February 15, 2019 Burns Flat-Dill City Schools Volume 58, Number 6

The Talon What’s Inside

Pg. 2… Senior of the Month Pg. 3 & 4 … Elementary News Pg. 5… JH/HS News Pg. 6… Puzzle Pg. 7 & 8 ...Sports

February 15th-16th Southwest Area Livestock Show

February 18th

Snow Day – NO SCHOOL

February 20th

8 man State Power Lifting @

Snyder

February 21st

HS Basketball @ Regionals

JH Power Lifting @ Dibble

February 22nd

HS Basketball @ Regionals Mighty Eagle Glow Prom @ Weath-

erford

February 23rd

HS Basketball @ Regionals

Solo & Ensemble Band

February 27th Shortgrass Speech @ Cordell

6th Grade Academic Team @ Chatty

February 28th

6th Grade Academic Team @ Chatty

WR Elementary Music Program

March 1st

HS Basketball @ Temple

March 3rd Calf Fry

March 4th

Academic Banquet HS Baseball @ Thomas

March 5th Band District Contest

Band Parent Meeting 6pm

HS Baseball @ Taloga

JH Baseball vs. CBA JH/HS Softball @ Blair

March 7th

HS/JH Baseball @M.V.G. JH Power Lifting @ State

March 8th

End of 9 weeks

HS/JH Baseball @ Sentinel

HS Power Lifting @ Regionals

March 9th

HS Power Lifting @ Regionals

March 11th Girls Power Lifting @ State

HS Softball vs. Sentinel & Hobart

HS/JH Baseball @ Navajo

March 12th

Girls Golf @ BF-DC Invitational

JH/HS Baseball vs. Sayre JH/HS Softball @ Hammon

March 13

Boys Golf @ BF-DC Invitational

March 14th

Parent Teacher Conference 3:30-

9:30pm

March 15th

HS Power Lifting @ State NO SCHOOL

What’s happening at

BF-DC Schools

Superintendent’s News Letter

February, 2019

I would like to alert the public to a growing concern in education. Virtual charter or

“online” schools have been in operation in Oklahoma since 2011. Although they do

provide an educational resource for some students and parents, it is my opinion that

they fail many more families than they help.

Anecdotally, having served as a public school administrator for the past 22 years, I

have seen many of our students leave the public school to go to virtual school, only

to return to us later with little or no credits. It has taken years to get this infor-

mation, but we are finally hearing actual figures for virtual schools’ success or lack

thereof.

Here are some of the major problems that I and other public educators are seeing. It is inexcusable for virtual

schools to keep students on their class rolls (for the money) until the last day of testing and then drop them

because the students have not tested. We now know that less than 40% of virtual students are actually test-

ed. The state requires that public schools test at least 95% of our students. Online schools should not be al-

lowed to get away with that.

In addition, online graduation rates are finally being exposed. Virtual schools also graduate less than 40% of

their student population. That's terrible! Any public school that did that would be closed.

Public schools' graduation rates are also harmed because when the virtual students return to public school,

they are almost always behind in credits and can't graduate on time. This makes public schools’ graduation

rates much lower because the virtual schools didn't do their job.

Virtual schools also receive the same funding per pupil that public schools do even though online schools

don’t have to pay for “brick and mortar” buildings to have class, buses for transportation, cafeteria workers,

custodians, and the list goes on. Why should they receive the same funding when their overhead is much,

much less? This only takes funding away from public school students.

Finally, it should be very telling when teachers sign a contract to work for one particular Oklahoma online

school, they are required to sign a NON-DISCLOSURE agreement about their business practices. These "for

profit" organizations apparently have much to hide.

Parents, if you have children currently enrolled in a virtual school, I hope you thoroughly scrutinize the services

that you are being provided. Please don’t let your student fall between the cracks. And, if you are considering

using an online school for your child, please ask lots of questions about their ACTUAL graduation rates, school

testing rates and dropout procedures.

House members will soon be voting on two bills requiring greater inquiry of virtual schools. I urge you to con-

tact your legislators and ask them to vote, "yes" on House Bills 1395 and 1229. I apologize for the rant but

our children’s education is too important to ignore.

