It’s quarterfinal week in Tonkawa. And it pits two of the most storied football programs in the state against each other.Tonkawa will host Morrison at 7 p.m. this Friday.The winner will meet the Ringling-Pawnee winner in the semis with OSSAA choosing time, date and place.It will be the second time the Bucs have faced the Wildcats. They beat Morrison 27-16 on Sept. 24.“Morrison is vastly different than the one we played early in the year,” Buc Head Coach Mike Kirtley said this week, “but so are we.”He predicts “it should be a really good game. They’ll be a handful as usual.”Morrison-Tonkawa are “traditional strong programs that love football and when they meet anything can heppen,” Kirtley said.Offensively they’ll be in their usual wing-T but with a spread and a four front defense.So what’s different between the two teams. Morrison has two players that they didn’t have back in September. But Tonkawa has three players that the Bucs didn’t have available.Kirtley was happy, to say the least, with the win over previously unbeaten Fairview last Friday night.He termed the pass rush Tonkawa unleashed on the Jackets at “relentless tenacity.” The “whole game was an instant classic” in Buc football. “We went ino a hostile environment and played an excetional game,” Kirtley said.Their seasons so far...Morrison Wildcats8 wins, 3 lossesOCS, 0-14Kiefer, 14-16Haskell, 34-0Tonkawa, 16-27Chelsea, 49-20Woodland, 37-6Hominy, 34-28Pawnee, 48-20Chouteau 32-14PlayoffsOK Union, 42-16Stroug, 42-8Tonkawa Buccaneers9 wins, 2 lossesNewkirk, 40-3Perry, 12-13Blackwell, 32-6Morrison, 27-16Crescent, 25-6Watonga, 26-18OCA, 47-12Hinton, 33-14Cashion, 8-28PlayoffsWayne, 27-0Fairview, 18-15 ...
