2023 Cyril HS Football & Softball Souvenir Program

SOFTBALL! and

2023 Football

HIGH SCHOOL SCHEDULE

CYRIL PIRATES Football Roster

HEAD COACH: TREVOR KNIGHT

MANAGER: LONNIE SUMPTER ASST. COACH: JAYLAN MCGUIRE FILMS: CALLAN MCLEMORE

JOSHUA GARZA

2023 CYRIL PIRATE

#55 ANDREW CARSON Senior #17 BRADEN FOSTER Senior #81 LOGAN LAWRENCE Senior

#1 RAIDEN MCLEMORE Sophomore

#2 NASH HARMAN Sophomore

#4 BRAXON HUGHES Sophomore

Plays from the 1964 playbook!

FOOTBALL TEAM

#12 KYLE KONECNY Junior #20 ashton langilotti Junior

#7 JONATHAN JONES Junior

#15 BRAYDEN HAJJ Sophomore

#21 CAYDEN SUMPTER Sophomore

#44 CADEON JACKSON Sophomore

Plays from the 1964 playbook!

2023 CYRIL PIRATE

#60 MATTHEW POOLAW Sophomore #69 robert hannah Sophomore

#52 MASON CHANEY Sophomore

#25 MALACHI DAHMER Freshmen

#40 GABRIEL HENDERSON Freshmen

Plays from the 1964 playbook!

FOOTBALL TEAM

Plays from the 1964 playbook!

#5 ryan long Freshmen

#11 blake heminokeky GAYTON - Freshmen

#22 BRENNAN MCGRATH CALLIGARO - Freshmen

#90 TRENTON SMITH Freshmen

RAYMOND PAYNE Freshmen

David Houtz, #60 Doug Norris

1960 Cyril Football Team - Top Row: #12 Larry Wheeler, #20 Jackie Reynolds, #31 Ronny Polston, #42 Darrell Creamer. Middle Row: Coach Wendell Whitman, #80 Lorin Lake, #83 Dewey Burke, #70 Levoice Miller, #10 Roger Tehauno, #32 Charles Madison, #71 Wayne Jones, #81 Lee Cagle, Coach ?? Bottom Row: #73 Kent Clark, #61 Bobby Moser, #62 Howard Ray Neal, #40 Darrell Stewart, #50

Cyril’s 1st Football Team, 1955

• The school had a total enrollment of 440 Elementary had 240, Junior High had 104 & High School had 96.

• 33 guys expressed interest in being on the first team. The final roster had 25 players.

• The 1st touchdown scored was in a scrimmage with a pass from Bill Bowman to Gale Moss

• The 1st touchdown in a regular game was made by Roger Breckenridge on a pass from Bill Bowman.

• Charles Seymour made All-Area the first year Cyril had a football program. Seymour’s claim to fame was as a downfield blocker.

• Jackie Reynolds was an 8th grade player that played on the H.S. team. He was a 4-year letterman

• Lowell Schneberger was nicknamed “Golden Toe” because he was their kicker. Lowell was also the first 4-year letterman.

• 18 players lettered the first year.

• They hoped to win just one game. The first season was 5-4

First Cyril Football Team, 1955. According to the players jersey numbers listed on the roster, the players are: Top Row: Coach Pete Rhames, #21 Benton Moore, #35 Ralph Jones, #38 Charles Wray, #12 Richard Deason, #10 Delbert Mahan, #28 Tom Haley, #32 Carl Mahan, #27 Vernon Smith, #33 Charley Pendley, #42 Lowell Schneberger, #37 Roger Tate, Coach Wendell Whitman Bottom Row: #36 Kenneth Farris? #15 Roger Breckenridge, #45 Gary Wray, #44 Jack Houtz, #39 Gale Moss, #22 Charles Seymour, #40 Jackie Gibson, #20 Sonny Clift, #11 Bill Bowman, #31 Butch Abney, #23 Gene Moser, #43 Kent Callahan, #80 Bailey Miller, #25 Jackie Reynolds (note: Butch Abney is listed on the roster as #30, but is shown in jersey #31 in this photo)

Richard Deason sent us a news article from the Cyril News dated Sept. 11, 2014 that listed these additional facts about the 1955 team:

• Smallest players - Whiteselle Moser & Dale Riley at 112 lb

• Largest player - Berry Kuntz at 192 lb.

