PUTNAM CITY – The Steve Scott era officially got under way Tuesday at PC North as his Fightin’ Chicks split in the first night of the inaugural summer league.

Chickasha got a 2-1 win over U.S. Grant in their first match then had to stay on the field to play Putnam City Original and lost 3-0 in the nightcap.

Scott, who spent the last four years at Capitol Hill, got his first Chickasha win over former district rival Grant and an old friend, coach Steve Cookson.

Striker Blain Horn got the first goal for the new coach about ten minutes into the first of two thirty-minute halves, picking up a second-ball strike after Grant keeper Aaron Machado mishandled Will Ford’s shot out near the eighteen. The ball squibbed loose and Horn was right there to bury the open-netter for a 1-0 lead.

Grant turned the heat up and got the equalizer about ten minutes later. A breakaway turned into a penalty kick five minutes after Horn’s goal when Tyler Wilson and a Grant striker got their feet tangled up in the box, sending the Grant player to the turf and drawing the flag, even though the contact was away from the ball.

Chickasha keeper Connor Prochaska rose to the occasion, though, slapping the freebie away, but Grant kept control of the ball, kept pounding away and hit paydirt about five minutes later with a long ball.

Battling for control near the midfield, Irvin Rocha served up a well-placed thirty-yarder out of the pack and forward Jesus Rodriguez flicked in it with a ten-yard header to tie things up.

Chickasha scored what turned out to be the winner about six minutes into the second half when Will Ford worked the ball deep and laid a perfect cross to Corbin Lee on the far post. Lee’s hit caromed off the post and gave Anthony Klipp a great look from twelve yards out. Klipp nailed it for a 2-1 lead and the Chickasha defense made it stand.

Besides the PK rejection, Prochaska had a number of good saves to go with some routine grabs. Fans also got to see freshman keeper Christian Koehler get his first high school action for the last ten minutes of the match and his first high school save, a pickup in traffic in front of the net.

Chickasha had to go right back out with a rested Putnam City Original and lost 3-0, playing about a step behind the Bucs for most of the match.

PCO moved the ball well and passed very crisply but fatigue from playing back-to-back in their first night out had to fit into the equation for the Chicks.

The Bucs pinned them in early and converted seven minutes in when forward Jacob Rangel picked up a loose ball in a scrum in front of the Chick net and slid it past Prochaska for a 1-0 lead.

PC kept the ball on the Chickasha half for most of the next twelve minutes before a flag got them on the board again. Awarded a direct kick from twenty-five yards out, midfielder Luis Lemus just cleared the Chick wall and put the ball into the upper corner of the net for a 2-0 lead.

Rangel got his second score of the night halfway into the second half, pushing the ball across the front of the Chickasha net and hitting it against the grain to extend to 3-0.

Chickasha dug in and kept PC from scoring again with a courageous defensive effort but couldn’t get much going offensively for most of the second half.