Tonkawa Buc football began the 2019 season this week with 26 prospects, Head Coach Mike Kirtley announced this week.
Prospects checked equipment at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, at the locker room.
Practice started Monday, Aug. 12, with two-a-days at 6:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. until school starts Thursday, Aug. 15. Then practice will be after school each day.
The first scrimmage will be Friday, Aug. 23, at 6:30 p.m. on Buc field with Oklahoma Union and Perry.
Those out for football so far include the following:
Seniors -- Peyton Day, Parker Miller, Joby Jauregui, austin Sharp and Cody Morgan.
Juniors -- Tristain Burdick, clay Massey, Kyle Hall, Dalton Harris, Carson robinson and Nathan Anderson.
Sophomores -- Noah Campbell, Brendon Ochoa, Jake Morgan, Jake Randall, Justin Lindley, Kai Day, Dante Mendoza, Miccael Brown, Tuff Crosby and Lucious Holloman.
Freshmen -- Beau Murphy, Jaidyn Guzman, Tyler Looper, Wil Moore and Landon Strong.
The coaching staff remains the same with Mike and Kurt Kirtley, Stony Fath, Kale Dice, Gage and Russell Martin.
The 2019 season begins Friday, Aug. 30, at Buc stadium vs. Blackwell here at 7 p.m.
Tonkawa is defending Class A state champions as well as District A-5 which includes Drumright, Pawnee, Pawhuska, Woodland, Morrison, Barnsdall and Hominy.
Langston-Hughes has dropped out of football this year, so the Scholars will not be in District A-5. It will be an eight team district with Tonkawa.
Replacing L-H on the Buc schedule will be Tulsa NOAH on Friday, Sept. 13. The Bucs will play at their place and will join Blackwell Aug. 30, at Newkirk Sept. 6 as non-district contests. The district schedule will begin on Sept. 20 with Drumright here for Homecoming.
The complete schedule appears elsewhere on this page.
In pre-season ratings by the “Oklahoma Pigskin Preview,” the Bucs are ranked tenth behind cashion, Rejoice Christian, Thomas, Stroud, Minco, Frederick, Boone-Apache, Pawhuska and Gore.
The Bucs are being picked to finish behind Pawhuska in the race for the A-5 crown with Pawnee, Morrison and Hominy close behind.
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