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Bible verse of the day
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
Luke 6:36 NIV
Today’s crossword
List of candidates filing
List of candidates for national, state races
While the races for state senator and representative in the Heavener area ran unopposed, several incumbents drew opponents.
Here are a list of the candidates who filed:
United States representative (District 02)
Republican—Josh Brecheen of Coalgate; Democrat—Brandon Wade of Bartlesville; Independent—Ronnie Hopkins of Rose.
Oklahoma corporation commissioner
Libertarian—Chad Williams of Choctaw; Republicans—J. Brian Bingman of Sapulpa; Justin Hornback of Broken Arrow; and Russell Ray of Edmond; Democrat—Harold D. Spradling of Oklahoma City.
State Senator (District 5)
Republican--George H. Burns, Haworth.
State senator (District 7)
Republican—Warren D. Hamilton of McCurtain; Democrat—Jerry L. Donathon of McAlester
State Representative (District 1)
Libertarian—Victoria Lawhorn of Wister; Republican—Eddy Dempsey of Valliant;
State Representative (District 3)
Republican—Rick West, Heavener
State Representative (District 15)
Republican—Tim Turner, Kinta; Paul Palmer, Stigler; Spring Morrow, Checotah; Casey Johnson, Eufaula; Gail Jackson, Eufaula.
See all the candidates for national and state offices HERE.
Candidates filing for LeFlore County offices are:
County commissioner—District 2
Josh Blaylock; Bruce Curnutt; and Jesse Ingle.
County sheriff
Rodney Derryberry; Larry Wayne Crossland; Donnie Ray Edwards
County Clerk
Kelli Ford- Unopposed
Court Clerk
Mindy White- Unopposed
LeFlore County scoreboard
LeFlore County sports scores for Tuesday for baseball, slow pitch softball and soccer.
Baseball
Wilburton 8, Heavener 6
Howe 11, LeFlore 0
Panama 12, Central Sallisaw 7
Stigler 3, Poteau 2
Spiro 4, Cascia Hall 3
Talihina 10, Keota 2*
Cameron 9, Keota 8*
Cameron 5, Talihina 0*
Whitesboro 7, Eagletown 4*
Slow pitch softball
Howe 16, Talihina 1
Kiowa 12, LeFlore 0
Whitesboro 3, Panama 0
Pocola 14, Hartshorne 4
Soccer
--Boys
Heavener 3, Regent Prep 1
Poteau 1, Dove Science 0
--Girls
Regent Prep 9, Heavener 1
Poteau 1, Dove Science 0
* District tournaments
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Wilburton edges Wolves, 8-6
WILBURTON—Heavener’s six errors sunk the Wolves in their non-district baseball game at Wilburton Tuesday.
Heavener drops to 5-19 while Wilburton is 15-7. The Wolves visit Eufaula Friday for a district doubleheader.
With Heavener leading 6-5, Wilburton scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth and held the Wolves scoreless the remainder of the contest. Heavener did load the bases in the seventh, but could not score.
The Wolves’ pitching combo of Spencer Clubb and Canyon Ford allowed only three hits, the defense committed six errors behind them.
Clubb pitched the first four innings, allowing two hits and six runs, two earned, with three strikeouts and two walks. Ford went two innings, giving up one hit and two runs with two strikeouts and a walk.
Hagen Ritter was 2-4 with two runs and a RBI, Talon Lemay was 2-3 and Clubb finished 2-4 with two RBI.
Wilburton 8, Heavener 6
HHS 1 0 4 0 1 0 0—6 10 6
WHS 3 0 2 0 3 0 x—8 3 2
Howe downs LeFlore, 11-0
LeFlore—Howe scored 10 runs in its final two at bats in an 11-0 win over LeFlore in high school baseball play Tuesday.
The Lions improve to 12-10 and play at Poteau Thursday. LeFlore is 6-10 and is scheduled to play its district tournament with Boswell at Buffalo Valley Wednesday.
Wesley Toney got the win for Howe. He pitched four innings, allowing only one hit with four strikeouts and no walks.
Toney also went 2-4 at the plate with a RBI, Andruw Covey went 2-4 with two runs and a RBI and Myka Thornburg finished 2-3 with two RBI and one run.
Howe 11, LeFlore 0
HHS 1 0 0 7 3—11 9 1
LHS 0 0 0 0 0—0 1 5
Stigler completes sweep of Poteau, 3-2
STIGLER—Stigler rallied for three runs in its final two at bats to defeat Poteau, 3-2, in District 4A-6 play Tuesday.
Poteau is 13-15 overall and 4-6 in district play. Stigler improves to 20-3 and 9-2. Poteau is scheduled to host Howe in a non-district game Thursday. The Panthers also won Monday’s game at Poteau, 6-5 to complete the two-game sweep.
Aiden Sockey pitched six innings, giving up three hits and one unearned run. He struck out six and walked two. Caston. Fox pitched the final inning, allowing two hits and two earned runs with two walks.
Garrett Finchum doubled and was 2-4 at the plate to lead the Pirates.
