State tournaments are here

State baseball tournaments started Thursday in Choctaw, Yukon, Shawnee, Edmond Santa Fe and Edmond Memorial. Other sports will join the crowd on Friday.

Classes 6A and 4A soccer state championship matches are set for Friday and Saturday.

Tulsa will be home to every match, except for the 4A girls championship in Oklahoma City between Santa Fe South and Clinton.

Here are three things to watch for this weekend:

Norman North seeks to end Union’s run

The Tulsa Union girls team is looking for a threepeat, while Norman North is hoping to win its first state championship since 2014.

Norman North is led by Yazmeen Ryan, who’s been a scoring machine for the Timberwolves, who are coming off a semifinal victory over Owasso. Regulation time expired with the score at one goal a piece. Norman North got it done in a penalty shootout, putting through all five.

Union knocked off Edmond North with a 3-1 win in the semifinals, allowing its only goal of the postseason.

Santa Fe South goes for boys, girls titles

Both the Santa Fe South girls and boys teams are headed to 4A’s state championship matches.

The boys team is going for its third title in four years and fourth state championship in program history. The girls program is without a state title, but it will get a chance to win the first at Taft Stadium on Friday.

It’s the first time both the boys and girls teams advanced to the state championship match in the same season.

Stillwater looking for history

Vlad Munteanu, Mason Bratton and Stillwater are going for history on Saturday.

The Pioneers’ boys soccer team faces Broken Arrow at 6 p.m. at the University of Tulsa Soccer Stadium, where they’ll go for their first state championship in program history.

Munteanu and Bratton have led the Stillwater attack, and with just one loss on the season schedule, they’ve taken Stillwater as far as the program has been in the state tournament.