Sports

The next generation of Blue Devils baseball and softball players wrapped up their seasons this week, with Cordell’s 8U and 10U softball teams posting perfect, undefeated records on the year.

The season begins with volunteers taking to the fields at Gregory Park to remove weeds and grass from the infields and and hauling in additional dirt as needed to smooth out the base area. Before every game the coaches come out to rake the dirt, chalk the fields, and make sure the fields look good for the players, visitors, and spectators, and then the fun begins.

More than 160 kids came out this year to be part of Cordell’s recreation league, with three softball teams, six t-ball teams, one coach-pitch, one pee wee, and one midget team. Twenty-three volunteers stepped up to help coach Cordell’s kids this year, under the direction of league president Jay Todd and his primary helpers Kristin Todd, Rachel Neeley, Brandon Neeley, David Thain, Gina Thain, and Nathan Larsen.

The team of Haley Larsen, Jacy Bryant, and Madison Donihoo traveled to St. Cloud, Minn., last week to represent Cordell’s Code Blue gym in the finals of the national Granite Games. The team placed 15th out of 53 teams in the competition.

The ladies qualifed for the national event through their performance at the Winter Granite Games held earlier this year in Oklahoma City.

“Coming together as a team is a beginning,” said coach Candace Dudgeon. “Keeping it together is a process. Working together is success.”

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Local junior golfer Birdie Brown, a sixth-grader at Cordell Elementary, placed third overall and first in putting at the 2020 Drive, Chip, and Putt contest in the 12-13 year old division. She will compete Aug. 1, 2019, at the sub-regional contest in Tulsa. The 11-year-old Brown was bumped into the older age division as she will be 12 when the contest takes place.

Brown is the 11-year-old daughter of Jeff and Amy Brown of Cordell and the sister of Cordell golf stand-outs Heston and Megan Brown.

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Cordell’s 8U softball team placed second in the Clinton Swingin’ Into Summer Tournament.
 

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While most young people were playing soccer during the spring months, four Cordell-area girls helped younger players learn the game by volunteering their time as coaches in the Cordell Rec Soccer League.

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Three Cordell baseball players earned spots on the Southwest All-Area Team, and got to play under coach Bobby Blackburn one last time before graduating.

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Brittany Dudgeon, one of Cordell High School’s co-valedictorians for the class of 2019, was recently awarded a Valedictorian Scholarship from the University of Oklahoma. The scholarship is valued at $10,000.

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Three members of Cordell’s Code Blue CrossFit traveled to Austin, Texas, last month to compete in the largest functional fitness competition in the southern United States. Thousands of athletes from gyms all across the United States competed in the competition.

To qualify for the actual competition, athletes were required to complete six workouts during a twoweek span. The workouts were released to the competitors every Wednesday and had to be completed and submitted on video by the following Tuesday. The video workouts were scored, and the top athletes invited to Austin for the actual competition.

Candace Dudgeon, Teddy McClelland, and Madison Donihoo, all members of Cordell’s Code Blue CrossFit, qualifed for the Austin competition.

The Cordell Blue Devils ended their 18-10 baseball season in regional tournament play against Amber-Pocasset in a rain-delayed game at Western Oklahoma State College in Altus Saturday, May 4, 2019.

“We finished the season 18-10 and were the district champions,” said head coach Bobby Blackburn. “We got rained out of playing in the finals at one tournament and in the third place game at two others. We had several quality wins as well as quality losses. I’m really proud of my team. They carried themselves with dignity on and off the field. I know that all nine will be successful in anything they choose to do in life. I’m really going to miss the five seniors. Next year, the four coming back will have to show leadership as juniors, but I know they are up for the challenge.”