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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
Page 6 February 15, 2019 Burns Flat-Dill City Schools Volume 51 Number 6
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
Page 8 February 15, 2019 Burns Flat-Dill City Schools Volume 51 Number 6
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