Titans Wrestling Report (January 30th)

The Southside Titans wrestling club just started their inaugural 2009/2010 season on Thursday, November 5th.  Our roster of wrestlers are lead by our Head Coach Michael Smallwood along with his three assistants, Coach Ken, Coach Jason and Coach Roy.  With this being a startup, things have been going much better than expected.  For example, Our first tournament was held at Midwest City High School on December 5th.  We entered ten children not knowing what to expect for our first ever wrestling meet.  As a matter of fact, we would have been proud as long as no one got hurt and they finished their matches.  Well, we did have some of our children exit early during their first two matches.  We also had a few that won at least one match.  We even had some of our kids win two or more matches.  In summary, we closed out the Midwest City tournament with three medals.  We had two kids with third place medals and one child who came home with a second place medal.  We were so proud of our wrestling club.  Our next meet was held at Del City High School the following week (December 12th).  Once again, we entered ten children feeling good about our ability to now compete.  This meet, it seemed like most of our kids won at least one match.  As a matter of fact, most of our kids advance pretty far.  We had as many as five people that almost placed for medals.  When everything concluded. We celebrated our first ever Southside Titans first place champion.  We also had two third place winners including one lady.  We also had our youngest wrestler at the tender age of four come away with his first medal for fourth place.  That match was probably the best and most intesne match of all the matches at Del City.  Way to go Southside Titans.  On December 19th, we entered our third consecutive tournament at Moore High School.  With the holdidays close and Southside Titans basketball going on, we were only able to enter five children.  The results this time was not as favorable.  The end result was no medals.  We had one person in the hunt to qualify for medals, but his final match knocked him out of contention.  Afterwards, we took a small break for the holidays so everyone can enjoy their families and stay out the ice storm.  Wrestling again picked up for the children in the U.S. Junior Novice Championships held at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds on January 1st and 2nd as well as the Choctaw Novice State Tournament.  Unfortunately, due to a combination of bad weather, low turnout and miscommunications, we were unable to attend any of the tournaments to start the 2010 season.  For our first ever wrestling season, we had a great time and look forward to our second season.  We have a lot of room for children ages 4-15 still wanting to join our wrestling club.  Please contact coach Smallwood or his secretary Amanda if you want to join.  If you have questions.  They can be reached at 830-3119.  Practices are held from 6pm-8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Southeast High School.  The boys are in the wrestling room next to the basketball gym.  The coaches have been working with our boys (and two girls) on fundamentals.  They see a lot of potential in all of the kids and feel that some can actually participate in the open tournaments, which is a step up compared to novice tournaments for kids at this age.  Best wishes in advance to each of our Southside Titans wrestlers.

Titans Basketball Report (December 22nd)

The 2009/2010 basketball season officially begun as of Wednesday, November 4th.  Titan Practices runs from 6pm-9pm on Wednesdays.  All practices are held at Woodson Gym with the exception of our Lady Titans.  They practice at Macklanburg Gym.  Woodson Gym is located at S.W. 33rd & May.  Macklanburg Gym is located on N.W. 117th & Stratford Drive between Penn & May.  Basketball ends Sunday, March 7th.  Below is the most recent basketball report along with all of our other repective sporting groups.


Lady Titans Basketball Report (December 22nd)

The Lady Titan Soldiers have officially started their 2009/2010 basketball season.  Coach Tammy is still working and handling the reigns with her 5th grade girls.  If you missed the last post, the Lady Titans started the season with a heartbreaking one point loss.  After the winter basektball and school break, Coach Tammy had some practices with her girls with the primary objective of conditioning, discipline and togetherness as a team.  For those who don't know Coach Tammy, she definitely pushes her girls hard to get the results that she is looking for.  This may also include her getting loud and raising her voice to get the attention and respect of her girls.  On Sunday, January 10th, 2010, Our Lady Titans took the hardwood floor for their second game of the season.  This game was simple.  Simple meaning that it was a convincing win for our girls giving them their first win of the seasn and a 1-1 mark.  The following Saturday (January 16th), our girls continued their momentum with another spectacular win...A blowout as a matter of fact.  Now sitting at 2-1 in the league, Coach Tammy placed them in a special invite game at the Lighthouse Gym.  What a game!!!  The score kept going back and forth.  What was once our lead, belonged to back to the opponents.  What was once the opponents lead was given back to us.  The Titan family of fans were hyped up yet nervous about this game knowing that it could go either way.  Unfortunately, we came out a little bit short on this special invite game.  Losing by three points.  Back to the league games.  On Saturday, January 23rd, our girls once again took the Woodson hardwood floor awaiting another challenge.  We started out a little slow and found ourselves trailing in this game for the first quarter and halftime.  After the half, our girls picked up the pace and added the pressure to their opponents.  The end result was a win for our Lady Titans placing them at a respectable 3-1 mark in the league.  The final weekend games in January were canceled due to another one of Oklahoma's ice/snow storms.   Next round of basketball games picks up in February.  Good luck ladies in your next game.  If you are interested in being a member of the Lady Titans, please contact coach Tammy at 924-1533.  Her information is located on the Lady Titans page of the website.  Go Lady Titans.

