Former Sulphur wrestler Dan Baker is off to a hot start in his final year at NEO, as he looks to get over the hump this season and win the national title.
These five Sulphur girls will be finishing their final season as a Lady Bulldog after the team resumes play following Christmas break. The five are, from left, Kinley Gentry, Jenna Farrell, Ally Dixon, Charlie Rogers, and Carlee Cole.
The Sulphur girls are 3-3 coming out of Christmas break, hoping to pick up a bunch of wins as they head into the second part of the season.
Sulphur’s Ashton Billings fires in a layup in the Bulldog’s win over a ranked Kingston team in December. PHOTO BY SABRINA DUCK
The Sulphur boys can’t wait to get back on the court coming out of Christmas break, as they look to build off of two great wins in the final week of 2021.
The Sulphur powerlifting team signals they’re number one after winning their fourth state title in March. Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shut down last year’s competition, the Dogs could possible have won their fifth title in a row. The team is coached Keith Garrett and assisted by Jeff and Brandon Flowers. PHOTO BY BLAKLEY SANFORD
The Sulphur Lady Bulldogs rallied through the loser’s bracket last Friday in the regional meet to earn a ticket to this week’s state slowpitch softball tournament, beating Plainview for the title. The local girls made state the hard way after losing their first game to the Indians, then re-grouping and battling through the loser’s bracket and storming past Plainview for the title in the title game. Sulphur played Cushing in the first round of the state meet on Wednesday in a game played at the Ball Fields at Fire Lake in Shawnee after this newspaper’s deadline. (See results of the regional tournament on page 4 in this week’s issue and full results of the state tournament in next week’s issue.) At right, in inset, Lady Bulldog players celebrate a big moment in Sulphur’s regional tournament victory. PHOTOS BY SABRINA DUCK
The Bulldog’s Kolbe Madron, left, in above photo, pins Luke Eschenheimer from Cascia Hall in the state wrestling tournament in late February. PHOTOS BY SHAUN SWARTZ
Sulphur’s Gage Graham, in photo in below photo, controls Devin Duran from Jay in the tournament held in Oklahoma City.
It was another impressively successful calendar year for Sulphur athletics, as players, coaches and administrators put COVID-19 behind them and found a way to continue to compete at a high level.
The Sulphur wrestlers had a great week, picking up two exciting dual victories over Durant and Ada, as well as competing at the Southern Oklahoma Invitational in Duncan.
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