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It’s not always easy to pull the positive from a 54-6 defeat.Cashion’s Lynn Shackelford did what he could after falling to Pawhuska by that margin in last Friday’s home opener.

HS Boys 5,000 m (157 runners)Bethany 31 Chisholm 66 OKC Knights 90 Weatherford 90 Crossings 115 OBA 176 HardingCharter 208 Frontier 232 Tonkawa 234 Geary 295 OCA 298Cashion - Luke Baustert 23rd, 18:50.24; Cole Baustert 62nd, 21:05.52; Asher Howell 143rd, 27:02.15Hennessey - Brok Cooper 65th, 21:07.

Guarded optimism.Kerri Lafferty continues to carry that around.The Kingfisher cross country coach remains guarded because there are tougher tests that lie ahead and the realization that some of her teams have peaked too soon in their season.

Weatherford 37 Kingfisher 17Kingfisher 0 14 3 0 - 17 Weatherford 6 7 14 10 - 37 Scoring summary: W - C.J.

Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready.And this time…he’ll make sure he’s even more ready.Kingfisher’s Gabe Rednose will be stepping back into the mixed martial arts cage later this month to - in part - defend one of the titles he just won.

Jancee Matthews scored on an error Thursday to help give Kingfisher a walkoff win and end a threegame losing skid.Matthews walked and then scored when Kinlee East was able to reach on an error in the bottom of the fifth inning to lift KHS to a 3-2 victory over Okarche in the Highway 81 Classic.

As it turned out, the Rockets had a bit more fuel.Hennessey dropped its 2023 football season opener Friday when it brought home a 41-15 loss from Mount St. Mary in Oklahoma City.

Some Dover athletes got their first taste of cross country last Saturday.New cross country coach Dakoda Hart took his Longhorns to the Watonga Cross Country Invitational for their initial meet of the season.

Watonga Cross Country Invitational High School Boys4,000 meters Hooker 61 Chisholm 67 Weatherford 101 CHA 101 Elk City 165 Watonga 167 OBA 179 Frontier 197 Thomas 216 Burns Flat 246 Clinton 279 OKC Storm 282Kingfisher - Conner Askey 32nd, 15:24.97; Wyatt Long 44th, 15:50.

It may not make sense to a cross country outsider to hear that a Class 4A coach was going to judge her team’s status on how well it fared against a 2A team.But Hooker - the twotime defending Class 2A state champs with five of its top-seven runners returning - isn’t your typical 2A team.