New Baby Soldiers (Pre-K through 1st Grade Coach Ranada) Basketball Report (January 30th)

The youngest and newest edition to our Southside Titans basketball family is our Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st grade Titans who are dubbed the New Baby Soldiers.  They are new meaning, that they have entered our family from various communication outlets.  Taking leadership of this wonderful group of new kids is Coach Ranada.  She is a former division one college basketball player with the Wichita State Shockers.  She is excited about her team and guarantees that she will place them in the right (winning) direction both on and off the court.  She stresses that her kids will be fundamentally sound, disciplined and in proper uniform from head to toe when the 2009/2010 season begins.  So far, our New Baby Soldiers have played five games, and are currently sitting at a 4-1 league standings mark.  Not bad Coach Ranada.  After a 2-0 undefeated status from our last report, the New Baby Soldiers went into their third game (January 9th) against a well respected and tough opponent.  This was a game of cat and mouse...Or maybe I should say this was more of a chess match between the coaches and the players of both teams.  What was once a lead for us became a deficit for us going into the second half.  What was once a lead eventually going into the fourth quarter became a heartbreaking one point loss for our team which gave them their first loss of the season.  According to Coach Ranada, she states that she made some subsititutions at the wrong time that actually cost her team.  For that reason, she took full responsibility but was confident they would rebound going forward.  The following weeks (after the winter break) involved our New Baby Soldiers entering the hardwood for another tough battle.  Will we enter our next game (January 16th) with another loss or a win to get back on course?  The answer was a win.  It took some work to get the win, but most importantly, we got away with the victory.  Even if it was by one point, on paper it still counts as a win.  The following weekend (January 23rd) once again pitted us against another talented opponent.  As for our team, we were once again poised and ready for a challenge.  Besides, this team is battle tested and has gone through the peer pressure and adversity.  With that being sad, we once again came out victorious.  We won by one basket, but most importantly, we are sitting victoriously at 4-1.  Next game for the New Baby Soldiers is now scheduled for February 6th due to ice storm that canceled the January 30th weekend game.

Baby Soldiers (Kindergarten Coach Julius) Basketball Report (January 30th)

The Baby Soldiers is entering their first ever 2010 basketball season currently with a 1-1 basketball standing mark since their successful football run in 2009.  The head coach of our kindergarten version of this team is Coach Julius.  Most people know our coach as "Juice."  Coach Juice has an experienced, disciplined and compatible group of boys.  At practice, Coach Julius "Juice" stresses conditioning, fundamentals, high powered offense, strong defense and teamwork all season long.  After the two week winter school break and a previous positive rivalry loss to our 1st grade Baby Soldiers division, our kids seemed ready to get back in the basketball gym and play some more league ball.  The team on deck for us January 9th was a previous opponent we manhandled all football season.  You would think the same results would be in our favor right?  Wrong!  Our opponents brought it to us early.  So early, that it was tough for us to recover from the early run placed against us.  Trailing at halftime, we tried to make a run during the second half to make it respectable.  The sad news was that the other team made an even stronger run.  We humbly took that loss and a two game losing streak.  Now at 1-2 in the league we entered Foster Gym on January 16th confident that we would play better with a more positive result.  Were our Titans ready?  Yes they were.  The Southside Titans of old were back.  We played in a high powered fashion and without a doubt, won the game based on great team chemistry and defense.  On Jauary 23rd, we entered our next game at 2-2 with hopes of a two game winning streak at the conclusion of this game.  Well...hoping and wishing was not acceptable from the opinions and attitudes of our opponents.  Our foes (who were already beaten by our New Baby Soldiers) simply came out, followed their game plan and respectfully took advantage of our turnovers, missed shots and mistakes and handed our boys their third loss of the season.  Currently, Coach Julius' Kindergarten Baby Soldiers are sitting at a 2-3 mark.  Back to the practice gym and chalkboard for Coach Julius until their next game scheduled for Saturday, February 6th.