• Coach was Pete Rhames

• Asst. Coach was Wendell Whitman

• Practice two times a day at Seymour's farm. They rode the school bus there and back

• Highest scoring game in Lowell's 4 years was 124-0 Cyril vs. Ft. Sill Indian School

• In 32 games during this 4-year time, Cyril scored 1042 points.

It also says on the paper "Sonny Clift was a senior on Cyril's 1st Football team in 1955. He said the players couldn't figure out which way to put their pants on and had to get help from the coach"

JUNIOR HIGH Football Roster

Top Row: Shelby Smith, Addison McAlister, Zoe Alldredge, Middle Row: Ryland Cooper, Dallie Adamson, Brooklyn Matlock, Makenzie Allen, Bottom Row: Kyanna Wilson, Alyssa Chalepah,

ELEMENTARY Football Roster

#4 SEBASTIAN WRIGHT 5th

#5 CALLAN MCLEMORE 6th

#6 MASON MCGRATH 5th

#8 CRUZ MARTINEZ 5th

#9 DRAKE WILSON 5th

#11 DES PAUKEI 5th

#12 RYAN SMITH 5th

CHEERLEADERS

#13 MARQUES KARTY 5th

#15 LANDRY MILLER 6th

#17 MATTHEW HENDERSON 6th

#20 WESTON MATLOCK 5th

#24 BRENNEN COCHERAN 6th

#25 BRODY JONES 5th

Rayelyn Smith, Serinity Bland, Averi Carlson

Addy Hughes, Whitney McHugh, Addi McHugh, Katelyn Smith, Bralynn Johnson Rozlynn Want, Brylie Adamson & Talula Siebold

CHS FIGHT SONG

For our older alumni, the CHS Fight Song brings back fond memories. Raynelle Teeter remembers an active Pep Club where members all wore uniforms (blue wool pleated skirts and white shirts) and sat together at games. They would do all the cheers with the cheerleaders and sing the Fight Song after every touchdown, in the 60’s. The Cyril Historical Society helped us get some information through their Facebook page, that you can view at facebook.com/ cyrilokhistoricalsociety. Within 10 hours, had over 40 replies with info & memories of it. According to Sharon Scoggins & Wilma Hiner, the CHS Fight Song was written in 1949 by two students from the Class of 1954, Carl Mahan with help from Ronald Madison. Cyril’s music teacher, Mrs. Bates told her class that they needed to write a school song and so they did! Most of the kids from the 90’s and all the way to the HS kids now, aren’t even aware that Cyril has a Fight Song. Somehow it escaped our generation, other than the few people like Teri (Carlson) Williams & Tia (Schneberger) Martin who followed in their mom/aunt’s footsteps as Cheerleaders for CHS. Cheryl (Schneberger) Carlson, was so proud to be a Cyril Pirate and especially proud to be a Cheerleader and she made sure that her daughter & niece knew that Fight Song! Now, thanks to Mrs. Becky Thompson teaching her students every year, the Fight Song is one more tradition that the younger generation of Cyril Pirates won’t lose! When researching info on the Fight Song in 2017, Mrs. Gray asked the kids in her grade school classes if they knew what a fight song was and showed the lyrics on her screen. To her surprise, the entire 5th grade class started singing it and said Mrs. Thompson taught them. With the help of social media & an active Historical Society, hopefully this is one tradition will not be lost in the pages of history!

Ever wonder how we became the

In June 1995, at the age of 72, Mildred “Billie” Ikard Bourgeois wrote her autobiography “What’s Next…memoirs of a 20th century woman” In it, she shares what life was like growing up in Cyril in the early 1900’s. In it, she talks about being a student at Cyril High School. I can’t verify any of these details but according to her, this is how Cyril became the Pirates!

“One must stretch the imagination to explain why kids in a little oil town on the Great Plains chose sea going thieves as a symbol. Let me confess that I influenced the choice. An avid reader, I was into the adventures of the main and fancied our ferocious will to win as much like the pirates in boarding a merchant ship and stealing the treasure aboard. Besides, that wicked man in a big black hat with a knife between his teeth did appear more threatening than any other logo in the athletic catalog. We felt we were more formidable than the usual mascot names like Bears, Tigers and Wolves.

Pirates we were!”

Didyouknow…?

The first Cyril Pirate football team was started in 1955 & the final roster had 25 players. Coached by Head Coach, Paul Rhames, the Pirates ended with a 5-4 their first season.

