Oklushi has successful season

Team Oklushi placed third in the Durant Spring 10 and Under Softball league. The team rebounded and made it to the Oklahoma State Tournament, falling to an undefeated team by only one run. The team finished the year with a 12-4 record.

The team is a close group of girls who love to play and work hard every game.

Oklushi means “tribe” or “a race of one people” in Choctaw. According to coach Baker, the team has developed a tribe-like atmosphere of everyone being there for each other and is ready for the next season to start.

The majority of girls on the team are members of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, while all but two of the remaining players are the children of CNO associates.

The team is coached by full-blood Choctaw tribal member and CNO language teacher Casey Baker and his wife, Becca, CNO associate James Love and other CNO associates.