Heavener staged a huge comeback, but came up just short in a 14-12 loss to Kellyville in a losers bracket game in a 4A regional tournament here Friday.
The Lady Wolves had earlier lost to eventual regional champion Pocola, 14-2, in the opening game of the regionals for the two teams. Heavener finished with a 16-16 record
Heavener's slow pitch softball regional, originally scheduled to be played Thursday at Pocola, will now be played Friday at Preston.
The Lady Wolves' first game is approximately 12:15 p.m. against Pocola.
Wolves split playoff games at Valliant
Facing elimination after an earlier defeat, Heavener defeated Valliant, 9-4, in the second game of Friday’s bi-district tournament at Valliant to force a third game in the best two-of-three tournament.
The two teams are scheduled to play again 2 p.m. Friday, also at Valliant. The winner goes to the regional tournament next week while the losing team is eliminated.
Heavener’s soccer teams are racking in postseason awards, even though the Wolves are still alive in the playoffs and host Locust Grove 7 p.m. Tuesday at Harvey Stadium.
For the Lady Wolves, Valeria Sanchez was named to the all-district team and Jessie Aguero was named honorable mention all-district.
The district-champion Wolves made an even bigger haul. Zaid Rodriguez, Brandon Sanchez, Marco Venegas, Chris Vasquez, Alejandro Almaguer and Fernando Villanueva were selected all-district. Anthony Gavina was honorable mention all-district and Johnny Jacinto was named to the all-state team and will play in the all-state game this summer.
Heavener Elementary teacher of the year Danella Hardin, left, and Middle School teacher of the year, Karen Hardin, right.
Heavener Elementary rise and shine program 4-27-2023
HHS is so grateful to have Mrs. "Queen" Diane Duncan taking care of us in the office. She works tirelessly to take care of the students and faculty at HHS. Thank you, Mrs. Duncan!
Heavener Public Schools is now taking applications for a Lower Elementary teacher and an Elementary/MS counselor. Please submit applications to the Elementary Prinicpal, Mrs. Keli Cartwright kcartwright@heavenerschools.org. Heavener Public Schools is an EOE. Applications can be downooaded at https://www.heavenerschools.org/documents/applications/11340
Atoka built a lead early and defeated Heavener, 10-2, in a high school baseball game Monday afternoon in a tune-up for the upcoming postseason playoffs.
The Wolves, now 11-17, are scheduled to visit Valliant Thursday in the bi-district tournament. Atoka, 20-10 and the co-champions of District 3A-8, will host Roland in another Class 3A bi-district tournament.
Heavener’s Jeren Pickle shot an 80 to finish second at the Class 3A regional qualifier golf tournament to qualify for next week’s regional tournament.
The Heavener sophomore shot a 39 on the front 9 before finishing with a 41 on the back 9.
Heavener’s team was ninth. Brody Newcomer shot a 104, Landon Thurman had a 105 and Alex Armstrong carded a 108.
Heavener’s bi-district baseball tournament at Valliant has been scheduled for 2 and 4 p.m. Thursday with the “if” game of the best two-out-of-three tournament to be played Friday, if necessary.
The Bulldogs are 16-11 overall and finished fourth in District 3A-8. Heavener is 12-15 and was fifth in 3A-7.
Heavener is playing in the 4A slow pitch softball regional at Pocola against the Lady Indians. The tournament is scheduled to start Thursday
Heavener's baseball game with Atoka 4 p.m. Monday will be live streamed on the school Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@HeavenerWolvesTV
Due to the possibility of severe weather the girls soccer match scheduled for this afternoon has been cancelled
Heavener rallied back after losing a game to Panama in the district tournament Wednesday to defeat the Lady 'Backs twice, win the district championship and advance to next week's regional tournament.
Tuesday was a big day for Heavener’s soccer teams.
Not only did Heavener sweep Mena in the two matches that day, the Wolves found out they won the district championship in soccer for the first time in some 10 years after Rejoice Christian defeated Bristow that same evening.
Heavener was tied with Victory Christian and Bristow going into Tuesday with the Wolves holding the tiebreaker thanks to a win over Victory Christian. Since Bristow lost, the Wolves are going into the playoffs as district champions and will get two playoff games at home, if they win the first playoff contest, which is scheduled for around May 1 at Harvey Stadium.
The Wolves are 7-1 overall, 4-1 in district play and are expected to play Commerce in the opening round of the playoffs.
Heavener improved its postseason standings in baseball District 3A-7 by sweeping a doubleheader from Henryetta Tuesday afternoon.
The Wolves won the first game, 15-7, before getting an excellent pitching performance from Noah Ward in the second contest in a 12-1 win over the Knights.
The Heavener Middle School has announced its honor students for this year.
The valedictorian is Jonah Scroggins. Salutatorians are Angeles Camargo, Mattison Smallen and Yug Patel.
Seventh grade honor students are Jenna Scroggins, Mia Sanchez, Martin Vasquez, Ben West and Caleb Castillo.
We will live stream Heavener's slow pitch softball district tournament Wednesday for Heavener's games at https://www.youtube.com/@HeavenerWolvesTV. Please share with anybody you think might be interested.
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