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Offensive line could pave way in 2019

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A special Supplement of the Sand Springs Leader Publisher: Gloria Fletcher Managing Editor: Rachel Snyder CSR: Brandi Smith Designer: Melanie Allen Contributing Writer: Ben Johnson

Sand Springs senior quarterback Caden Pennington, right, threw two touchdowns and ran for one in a 48-21 loss to No. 3 BTW Friday, Nov. 2 at S.E. Williams Stadium. DYLAN CAHWEE/Leader

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aden Pennington had a hand in everything Sand Springs did on offense in 2018. But the former Sandite quarterback had plenty of help en route to his success on the ground and through the air.

The offensive line paved the way for Pennington, and it’ll be up to the guys up front to usher in a new era for Sand Springs.

With Braden Foster and Ty Pennington competing for quarterback snaps, Sand Springs coach Dustin Kinard knows at least he’ll have some returning pieces up front to get the offense in a groove this season.

“Those guys are going to have to step up since we’ll have a newer or younger quarterback,” Kinard said of trio of seniors, Nick Hancock, Ryan Johnson and Josh Fincannon.

“We’ll have to protect the quarterback because it’ll be a first-time starter on Friday night.”

Hancock (6-foot-3, 280 pounds) will handle the left tackle duties, and Johnson (6-2, 285) will be positioned next to Hancock at left guard.

Fincannon (6-2, 240) will anchor the right tackle spot for the Sandites.

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The center spot has two candidates heading into preseason practices — junior Santana Naugle and sophomore Morgan Eubanks.

Junior Jacob Weathers figures to slot in at right guard, and Kinard mentioned junior Lane Webster as another lineman who figures to see extensive time somewhere on the offensive front.

“We need the three returners to really step up,” Kinard said. “We’ll need to establish the run, and then take some shots with play action.”

In 2018, Caden Pennington and running back Joel Mackey combined for 1,815 yards and 20 touchdowns on the ground. Pennington also added 1,257 yards and 14 touchdowns in the passing game.

And Kinard knows the passing game will only be successful if the Sandites can create opportunities with several ball carriers first.

“We’re looking forward to those guys up front establishing our physical run game,” Kinard said. “And I’m hoping we can establish more depth along the offensive line as we go along.”

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2019 Sandite varsity Schedule

Aug. 31 @ Mansfield Summit (Texas) Sept. 6 Bye Sept. 13 Putnam City Sept. 20 Greenwood (Ark.) Sept. 27 Shawnee @ Muskogee Oct. 4 Oct. 11 @ Bartlesville Oct. 17 Ponca City Oct. 25 @ Bixby Nov. 1 @ Sapulpa Booker T. Washington Nov. 8

(Senior Night)

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Continuity key to football success in 2019

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ne thing Sand Springs has going for it on offense is the amount of returning starters on offense. However, the Sandites won’t be afforded the same luxury on defense in 2019.

In terms of players who have been starters for more than one year, there’s only one Sandite who fits the mold. That’s Jarrett Haley, a 6-foot-1, 175-pound senior safety.

“He’s a two-year starter, and he knows the defense,” Sand Springs coach Dustin Kinard said. “He’s had a great offseason and has been really good in the 7-on-7 situations. He can come down and play against the run, or he can drop back and can cover.”

Haley will be the defense’s captain,

and he’ll be surrounded by several newcomers. Riley Magee, Lane Webster, Jaiden Wheeler and Sango Whitehorn will be key contributors along the defensive front. That will leave Brooks Dudely and Ethan Sartin at linebacking spots in the middle of the field.

“We’ll need a linebacker to step up and take that leadership role alongside Jarrett,” Kinard said.

One thing Kinard hopes to avoid is players having to play on both sides of the ball. And he pointed to the 3-7 campaign in 2018 as Exhibit A. “Games against Bartlesville, Muskogee and Shawnee, we got tired late in games last year,” Kinard said.

“I just don’t want anyone to have to play both ways. It really showed up in the fourth quarter of some games we should have won last season.”

The Sandites will open the season with non-district games against Mansfield Summit (Texas), Putnam City and Greenwood (Ark.), and those contests will be prime training grounds for the Sand Springs’ defense to get ready for District 6AII-2 play.

“All three of those games pose great challenges,” Kinard said. “All of those teams are really athletic. Those three games will get us well prepared for the district games.”

As a whole, it’ll be the Sandites’ ability to create some continuity that’ll lead to viable success in 2019.

“We’re going to be young in all phases on defense,” Kinard said.

“We’ll just have to play together and as one unit.”