Baby Soldiers (1st Grade Coach Nick) Basketball Report (January 30th)

The 1st Grade Baby Soldiers make up the older version of our Southside Titans Baby Soldiers football players.  They are also entering into the basketball arena for the first time after a great 2009 football season.  The proud leader of this group is Coach Nick.  He does understand and is gracious for such a well rounded group of boys with so much talent, heart and determination to be the best they can be.  High hopes are in store for these boys for the upcoming 2009/2010 basketball season.  Since our December report, our boys were coming off an 2-0 undefeated mark which includes a positive rivalry win against our kindergarten Baby Soldiers.  Despite a two week winter break, our boys came back to Foster Gym on January 9th ready to battle against our next opponents.  After a sluggish start, our boys slowly began to pick it up.    The good news for us is that the other team was also playing just as sluggish as us.  Once we revved up the engines, our boys were just cruising along.  We cruised along so far, that we actually made the last quarter more of a practice due to the two weeks of practice previously missed.  By the way, our boys did win taking them to a 3-0 mark.  Going into game number four (January 16th), this battle pitted us against the same team that gave our New Baby Soldiers their first loss of the season.  The great thing about our Titans basketball family is that we share information and best practices with each other.  With that being said, our boys new what to expect and delivered results against our opponents.  We provided defense, a scoring attack and a well balanced bench to assist as needed for the current players on the court.  Congratulations to our Titans for another well rounded win and a still unblemished 4-0 mark.  On January 23rd, we once again entered Foster Gym with an undefeated target for our opponents to see.  Coach Nick knows that he is now being looked at as the hunted and others will do what it takes to take his team down.  Honestly speaking, that doesn't seem to bother our coach at all, he continues to do what he do with his group of boys capitalizing on the things they worked on in practice.  Oh, by the way, our Baby Soldiers continue to roll on...With another convincing win and a 5-0 still undefeated statement for others to see.  Can anything slow this group down?  Yes.  Unfortunately the bad weather in the last weekend of January has caused this group to wait patiently for their next game which is scheduled for Saturday, February 6th.

2nd/3rd Grade Small Soldiers Basketball Report (January 30th)

The 2nd/3rd grade Titans Small Soldiers basketball team is currently ready to start the 2010 basketball season to a better start.  What a difference a year makes according to Head Coach Ondray.  What was once an undefeated season a year ago has now developed into an 0-2 winless mark so far in the early basketball season.  Continuity seems to be the missing ingredient thus far.  Practices have been occuring, but also the two week school winter break makes it tough to maintain that continuity to get these boys where they need to be.  With that being said, our Small Soldiers went into the 2010 new year on January 9th against another opponent with the intention of pulling out our first win of the season.  We started out pretty good from the start.  The other team did too.  We played some good defense.  The other team played better defense.  We scored our share of points.  Our opponents did the same.  Both teams compted, but we came out with the loss.  After a good effort, we still sit winless at 0-3.  On January 16th, we once again came out ambitious and confident that things would eventually start turning for our boys.  Unfortunately, we ran into a well oiled basketball playing machine who suffocated us early and never gave us the opportunity to come up for air.  Simply put, we were blanketed up and blanked out with probably our worst loss of the season.  Now at a 0-4 league mark.  Coach Ondray switched coaching gears.  His philosophy is that his boys need more playing time to regain that continuity they once had.  He placed his boys in a tournament at Harding Prep School against older opponents so his boys would have that fire to compete against even tougher opposition.  Of course we would be considered the underdogs, but he wanted his boys to work on the importance of being battled tested without being timid about battling themselves.  The end result is that we lost, but Coach Ondray could see improvement.  Going back to league games, our boys played their next game on Saturday, January 23rd.  Titan Family...We have good news.  We got our first win of the season.  It wasn't the way wanted to win.  It wasn't convincing or maybe ESPN worthy, but most importantly we got our first win of the season.  Congratulations Small Soldiers.  Now at 1-4 and a one game winning streak, let the Titans dynasty begin.  Next game is scheduled for Saturday, February 6th.

