Faith 7 Bowl games set for Saturday
The annual Faith 7 Basketball Bowl will take place this weekend at Oklahoma Baptist University, and for the second straight year a girls game will be played.
The games feature 10 players from Oklahoma and 10 players from Texas facing off. For the boys, it’s the 53rd straight year the game has been played.
Girls tip off at 1:30 p.m. with the boys to follow. The games, which raise money for charity, will be played at Nobel Complex. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students.
Here is a look at the rosters for the Oklahoma teams:
Boys
Stephon Hall, Mount St. Mary; RJ Fisher, Lawton Eisenhower; Adokiye Iyaye, Putnam North; Kori Guest, Tulsa Memorial; Colt Savage, Sand Springs; Mo Wilson, Northwest Classen; Robert Briley, Wright City; Trent Smith, Latta; David Ward, Tulsa Webster; Dalton Vinson, Hennessey; Coaches: Lenny Hatchett, Del City; Eric Norton, Merritt.
Girls
Kes Reeves, Kingston; Kayci Glover, Fort Gibson; Erika Ankney, Harrah; RaVon Nero, Edmond Santa Fe; Haylee Swayze, Purcell; Claire Chastain, Dale; Ce’Nara Skanes, Putnam West; Ali Brzozowski, Harrah; Jaeda Reed, Lawton Eisenhower; Aspen Williston, Broken Bow; Coaches: Chad Rumer, Kingston; Gary Chaffin, Pauls Valley.
OBCA honors coaches
The Oklahoma Basketball Coaches Association inducted five new members into its Hall of Fame over the weekend.
Longtime Chattanooga coach and current superintendent Jerry Brown, former Okmulgee Dunbar and Muskogee coach Theodore Clement, former Lawton Eisenhower coach Bruce Harrington, current Verdigris coach Randy Upshaw and late coach Conley Phipps Sr. were all honored at the organization’s annual AllState games.
Brown coached 30 years, including 21 at Chattanooga, before becoming the school’s superintendent.
Clement led Muskogee to a state championship and also coached three state runner-up teams.
Harrington, now coaching at Fort Worth Northside in Texas, spent 35 years in Oklahoma and led the Eagles to the 2015 state title. He joins his father, Clester, in the Hall of Fame.
Phipps died in 2012, but coached for 30 years at Skiatook, Sperry, Pryor and Cleveland. His son, Conley Phipps II, is a coach at Tulsa Washington.
Upshaw has coached for 31 years at Drummond, Mannford and now Verdigris, where he won a title in 2016.
Pryor’s Rains named Gatorade Player of Year
Pryor star pitcher Olivia Rains, an Oklahoma commitment, was named the state’s Gatorade Softball Player of the Year on Monday.
A 5-foot-11 junior pitcher, Rains was dominant throughout the fall season with a 31-3 record and 1.24 ERA. The right-hander struck out 260 batters in 208 1/3 innings pitched. She allowed just 42 hits.
Rains led Pryor to the Class 5A state semifinals.
Rains is now a finalist for Gatorade’s National Player of the Year Award. She will also select a national or local youth sports organization to receive a $1,000 grant from the Gatorade Play It Forward program.