Tributes: Janie Anderson Robinson was successful high school coach in Maryland
Milestones
*The Oklahoma City University women's wrestling team has a 75-0-1 record in its last 76 duals. The four-time national champion improved to 6-0 this season after beating No. 1-ranked King (Tenn.) on Saturday for the Cliff Keen Duals championship at Abe Lemons Arena.
*Tulsa driver Chris Andrews had a big payday Saturday at I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City. Andrews won $3,500 for winning two feature races at the inaugural Non-Wing Showdown for mini sprint cars. He collected $2,500 for winning the Stock division, then another $1,000 for the Outlaw class. Andrews was an iron man. Both races were 30 laps on a sixth-mile dirt track.
*The former Margie Hunter was an award-winning basketball player in the late 1960s for McLish High School. She married, raised three children and then studied nursing at East Central University. Margie Hunter-Short spent several years as an emergency room nurse. The Ada resident died at age 60.
*Leon Thompson was a career high school coach who served in the Pleasant Grove and Sasakwa school districts. Thompson's baseball teams won 400 games, and his successful girls basketball teams led to several Little River Conference Coach of the Year awards. The 1954 Byng High School graduate was an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan who always had an ear next to the radio, listening to legendary announcers Jack Buck and Harry Caray describe the action. Coach Thompson was an Ada resident at the time of death at age 76.
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