Buc Head Coach Mike Kirtley this week announced important dates for the 2022 football season.Official football practice began Monday, Aug. 8 before the first day of school Aug. 22. This week the practices will move to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday and 2 p.m. Thursday.Pictures will be taken at 2:30 p.m. Thursday before boarding the bus to Crooked Oak.The first scrimmage will be at Crooked Oak at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18. The final pre-season scrimmage will be at Chisholm Thursday, Aug. 25 at 6 p.m. Kirtley said coaches were busy installing the base offense and defense this week plus doing conditioning drills.He said he expects the final roster will be 40 or more. Kirtley said they continued to look good if we can get them to all show up at the same time. “There are lots of youngsters, so we’re trying to put together a JV schedule,” he said.“We’re looking to put a pretty good 11 on the field this year if we stay healthy,” Kirtley said. The Bucs will open their 2022 season at Newkirk, Friday, Sept. 2.RosterThose out for football include the following: Seniors -- Cam Jackson, Roman Chandler, Blake Bristow, Tyler Looper, Riley Coy, Braden Paker, Jaidyn Guzman, Jadin Howard.Juniors -- Dom Grein, Isaiah Lively, Devon Taylor, Derek Strong, Luke Shepherd, Peyton Keith, Dalton Pierce, ryan Morgan and Jeffrey Lieb.Sophomores -- Hayden Grell, sheldon Means, rush Brown, Clayton Lopeman, Joey Howard. Freshmen -- Gavin Ward, Kaydon Morrill, Cale Denton, connor deWitt, Brody Reed, Brett shepherd, Jax Thompson, Rustyn Mayo, Kylee Freeman, Haziel Hernandez, Nate Strong, Lucas Keith, Eli Pappan, westyn Freeman, Cayden duvall, Tate Coffey, Matthew gottman, Jadin Zimmerman, Koby stokesberry and Matthew Garcia.The Tonkawa Bucs will remain in Class A two more years at least through the 2022 and 2023 football seasons, Athletic Director Kyle Simpson announced earlier.2022 and 2023 Season SchedulesDuring the 2022 and 2023 seasons, Tonkawa will move to District A-5 which will include Pawnee, morrison, woodland, Hominy, Chouteau-Mazie, chelsea, OK Union and Tonkawa.The 2022 and 2023 football schedules are also set. The 2022 schedule follows: Friday, Sept. 2, at Newkirk; Friday, Sept. 9, Perry here; Friday, Sept. 16, Blackwell here; Friday, Sept. 23, at Chouteau; Friday, Sept. 30, at Pawnee; Friday, Oct. 7, at OK Union; thursday, Oct. 13, Morrison here; Friday, Oct. 21, at Hominy; Friday, Oct. 28, Chelsea home; Friday, Nov. 4, Woodland here. The schedule will reverse home and ...