Respectfully,

Larry R. Johnson, Superintendent

Burns Flat-Dill City Public Schools

Little Dribblers and Lil’ Gal Cheer Students Entertain Fans at Half Times

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Senior of the Month February

Morgan McBroom is the

BF-DC Senior of the Month for February. She is the

daughter of Lelia and Larry Gray. She is the grand-

daughter of Wanda Gage

and Rickey Elliot. She has three siblings , Taylor

McBroom, Hope Gray, and

Joe Gray. Morgan is current-ly attending Western Tech-

nology Center for Cosmetol-ogy. She has received

awards for National Honor

Society, Principals Honor Roll, and Outstanding Atti-

tude at WTC. She has com-pleted community service

by giving free haircuts to

students at WTC. After graduation Morgan plans to

attend WTC in Sayre, OK to

further her education in Ra-diology. Her favorite memo-

ries for her school career are 3rd Grade Science Day

with Mr. Price and complet-

ing her Senior Memory Book. She if very thankful

for being required to make

her Senior Memory Book.

Students of the

Month February

Marcie Diggs is the BF-DC

Student of the Month for

February. She is in the elev-enth grade. Marcie is the

daughter of Billy and Rob-erta Diggs. She has one

sister, Tracie Diggs. Marcie

participates in cheer, vocal music, cross country, and

golf. She has received

awards for State Academic Championship in cross

country and in golf. She has participated in state compe-

tition for vocal several times

receiving excellent ratings. Marcie completed commu-

nity service by helping Den-nis Dugger with his cam-

paign. Upon graduation for

high school Marcie plans to attend college in state and

after college she would like

to become a worship pastor at a Life Church. Her fond-

est memories are going to Weatherford to see her sis-

ter Tracie and when her

whole family is together.

Academic Banquet will be March 4th at 6 p.m. RSVPs are due February 19th Testing will begin the week of April 1st and will run through April 30th Spring Break is March 18th-22nd

Counselor Corner

Senior News

The Seniors that partici-pate in spring sports were

introduced with their parents or guardians at senior night,

at the High school basket-

ball game February 5th. The senior powerlifters are Kalie

Walter, Leslie Gearhart,

Michaela Knight, and Riley Johnson. The senior golfers

are Alexa Benedict, Lorsa Hughes, Landon Ringo, and

Riley Johnson. The senior

track and field runners are Kayela Staples and Leslie

Gearhart. The senior slow

pitch softball players are Taylor Garcia, Destiney Spra-

dlin, and Michaela Knight. The senior baseball players

are Donovan Webb and Ri-

ley Johnson. Donovan Webb, Alexa Benedict, Lorsa

Hughes and Aaron Schmidt

are on the high school Aca-demic team. They have

worked very hard through the year to get 3rd place out

of 96 teams at Class 2A

State.

Michaela Knight Staff Reporter

FCCLA to Attend

State Convention

Jr. High Student of the Month of January

Jr. High Student of the Month of December

Madison Flores Priscila Martinez Paola Baez

Jacob Powers Natalie Bloomer Trevor Teague

The Burns Flat-Dill City Family, Career and Commu-

nity Leaders of America member will be attending

the FCCLA State Convention

on April 3rd – 4th at Okla-homa City. The individuals

who will be attending in-

cludes: Mrs. Lyles, sponsor, Mrs. Ledbetter, club moth-

er, and students; Leslie Gearhart, Taylor Garcia,

Kalie Walter, Michaela

Knight, Autumn Collins, Ad-dy Sharp, Alyssa Serna and

Sam Hernandez.

Michaela Knight

Staff Reporter

History Day Students Practicing for

Competition

The BF-DC History Day club is working on the perfor-

mances they will present for at the History Day competi-

tions. The History Day fund

raiser to support their trips to competitions is selling

biscuits and gravy meals.

The biscuits and gravy meals are being sold every

other Wednesday, the sign-

up sheet is on the bulletin board across from Mrs.

