Sports

All six Kingfisher County schools will be taking part in tournaments this weekend.Half of them will be in the Three Rivers Conference Tournament, which is being hosted this year at Hennessey High School.Joining the Eagles from the county will be Cashion and Okarche.

Maybe early Thursday evening inside a locker room at the Kerr Center in Ada will prove to be a turning point for this Kingfisher High School girls basketball team.Maybe it won’t.

Two people largely responsible for the best winning percentage in Oklahoma high school boys basketball history will be opponents this week.The University of North Texas mens basketball program will head north Thursday night to take on the Wichita State Shockers. Tipoff is at 8 p.m.

Kingfisher couldn’t overcome long stretches of scoring droughts or McAlester’s rebounding prowess in a loss on the opening day of the Bertha Frank Teague Mid-America Classic.

While most basketball teams in the state will be trying to keep their skills sharp with practices this week, the Kingfisher Lady Jackets get the opportunity to put those skills to the test.KHS is part of this year’s Bertha Frank Teague Mid-America Classic, which begins Thursday in Ada.

Lomega got in some matinee basketball before the Christmas break.The Raider teams hit the road last Friday afternoon and brought home a Cherokee Strip Conference sweep.The Lady Raiders won their 10th straight with an 83-51 victory.

It took the top-ranked team in Class 3A to give Cashion its first loss of the season.Undefeated Washington built a solid first-half lead then didn’t allow a Cashion comeback in a 60-44 home win last Friday.

Kingfisher cut down on its turnovers, but not enough to reverse its fortunes.The Jackets were dealt a 64-31 defeat at the hands of Cache last Friday.The road loss was Kingfi sher’s last game before the Christmas break and dropped its season record to 1-6.

A long scoring drought nearly cost Kingfisher its sizable lead.But the Lady Jackets made the plays down the stretch to snap their twogame losing skid.Afterwatchinga23-point lead get knocked all the way down to seven, KHS pulled away from Cache late in Friday’s 46-33 road win.

Five Jackets walked off the medal stand with gold to lead Kingfisher to a third-place finish over the weekend.KHS scored 155.5 points to finish behind Watonga and Edmond Memorial in the revamped Kingfisher High School Invitational.