Yellowjacket trio adds OBCA district honors to growing list

Kingfisher made a clean sweep at the top when the Oklahoma Basketball Coaches Association announced its district honors.

Bijan Cortes was named District I Player of the Year for the second consecutive year.

Fellow senior Matthew Stone, again, was the top vote-getter outside of Cortes in being named to the all-district team.

Jared Reese was named the coach of the year as well.

District I covers 17 counties and 76 schools, mostly in northwest Oklahoma.

Only 10 players and a player of the year are named to the team each year.

Kingfisher won the Class 4A state championship and ran up a 25-1 record along the way.

Cortes, who has signed to play at the University of Oklahoma, scored 21.8 points and added 5.3 assists, 4.8 rebounds and 2.7 steals a game.

A University of North Texas signee, Stone averaged 15.7 points, 7.9 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.8 steals.

Reese just completed his eighth season at KHS.

His teams have gone 196-23 (.895) during that stretch and have advanced to the Class 4A state title game four times as they also claimed gold in 2017 and 2019.

During Cortes and Stone’s four seasons of starting, Kingfisher was 107-4.

Other all-district team members voted in this year were: Trent Mitchell, Texhoma; T.J. Bennett, Garber; Cole Cathcart, Hooker; Roberto Hernandez, Tyrone; Ethan Pyron, Arapaho-Butler; Kobe McGowan, Forgan; Gloire Houmba, Covington-Douglas; Atrel Bryson, Clinton; and Jacobe Johnson, Mustang.