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.

The 2020 Holdenville Wolverine Cross Country team finished the season at Waurika Saturday. The team didn’t have a runner that finished high enough to make state but Holdenville head coach, Ryan Turner, was pleased with the improvement the team made through out the year.

Eliza Maylen is a member of the Golden Pride award winning band..

This is definitely the strangest year ever in high school sports! Holdenville High School has had to reschedule the 2020 homecoming ceremony three times! Two games have been cancelled or postponed! These kinds of weird scenarios have been happening through out the sports world and Holdenville is certainly included in the mix. The sports year started with the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association trying to imagine all the scenarios that could effect the district and state championships but there’s been an average of over 20 games postponed or cancelled every week and that’s more than anyone could have imagined.

The Holdenville Wolverines will host the Washington Warriors this Friday for Homecoming 2020. This year’s Holdenville High School Homecoming will fit the MO for 2020, the year of the virus. Most of the time, the choice of opponents for homecoming is the weakest team on the home schedule but this year the Holdenville Homecoming will feature an opponent who is by far the strongest team on the schedule. Wash-ington is good. They’re real good. They’re the best team on the schedule. They’re the team that’s picked to win the district and the team that many pick to win state.

The NEWS learned today that HHS Homecoming festivities have been postponed and set for Friday, October 23, 2020. The Wolverines went on the road last Friday and once again got off to a slow start.

FOOTBALL SENIORS Matthew Cox, son of Amie and Jimbo Cox, grandson of Amelia and the late Bob Allen and Dell and Jr. Cox.