THURSDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

Week 7 of the high school football season is filled with Thursday night games due to Fall Break all across the state. The Elk City Elks will step outside of the district with a trip to OKC tonight to take on 6A US Grant. Neither team has had much success so far this season with the Elks still in search of their first win while US Grant comes in 1-5. If you can’t make the trip tonight no worries we’ll have you covered with live video streaming on bigelktv or radio coverage on KOOL94. Pregame will start at 6:20 with the kickoff from CB Speegle Stadium scheduled for 7. Within 4A’s District 1 tonight Wford and Bethany will play for the top spot in the district standings over in Wford, Clinton heads to Cache for a matchup that’s dripping with playoff implications, and Woodward hosts Douglass.

The Merritt Oilers are at home tonight for Class A Div 1 District action with Crescent in town. The Oilers are looking for their first district win while the Tigers are trying to stay unbeaten in District 1. You can catch the live video stream tonight on paragontv.com. Kickoff at Merritt is also scheduled for 7. Elsewhere in the district, Sayre hosts Hinton, Watonga welcomes Tonkawa, and Fairview heads to Hooker.

In other high school football action tonight, Apache’s at Carnegie, Empire heads to Hobart, Mangum’s at Comanche, Mooreland hosts SW Covenant, Shattuck’s at home against Boise City, BFDC goes to Laverne, Hollis is on the road at Rush Springs, MVG hosts Okeene, and PPV’s at Seiling.

4A VOLLEYBALL STATE TOURNAMENT

The Weatherford Lady Eagles played in the 4A State Volleyball Tournament this morning at Claremore HS. The Lady Eagles took on #1 Mt. St. Mary’s. The Rockets ended Weatherford’s season in the State Quarterfinals with a 3 sets to none sweep 25-10, 25-15, 25-13. Weatherford ends their season at the State Tournament for the second straight season this time with a 25-6 record.

MLB PLAYOFFS

The Major League Baseball playoffs rolled on last night with Game 3 of the National League Championship Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and Los Angeles Dodgers. LA trailed 2-0 in the series but had a 2-1 lead in the 7^th when Milwaukee got back to back homeruns to lead 4-2. They would claim Game 3 6-2 and take a commanding 3 games to none lead over the two time defending champs. Milwaukee can bring out the brooms at Chevez Revine tonight in Game 4. First Pitch is scheduled for 7. Game 3 of the ALCS was played early today due to the possibility of inclement weather this evening in Cleveland. The series was tied 1-1 going into this afternoon’s contest. Cleveland scored two runs in the bottom of the 5^th and then slammed the door on Tampa Bay in a 3-2 Game 3 win to take a 2 games to 1 lead. Game 4 is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at 5.