call.

Time to turn the mirror on yourself and see if there are any warts.

This means you, Tulsa Union. You too, Carl Albert. Ditto for Tulsa Washington and Guthrie, Bishop McGuinness and Heritage Hall, Southmoore and Tulsa Cascia Hall.

I’m not saying any of those successful programs are doing anything wrong. Not by a long shot. Chances are good they aren’t. It’s likely that rules are being followed and violations are being avoided.

Still, you have to wonder if folks at Jenks thought the same thing about their football program.


Guthrie, really? What gives any indication of Guthrie being mention with these private, magnet, and open districts schools? Guthrie is the only school that you would consider a community. Southmoore could be in that community talk, but several move-ins this year at Southmoore is the only reason why they were mention, but are also in an open district like Carl Albert.

If Jenni check her facts before typing she would see that a majority and I do mean a majority of GHS football players have grown up in Guthrie: Kye Staley, Keaton Callins, David Washington, Brent Hodge, Josh King, Donte' Foster, Demarko Jones, and the list can go on and on.

Yes, there has been some move-ins into the Guthrie district as most districts see, but not sure I can recall any 4-star recruits coming in for one or two years.

It's a compliment for Guthrie being mention with these type of programs and Jenni has written nice articles about Guthrie and Guthrie kids in the past, but Jenni did not think real hard on Guthrie before printing it in her column.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Good Schedule, or not?

I like the way the Guthrie football schedule has set up this year by playing two very good teams in El Reno and McGuinness in the non-district portion of the schedule. Of course, no one knows how good teams are going to be in 2-3 years when these games are announced, but I think it works out this year.

Sure you could schedule two other teams like Piedmont and be 4-0 right now, but you may have a false sense for the Carl Albert's and Shawnee's and of course the better teams come play-off time.

By playing El Reno and McGuinness, the Jays knew ahead of time what they must improve to be where they want to be come district play.

It will be interesting to find out if Shawnee is an elite 5A team. Yes, they are 4-0, but their opponents are a combine 6-10 this season and none of them has a winning record.

With that said, I believe Shawnee is a team to be dealt with this year in the play-offs and will have a great chance to win the 5A-2 title since 2005. Many are saying the winner of this Friday's game between CA and Shawnee will win the district crown. They will defintely have the inside edge of earning two possible home play-off games.

Guthrie knows what they had to work on after the first two weeks against quality opponents. Shawnee may not find out until the mid way point of the regular season.

Ardmore's opponents non-district record is a combine 11-1 this season. I imagine they know what they had going into district play.

Next year the Jays take on Enid, Ponca City, and Duncan in the non-district. Safe to say we will know what type of team Guthrie will have going into district play.