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Playoffs send McAlester to 2 sites
This week’s opening Class 5A regional basketball playoffs for McAlester’s boys and girls teams are significantly different in both location and the strength of field at their regional sites.

February 22, 2012
Storm cuts Buff scrimmage to 5-inning win
Monday evening’s rains may have been felt in McAlester, but McAlester’s baseball scrimmage with the Cougars in Ada was shortened to five innings due to severe spring-like thunderstorm storm activity.

February 21, 2012
Wrestling Champion

Hunter Scott won the Divison 5, 126 pound Oklahoma Kids State Championship. Pictured from left are, Donald Scott, coach, Hunter Scott OKWA State Champion anbd Kydel Billy, coach. If you have a photo you would like to see published in the McAlester News-Capital, send it in a high-resolution jpg format to photo@mcalesternews.com. Be sure to tell us who and what are pictured, where and when the photo was taken, and who took the photo. Also, check out our reader photo galleries online at www.mcalesternews.com.

February 21, 2012 1 Photo
Frink Chambers Girls Basketball

In Saturday afternoon game action at Lone Star School near Sapulpa, the Frink Lady Falcons defeated the girls’ team from Grandview to secure a berth in the 2012 ORES state playoffs. The Lady Falcons will play their first game in the 2012 state playoffs against South Rock Creek at 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Gregory’s College in Shawnee. Members of the Frink girls team pictured back row from left are, manager Starr Wooten, Trinity Johns, Tanna Heddlesten, Jacy McCormick, Frink coach Kristi Mitchell, Megan McAlester, Lexie Lerblance, Hailey Wilson, manager Brittni Chronister and front row, Morgan Loud, Kori Edwards, Brynn Mouser, Taylor Compton, Brynn Vaughan, Kelsy Cunningham and Emily Hoffman.

February 21, 2012 1 Photo
Frink Chambers Boys Basketball

Both the boys and girls 7th and 8th grade basketball teams from Frink Chambers School will compete in Division 1 state playoff action hosted by the Organization of Rural Elementary Schools beginning this February 24 at St. Gregory’s College in Shawnee. The Frink Falcons won the Division 1 area championship with a victory over the North Rock Creek Cougars at Lone Star School near Sapulpa. The Falcons begin state playoff action at 6 p.m. Thursday against Woodall in the Shawnee college gymnasium. Members of the Frink team back row from left are, manager Colton Smith, Hunter McClure, Todd Dawkins, Tannor Freeman, Corey Vaughn, Blake Denny, Blake Morris, Carter Evans, Frink coach Lloyd Belt and front row, Alex Owens, Jalen Erving, Christian Hampton, Teagan Williams and Brady Justice.

February 21, 2012 1 Photo
Cowgirls dominate in regionals
The Class A seventh-ranked girls from Kiowa came into Saturday night’s regional championship game undefeated in the playoffs as they faced 13th-ranked Wright City at Wilburton. The Pitt 8 Conference Champion Cowgirls jumped out to an early lead in the game and never looked back.

February 21, 2012 2 Photos
Clayton woman earns Vegas honors for elk calling skills
A Clayton woman has earned national honors for her skills as an elk caller.

February 20, 2012 1 Photo
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February 20, 2012
McAlester Buffs qualify for Individual State Wrestling Tournament in OKC
A “freshman phenom” wrestler for McAlester has qualified for this week’s 5A Individual State Wrestling Tournament in Oklahoma City, while three other MHS wrestlers came in fifth or sixth in their respective weight classes, narrowly missing advancing to state.

February 20, 2012 2 Stories
Outdoors: Lesser, greater prairie chickens
Things have to have names or “things” just don’t work out in our society. It’s quite possibly one of my many failings to quibble so much over word usage and definition.

February 19, 2012
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