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2019 Sandite varsity Football roster NAME

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Daren Hawkins 6’1 170 Justin Roe 6’0 190 Jacob Snodgrass 6’2 WR/DB Cory Hunter 5’11 160 Joseph Mattison 5’6 150 Keaton Campbell 6’1 165 Thomas Naugle 6’0 200 Blaine Baldridge 6’2 170 Ty Pennington 6’2 170 Cody Ross 6’0 200 Braden Foster 6’0 180 Bryson Chase 5’11 150 Caden Harris 6’ 0 160 Jerret Haley 6’1 175 Braylon Flores 5’10 150 Chase White 5’11 160 Alex Turner 5’8 155 Blake Jones 5’10 160 Ian Britt 5’10 170 Caleb Woodmansee 6’0 165 Trey Wilkerson 6’0 185 Tyyee Atkison 5’6 160 Landon Hendricks 6’3 175 Terrance Golden 6’11 65 Austin Twist 5’7 130 Conner Light 6’0 170 Nathan Tavaglione 6’0 170 Sango Whitehorn 5’9 200 Riley Magee 6’4 200 Braden Potter 5’10 170 Hudson Shelton 5’11 160 Kale Hilligoss 5’11 160 Chris Kirby 6’0 175

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Terik Meschkat 5’11 Asher Beard 6’0 Morgan Eubanks 6’0 Bryson Wooten 5’8 Zac Brashear 5’10 James McCrary 5’6 Ethan Sartin 5’9 Kyle Hilligoss 5’9 Brooks Dudley 5’9 Isaiah Jordan 5’9 Alex Favela 5’8 Gabe Brown 5’10 Matthew Shelton 6’2 Damian Duncan 5’8 Ryan Johnson 6’1 Lane Webster 5’11 Josh Fincannon 6’2 Noah Gourd 6’0 Shawn Brauer 6’1 Danny Huelsenbeck 6’0 Hunter McWater 5’10 Samuel Higgins 5’10 Jacob Weathers 6’0 Nicolas Hancock 6’1 Isaac Euler 5’11 Jacinto Rodriguez 5’7 Abraham Palma 5’8 Santana Naugle 5’11 Jaiden Wheeler 6’2 Kaleb Andrews 5’10 Ryder Barnes 5’10 Alex Scott 5’11 Nate Caseboldt 5’5

WT POSITION YR 180 165 185 150 190 190 235 140 205 220 210 215 185 160 260 220 230 220 270 220 240 175 230 260 200 265 230 200 305 140 130 130 145

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Coaching Staff Dustin Kinard Kenny Gooch Blaine Wise Darrack Hargar

Head Coach OC/QB OL WR

Mike Edwards Terrance Miller Burgess Shaw Kevin Avey

TE/OL RB OL/DL DC

Jay Fleischman Ronnie Taber Lance Beck Chris Duke

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2019 Sandite ScheduleS JV Football

Freshman Football

8th Grade Football

Sept. 9 Sept. 16 Sept. 23 Sept. 30 Oct. 7 Oct. 14 Oct. 21 Oct. 28 Nov. 4

Aug. 27 Pre-season preview@Sapulpa Sept. 5 @Bixby Blue Sept. 12 Union Red Sept. 19 @BTW Sept. 26 Bartlesville Blue Oct. 3 @Muskogee Green Oct. 10 Sapulpa Blue Oct. 15 @Bartlesville Blue Oct. 24 Muskogee Green Oct. 31 @Sapulpa Blue

Aug. 27 Preseason Preview

vs Sapulpa Sept. 5 @Bixby Blue Sept. 12 Union Red Sept. 26 Bartlesville Blue Oct. 3 @Muskogee Green Oct. 10 Sapulpa Blue Oct. 15 @Bartlesville Blue Oct. 24 Muskogee Oct. 31 @Sapulpa Blue

@ Bishop Kelley @ Putnam City Union Red Owasso White Muskogee Bartlesville @ Ponca City Bixby Sapulpa

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Charles Page High School Football History 2018: The 2018 season was a season of near misses and almosts.

The Sand Springs Sandites finished with a 3-7 overall record (2-5 in district play), and they graduated a lot of starters.

Several games could have gone either way, and the Sandites lost two games by three points or less. Shawnee beat Sand Springs, 23-20, on a field goal, and the Bartlesville Bruins beat the Sandites, 2927, for their closest loss of the year. However, the biggest win of the season was a 41-34 victory over arch-rival Sapulpa.

2017: The Sandites ended the sea-

son with a 5-5 record but advanced to their sixth-straight playoff berth.

For the third-straight year, Sand Springs started the season 0-2 but advanced to the state playoffs with district wins over Bartlesville, Ponca City and Sapulpa. Midwest City ended the Sandites’ season with a 47-12 defeat in the first round.

2016: After starting the season 0-2,

Sand Springs won 5-straight games and ended the regular season with a 6-4 record. The Sandites beat Midwest City, 23-14, in the quarterfinals, setting up a showdown with Bixby, again. The Spartans beat Sand Springs to end the regular season, and the semifinal game would decide who goes to the state championship. Bixby won, 35-21, and eventually won its third-straight state title in Class 6AII.