4th/5th Grade Big Soldiers Basketball Report (January 30th)

Our 4th/5th grade Big Soldiers basketball team is beginning it's first year under the Southside Titans basketball family umbrella.  This years team is being led by Coach Ron Leggins.  He is a former high school and college standout player who has been teaching the art of basketball for years.  He is excited about what he can bring to this new group of boys regardless of their age, experience or basketball savvy.  Coach Ron states that he will put alot of heavy emphasis on conditioning.  He firmly believes that conditioning will get his boys where they need to be.  Next will be discipline, He will demand it at all times.  Once he has those two ingredients, the rest will come naturally through fundamentals.  Some of these principles has caused our boys to drop off the roster.  As we speak, we have a few spots still available immediately to any 4th/5th grade boys still wanting to join.  Just contact Coach Ron at 924-8182 if you would like to join.  So how are our Big Soldiers doing since their previous 1-1 basketball standings last month?  On January 9th, our boys came out (after the two week winter break) ready to go.  Well let me restate that...In the mind they were ready to play but physically they were not performing like a team ready to play.  In the first quarter, we were behind.  At halftime we remained behind.  In the third quarter, we slowly started making a move, but we were still behind.  In the fourth quarter, our boys woke up and moved quickly with little time remaining.  What was supposed to be a loss for us came out to be a nice come from behind win for our boys.  Way to go Big Soldiers.  Now at 2-1, our boys played their next game on January 16th with the mindset of a fast start and an eventual win (we hope) for us.  Could we have been so wrong.  In this game, we never got out the gate.  When we did finally come out the gate, we didn't go nowhere as a team.  Was the other team that good or were we just that bad?  One thing we know for sure, is that the loss places us back at a 500 mark at 2-2 going into next weeks game.  On January 24th we showed up for a special Sunday edition game at Woodson Gym.  Unfortunately our team didn't show up to play.  According to Coach Ron, whose team is now at 2-3, the reason why we are on a two game slide is due to a lack of players which causes our players to adjust into unfamiliar areas.  Especially for our skilled players.  Hopefully things will turn towards the positive.  Due to the winter ice storm, the final January weekend game has been postponed.  Next game for the Big Soldiers will be on February 6th.

6th Grade Super Soldiers Basketball Report (January 30th)

Our newest and oldest group in our Southside Titans Family is our 6th Grade Super Soldiers.  Although they are new into the family, they are our oldest of all the age groups for the others to look up to for direction.  Speaking of direction, Coach Reggie is the head coach and his assistant is Coach Randy.  Many of these boys played football and have some conditioning skills as well as the art of competition.  They also have quite a few novices who will be learning the fundamentals of the game.  This years Super Soldiers will be playing the 2009/2010 season primarily in tournaments and a more competitive basketball league.  As for the tournaments, the Super Soldiers took part in the annual Sooner State Games on a Saturday in December.  Our boys did a great job in Yukon.  We won our first tournament game but it didn't come easy.  It wasn't easy because our boys seem to play outstanding during the first half, and then allow turnovers and mental mistakes for our opponents to take courtesy advantage of.  We got the win an moved on to our second tournament game.  Just like the first game, we got the win, but the continued errors, resulting in astronomical turnovers caused our opponents to make this game relatively close.  The two Saturday wins placed us in the winners divsion of the state games on Sunday.  What's at stake?  Win, and we play for the championship.  Lose and we play in the third place consolation game.  As the competition stepped up for us, we answered the call.  Well for the first half we did.  And then in the second half, it got scary for us.  Based on pattern, the Titan family of fans anticipated a meltdown based on the conversations in the stands.  Although the second half of the game was close, our opponents pulled away towards the end due to our established pattern of mishaps and missed open shots.  From there, we went into the consolation game with a little bit of an attitude on our shoulders.  From the onstart of this game, our boys were rolling like thunder.  You know this story already...We were winning in a convincing pattern at half time.  But there was a twist to the second half.  We remained as consistent in this half as we were in the first half.  The game ended with us winning in a dominant fashion and third place medals for our team for their hard work and efforts.  Congratulations Super Soldiers.  As for league play, we were sitting at a 1-1 start in the month of December.  After the long winter break and scheduling byes, we played our third league game on Sunday, January 17th against a team on paper that was ahead of us based on records, but yet capable of being beat.  This game was a low scoring affair.  Credit was given to both teams for great defense.  At halftime, both teams were less than 10 points each.  During the second half, defense was going to win this game.  The best defense was proven by our opponents.  Neither team reached 20 points and our team just reached 10 points.  Final score.  18-10 in favor of our opponents.  At 1-2, our next league game was the following Sunday (January 24th) against the only undefeated team in the league.  This would be a great opportunity for our team to steal...or earn the win and put themselves right back in the league race.  A great theory in thought was totally opposite in the game.  That's why they say all games are played on the court and not on paper.  To make this short and to the point, we played to our abilities, but not to the best of our abilities.  Because of that, it resulted in a 33-21 loss for us and a two game losing streak.  At 1-3, our sincere hope is that the Super Soldiers will make a turnaround.  Due to the winter ice/snow storm, the next game is Scheduled for February 7th


