Rangers look to end season victorious with road win

By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR

The Roland Rangers are looking to end the 2023 football season they way they started it — with a win.

The Rangers (1-8 overall, 0-6 in District 2A-5 play) will close out the season with a road district game against the Warner Eagles at 7 tonight in Warner.

The Rangers won their season opener, taking the 2023 version of “The Battle of 64” over their archrivals, the Muldrow Bulldogs, by a score of 21-14 on Aug. 24 at Ranger Field. Since then, the Rangers have lost eight games in a row.

With a win over the Eagles (2-7, 1-5) and a Prague win over Okemah tonight, the Rangers, Eagles and Panthers will end up in a three-way tie for sixth place, then district points will determine the actual sixth-, seventh- and eighth-place finishers in the district.

• • • TO GET THERE — Take Interstate 40 west to Warner.

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Muldrow teams sweep Gans; Vian teams fall to Central boys, Stigler girls in Day 2 action

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Muldrow teams sweep Gans; Vian teams fall to Central boys, Stigler girls in Day 2 action

By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR

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It was a Muldrow sweep of the Gans teams at Roland High School’s Ranger Dome and a combined sweep of the Vian squads by the Central Tigers and the Stigler Lady Panthers at Gore Event Center on Day 2 o...