2015: Sand Springs started off with an unexpected bump in the road, having to forfeit two wins due to an ineligible player. They went 5-4 in the regular season and third in Dist. 6AII-1. CPHS then beat No. 7 Stillwater in the first round, 49-14, and then knocked off No. 1 Booker T. Washington 30-23 in the semifinals, sending them to the finals for the first time in 49 years. Bixby beat CPHS, 38-28, in the finals at Union-

Tuttle Stadium, ending with a 7-5 record (9-3 without the forfeits). This was the fourth-straight playoff berth for CPHS, and the second-straight year they won a playoff game.

2014: The Sandites played in the

first split-Class season. There was a Large School Division I and a Small School Division II and Sand Springs ended with an 8-4 record and a 5-2 record in Dist. 6AII-1, making the playoffs. They beat Midwest City (29-28) but fell to eventual state champion Bixby, 41-14. This was the third-straight playoff berth for CPHS.

2013: CPHS went 6-5 with a first round playoff loss to Westmoore.

The Sandites ended the regular season with a 6-4 record, and a third place finish in Dist. 6A-1. They started with a 1-2 record but bounced back in district play. Westmoore beat Sand Springs, 31-10 in the first round of the playoffs. This was the second-straight playoff berth for the Sandites.

2012: The Sandites had a record-

breaking season, ending with an 8-3 record with a first-round playoff loss to Broken Arrow. Cody Hilderbrandt broke the record for single-season TD receptions with 11, and Cody Hale now holds the single-season passing TD record with 22, passing yards with over 2,400 and singlegame passing yards with 371. The Sandites started the season 6-0 before falling to Union in week 7. CPHS lost to three teams that were ranked No. 4 or higher. This was the first time the Sandites made the playoffs in three years.

2009: A lot was expected from the

Sandites but tragedy struck in the season opener and they missed the playoffs by one game. Senior

CPHS Playoff History 2017: (lost to Midwest City in the quarterfinals, 47-12) 2016: (lost to Bixby in the state semifinals, 35-21) 2015: (lost in the state finals to Bixby, 38-28) 2014: (lost to eventual state champion Bixby 41-14 in the second round) 2013: (lost to Westmoore 31-10 in first round) 2012: (lost to No. 4 BA 35-6) 2008: (lost to Union 70-21) 1997: (beat BA 14-7 in first round, beat Sapulpa 42-14 in second round, lost to Yukon in semis) 1996: (lost to Jenks 42-7 in first round) 1995: (lost to BA 14-0 in first round) 1993: (lost to Jenks 24-7 in first round) 1991: (lost to BA 31-13 in first round) 1990: (beat Union 13-7 in first round, beat Jenks 6-3 in second round, lost to PC North 24-7 in semis) 1987: (beat Tulsa Memorial 30-19 in first round, beat Norman 25-22 in second round, lost to Lawton 14-10 in semis) 1981: (lost to McLain 27-0 in first round) 1977: playoffs 1976: playoffs 1966: STATE CHAMPS (beat Ada in semis, beat El Reno in finals)

quarterback Johnny Deaton was labeled one of the top quarterbacks in the state but broke his collarbone against Enid with 54 seconds left in the third quarter. Sand Springs lost 28-14.

In week 7, Deaton steeped onto the field in the second quarter against Broken Arrow for the first time since his shoulder injury. He had just over 100 yards of total offense with a touchdown pass in the 49-21 loss to the Tigers.

In week 8, Deaton threw for 101 yards, rushed for 95 yards with four touchdowns in a 28-24 win over Claremore.

However, the win would go down as a

loss due to an ineligible player for Sand Springs.

They ended the season 4-6 and 2-5 in district play.

2008: The Sandites made the play-

offs for the first time in 10 years but lost to No. 2 Union 70-21. The black and gold had a four-game winning streak, beating Stillwater, Ponca City, Tulsa Memorial and Bartlesville during the regular season.

2007: Sand Springs opened the

newly remodeled Memorial Stadium with a 21-19 win over Ponca City.

The ended the season with a 4-6 record.

2004: The Sandites beat Tulsa Central 58-6 to break a 28-game losing streak and ended the season 4-6 with wins over Tahlequah, Memorial and Bartlesville.

2003: Head Coach Tim Beacham

went 0-10 in 2002 and 2003 in a 28-game losing streak.

1997: Head coach Archie Loehr and

the Sandites won 12-straight games for the first time since the state championship team of 1966. After tearing through the regular season and clinching the district title with a 7-0 record, Sand Springs beat No. 7 Broken Arrow and No. 11 Sapulpa in the playoffs before falling to Yukon in the semifinals. They also beat rival Sapulpa twice in 1997.