Titans Football Report (December 22nd)

The 2009 football season officially begun as of Monday, July 6th.  Titan Practices runs from 630pm-8pm on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.  We practice at Schilling Park.  It is next to Wheeler Elementary School on S.E. 25th between High and Shields.  Football concluded with the playoffs ending on Thursday, November 12th.  Below is the most recent football report along with all of our other repective sporting groups.


6yr Old Baby Soldiers Football Team

The 6yr old Titans (Baby Soldiers) is led by coach Robbie and his coaching staff.  Since the last report, our boys were continuing with league play after a disappointing tournament bounce and quick exit.  As for league play, we went from a 3-1 pre-tournament record to a 4-4 mark needing to win out and get some help to enter this years Oklahoma Football Association (OFA) playoffs.  With three games remaining, the first team on deck was currently sitting in a three way tie on top of the standings with one loss.  On paper, we were the underdogs.  On the gridiron, we came out fast and speaking of fast, we were up 19-0 at halftime, one meltdown later (first play of second half) made the score 19-6 with Coach Robbie fussing.  Shortly after, the Baby Soldiers increased the league to 25-6.  Fourth quarter was about the boys staying focused.  Other than a late touchdown by the opponents, our boys ended up with a 25-14 win.  The next game put us up against another one of the teams also sitting in first place with a one loss record.  This was a good matchup against a team that beat us during an early tournament in which we avenged to win second in the tournament against them.  Now the rubber match.  On a cold, murky day, and pressure on us to win out, we struck first with a 6-0 lead.  Great defense was the result on behalf of the Titans.  Going into the second half, the result was the same...Great defense.  The Titans ended up with another game changing score making it 12-0 and enough to win this rubber match.  Two number one teams once up and now they were put down...Courtesy of the Baby Soldiers now sitting at 6-4 with one game remaining.  Our final regular season game of the year was real simple...Win and we are in the playoffs.  To make this short and not sad, the six year olds had their second straight shutout and a 25-0 win to end the regular season at 7-4 and a #6 seed in the playoffs.  Sitting under the radar our first game was against the #3 seed of the league.  On paper, we are once again the underdogs.  The great news though is that this is the same team that we beat in a tournament as well as the team that we knocked off the number one league standing pedastal.  On to the game.  First quarter we are down 7-0.  Second quarter with less than a minute to go, we are down 14-0.  Last play of the half, we score to make it 14-6.  First series of the third quarter, we score out of halftime to narrow it to 14-12.  After a defensive stop, the next score on offense places up 18-14.  A letdown for us in the third quarter put us back down 20-18 going into the fourth quarter.  Parents and fans of both teams were wild on each side of the field cheering on their teams.  Great defense on both teams behalf until the final score with 38 seconds to go in the game.  Congratulations to the Southside Titans with a 24-20 win against a formidable team that has now been officially ousted from the playoffs.  Next on deck was the second round against another opponent that is now officially a rival of the Southside Titans.  On paper, this game can go either way.  Titans lost the regular season game against them, then split with this team in two separate tournaments.  We were confidennt that this series would end at 2-2 and a exit for our opponents.  First quarter was 6-0 in favor of our opponents who had great clock control.  Second quarter was beautiful defense on both teams behalf until the last play of the half.  A broken assignment after a timeout placed us at a 12-0 deficit.  All of our coaches (including some parents) had quite a few things to say.  Third quarter was a great drive by the Titans that ended up with us losing the momemtum deep in their opponents territory.  Going into the fourth quarter, the opportunities were there but we continued to come up empty.  A decisive score and two point conversion with a little over a minute to go put us down and out for good.  The #2 seeded team put a 20-0 blanking on us.  Since we won our first playoff game, that qualified us for the third place game against another familiar opponent coming in as the #5 seed.  This team beat us in double overtime during the regular season, but we redeemed ourselves against them in the tournament.  As for the rubber match, it was crazy from the start until the finish.  Let's state the facts.  Our Titans weren't ready at the start.  Down 7-0.  We didn't play defense.  Down 14-0 at halftime.  We couldln't hold on to the ball due to strips and fumbles at the start of the third quarter, down 20-0.  We finally score, down 20-6.  The opponents score (the same player we chose not to stop) again making it 26-6.  We fight back making it 26-12.  The opponents strike again 33-12 going into fourth quarter.  Fourth quarter summary is us scoring to make it 33-19.  Lack of defense (again) put us down 39-19.  A final score with us with the two point conversion finalized the game with us losing 39-27 with a fourth place final standings.  The final huddle meeting involved the entire 6yr old Titans family, and we were extremely pleased with our boys progress from the start of practice to this final playoff game.  As a team sitting incognito, we showed rays of sun and promise as well as dark clouds of unanswered questions.  Most importantly, we seen these boys grow from Baby Soldiers to little young men.  To show our love for these boys, we were involved in a bigger than life Southside Titans Family banquet at Incredible Pizza on Sunday, November 29th.  

