http://www.normantranscript.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 17 May 2008 01:59:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_138015911.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_138015911.html On the face of it, very interesting is the fact that none of those interviewed were head coaches in Class 6A last season, only two were head coaches at all and only one is slated to run the same program he ran last season should he not be hired by NHS. Thu, 15 May 2008 01:29:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_136012605.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_136012605.html Butch Peters did not want it to happen. He was against anyone making such a big deal about his career at Norman High.“That’s just the way I am. I’m not one of those guys that like the spotlight,” Peters said.But as players, coaches, teachers and friends came by to shake his hand at a reception honoring him Wednesday at the NHS Commons, he wasn’t regretting the fact he was, indeed, in the spotlight one more time. Wed, 14 May 2008 00:41:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_135004222.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_135004222.html The Norman North girls basketball team has a new coach.Jeff Blough, who coached the North freshman boys team for six years and was the top assistant under Butch Roberts for the varsity boys, was named the new girls basketball coach during a special Norman Public Schools board meeting Monday night. Wed, 14 May 2008 00:45:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_135004615.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_135004615.html It wasn’t their overpowering pitching, thunderous bats or even Owasso’s recent history of winning state titles that was Moore’s undoing Tuesday. When the Lions look back on the 2008 Class 6A state championship game, they will see it was the little things that ended their improbable ride. In front of a capacity crowd at L. Dale Mitchell Park, the Lions committed enough baserunning and fielding errors to help the Rams send them home with a crushing 5-2 defeat. Tue, 13 May 2008 00:48:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_134004915.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_134004915.html There are a hundred clichés that could be used to describe Moore’s run through the state baseball tournament. Cinderella, overachievers, cardiac kids, etc... Sun, 11 May 2008 02:12:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_132021324.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_132021324.html Sasha King dominated the 300-meter hurdles, winning in a time of 45.32. She crossed the finish line and then went to the ground, staying down until a track official helped her up. King was partly relieved that it was over and partly just worn out from giving every last little bit of energy. “I was pushing hard,” she said. “I had to win so I gave it all I had.” Sun, 11 May 2008 02:10:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_132021117.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_132021117.html The headline may be misleading. Because I’m not trying to take on club soccer. Truth is, without Celtic and Fury, the T-Wolves and Tigers don’t go forever without a down season. But I knew I wanted to write something and I knew it was going underneath that picture up there. I even knew North would have appeared that much more despondent had Friday night’s 1-0 Class 6A state soccer championship, won by Edmond Memorial, ended in sudden death. Still, that picture up there tells it all. Sun, 11 May 2008 02:23:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_132022433.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_132022433.html Derrick Krautlarger and Jack Whitt have trouble getting started. For Whitt, it happens during warm-ups. For Krautlarger, it’s a problem when a race actually starts. Sun, 11 May 2008 02:27:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_132022833.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_132022833.html In a tennis match that contains hundreds of shots, it’s unlikely it could all turn on a single one. Sat, 10 May 2008 01:15:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_131011551.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_131011551.html YUKON — It took Norman North five years to get back to the Class 6A state championship game. So another 10 or 20 minutes, or more, wasn’t going to kill anybody. Nobody between the lines, anyway.So that’s how it got to be almost a quarter after 9 p.m. Friday at the Yukon Soccer Complex, North’s Royal Mulinix and Edmond Memorial’s Steven Darnell matching wits from point-blank range with nothing less than the Class 6A boys state soccer championship on the line.Darnell won. Thu, 15 May 2008 01:34:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_136013400.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_136013400.html To the dismay — or in perhaps more cases the delight — of race fans, 2008 hasn’t been a kind season for Jeff Gordon.Still, it hasn’t been a total disaster. Gordon moved back into the coveted top 12 in points with last week’s third place effort at Darlington. It says a lot for your stature when 10th place in points and four top-five finishes in 11 starts is considered an off year.But when you’re a four-time series champion, expectations are higher. Sat, 10 May 2008 01:27:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_131012826.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_131012826.html ARDMORE — If all goes the way it should, there should be a new state pole vault record by the end of the day Saturday.Norman North’s Jack Whitt could set the mark today on the final day of the Class 6A state track and field championships at Noble Stadium. Field events, including the pole vault, start at 10 a.m. Sat, 10 May 2008 01:26:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_131012709.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_131012709.html The No. 1 doubles team of Kevin Boyd and Cameron Johnson will take on Jenks today at 12:30 p.m. in one of the state semifinals while the No. 2 doubles team of Garret Gann and Sam Geurkink will play in the loser’s bracket today at 9:30 a.m. against Broken Arrow.Boyd and Cameron beat Mustang 6-2, 6-4, and Broken Arrow 7-6, 6-2 Friday. Sat, 10 May 2008 01:22:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_131012301.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_131012301.html ARDMORE — Cameron Tabor is at the point in his career where just winning track meets isn’t enough. He wants to win, sure, but he also has his own standards that he tries to reach.Friday was a perfect example. Tabor, one of the best throwers in the state, competed at the Class 6A state meet at Noble Stadium in Ardmore. The finals of the shot put were Friday and the Norman High junior was the favorite. He didn’t disappoint, throwing 62-feet, 6-inches, beating second-place finisher Corwin Dugan of Sapulpa by over five feet. Fri, 09 May 2008 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_130010032.html http://www.normantranscript.com/localsports/local_story_130010032.html Savannah Long has an impressive athletic pedigree.Her father, Jim, played professional baseball in the California Angels’ organization. He played college ball at Duke and Oklahoma State. Her uncles are Cale and Mike Gundy, former star quarterbacks, turned college football coaches. “It’s been kind of expected that we would be athletes because of the genes we have,” Long said.