Stigler 3, Poteau 2
PHS 1 1 0 0 0 0 0—2 6 3
SHS 0 0 0 0 0 1 2—3 5 2
OSU loses to Dallas Baptist
STILLWATER – Oklahoma State dropped a nationally ranked matchup Tuesday night at O’Brate Stadium with an 8-7 loss to No. 19 Dallas Baptist.
With the loss, the 15th ranked Cowboys fell to 25-12, while DBU improved to 27-8.
Nolan Schubart led the Pokes with a 2-for-4 night that included a home run and three RBIs, while Ian Daugherty also had a pair of hits and went deep.
The Cowboys used seven pitchers in the contest, with that group combining for 16 strikeouts. Carson Benge took the loss to fall to 0-1, while in his first career start, Dominick Reid worked three innings, striking out six and allowing four runs.
The Patriots jumped out to a 1-0 advantage in the first with an RBI single from Michael Dattalo, but the Pokes had a quick answer in the bottom of the inning.
Leadoff hitter Kollin Ritchie reached on a hit by pitch, and Benge delivered a one-out single up the middle. Schubart then drove in his first run with a single and a fielding error on the play allowed a second run to score. Later in the frame, a Jaxson Crull sac fly pushed the OSU lead to 3-1.
Singular runs were added from both teams in the second as Nathan Humphreys hit a solo shot to center field for DBU, and Daugherty went deep for the Pokes, marking his second-straight game with a homer and his fourth round tripper of the season.
DBU answered with a two-run homer in the third to knot the game at 4-4.
The Cowboys loaded the bases to start the fourth inning but only brought one runner home on a fielder’s choice RBI by Benge.
With OSU leading 5-4, Ryan Bogusz, who came on in relief of Reid, shut down the Patriots for three innings, picking up four strikeouts and allowing only two hits.
DBU homered for the third and fourth times in the seventh and eighth innings to regain the lead at 6-5, but the Patriots weren’t on top for long.
In the bottom of the eighth, Zach Ehrhard reached base on an error, and two batters later, Schubart smashed a two-out, two-run bomb to create a one run advantage for the Cowboys. The go-ahead homer was his seventh of the season.
Schubart’s late game heroics weren’t enough as the Patriots delivered their fifth home run of the contest in the ninth, a two-run shot to right field off the bat of Chayton Krauss, to go up, 8-7.
OSU would bring the winning run to the plate three times in the ninth after a leadoff walk to Crull, but the Cowboys failed to score.
Up next, OSU hits the road for a Big 12 series at Kansas State. Friday’s series opener is scheduled for a 6 p.m. first pitch.
Hogs overcome deficit to defeat Red Raiders
FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas – No. 2 Arkansas (31-5) rallied from a seven-run deficit to defeat Texas Tech (26-12), 9-8, in Tuesday night’s midweek series opener and extend its Baum-Walker Stadium winning streak to a program-record 24 games.
Tuesday’s win marks Arkansas’ largest comeback win since rallying from a nine-run deficit in a 13-10 victory at Louisiana Tech during the 2017 season. The Hogs trailed, 10-1, before scoring 12 unanswered runs to pull off the improbable win.
Trailing 7-0 entering the bottom of the fourth inning against Texas Tech, Arkansas scored once in the bottom half of the frame before putting together a six-run fifth to tie the game at seven. Peyton Holt’s RBI single and Wehiwa Aloy’s RBI double set the table for Ben McLaughlin’s two-out, two-run homer, cutting the Razorbacks’ deficit to one.
Hudson White, who transferred to Arkansas from Texas Tech this past offseason, tied the game at seven later in the fifth inning with his two-out double, scoring Jack Wagner from second. The Red Raiders would answer with a solo home run against Razorback right-hander Will McEntire to lead off the seventh and go up, 8-7, but Arkansas tied the game again at 8-8 when Peyton Stovall beat out a double play that allowed Ty Wilmsmeyer to score from third base in the eighth.
Gabe Gaeckle, who earned the win to improve to 2-2 on the season, tossed a scoreless top half of the ninth to give the Razorback offense an opportunity to win the ballgame in the bottom of the inning. Arkansas did exactly that, as Texas Tech committed two errors and hit a batter to lead off the ninth, eventually allowing Jared Sprague-Lott to score the game-winning run from third base on pinch hitter Nolan Souza's sacrifice fly to right.
McLaughlin (3-for-4, 2B, HR, 2 RBI), Wagner (2-for-2, RBI) and Jayson Jones (2-for-4, 2 2B) each finished with multi-hit games in Tuesday night’s wild come-from-behind win. Seven Razorbacks recorded at least one run batted in, led by McLaughlin’s two-RBI performance thanks to his seventh home run of the season.
On the mound, sophomore right-hander Ben Bybee started and was tagged for six runs on six hits with two strikeouts over his 1.1 innings of work. In relief, Christian Foutch (1.1 IP, 2 SO), Gage Wood (2.1 IP, 1 ER, 4 SO), Parker Coil (1.0 IP, 2 SO), McEntire (1.1 IP, 1 ER, 3 SO) and Gaeckle (1.2 IP, 1 SO) combined for 7.1 innings of two-run ball with 12 punchouts.