7yr Old Small Soldiers Football Team

The 7yr old Titans (Small Soldiers) is led by coach Dontrell and his coaching staff.  Our October report involved our boys prepping for their remaining two league games.  At 5-3 our boys pretty much wrapped up a playoff birth in the Oklahoma Football Association (OFA) league.  The final two games is now based on seedings.  First of the remaining two games was against the undefeated team of the league.  Not an easy task to conquer.  According to Coach Dontrell, he knew that his boys will need to be playing on all cylinders on both sides of the field to stun the major upset.  So let's talk offense first.  Done!  What do you mean done?  Done meaning that we couldn't, wouldn't and didn't score the entire game.  What about defense?  Defense was strong to start out, then declined to mediocre.  At our worse, it placed us flat, tired and defeated.  26-0 as a matter of fact.  At 5-4, our boys took a long awaited unforseen journey vacation with no practice from October 19th until our next game, which was scheduled for November 7th.  For the final regular season game, here was the plot...Win, and we enter the playoffs as the #4 seed against a team that we already beat in the regular season.  Lose, and we enter the playoffs as the #6 seed playing the #3 seeded playoff team which is the same team (November 7th) that we are playing our final game against.   Based on scouting, this team has played each other many times already and they match up good against each other each time they play.  On to the game...First strike was the opponents up 6-0.  The key words of this game was momentum and defense.  Both teams had their chances to make offensive runs, but once again the key words are momentum and defense.  6-0 was the score at half as well as the majority of the game until the fourth quarter when momentum and defense showed up once again with a change in scoring.  Unfortunately, the opponents capitalized on those two words which summed up the final score 12-0.  Great game and effort by our Southside Titans.  As the #6 seed now, the playoffs began the next day (November 8th). against the same team from the previous day.  Once again, two great teams going at it and battling.  No score for either team in the first quarter.  Second quarter was a score by the Titans that was negated by a penalty that kept it at 0-0 until the opponents scored during the last plays before halftime.  7-0 is now the score favoring the opponents.  Going into the third quarter, it remained a hard nosed, gritty battle that remained 7-0 going into the fourth quarter.  All of a sudden, here comes the 7yr old Small Soldiers with a score until, another penalty stripped them of being on the board.  Still down 7-0 late in the fourth quarter the Titans were within the 10 yard line of our opponents with one play left to decide our playoff journey.  Titan magic appeared as we scored on the last play of regulation.  Still needing the conversion to tie or win, the offensive coordinator chose to go for the tie.  Titan magic again?  Yes!!!  Overtime!!!  After losing the coin toss, the opponents had the ball first and drove it in for a 13-7 lead.  As a part of the overtime rules, it was our turn now to score from the 10 with 4 downs to play with.  First down, no luck.  Second down, no luck.  Third down, no luck.  Titan Magic a third time as a charm?  No!  We were denied on 4th down and came out on the 13-7 overtime losing end of the stick and officially out of the OFA playoffs.  The 7yr family huddle consisted of everyone of the players and parents being thanked and congratulated for a wonderful season of ups and downs.  To show love for the Small Soldiers, wecelebrated with them at Incredible Pizza on Sunday, November 29th.

