It’s not quite even July yet and still many people in the state already know that one of the top high school football games, in Oklahoma, on September 3rd will be inside Jelsma Stadium.
Guthrie and Duncan will start the season in a rematch of last year’s first round playoff game where the Jays escaped with the, 20-12, win on Haliburton Field. The 2010 edition will have star power to go with it.
The week one non district game will feature three of the top six players in the state according to The Oklahoman, including two of the top five.
Duncan’s offensive lineman Dylan Dismuke, who measures in at an impressive 6-6, 292 pounds, orally committed to the Oklahoma Sooners, on Tuesday, and is ranked as the state’s No. 2 prospect.
Guthrie’s Kentrell Brothers, who currently has 13 Division I football offers, led the state in sacks his junior season with 17 and became Guthrie’s first receiver to collect over 1,000 yards receiving in a single season. Brothers is ranked as a top five kid in many media outlets in the state.
Dominique Petties comes in at No. 6 of The Oklahoman’s Top 30 and currently has five scholarship offers, but leading the way currently is Oklahoma. Petties is being recruited as an athlete.
The game will be more then just Dismuke, Brothers, and Petties with other names like Landry Chappell, Bryan Dutton, Blake Belcher, Dylan Laurens, Brandon Wilson, and Payton Atchley to name a few.
Another interesting scenario to watch for will be the coaching staffs. Duncan’s Jim Hollaway’s and Guthrie’s Rafe Watkins. Both have won their fair share of games, but are 1-1 against each other.
Watkins got the better of Hollaway on his home field last season, but it was Hollaway’s Altus Bulldogs that came to Guthrie, in 2oo1, to give the Jays a first round loss in Watkins first season as the Jays head coach. Watkins has said on different occasions that Hollaway gave him the most fits as a coach and never seem to know what was coming next.
The Guthrie-Duncan series has been lopsided, the Demons have won 12 of 14 meetings between the two programs, including three wins in the play-off’s (1978, 1991, and 1993), but the Jays never once trailed in the 2009 meeting.
Shawnee getting a make over
The Shawnee Wolves will begin their new adventures this season when they jump into Class 6A and will do so with a facelift.
The Shawnee Public Schools board of education approved to purchase bleachers for Jim Thorpe Stadium’s visitors section. The bleachers, which will seat about 750, will be purchased from Sturdisteel Company in Waco, Texas, for just over $69,000 according to the Shawnee News Star.
It’s a little too late now as Guthrie fans will remember that hot summer day in 2000 with triple digits temperatures beaming down on the cement stands that left marks afterwards. However, Jays fans also remember holding Seymore Shaw to 69 yards and getting the 21-15 win.
Titans going green
The Jays will make another visit to Carl Albert’s Harris Field, on October 15th, and will have a new an improved look.
The field along with the other Mid-Del schools (Del City and Midwest City) are installing the field turf leaving just a hand full of 6A schools with grass fields.
Harris Field may be bright green, but Titan graduate J.T. Realmuto will have more green after being drafted in the third round (104th overall) to the Florida Marlins in this years Major League Baseball draft.
Good news for Class 5A. Realmuto is officially out of high school eligibility.
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