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Bible verse of the day
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
Joke of the day
What is a plane full of male cows called?
A bull flight
Stormy day expected Friday
A stormy day is expected for LeFlore County and the surrounding area for Friday.
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch until 11 a.m. and a severe storm warning until 8:30 a.m.
Rain showers this morning, then thunderstorms with heavy rainfall arriving during the afternoon with the possibility of severe storms and more thunderstorms possible overnight.
Tornadoes, large hail and destructive straight-line winds are all concerns through this weekend as an outbreak of severe storms impacts the Plains and Midwest through the weekend. Strong tornadoes (EF2 or greater strength) are possible and some storms could produce damaging hailstones larger than the size of golf balls, according to weather.com.
LeFlore County scoreboard
LeFlore County sports scores from Friday.
Baseball:
Sterling 13, Cameron 5
Apache 3, Cameron 1
Holland Hall 14, Heavener 4
Haskell 17, Howe 2
Mannford 11, Poteau 3
Verdigris 16, Poteau 4
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Heavener, Poteau to host openers
District champion Poteau and runner-up Heavener will open the Class 3A soccer playoffs at home Tuesday.
Poteau (9-5 and 5-1) hosts Miami (9-4) at 7 p.m. while Heavener (10-3 and 4-2) plays Commerce (9-2) at 6 p.m.
Heavener players named all-district
Heavener soccer players were named all-district after a meeting of the coaches Thursday.
Lady Wolves Bianca Lira and Jennifer Martinez were named to the girls’ team.
Selections for the boys were Seth Lynch, Fernando Villanueva, Zaid Rodriguez, Brandon Sanchez and Chris Vasquez.
OSU routs Brigham Young
STILLWATER – Oklahoma State powered its way to a 17-5 win over BYU in the series opener Thursday night at O’Brate Stadium.
With the win, the 19th-ranked Cowboys improved to 28-14 and 12-7 in the Big 12, while BYU fell to 16-22 and 6-16 in the league.
OSU smashed a season-high six home runs in the contest, with Carson Benge and Nolan Schubart each going deep twice and Ian Daugherty and Avery Ortiz also homering.
Schubart had season-highs with four hits and five RBIs, while Benge was 3-for-4 and drove in three runs. Daugherty set a career high with five RBIs.
Benge also picked up the win on the mound in his first start of the season, improving to 1-1; the right-hander worked five innings, striking out six while allowing just one run on three hits.
Ryan Bogusz was strong out of the bullpen as he struck out a season high six and allowed only one run on one hit over the final 2 2/3 innings.
The Cougars took a 1-0 lead in the first, but OSU found four runs in the bottom of the frame in response. The first two Cowboy batters were walked before Zach Ehrhard tallied a single to load the bases for Schubart, who tied the game with a single to center field. A throwing error allowed Daugherty to reach base and brought home two more runs, and the final score came on an RBI single from Ortiz.
The scoring continued in the second with back-to-back home runs from Schubart, who recorded his eighth of the season with a two-run blast, then two pitches later from Daugherty, who continued his hot streak with his seventh of the year.
The bats stayed hot for the Pokes as they tallied homers three and four of the day in the fourth inning. Benge hit his eighth round-tripper of the season to lead off the frame, and two batters later, Schubart continued his big day with his second homer and ninth of the season to extend the lead to 9-1.
The Pokes couldn’t get enough as Ortiz led off the home half of the fifth with OSU’s fifth bomb of the day and his sixth of this year. Later in the inning, Benge went yard for the second time in the contest to put OSU up 12-1.
The Cougars rallied for three runs in the seventh frame, but their efforts only cut their deficit to eight runs.
The first three Cowboys reached base in the seventh, leading to a Daugherty two-RBI double to add more insurance, and pinch hitter Jaxson Crull produced a sac fly for the 15th run of the game.
Freshman Max Knight recorded his first-career RBI in the eighth inning with a double down the right field line, and Schubart rounded out his perfect night with his fifth RBI to plate OSU’s 17th run.
The Pokes will look to clinch the series Friday with first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m.
The forecast
LeFlore County weather 4-26-2024
Rain showers this morning, then thunderstorms with heavy rainfall arriving during the afternoon with the possibility of severe storms and more thunderstorms possible overnight.
The high is forecast to be 75 degrees with a low of 68.
Sunrise is 6:32 a.m. Sunset is 8 p.m.
Average temperatures for April 26 are a high of 77 and low of 50. Records for the date were a high of 85 in 1987. The record low was 30 in 1978.
Last year, on this date, the high was 57 with a low of 33.
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 and churches so let us know if something is going on. CONTACT us.
Friday
High school softball: Regional tournaments TBA
District, regional baseball TBA
Saturday
Funeral Service for Amanda Leann Smith
Funeral services for Galen Sullins
High school baseball, softball TBA
Monday
LeFlore County commissioners meet 9 a.m.
Heavener all sports banquet
4F skate night
High school baseball: Oktaha at Panama
Tuesday
Poteau Evening Lions Club meet 6 p.m. CASC
High school soccer: Miami at Poteau 7 p.m. and Commerce at Heavener 6 p.m.
Wednesday
Poteau Evening Lions Club meet 6 p.m. CASC
Thursday
High school softball: TBA
Poteau Kiwanis Club meets noon
Heavener VFW bingo 6:30 p.m. Highway 59 North
Heavener City Council meets 6 p.m.
Friday
High school softball: TBD
High school baseball: TBC
Positively Poteau cruise night
Today in history
Test triggers nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. Thirty-two people died and dozens more suffered radiation burns in the opening days of the crisis, but only after Swedish authorities reported the fallout... read more
1950s
1954
Geneva Conference to resolve problems in Asia begins
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1777
British rampage Danbury, Connecticut
Art, Literature and Film History
1977
Studio 54 opens in New York City
1986
Maria Shriver marries Arnold Schwarzenegger
Civil War
1865
Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth dies
COLD WAR
1983
Soviet leader Yuri Andropov writes letter to U.S. fifth-grader Samantha Smith
Crime
1913
Murder in Atlanta pencil factory leads to lynching of Leo Frank
2012
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor found guilty of war crimes
EARLY U.S.
1798
Mountain man James Beckwourth is born
INVENTIONS & SCIENCE
1954
U.S. Presidents
1984
World War I
1915
World War II
1937
Nazis test new air force, Luftwaffe, on Basque town of Guernica