10yr Old Big Soldiers Football Team

The 10yr old Titans (Big Soldiers) is headed by Coach Bert and his coaching staff.  The last report concerning the Big Soldiers was the team coming off a recent loss and a 2-5 mark in league play.  Simply put, this is not the Southside Titans Big Soldiers that are used to knowing based on ability.  With three league games left and the Oklahoma Football Association (OFA) playoffs looming, it doesn't look good for us unless we win and get a lot of help from our opponents that are above and below us.  So what about the first of three regular season games?  We came out against a team that we had to win.  In addition, this was an opponent that hadn't won one game all season long up to this point.  Our boys came out early, touched the endzones fast and never allowed the opponents to get into this game.  At halftime, the Big Soldiers were already up 21-0.  As always, Coach Taylor and his staff continued to speak on the things that they must improve on at halftime so they don't lose focus of the big picture.  Second half remained as consistent as the first half.  Three more touchdown scores added 18 more points to 21 to make this final score 39-0.  This was our most decisive win of the season.  Now at 3-5, we came out against a team that is and remained undefeated in the regular season.  Such a tall task to fill for our boys.  The win would be a sure thing playoff birth and a confidence builder going into the final game.  A loss...Well...We would need much more prayer to have a low ratio chance to get in.  Unfortunately, we were handed our sixth loss of the season, placing us at 3-6.  The final score was 20-6.  Ironically the game was much closer than what the score reflects.  A few turnovers and mishaps (including missed assignments) brought demise to our boys.  Speaking of ironics, we still had one more chance to get into the playoffs because some of the teams just above us continued to lose.  Going into the last game of the regular season against our opponent, it boiled down to this...We have to win to have the best of them and hold the possible tie-breaker if standing were based on head to head.  The boys knew their roles, their assignments and what was at stake.  If we was to win this game here on the road, we would be a playoff participant despite our sub par 500 record.  Let's make this short, sweet and not sad.  Our boys were rolling!!!  We performed a shutout.  Final score was 26-0 and a 4-6 mark going into the playoffs as the #5 seed.  Now is that ironic or what?  Six teams go in, and we enter as the #5 seed going against the #4 seed in the first round of the playoffs.  Our first playoff game was against a rivalry team that knocked us out of a previous playoff in 2008 with less than 30 seconds to go in the game.  On top of that, our first game of the 2009 season was against them once again, and we lost another heartbreaker with less than 45 seconds to go in the game.  I still remember that game, our boys cried hard.  Coach Bert still feels the pain from those last two games to this day.  Prior to the playoff game, he laid out his game plan extensively to his coaches and players.  So how was the first round game?  Redemption!!!  Southside scores first in the first half to make this score 6-0.  The score remained at half time.  Going into the second half, they remained consistent on defense and kept the opponents off the field when we had the ball on offense.  Going from the third to the fourth quarter, we were up 12-0.  Just like the last two times, we were up by the same amount of double digit leads, so we knew that no lead or game was safe.  Everyone made the boys aware of that.  Continued intensity and attention to detail, gave us our 12-0 final win and advancement into the second round of the playoffs.  Second round game placed our Southside Titans as the #5 seed going against the once again undefeated and #1 team of the league.  Remember this team beat us twice already in the regular season with the last game being a 20-6 loss for us.  Can you say underdogs?  Definitely!  Did we play like underdogs?  Definitely not!!!  On to the game.  First score courtesy of our 10 year old boys.  Missed conversion made it 6-0 in the first quarter.  Going into the second quarter, after strong defenses by both teams, a slip by us caused the opponents to score with the conversion run included to give them a 7-6 lead over us at the halftime mark.  Third quarter was intensity and mental toughness for both groups which kept the score at 7-6 going into the final quarter and television championship berths on the line.  Defense was strong once again for our Big Soldiers.  As for our opponents, they started losing their strength and momemtum.  This game was intense going into the final seconds of the game.  As the Titans were driving, we were at the opponents 2 yard line with one play left which would be the last play of the game.  We went power with our biggest player on the team, the opponents took him down at the 1 yard line which cost us the championship.  Controversy arose with our boys allegedly being faced masked and drug straight down to the ground.  The officials considered it a no call.  This one yard loss placed us in the consolation playoff game against our next opponent entering as the #6 seed in the tourney.  Between the two teams, we split with them during the regular season.  Both games were close...Until this playoff game...Our boys played with attitude and purpose (probably from their previous loss) and was already up 6-0 by the end of the first quarter.  Second quarter was somewhat stagnant for both teams.  Most importantly, we still had the 6-0 half time lead.  Third quarter was explosive.  Two quick touchdowns and stiff defense made the score 20-0.  Going into the final quarter, we added another touchdown and a final shutout score of 26-0.  Congratulations are in order for our Big Soldiers for representing the Southside Titans Family with a third place bitter sweet playoff finish.  The boys were recognized during the television championships at Douglass High School and they were thankful for the opportunity to compete.  To show our love and appreciation, the Big Soldiers were recognized once again at our annual banquet held at Incredible Pizza at on Sunday, November 29th.

