Doenges Toyota Indians win two this week; glen winget tournament starts thursday
Bartlesville Doenges Toyota’s Grant Clark eyes a grounder during last year’s Glen Winget Memorial Tournament. The tribe opens this year’s tournament on Thursday at 8 p.m.
BECKY BURCH/Bartlesville Area Sports
By Mike Tupa
July 3, 2025
BARTLESVILLE AREA SPORTS REPORT
There absolutely is no doubt the Bartlesville Doenges Toyota Indians boast a highly-competitive college/19-and-under baseball squad with well-honed skills.
When they put it all together — or mostly together — there’s no one they can’t beat.
The major question pertaining to this weekend is this: Which Bartlesville squad will show up at the 66th Annual Glenn Winget Tournament in Bartlesville?
Will it be the Indians’ team that’s about to reward John Pannell with his second career Winget crown as the team’s manager/head coach?
Or will it be the one that leaves a brigade of runners stranded and is afflicted by a short spurt of pitching woes and/or defensive mistakes?
Indian fans will be pulling for their boys to capture the program’s 19th Winget title — and first since 2018 — during the previous 65 years of Winget tourney competition.
It will take the best Bartlesville players can bring to rise to the top in the field that includes seven former Winget finalists and six former tourney champs.
Meanwhile, the Indians have spent this past week in tune-ups to the Winget tourney.
Following are some details from those games.
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Former Doenges Toyota Indians Nik Johnson is pictured with head coach and manager John Pannell during last year’s Glen Winget Memorial Tournament. Johnson, who now plays for DBAT Tulsa, faced the Indians earlier in the week.
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DBAT TULSA 7, BARTLESVILLE INDIANS 5
Facing Bartlesville on the mound was Nik Johnson, a Bartlesville High graduate and former Indians’ player.
Johnson managed to keep the Indians’ offense under wraps just barely enough to elevate his team to victory in Tuesday’s first game at Bill Doenges Memorial Stadium.
But it wasn’t easy.
Tulsa sprang to a 5-1 lead in the opening two innings, with Hunter Shea scoring Bartlesville’s lone run. Through three innings, Tulsa stretched its lead to 7-1.
Starting with the fourth inning, however, Bartlesville pitchers Zachariah Ray and Lathe Griggs and the defense shut down Tulsa the rest of the way.
Meanwhile, the Indians’ offense chipped away at the margin.
In the bottom of the fourth, Adrian O’Dell and Kael Siemers belted singles to spark an Indians’ rally. Jaxon Zaun then drove home O’Dell and Brett Eaves plated Siemers to make it a 7-3 game. Moments later, Brenden Asher reached base on an error that brought home another run.
Shea slammed a double in the bottom of the fifth — but was left twisting in the wind on the basepath.
However, Bartlesville scratched a run home in the bottom of the sixth when Zaun singled, went to third on Eaves’ towering double and came home on Asher’s sacrifice fly. However, Eaves would be left stranded with the Indians trailing by two runs, 7-5.
Bartlesville made comeback noise in the bottom of the seventh on Siemers’ two-out single. But Tulsa then slammed the door on a ground out.
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BARTLESVILLE INDIANS 4, DBAT TULSA 2
This game started as a pitcher’s duel. But Indians’ hurdlers Zane Griggs and Shea would limit Tulsa to just two runs to allow the Indians to pull ahead for good in Tuesday’s second game.
Asher’s rocket double in the top of the third drove home two runs to put the Indians ahead, 2-0.
Tulsa got back a run in the bottom of the fourth
But in the top of the fifth, Asher clobbered another double, this one to plate Zaun for what would be the winning run in a 3-1 lead.
Grant Clark doubled and scored on a RBI by Bryce Sickler to round out Bartlesville’s scoring. Clark finished with three hits in the game.
On the defensive side, Siemers filled in at shortstop and made some big plays, including fielding a grounder for the third out in the fourth inning to leave a Tulsa runner stranded at third.
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BARTLESVILLE INDIANS 10, TULSA SANDLOT 9
What a thriller!
Played out on the stage of a field in Pryor, the Indians bounced back from a 5-0 deficit on Monday to win in the final innings.
It was a drama worthy of an Alfred Hitchcock movie mystery script.
The Sandlot stormed to a 5-0 lead in the first two innings while unleashing a power display that featured three doubles and a triple.
But the Indians refused to cower to the snarling wolf of adversity.
They let out their own roar with a thunderous third-inning rally, ignited by Siemers’ one-out triple and followed by a hit batsman (Zaun) and a walk (Eaves). That loaded the bases for Sam Marcella.
He delivered like the pizza man, slicing a single to sauce up the scoreboard with two runs.
Two batters later, Clark hit into a fielder’s choice to send Eaves home for the Indians’ third tally. Bryce Luelf then stepped up and grounded out to plate Marcella to cut Tulsa’s lead to 5-4.
The Indian defense turned a double play in the bottom of the third to derail a Sandlot uprising.
In the top of the fourth, Siemers scored on a combination of a Zaun single and a Sandlot mistake. Eaves followed with a grounder and Zaun zipped home to lift Bartlesville to a 6-5 advantage.
Momentum, right?
Tulsa stole it right back by scoring four times in the bottom of the fourth to shove the Indians back into a three-run hole, 9-6.
Did they have the right stuff to make a second comeback?
In the top of the fifth, Rice reached base as a hit batsman and three Indians followed with consecutive base hits — Clark, Luelf and O’Dell — to power back. Liam Buchanan added a RBI on a fielder’s choice to tie the score, 9-9.
Bartlesville followed with a run in the top of the sixth — to go ahead, 10-9 — when O’Dell drew a bases-loaded walk to force home Marcella.
Then it was up to relief pitcher Siemers and the defense to hold on.
In the bottom of the seventh, the Sandlot put runners on third and second. But Zaun’s clutch catch — on a diving effort — nailed down the win.
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INDIANS SEASON RESULTS
Kansas Curve 9, Indians 2
Kansas Curve 7, Indians 0
Dallas-Fort Worth Ravages 12, Indians 3
Dallas-Fort Worth Ravages 12, Indians 6
Indians 5, Tulsa Sandlot 4
Tulsa Sandlot 22, Indians 12
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COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS TOURNEY
Indians 4, Springfield (Mo.) Kickapoo 0
Indians 12, Clever (Mo.) 4
Indians 5, OKC Evolution 3 (9 inn.)
Forsyth 11, Indians 4
Willard 9, Indians 5
Mountain Home (Ark.) Lockeroom 19, Indians 4
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MOUNTAIN HOME TOURNEY
Pontotoc (Miss.) 3, Indians 2
Indians 6, Mountain Home (Ark.) MacLeod 5
Indians 13, Bakersfield (Mo.) 1
Indians 8, Mountain Home (Ark.) Lockeroom 7
Jefferson City (Mo.) 5, Indians 2
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ETEAM 10, Indians 1
ETEAM 1, Indians 0
OKC Lookouts 13, Indians 3
OKC Lookouts 5, Indians 2
Indians 8, Dallas-Fort Worth Ravages 5
Indians 6, Dallas-Fort Worth Ravages 3
Indians 3, Dallas-Fort Worth Ravages 1
OKC Express 8, Indians 0
OKC Express 7, Indians 3
Indians 10, ETEAM 5
ETEAM 7, Indians 1
RBI Native 13, Indians 6
RBI Native 7, Indians 2
RBI Native 14, Indians 2
Indians 10, Tulsa Sandlot 9
Tulsa Sandlot 11 Indians 0
DBAT Tulsa 7, Indians 5
Indians 4, DBAT Tulsa 2