Jays have a day to forget at the yard

It was set up to be a beautiful day at Squires Field last Saturday afternoon, but it turned out as a day to forget for the Guthrie Baseball team.

Guthrie's Bryan Dutton was thrown out at home in the first inning. Guthrie will host 5A's No. 1 Deer Creek Antlers on Monday afternoon at Squires Field.

Guthrie started off nicely in game one by scratching three runs in the first inning against Ponca City. Freshmen Bryan Dutton started the game with a triple, but was thrown out at the plate on Luke Davis’ grounder to the second basemen.

Davis came in on a 2-run blast by senior third basemen Jaden Chappell. Sophomore Hayden Seifert followed that with a hit and was brought in on fellow sophomore’s Landry Chappell’s RBI single to give Guthrie a 3-0 lead.

Senior Jaden Chappell is met at home plate by his teammates after hitting a first inning homerun.

The score remain 3-0 until Ponca’s third inning when they erupted for seven runs on five hits as they sent 11 men to the plate.

Landry Chappell put Guthrie back on the board with a home run in the fourth inning. Chappell collected another RBI in the fifth to finish the day with three driven in.

Senior Zach Bobo was given the hard-fought loss on the mound despite the defensive mental errors at times.

In game two, the day got worse as the Jays were handed their worse loss of the season. McGuinness has taken both games from the Jays this season and Guthrie will look to win the rubber game with the Irish in the Deer Creek Tournament next week.

Guthrie falls to 16-8 on the season and the two losses is only the second time this season they have lost multiple games in a row. Jays had won their previous three games and have won just three of their last eight games after starting the season 13-3.

It does not get any easier for the Jays as they take on 5A’s No. 1 ranked Deer Creek Antlers on Monday and Tuesday with 4:30 starts before traveling to 6A’s Del City on Thursday.

Robinson, Galbreath do it again

Junior Emmanuel Robinson and freshmen Rosetta Galbreath did their thing again at the University of Oklahoma. Their thing? Winning hurdles.

Guthrie competed in the John Jacobs High School Invitational on the campus of OU, but where without several athlete’s due to ACT test and the Guthrie prom.

The Lady Jays took eighth place out of 15 teams with 28 points as Piedmont won the team title with 125. For the Jays, they finished third overall with 37 points and was well behind John Marshall’s top spot with 138 points.

Galbreath competed in three events and won the 100 hurdles with a time of 16.42. She also finished third in the 100 meters race and fourth in the long jump.

Kyra Macedo competed in three events as well and in the 300 hurdles finished fourth with a time of 53.22. Macedo also took in the 100 meters and 100 hurdles, but did not place.

Lady Jay C.C. Bates threw the discus 99-6 for a fourth place finish.

Robinson dominated the short distance races by winning two and finishing second in the other. Robinson, a junior, won the 110 hurdles and the 100 meter. He won the hurdles with a time of 14.46 and a 10.97 in the 100 meters. In the 200 meters, he finished with a time of 22.36 and was just .02 behind Northwest Classsen’s senior runner Terrance Johnson.

Sophomore distance runner Jonathan Ogan finished third in the 1600 meters with a time 4:52.28. Walker Cross competed in the same event and came across the in sixth in 5:00.44.

Zac Brown competed in the field events and finished fifth in the discus and eighth in the shot put.

Guthrie will have a full team ready to go when they head to Ponca City Tuesday for a 10am meet.