Wild Ride: Five-way title tie possible in Frontier Conference girls basketball
Published: 2/13/2013 2:45 PM
Last Modified: 2/13/2013 2:45 PM
With everybody team to the high school basketball playoffs, fans will tell you the regular-season conference races don’t mean that much.
Whether the OSSAA should go to districts for determining playoff seeds is another argument. Meanwhile, girls teams in the Frontier Conference have been going back and forth like the regular season means a lot.
Heading in the final Friday, five teams can still share the title. Muskogee’s Roughers will clinch the title outright if they win at Union, but a five-way tie is possible if they don’t.
Union can clinch a share by beating the Roughers and so can Jenks, by beating Sand Springs; Bixby, by winning at Sapulpa; and Broken Arrow, by winning at Owasso.
Muskogee could have elminated Broken Arrow in Monday’s makeup game, but the Tigers prevailed in a frantic overtime contest, 64-62.
BA was briefly tied with Muskogee and Bixby, but fell out of first place with its 58-48 Tuesday loss at Union. Muskogee won 60-44 at Bixby on Tuesday night, overcoming early shooting woes. The Roughers trailed 17-8 before taking over.
“In this conference, you never know what’s going to happen from night to night,” Broken Arrow coach Mike Hughes said.
With the focus on the playoffs and the quest for the gold ball, the conference races don’t always get the greatest attention.
“My girls were more surprised than I was when I told them we still had a chance,” Union head coach Jim Stacy said after Tuesday’s win, in which I’mani Davis had 26 points and 13 rebounds.
-- Mike Brown
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Mike Brown
Sports Writer