Stewart’s room. The Region-al History Day competition

is April 3rd at SWOSU.

Morgan Ferkins

Staff reporter

January Star Students

back row L. to R. - Noah Garrison, Hailey Holmes, Avah Martinez, Dalyla Arnold, Ashton

Elmore.

Middle Row L. to R. - Lizzie Dye, Landon Kamphaus, Emma Stegall, Jestin Kimberlin.

Front Row L. to R. - Addyson St. John, Khloe Peck, Zachary Cooper, Chayil Youngbull.

February 15, 2019 Burns Flat-Dill City Schools Volume 51 Number 6 Page 3

Will Rogers Elementary Celebrate MLK

Day with Special Guest

Will Rogers Elementary hosted guests for Eagle

Time Monday morning, Jan. 28 in the Will Rogers gym-

nasium. The program, "Civil

Rights," was held in connec-tion with the January cele-

bration of Dr. Martin Luther

King, Jr.'s birthday. The guests for the "Civil

Rights" program were Bar-bra Thompson, Kathie Price,

and Chris Price. Counselor

Lori Dixon interviewed each of the guests asking what

they remember during the

"Civil Rights Movement" and desegregat ion. Barbra

Thompson spoke of growing up in Mountain View with

children of color and never

thinking a thing about it. When she got a job in Okla-

homa City in the late 50's,

she worked in a restaurant. She waited on some very

nice African American la-dies thinking that was the

proper thing to do. She did-

n't realize that it was against the rules.

Kathie Price spoke of growing up in Kentucky and

the town was completely

segregated. In fifth grade,

she remembered the first day five African American

students became new stu-dents in her class. Mrs.

Price remembered the fear

the five new students had and the mixed attitudes of

the rest of the class. She

talked about making friends with them and fin-

ishing high school with them.

Chris Price talked about

growing up here in Burns Flat with the air base and

being able to appreciate

many ethnicities! It wasn't until he left Burns Flat that

he realized the prejudices in various parts of the

country. Ms. Dixon, the

teachers, and students are so appreciative of the

guests taking time to

come and share their expe-riences at Eagle Time.

Ms. Dixon, also, shared a short video of Dr. Martin

Luther King, Jr. speaking

about his life to close our program on civil rights.

Valerie Fite

WR Elementary Teacher

Game Wardens Present Program on

Hunting Safety to Will Rogers

Elementary Students

On Friday, Feb. 8 in the Will Rogers gymnasium,

Game Wardens Clint Car-penter and Josey Branch

presented a program on

"Gun Safety and Hunting." Game Warden Josey

Branch discussed the four

main points in gun safety. Game Warden Clint Carpen-

ter showed four different types of guns used for hunt-

ing. The wardens, also,

showed pelts of various ani-mals in our area including

coyote, raccoon, skunk, red

fox, bobcat, and badger. The wardens stressed the need

to use the four gun safety rules to protect ourselves

and others from being wounded from firearms.

They talked about the vari-ous roles they play as game

wardens and keepers of the

peace. Game Warden Jeff Head-

rick was there giving sup-

port to Game Wardens Car-penter and Branch. It is

greatly appreciated that they came and spoke to the

students and teachers

about gun safety and shared about their job de-

scriptions.

Valerie Fite

WR Elementary Teacher

Will Rogers Students

Perform at Half Times

Of HS Games

The elementary students at Will Rog-ers worked very hard on their ball han-

dling and cheerleading skills. Desarae Simmons and Kendi Spra-

dlin worked with the students in prepa-

ration for their little "show-time" to the community. Tuesday night, Feb. 5, the

"Little Dribblers" showed off their bas-

ketball skills during the half time of the high school girls basketball game.

The "Little Gal Cheerleaders" per-formed at the half time of the boys

game.

Valerie Fite

WR Elementary Teacher

February 15, 2019 Burns Flat-Dill City Schools Volume 51 Number 6 Page 4

Kindergarten Class Receives Book Donation

In January the kindergar-teners learned 16 sight

words, covered four letters, and writing to 50. They cele-

brated the 100th day of

School on January 18th. They would like to say thank

you to Gary and Kay Nagle

for donating books to the students in Ms. St. John's

Kindergarten class.

