Over 400 runners showed up at Holdenville Lake last Saturday when the Wolverines played host to their second cross country meet of the season. The crowd of runners and fans was estimated to be well over 1500 people as over 16 teams came to compete in one mile, two mile and 3.2 mile races.

CALVIN HAS FIVE STUDENTS AND A COACH PARTICIPATING IN THE CALVIN-HOLDENVILLE FOOTBALL COOP. Coach Country Beard and Calvin players # 44 Chance Rockey, # 76 Noah Sims, # 54 Joe Sims, # 70 Jacob McElroy and # 64 Brayden Ingle are all members of the Wolverine-Bulldog coop.

Football Game Cancelled Wynnewood Forfeits game to Wolverines The Oklahoma State Department of Health stopped the Wynnewood Savages from loading their buses and traveling to Holdenville last Friday. Wynnewood Schools has had a outbreak of the Covid virus and the Savages weren’t permitted to play.

Fans never know what to expect when the Wewoka Tigers and the Holdenville Wolverines square off in their annual rivalry football game. A normal expectation based on the premise that Wewoka dominated the 2019 game by a score of 52-12 would be that the Tigers would run all over the Wolverines. This would be the normal expectation since both teams had most of their players returning. Wewoka went deep into the 2019 play-offs and is ranked as high as 5 in their class. Last year was really a down year for the Wolverines and Holdenville finished the 2019 season winless.

The senior members of the Wolverine softball team were to be honored at the senior night ceremony that was rained out last week. Senior night has been a challenge with the Covid pandemic and the fall rain. Brayden Smith, Faith Norman, and Kaden Morris will be honored when the weather and the virus cooperates.

The Holdenville High School football squad will open the 2020 football season Friday night when they face off with their perennial rival the Wewoka Tigers. Wewoka won last year’s contest and the wolverines will be looking to even the score when the two teams square off at Wolverine Stadium at 7:00.

The CoVid virus has caused the Wolverines to miss a week of practice and caused both of Holdenville’s scrimmages to be cancelled. Wewoka, on the other hand, has a typical season thus far. The Tigers have been able to hold regular practices and has had two scrimmages. This is could be an advantage when the teams kick-off their regular season schedules on Friday.

Coach Sara Morgan’s Wolverine softball team has also been sidelined by the CoVid virus. The Wolverines had to not only miss a week of practice but they also had postpone an important district game with Hugo. However everything is on go this week. The Wolverines will take a 5-3 record in to a district game on the road to Antlers and return home Tuesday for a senior night match-up with Tecumseh. The Wolverines’ third game of the week will be Thursday when they host the Tishomingo Indians.

Haylie Turner was one of the top finishers in the Elementary Division of the Wolverine Invitational Cross-Country Meet. It’s too early to determine if Haylie will be the same caliber runner as her dad but the youngster is showing some promise. One thing that stood out at the cross-country meet was how excited Haylie was to have her picture taken with her Dad, Ryan Turner. Haylie will be one to watch develop over the next few years because Ryan was the top runner in the state when he was a senior at Holdenville High.

There’s been some great teams in the history of Holdenville High School athletics and the Wolverine state championship track team of 1995 ranks near the top. Leslie (Curtis) Phillips was a member of that team. Leslie was a senior when her relay teams won three gold medals and she secured a second-place silver medal in the long jump. Leslie’s jump of 17 feet 2 inches was and is certainly remarkable. Leslie ran the third leg on the Wolverine 4 x 200 relay team that set the state record at 1:44. The performance was so remarkable that the time stood as the state record for 18 years.