1996: LD Bains ended his 14-year

career at Sand Springs with a 7-4 record and a trip to the state playoffs, where they lost to No. 2 Jenks in the first round. They were ranked as high as No. 13 during the season.

Baines took six teams to the state playoffs.

1990: The Sandites made it to the

state semifinals and ended with a 9-4 record, beating Union and Jenks

in the playoffs. However, Putnam City North ended the dream season with a 24-7 semifinal loss.

1987: The ‘87 Sandites shared a district title with Stillwater and Bartlesville and went all the way to the semifinals of state, falling to Lawton by only four points, 14-10.

It was Bains’ fifth year with Sand Springs and his first trip to the state playoffs. The minutemen beat Tulsa Memorial and Norman in the early rounds.

1981: Head coach Gary Quimby and the Sandites won the Dist. 4A-5 title with an undefeated district record of 3-0 but they were bumped out of the first round of the state playoffs with a 27-0 loss to McLain. They ended the season with a 5-6 record.

1977: The Sandites went 11-1 after an

0-10 season in 1975.

1966: Head coach Frank Tillery took the Sandites to an undefeated and untied season (12-0) and the school’s only state football championship.

1962: Sand Springs went undefeated for the third time in school history with a 7-0-2 total.

1937: Sand Springs recorded its sec-

ond undefeated season with a 7-0-2 record under head coach Ed Dubie.

1922: After three successful seasons, the Sandites recorded their first losing season with a 3-5-2 record under head coach A.R. Bateman.

1921: Sand Springs ended undefeated with a 7-0 record. It’s first undefeated season in school history.

1919: The school started its football program under the direction of Ivan Grover and the Sandites ended with a 7-2 record.

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Q Head Coach &a Dustin kinard The 2019 season will be Dustin Kinard’s 13th as the Sandites’ head coach. The Sand Springs native — before moving to Ohio while in high school — spent some time answering some questions before the 2019 season gets started.

With the Sand Springs community enduring some life-changing flooding in the spring months, how different has this approach been for the 2019 season?

It put everything into perspective, and that there are other things other than football. It slows life down for ya, and how you have to take care of life first.

You’ve been battling pancreatic cancer for some time now, so what’s the status of your health?

I’m doing good. Hopefully Sept. 11 will be my last chemo treatment. After that, we’ll just go from there.

As someone who’s been a head coach for more than a decade, how exciting is the month of August when you get to prepare for the upcoming season?

It gives me another opportunity to help kids. That’s what it’s all about. I want to help them make right decisions and maybe win some ball games along the way.

Often times in the summer months, you’re mowing a lot of property. How long have you been doing that?

Since I was in college, so more than 20

years. That’s how me and my family are able to go on vacation every year.

So what’s your favorite vacation spot?

For the last 10 years, we had gone to Gulf Shores (Ala.). But now you can fly direct to Destin (Fla.), so this year we went there.

We flew right there and Uber’d straight to the resort and never left until it was time to come home.

What’s it like to be back in Sand Springs and coaching in the town that you grew up?

It’s great because I get to be close to family, and that’s what it’s all about. Being close to family is always the most important thing.

Who is the most dynamic athlete you’ve coached while at Sand Springs?

Michael Bowie has a Super Bowl ring, and he’s the only one I’ve gotten to the NFL. Even though there have been so many, I’ll go with him.

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CPHS Cheer team seeks to become National Champions

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PHS Cheer competed at the National Cheerleaders Association High School Nationals contest in Dallas in January and came home as the National Runner-Up in the Intermediate Co-ed Performance Division. In addition to our second place finish, we were awarded for the best use of jumps and the best use of jumps in our entire division. The team is excited about the upcoming season and we want to build on the success we had at Nationals.

We are preparing this year to bring out the best possible routine we can, so that we can come home as National Champions this year. As always we cannot wait for football and basketball season, so we can cheer on our Sandite football and basketball teams to victory.

Head Cheer Coach Carrie Schlehuber

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The CPHS Gold Pride Band

Band prepares for fall 2019 season

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he Charles Page High School Gold Pride Band is going for a patriotic theme for their show this year after a more extravagant, carnivalthemed show in 2018-2019.

The band started practicing August 1. They will perform at Meet the Sandites August 22 and at the Homecoming Parade September 26.

The marching band is preparing for a marching band contest September 28 at East Central University In Ada, another contest October 12 in Branson and the Oklahoma

Secondary School Activities Association Marching Band Contest October 30.

Drum Major Alyssa Crutcher said last year’s show was successful despite missing some events, like the Tulsa Veterans Day Parade and the Sand Springs Christmas Parade, because of weather.

“We had a lot of visuals,” Crutcher said of last year’s carnival-themed show. “We’d never had a pre-show before…It was an experimental year.”

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