Jonathen Cardenas

Staff Reporter

Pre-K Learning

Different Letters

Mrs. Matuszewski Pre-K class has been learning dif-

ferent letters all year. In January and February they

have worked on the letter

“S” and made snowmen. They also learned the letter

“U” and made unicorns from

hearts for Valentine Day. The Pre-K students really

enjoyed celebrating the 100th day of school. Many

of the students came to

school all dressed up with 100 items on their shirts.

Jonathen Cardenas Staff Reporter

3rd Grade Learning About Research

The 3rd grade at Will Rog-ers Elementary is learning

about research. They con-ducted their own research

on an animal of their

choice. Having 1:1 iPads made this lesson fun for all!

The January Star Students

in Mrs. Giles room were Noah Garrison an Lizzy Dye

in Mrs. Deans room.

Shae Hess

Staff Reporter

1st Grade Enjoy

Action Learning

Lab

First grade has been en-joying their Action Based

Learning Lab. On Tuesday's and Thursdays, their class

enjoys going into the lab

and using the equipment to incorporate movement and

learning. Their class enjoys

practicing sight words and reading while they are in the

lab. First grade also had the opportunity to attend a

presentation put on by their

game wardens. The class was able to learn about dif-

ferent animals that they

have in the area, and they were able to touch the pelts

of all of the animals. They are looking forward to cele-

brating Valentines Day by

decorating bags and ex-changing cards in their

classroom.

Andrew Martinez

Staff Reporter

2nd Students Participate In Pizza Hut Book It

The Will Rogers elemen-tary 2-A Helpers for January

were Roxy Filbeck, Madison McDaniel, Draivyn Baker,

Elijah Dougherty. The Janu-

ary Star student was Emma Campbell. The Pizza Hut

Book-it participant was Wy-

att Young. The 2-B Helpers were

Jayvalee Holt, Cameron Ra-leigh, Kaitlyn Denbo, Aydan

Hawkins, Haley Holmes,

Mac Logan, Arianna Padilla, and Gunner Beals. The Janu-

ary star student was Haley Holmes. Pizza Hut book-it

participants were Allie Lane,

Mac Logan, Haley Holmes, Adilyn Bacon.

Audrianna Yates Staff Reporter

4th Grade Students Prepare for Science Fair

The fourth grade students at Will Rogers Elementary

are working on their Science Fair Demonstrations. The

Science Fair is scheduled for

February 26th.

Drew Johnson

Staff Reporter

February 15, 2019 Burns Flat-Dill City Schools Volume 51 Number 6 Page 5

FCA Planning Dodgers Game Trip Academic Teams Have Outstanding Year The Burns Flat-Dill City High School Academic

Team competed in the OS-SAA State Tournament on

Saturday, February 2nd.

They qualified for State by coming in second at the

Area meet. In the first round

of State, they won against Canute 190-150. In the sec-

ond, they faced Vanoss and won 280-150. In the third

round the team was

knocked to the loser’s bracket by the private

school Riverfield. In the

fourth round, they faced Vanoss again and narrowly

lost. They did not get to play in the championship but

still won their right to the

third place trophy and med-als for the team. The entire

season ended with 3rd

place out of 96 in the state and a record of 27 wins and

only three losses. On February 11th, the

junior high and high school

team traveled to Cheyenne for the Oklahoma Great

Plains Academic Confer-ence Banquet. Josh Mooney

was awarded a medal for

being a Junior High MVP. John Kilhoffer won MVP,

Conference All Star, and

Individual winner of the conference with the highest

total average of points scored in a game. The high

school team was awarded

the Championship plaque for winning the conference

undefeated.

It was one of the most successful seasons for the

team and school. The school is extremely proud

of all these students have

accomplished! The high school team hopes to com-

pete in the National Com-

petition in New Orleans, LA.