Titans Cheerleading Report (December 22nd)
 

The Titan Diva Cheerleaders are two separate but equal teams proudly led by our 10 year old coaches Shameka and Coach Lynn.  Our 6yr old cheer coaches are Coach Novlan and Kimmie.  Our ladies are to be thanked for the constant love and dedication to our teams. They continue to remain diligent in their practice routines.  Recently some of our ladies were recognized in the 6yr Baby Soldiers football homecoming.  A couple of our cheerleaders were nominated as homecoming queens with flowers and crowns and rewards.  Overall, the girls are really doing a wonderful job according to the cheer coaches.  They look cute in their new uniforms.  They even keep the parents engaged in their efforts.  You can hear it in their voices without a doubt when performing in the community.  Thank you ladies for your hard work and dedication to the Southside Titans cause.  We will provide recognition for each of our girls when they attend the annual Southside Titans Family banquet on Sunday, November 29th at Incredible Pizza.

Kindergarten/1st Grade Baby Soldiers Soccer Report (June 7th)

The Southside Titans Baby Soldiers are entering soccer for the first time.  Not only are they entering the soccer ranks, but they are bringing in two squads.  Coach Ondray leads the team and his assistant Joe is just as present to back him up.  Between the two coaches, they have set up a Team A squad (Ondray) and a Team B squad (Joe).  Team A mainly consists of the original players from both the football and basketball seasons.  Team B comprises primarily of the younger players and the newest Southside Titans members.  The season started officially on April 11th.  Team A played to a undefeated socer season it's first ever attempt at the sport.  Congratulations to them for another unblemished season, this time in a separate sport.  Despite their winning ways, at times they seemed complacent and average because of the fact that they haven't been truly challenged.  Coach Ondray's success has led to a huge Titan waitlist for other parents anxious to join the Titans family as a whole.  Team B has a lot of things to be proud of this year.  Coach Joe was at the coaching helm along with Coach Ondray.  Winning was the way for the younger and newest members of this group.  They ended up with a winning record.  As a matter of fact, they only had two losses in their entire resume.  Not bad for a team that consisted of kids as young as four years of age.   So what about the offseaon?  What's in store for this special group of young men (and one lady)?  Most of them will be moving to football, others will try their hand at baseball.  Others will take part in the Southside Titans annual swim day on Saturday, June 27th.  Well it looks like Coach Ondray will be taking a rest.  Coach Joe will be doing the same.  The entire Southside Titans Family wants to congratulate our soccer boys for a job well done.  If you are interested in being a part of the Southside Titans soccer team, please contact Coach Ondray or his secretary Cheronda.  They are listed respectfully on the soccer page or the the contacts page.

-Responses and input above courtesy of the coaches.