Friday Night: Lights are on OUTSIDE and INSIDE

Welcome back to Oklahoma High School sports on FRIDAY night.
Yep, the lights are on at many stadiums around the state. And half of the seniors on the nearly frozen tundra, will be making their last appearance in an organized tackle football game. Many a tear will be shed, as the great plays of tonight, turn into the miracle plays described years from now.

"Yassir, it wuz ma last game I ever done played; we wuz behind North Cherokee Institute of Gamblers Anonymous by 6 points and had only 3 seconds on the clock when Billy Joe Bob called our last time out."

"I scrambled around the backfield like a greased pig in a Jimmie Dean sausage revival until Clarence, all 6 ft 8" of him, started wavin his hands like he was landing a plane. Two of them Cherokee Gamblers were hanging on him but I threw the ball with all I had....and Clarence stiff armed both of them boyz with ONE hand, while he caught the ball with the other...and we SHOULD have advanced into the next round."

"But, it turns out that old stupid ass Ben Jenkins, who was a dang National Honor Society dude, and valedictorian, well, Jenkins was off side and we lost the game."

Back to reality.
Sorry, I did that tangent thing again.

Under the outside lights in cold blustery conditions, the football boys are lining up to see who advances to the next round.
Indoors, defending State Champ Memorial Chargers face off against former Tulsa Golden Hurricane Lester Johnson and his Nathan Hale Rangers. Cameron Downing is a junior postman who will be getting lots of looks from college scouts.

Other games dot the city landscape.

Let's see....... we predict both UNION and JENKS advance to the seminfinals. Terrell Williams, Howard Scarborough, Jarred Wise, and Tracey Moore are some basketball players that have Celtic ties. Two teams from the West, Mustang and Midwest City are undefeated.........Broken Arrow might just pull off the upset over there in Mustang. A former CELTIC, Sam Moses, anchors the BA Tigers defense. Sam was a gamer. At the time, quite short and stocky, he was a WALL. A BRICK WALL.

Let the games begin.