Alexa Benedict Editor

STUCCO News The Burns Flat-Dill City Fellowship of Christian Ath-

letes had their monthly meeting on January 31st.

They had their donuts gra-

ciously provided by the sponsors, Mrs. Schne-

berger, Mr. Foley, and Can-

dace Bond. Donovan Webb gave the devotional that

included social experiments and a lesson over combat-

ing hatred with kindness.

The members enjoyed the humor from Donovan and

the real life applications of

his devotional.

The members of FCA will have their ticket money for

the OKC Dodgers game on April 6th due February

22nd. The cost of the ticket

will be $20 and need to be turned into Mr. Foley.

The FCA would like to re-

mind students that the pray-er circle is open to any stu-

dent and is every Friday during encore.

Alexa Benedict Editor

The Burns Flat-Dill City Student Council canceled

the junior high Winter Ball due to lack of interest from

the students.

Student Council hopes to have another blood drive in

the spring. Along with an-

other Red Ribbon week or other philanthropic work for

the school and community.

Alexa Benedict

Editor

9th Grade News

In Physical Science the 9th grade students are learning

about the periodic table and elements. In English they

are reading “Romeo and

Juliet” and learning how Shakespeare used word

play. In Algebra 1 they are

reviewing over values. In Oklahoma History the fresh-

men are learning about Oklahoma’s geography. The

9th grade basketball play-

ers had their last Jr High basketball game on Febru-

ary 4th against Sentinel.

6th Grade News

The BF-DC 6th grade stu-dents are learning about

coding in their Stem clas-ses. In their math classes

they are learning percent-

age and how to turn them into fractions. In social stud-

ies they are learning about

Mexico and English they are learning nouns and pro-

nouns.

Chelsey Attebery

Staff Reporter

7th Grade News

The BF-DC seventh grade students in math are learn-

ing about translations. In English they are working on

the website “NoRedInk” on

the chromebooks. In Social Studies they are learning

about the United King-

dome. In science they are studying cells

Nick Jones

Staff Reporter

11th Grade News The junior class is working on prom every Thursday;

they are also selling Crispy Cream Donuts to raise mon-

ey for the prom. The junior

class is working really hard for this year’s prom.

Caleb Clark Staff Reporter

8th Grade News

The BF-DC 8th grade is learning about volume and

surface area in math. They are learning about plant

and animal cells in science.

In English they are learning about independent and de-

pendent clauses. They are

learning the preamble in U.S. History.

Terry Connizzo

Staff Reporter

10th Grade News

The sophomore class is starting “Julius Caesar” in

English. In biology, they just finished the gummy bear

lab, and now they are start-

ing to prepare for a test over cells. In history they

are learning about the mid-

dle ages. The sophomores just finished their class fund

raiser, selling Cupid Cards.

Jessica Briggs

Sophomore Reporter

Gabriel Cardenas

Staff Reporter

BF-DC 4-H

Collecting

Pop Tabs

The Burns Flat-Dill City 4-H Club is still collecting pop

tabs. You can give them to any 4-H member or mes-

sage Larissa Mason at 580-

339-6797 and she will be happy to get the tabs from

you. The pop tabs are

cashed in, and the money goes to the Ronald McDon-

ald Charity. Jayden Kendrick placed 1st

at the County 4-H Share-The-

Fun back in November and was able to advance on to

the district competition. Jay-

den did a wonderful job on his drum solo and received

a blue ribbon. Congratula-tions, Jayden on a job well

done.

In January, the club got together and started work-

ing on their project for the

nursing home residents. They are still taking material

donations for this project if you'd like to help. A special

thank you to those who have

already donated. They are looking forward to making a

difference in their communi-ty and surrounding commu-

nities with some of the up-

coming projects. Thursday, February 7th will be the

County Impressive Dress &

Fashion Review competition held in Sentinel. Best of luck

to all.

Landon Ringo

Staff Reporter

Band And Choir

Preparing for

Contest

The Burns Flat-Dill City Band and Choir students

have been preparing for Solo and Ensemble contest

hosted in Weatherford, OK

on the SWOSU Campus. Students work by them-

selves on songs for this con-

test for a month. Choir stu-dents will be going on Feb-

ruary 16th and Band stu-dents will be going to Febru-

ary 23.