Coach Trevor Knight is the 25th Cyril Football Head Coach.

Team record for most points scored was on October 24, 1958 when Cyril beat Ft. Sill Indian School 124-0.

The team record for most consecutive games won by the Cyril Pirates was 14, back in 1982.

When Cyril played Maysville October 2015, we set the Oklahoma HS Football record for most overtimes played in one game. The historic game with 7 overtimes lasted a little over 4 hours! The Cyril Pirates won that game 78-72.

The Cyril Pirates also held the previous record of 6 overtimes in one game, in Nov. 1998 when they lost to Garber 82-80.

Wendell Whitman coached longest for 13 years; Jerry Slawson coached 10 yrs. Jim Lucas & Steve Vetter both coached 5 yrs.

Mickey Mantle’s brother, Larry Mantle was head coach for the Cyril Pirates in 2005.

Wendell Whitman started Cyril’s Homecoming activities in 1956. This year will mark 67 years of our beloved tradition!

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C.H.S. FAST PITCH

#18 KYANNA WILSON Senior #51 Mackenzie rhodes Senior

#33 Rin MORTON Senior

#12 Hadley gibson Junior

#10 Brooklynmatlock Junior

#13 CARLEY MEASON Junior

#15 Katlynn wilson Sophomore

#8 AUDREY GIBSON Freshmen

#32 KHLOE GOOMBI Freshmen

SOFTBALL TEAM

#2 Whit mchugh Senior

#11 Averi carlson Junior

#7 SElena castro Junior

#00 Lanie salyer Junior

#14 Addy hughes Junior

#22 Addison mchugh Sophomore

#15 ALLYSON HOLMAN Freshmen

#24 BAILEY MATLOCK Freshmen

#21 LAYKEN THOMPSON Freshmen

2023 Softball Schedule

JUNIOR HIGH SOFTBALL TEAM

#8 AUDREY GIBSON Freshmen

#32 KHLOE GOOMBI Freshmen

#15 ALLYSON HOLMAN Freshmen

#24 BAILEY MATLOCK Freshmen

#21 LAYKEN THOMPSON Freshmen

#13 Ainsley Meason 8th Grade

#2

Madyson Landers 8th Grade

#16 Rayelyn Smith 8th Grade

#22 Tailynn Smith

th Grade

#3 Addison McAlister

th Grade

#12 Logan Pope

th Grade

Lady Pirates

• This is Mr. Persinger’s 14th year to coach. The Lady Pirates softball team has been to the state tournament 13 of those 14 years!

• Crickett (Alexis Chrismon) remembers the Lady Pirates Slow Pitch team hitting 16 runs in one inning during a game in spring 2022.

• Julie “Moser” Poteete says that Cyril’s first softball team was in the fall of 1975 and they made it to state. There was only one class at that time so they had to play Putnam City West! Needless to say, they didn’t win but they did their best to represent! Donnie Meason was the coach that first year.

Softball

• Last year Jaycee Shaffer hit a homerun at Roff, over their big wall in centerfield and we don’t think it’s landed yet!

• There have been 12 All-State qualifiers.

• During the 2021 season, the Lady Pirates started out ranked 18th and finished #2 as State Runner-Ups! Their motto that year was “Nothing to Lose –something to PROVE!”

• State Runner-Ups in 2016 & 2021

This is either the 1st or 2nd Cyri Lady Pirates Softball team. This was the first team photo found in a CHS Yearbook from 1976. The 1st team was in the fall of 1975, but since it was at the end of the year and may have been too late to include in the 1975 yearbook, this could have been that team from the previous year. If so, this team was the one who went to state! Coach Donny Meason

LONGS

Good Luck Senior! We are so proud of you!

Good Luck Brody! We love you!

We are always proud of you!

Love, mom, dad, Jax & Cal

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 8:12

WE ARE PROUD OF YOU

LOGAN

LAWRENCE

We love you Logan!

Do BIG things!

“

But as for You, be strong

And do not give up, For your work will be Rewarded.” 2 chron 15:7

Have fun this year and know that we are proud of you! Love Nanny & Papa

Good luck Averi! You always make us proud. We love you, mom, dad & Mammaw

We are very proud of you!&

&KYANNA

Papa Mitch, Grandma

Tami & Mom

GO PIRATES!

JUNIOR HIGH Football SCHEDULE