The Holdenville High School Girls Basketball Team crossed a milestone on Tuesday when they defeated the Luther Lions. The Wolverines have had a tough season and the girls picked up their first win of the season with the 40-29 victory. Holdenville has played some really close games but something always went wrong in the final ticks of the clock. The girls were determined this time though and put the game away with crisp shooting and a ton of hustle. The girls put 24 points on the board in the first half and led 24-14. Luther came out hot after the half and closed the gap to 24-18. Just as the game looked as though things would deteriorate for the Wolverines like it has in the past, Darcy Shepherd hit a long shot from behind the arch and then added an important lay-up. Lexxi Goolsby and Makayla Blackshire added a point apiece and Holdenville regained their composure.

The Holdenville Junior High and High School Powerlifting Teams excelled in the first meet at Little Axe. The sport of Girls’ Powerlifting is really taking off. Every competition features a gym full of young ladies. RaeLee Johnson and KylieRae Leftwich were the top high school lifters.

Local girls athletes turned in an impressive showing at a recent weight meet, with competitors across multiple grade levels posting personal bests and podium finishes in squat, bench press, and deadlift.

Brayden Black is the Holdenville News male Scholar Athlete of the Week! Brayden is a straight “A” student and excels in football, powerlifting and baseball. Darcy Shepherd is the Holdenville News Female Scholar Athlete of the Week! Darcy is a straight “A” student and excels in multiple sports at Holdenville High!.

Wolverines Continue to Improve The Wolverine basketball teams played Warner and Prague this week and both the boys’ and girls’ teams showed significant improvement. The boys beat Warner 55-53 on the road and returned home to whip Prague 8864.

Lexxi Goolsby is the Holdenville High School Scholar Athlete of the Week. Lexxi is on the Superintendent Honor and is a multisport athlete at HHS.

If the start of basketball season was compared to a race at a track meet …it would be a combination of a sprint and a marathon. The starting gun was sounded when school started back after the break and things took off like a 100 meter dash and there’s six more weeks of intense basketball before the play-offs.

Basketball Season Resumes Essentially there’s 4 parts to basketball season. The season begins with scrimmage season, then pre-Christmas season, then post Christmas Season and finishes with the most important Play-off season.

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The Wolverines had a successful football season! And, the more successful the season, the more players receive post-season honors. Thirteen Wolverines have been selected to receive All-District Honors.