Tonkawa’s biggest test yet comes Friday night at Pawnee. It is ranked number five among the top ten games in the state by theKick off is at 7 p.m. Chouteau was the first of a grueling three-game road assignment for the Bucs, who won 54-19. Third-ranked Tonkawa will be at Pawnee this Friday against a 9th ranked Black Bear team that Head Coach Mike Kirtley says, “We’ll have our hands full.”It doesn’t get any easier after Pawnee. Then the Bucs go to Oklahoma Union before returning home for a Thursday night bout with tenth ranked Morrison.The Black Bears are 3-1, beating Okemah 14-12, Mooreland 22-14 and Meeker 66-55. They fell to top-ranked Hominy 0-34 last week.Offensively, Pawnee will be in a single win, double tight end alignment with toe-to-toe splits. “They’re very good at their offense,” Kirtley said, “Pawnee will run a ball-control offense and it will be extremely hard to get them off the field. We’ll just have to out-score them.”The Black Bears are also big and strong, Kirtley said. The Buc head coach, in his 20th year, said he thought “Our guys played hard” at Chouteau, “They were very well coached, hard working and stubborn with their offense which they run very well. I gotta’ believe they are the best 0-4 team we’ll play this year.”