The Jazz band students went to the SWOSU Jazz

fest concert on February

8th. The concert featured SWOSU Jazz A and Sean

Jones and the John Hanson Trio.

The Burns Flat-Dill City

band and choir students will be selling cookie dough in

March. See a member for

more information. The Burns Flat-Dill City

Band will be going to Pre-District contest on February

13, 2019 and OSSAA Dis-

trict contest on March 5, 2019.

February Exciting Month for FFA

February is shaping up to be another exciting month

for the Burns Flat-Dill City FFA chapter. The month

started off with Jessica

Briggs exhibiting her lamb and The Great Western

Shoot-Out in Woodward,

Oklahoma and winning 1st in her class. The Burns Flat-

Dill City FFA show team will be competing at the South-

west Area Livestock Show

in Chickasha, Oklahoma starting on February 13.

The students are preparing

for National FFA Week with

different activities being scheduled. The month will

conclude with several stu-dents competing with their

animals at the Washita

County Livestock Show. Many of the members are

completing their applica-

tions in the hopes of being selected to represent the

Burns Flat Dill City FFA Chap-ter at events coming up in

the summer.

Landon Ringo

Staff Reporter

Burns Flat-Dill City FFA Events (January/February)

February 12-16,

2019

SW Area Livestock Show in Chickasha, OK (Sheep,

Goats, Cattle, and Pigs)

February 17-23,

2019

National FFA Week

February 24-26,

2019

Washita County Livestock Show Cordell, OK (Sheep, Goats, Cattle, Pigs, and Chickens)

Burns Flat-Dill City FFA National FFA Week Activities

Sunday, February 17 FFA @ Church (Church of Christ @ 10:30am

Monday, February 18 FFA Radio Interview KECO @ 11:00am

Tuesday, February 19 FFA Day @ the Capitol

Thursday, February 21 Ag in the Classroom @ Will Rodgers Elementary

Friday, February 22 Teacher Appreciation Day

Saturday, February 23 Law Enforcement Appreciation Day

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Book Review The Stranger by Caroline B. Cooney is about a girl named Nicoletta who meets a newcomer named Jethro in art appreci-

ation class. Jethro is seen as menacing, mysterious, and dan-

gerously attractive. She was so mesmerized one afternoon by him she followed him home. Or rather, home is where she

thinks he’s going, until he walks past the edge of town and

slips into the forest. In the safety of the woods, Jethro’s power seems to surge. It’s as if the trees and boulders of the forest

rise up to greet him. He’s so different, and so seemingly invin-cible. Before long, Jethro becomes Nicoletta’s obsession. As

the truth about Jethro is unveiled, she becomes terrified, but

she’s already gone too far to go back.

Joey Pesek Staff Reporter

February 15, 2019 Burns Flat-Dill City Schools Volume 51 Number 6 Page 7

Mighty Eagles Play Basketball

On Saturday, February 2, 2019 the Mighty Eagles trav-

eled to Cordell to play in their basketball event. They

had two teams that partici-

pated in the event. Mighty Eagles Blue consisted of

Justin Davis, BF-DC gradu-

ate, Casey Moore, BF-DC graduate, and unified part-

ners Haley and Trevor. The Mighty Eagles White team

members were Katy Horne,

BF-DC graduate, Erica Noyes, BF-DC Sophomore,

and unified partners Josie

and Alyssa. The two Mighty Eagle

teams ended up in the same tournament bracket. Mighty

Eagles Blue played Canute

and after a close game, one of the Canute players start-

ing hitting behind the three-

point line. The game ended with a score of 13-7. In their

second games, the Mighty Eagle teams had to play

each other. The Blue team

beat the White by 9 to 7. The White team then played

the Canute team. Unfortu-nately for the Mighty Eagles

White, once again a Canute

player starting hitting from

three-point line once again. After a hard fought game,

White lost to Canute 12-7. The Mighty Eagle Blue team

brought home second place

while the White team took home third.

