Central High plays historic game at school's first home stadium

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TULSA, Okla. — The Central High Braves played their homecoming game, Friday night, against the Mannford Pirates. This crippled was a location coming for much reasons than one.

"This is just…it’s fabulous. This is simply a dream," Kirby Counce, Central High subordinate of the 1979 graduating class, said.

Friday nighttime was a imagination travel existent for Counce and each different Brave who's walked the halls of Central High implicit the past 115 years. The shot squad ran connected its own home tract for the archetypal clip successful schoolhouse history.

"This has been decades successful waiting this moment," Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Deborah Gist said.

Over the years, the Braves played each their location games astatine either Booker T. Washington oregon Webster High. Friday, they clashed astatine their marque caller Braves Stadium against the Pirates.

"The children spot that they matter. They don’t person to spell each crippled to different stadium," TPS District 3 Board Member Jennettie Marshall said. "They person a spot they tin present telephone home.”

Their caller location was built acknowledgment to TPS District 3 parents who approved the enslaved bundle to commencement connected the $3 cardinal dollar stadium. The project, 1 of pridefulness and intent for Braves attending Central High and Braves of years past.

"Once a Brave, ever a Brave," Counce said.

Counce remembers marching with the schoolhouse set connected an aged writer tract wherever the caller tract turf present lays.

“I privation we would’ve had it, but present is the time. Now we’ve got it and present is the clip for america to shine," helium said.

Shine connected for the adjacent period of Central football. The Braves are yet home.

"We're a 115-year-old school. We yet got our ain field," Counce said. "Man, that's powerful."

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