Holdenville Girls win Tiger Classic The Holdenville High School girls’ basketball team opened the new year with a hot hand! The Lady Wolverines played four games in a span of 5 days and won all four contests. The Wolverines opened the busy week with a 43-35 win over Allen and followed up with three victories in the Tiger Classic at Konawa High School.

State Universities Shine in Bowl Games Oklahoma’s three division I football schools played well in their respective bowl games. Oklahoma State defeated Miami 37-34 in the Cheez-It Bowl.

College Recruiting and the Stars Signing day has come and gone. People in the “Know” have selected Lincoln Riley’s group of recruits as the best in the Big 12.

Holdenville hosts Wewoka Both Holdenville Basketball teams are fresh off wins in the consolation finals at the Latta Tournament and both the boys and girls hope to carryover that momentum when they play host to their number one rival, Wewoka, on Tuesday. Holdenville had a rough start in last week’s action with both teams dropping games on the road at Class 4A Mcloud and continued to drop games in the first round of the Latta Tournament.

Wolverine Basketball Begins The Holdenville Wolverine basketball season began Thursday at Seminole with both the boys’ and girls’ teams dropping contests to the Chieftains. The Wolverines were fresh out of Covid-19 quarantine and it was obvious that Holdenville was a bit short on practice time.

Football Off-Season Begins There was a tremendous contrast between the 2019 Wolverine football team and the 2020 football squad. The Wolverines made a jump from being non-competitive to competitive.

There were 16 schools that couldn’t field a team in the first round of the 2020 state play-offs. That’s a fourth of the 64 team field that was listed in the playoff bracket. The CoVid-19 virus has made the 2020 football season a year like no other.

Wolverine’s open play-offs at Davis Apparently the Holdenville Wolverines will travel to Davis this Friday to face the Wolves in the first round of the 2020 class 2A state playoffs. The word apparently is appropriate to use because this is the year of the CoVid and things are hard to predict.

HOMECOMING CANDIDATES The Freshman Candidate is Mylisha Allen, daughter of Alisha Sanders and Michael Allen and granddaughter of Christine and Lex Allen and Tonya Roberts. Mylisha has been a member of basketball, cheer, student council, gifted and talented and class officer.

The Holdenville Wolverines played host to an extremely good Christian Heritage team last Friday and dropped a hard fought contest by a score of 29-14. The game was much closer than the score would indicate. Holdenville was behind 21-6 in the 4th quarter when they scored and added two more points on the conversion. The Wolverines had closed the gap to 21-14 and Holdenville had the Crusaders on their heels. That’s when things got weird. Holdenville attempted an onside kick and a Crusader defender signaled for a fair catch and dropped the ball. Holdenville recovered the dropped kick and Coach Lewis prepared to send the Wolverine offense back on the field. It was an obvious fair catch signal and an obvious fumble. Obvious to everyone but the officials said there was an inadvertent whistle and the rule called for a re-kick. The Holdenville coaches were obviously upset and wanted an explanation. There was no explanation just a matter of fact that there would be a re-kick because one of the officials had blown his whistle pre-maturely. The Holdenville sideline was obviously upset and the referee flagged Holdenville twice. Now, the game had changed! Holdenville was forced to re-kick from their own fifteen yard line.