The Mighty Eagle Coaches

would like to thank the uni-fied partners, parents and

fans that came to the game. It really meant a lot to the

athletes to have some of

their fans there. Cordell had fans there for all the teams

but it was really nice to see

some BF-DC faces. The team would also like

to thank BF-DC All Sports and the Knights of Colum-

bus for their financial sup-

port that makes these ath-letes dreams become reali-

ty.

The Mighty Eagles will go to the third annual Glow

Prom February 22nd. They will be busy in April with

Bocce and Track and Field

competitions. They will trav-el to Yukon on April 13 for

Track and Field and will head to Weatherford April

2nd for the Bocce competi-

tion.

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Alexa Benedict

Audrianna Yates Brock Bennett

Caleb Clark Dakota Kluth

Donovan Young

Drew Johnson Gabriel Cardenas

Joey Pesek

Jonathen Cardenas Landon Ringo

Michaela Knight-Delao Morgan Ferkins

Nick Jones

Robert Summers Shae Hess

Terry Connizzo Chelsey Attebery

Morgan Green

Andrew Martinez

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5th & 6th

Basketball

The fifth and sixth grade elementary basketball

teams had a long season this year. They started prac-

tice and games in October

and played till February. Through these months the

teams played a total of 11

games and were also in the Burns Flat-Dill City festival.

The teams won many games, some notable wins

were beating teams such

as: Mangum, Arapaho-Butler, Hobart, and Cordell.

Overall the elementary had

a very successful season. All the coaches are proud of

the player’s effort and hard work. We look forward to

next season!

Coach Moore,

Coach Spradlin,

Coach Schneberger

HS Boys Basketball Playing Hard

The Burns Flat-Dill City High School boys basketball

team fell to Navajo on Janu-ary 15th, 80-37, even with

Caleb Clark scoring six

points. The Burns Flat-Dill City Varsity finished strong,

adding 12 points in the final

quarter. For this game they finished with 34 rebounds

(15 offensive/ 19 defen-sive.)

The team had a great

showing when they played Mangum on January 18th,

63-40, with Dalton Webb

scoring 10 points it still was not enough as the Burns

Flat-Dill City was defeated. They finished the game with

28 rebounds (10 offensive /

18 defensive.) The Eagles had a solid

performance against Corn

Bible Academy on January 21st even though we lost(63-

61), Luis Margerum had seven points. They finished

the game with 21 rebounds

(5 offensive/ 16 defensive.) The boys performed hard

against Hollis on January 29th, even though they were

defeated, they are not look-

ing back at it as a bad thing but to learn from the mis-

takes and progress. They

finished with 30 rebounds (9 offensive/ 21 defensive.)

The Eagles fell to Cordell on February 1st (66-13),

with Isaac Tubbs scoring

seven points. They finished the game hard with 18 re-

bounds (5 offensive/ 13

defensive.) The boys played Merritt on

February 2nd and lost, 60-24. Even though they added

8 points in the final quarter

it was not enough to turn the game around. They fin-

ished the game with 20

rebounds (5 offensive/ 15 defensive.)

The BF-DC Eagles played Cheyenne/Reydon on Feb-

ruary 5th and lost, 61-46.

They added 16 points to the board in the final quarter

and failed to make a come

back . They finished the game with 21 rebounds (7

offensive/ 14 defensive.)

Brock Bennett

Staff Reporter

Powerlifting News

The JH & HS Powerlifting teams have now participat-

ed in two meets. The first meet being at Snyder, and

the second meet being at

Anadarko. They have done very well so far and are look-

ing forward to future suc-

cess.

@ Snyder Grade Name Place Weight

7th Wyatt Gearhart 3rd

Heavyweight 7th Eric Miller 1st 105 lbs.

7th Robert Plaza 1st 1 9 8

lbs. 7th Gage Stegall 2nd

Heavyweight 8th Enedino Mendoza 1st

157 lbs.