The midweek series finale between Arkansas and Texas Tech gets underway at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, on SEC Network with Karl Ravech (play-by-play) and Kyle Peterson (analyst) on the call. True freshman left-hander Colin Fisher will toe the rubber for the Razorbacks and go up against Red Raider junior right-hander Hudson Parker.
The weather
Cloudy skies early with partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures Wednesday in LeFlore County.
The high is forecast to be 86 degrees with a low of 68.
Sunrise is 6:43 a.m. Sunset is 7:52 p.m.
Average temperatures for April 17 are a high of 75 and low of 47. Records for the date were a high of 85 in 1985. The record low was 29 in 1984.
Tuesday’s high was 77 with a low of 64.
The calendar
Calendar of events for Heavener, LeFlore County and southeastern Oklahoma.. If you are a non-profit, school or church, submit an event. This is a free service for non-profits and churches, so if you want your event published, send an email to craig@heavenerledger.com
Wednesday
Poteau Rotary Club meets noon EOMC
High school baseball: Arkoma, Gans at Porum in district tournament
Thursday
Poteau Kiwanis Club meets noon
Funeral service for Darrel Bills
Heavener VFW bingo 6:30 p.m. Highway 59 North
High school softball: Keota at Cameron; Panama at Wister; Heavener, Calera at Valliant district tournament;Vian at Howe district tournament
High school baseball: Spiro at Salina Tournament
HUA, city council meetings 6 p.m. Heavener City Hall
Friday
Heavener at Broken Bow meet
High school softball: Cameron at Spiro; Pocola, Tahlequah at Muskogee; Poteau at Muldrow; Smithville at LeFlore district tournament
High school baseball: Panama at Hartshorne; Spiro at Salina Tournament; Wister at Wilburton; LeFlore, Boswell at Buffalo Valley in district tournament
High school soccer: Heavener girls at Porter; Poteau at Regent Prep
Heavener drama presentation of Mean Girls 7 p.m.
Saturday
Heavener, Poteau clean-up drive
Funeral service for Jeff Sullivan
High school baseball: Heaener at Eufaula; Muldrow at Poteau; Spiro at Salina Tournament
Heavener drama presentation of Mean Girls 7 p.m.
Sunday
Heavener drama presentation of Mean Girls 2 p.m.
Monday
LeFlore County commissioners meet 9 a.m.
High school baseball: Howe at Heavener;Vian at Panama; Pocola at Muldrow; district tournaments; Poteau at Spiro
High School softball:Whitesboro, Spiro at Howe
Tuesday
High school softball: Spiro at Eufaula
Poteau Evening Lions Club meet 6 p.m. CASC
Oklahoma market report
Today in history
1970
Apollo 13 returns to Earth
With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on its journey to the moon, safely returns to Earth on April 17, 1970. On April 11, the third manned lunar landing mission was launched from Florida, carrying astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. ... read more
Art, Literature and Film History
1960
Eddie Cochran dies, and Gene Vincent is injured, in a UK car accident
2002
"General Hospital" airs 10,000th episode
Cold War
1945
Americans seize 1,100 pounds of uranium in effort to prevent Soviets from developing A-bomb
1961
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins
1969
Architect of Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring forcibly resigns
Early U.S.
1790
Inventions & Science
1964
Ford Mustang debuts at World’s Fair
Vietnam War
1975
Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge
World War I
1917
World War II
1941
Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis
1942
General Henri Giraud makes his great escape
Obituary for Darrel Bills
Darrel Ray Bills of Howe was born Oct. 30, 1956 in Oklahoma City to Felix D. Bills and Marita L (Mosley) Wilkins and passed away April 15, 2024 in Howe at the age of 67.
Funeral service is 11 a.m. Thursday at Dowden-Roberts Funeral Home Chapel in Heavener with Reverend Phil McGehee officiating and burial will follow in Heavener Memorial Park with military honors by the Poteau D.A.V. Chapter #63.
Arrangements are under the direction of Dowden-Roberts Funeral Home of Heavener.
Darrel was a veteran of both the United States Air Force and United States Army. He was a Special Operations Green Beret and a very patriotic man. After his military service, he owned and operated his own trucking business for 15 years. In 2005, Darrel started work as a military analyst operating in Iraq and Afghanistan until 2015. Darrel enjoyed music, tinkering with engines and spending time with his family.
He is survived by his wife of 31 years Sonya R. Bills of Howe;
Three sons Brandon Bills (Janae) of Idabel, Casey Bills (Ashley) of McAlester and Adam Crowe (Nichole) of New Orleans, Louisiana;
One daughter Amanda Alcazar (Benjamin) of Poteau;
One sister Cynthia Reedy (Doc) of Jackson, Tennessee;
Seven grandchildren and numerous other family and friends.
He was preceded in death by his father, Felix D Bills and mother, Marita (Mosley) Wilkins.
Pallbearers are his family
Viewing is from noon until 8:30 p.m. Wednesday with family visiting with friends from 6 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
To sign Darrel’s online guestbook please visit www.dowdenrobertsfuneralhome.com.