Savage hits 500th

Former Purcell and Lexington girls’ basketball coach Mark Savage, who currently is coaching at Stratford, has passed 500 victories as a high school head coach.

Savage began his coaching career at his Alma Mater Stratford from 1983-88.

He coached at Purcell from 1988 to 2007, then a year at Wynnewood and at Lexington from 2009 to 2014.

Since 2018 Savage has been back at Stratford.