8th Ryden Kluth 1st Heavyweight

8th Evan Donaldson 3rd

157 lbs. 8th Luke Schneberger 1st

181 lbs. 9th Kody Wheeler 2nd

132 lbs.

9th Carlos Rivera 1st

Heavyweight

9th Michael Rohan 3rd

157 lbs.

9th Blaine Price 2nd 1 5 7

lbs. 11th John Shorter 2nd

168 lbs.

11th Davin Price 4th 1 6 8 lbs.

@ Anadarko

Grade Name Place Weight

7th Allen Hendrick 2nd 168 lbs.

8th Evan Donaldson 3rd

157 lbs. 8th Luke Schneberger 1st

181 lbs. 9th Kody Wheeler 1st

132 lbs.

9th Carlos Rivera 1st Heavyweight

9th Blaine Price 3rd 1 5 7

lbs. 11th John Shorter 4th

168 lbs.

Joey Pesek

Staff Reporter

JH Girls

Basketball

The junior high Lady Eagle basketball team was young

and ready to put in work for the 2018-2019 season. The

girls were pretty young over-

all, with only two freshmen on the roster, the remaining

12 players were 7th and 8th

graders. Coach Ellis is excit-ed about the future of this

program. “These girls are extremely hard working and

they want to learn every

day. That’s fun to coach regardless of the win loss

record. I hope that these

young ones will come to summer pride workouts and

I expect to see them at sum-mer camps so that we can

get bigger and faster and

start improving individually and as a team.”

Coach Ellis

JH Boys

Basketball

The BF-DC JH boys’ basket-ball team had a rocky start

losing their first 6 games. Then they came to life over

the next 14 games going 12

-2. In their final 3 games the Eagles beat Hollis 38-18,

Cordell 27-14 and Sentinel

63-38. Ending their season on a great run. The team

was very proud that they won 3rd place at the West

Central Tournament. Coach

Kauk said “The boys worked hard and really improved as

the season progressed. I’m

looking forward to with working with the boys again

next year.”

HS Girls Basketball Wins Consolation Bracket as West Central

The high school Lady Ea-gles basketball team

brought home hardware from the West Central Tour-

nament at SWOSU January

21st-26th. In order to bring home the Consolation

Champs trophy the Lady

Eagles had to defeat two opponents that had taken

the Lady Eagles down earli-er in the season, CBA and

Sentinel. CBA was first on

Friday. It was a close game the entire time and with

seconds left and being

down by two, Kayela Staples took a three point shot and

got fouled on the attempt to head to the free throw

line. She missed the first,

but digs deep and finds the mental toughness to sink

the next two, sending the

Lady Eagles into overtime. Kayela Staples, again, steps

up and hits a three in their first possession and the

Lady Eagles never looked

back, winning by 6 with a

score of 45-36. Now the only thing standing in the

way of bringing home a trophy was a Sentinel Bull-

dog team lead by a domi-

nating Delaney Reimer on Saturday. It was another

great game, with scoring

happening back and forth like a ping pong match.

With just a few minutes left in the fourth quarter

the Lady Eagles took con-

trol of the game, scoring 6 points in back to back to

back possessions. When

the buzzer went off the Lady Eagles were victori-

ous with a score of 26-21. Not only did the Lady Ea-

gles get to bring home

some hardware as a team, but Junior point guard

Madison Flores got to bring

home some bling of her own after being nominated

for the West Central All-Tournament team. The

Lady Eagles have made

many improvements over

the past four months and Coach Ellis has no plans of

stopping now. “The girls have worked hard. It’s been

a rough road. New coach,

new system, new plays, new expectations, new team-

mates, new everything, but

they have responded well and are now seeing the ben-

efits of sticking with it and putting in so much hard

work. They’ve endured con-

ditioning in October, 6:00 am practices and the gruel-

ing month of January, now

the fun begins. Playoffs!” The Lady Eagles will be tak-

ing on the Carnegie Wild-cats for Districts on Friday,

February 15th at 6:30 pm

and would appreciate any and all support. If they get

past the Wildcats, they will

face the Hollis Lady Tigers on the very next day.

Coach Ellis