Sports

The Cashion community came together not just for a rivalry football game Thursday night, but also to honor one of its own. The jersey of the late Brexten Green was retired during a ceremony at halftime of the Wildcats’ home game with Crescent.

For the second straight year, Kingfisher will travel to the Ardmore area for the first round of the Class 3A playoffs.Thursday night’s win at Anadarko gave KHS a third place finish in District 3A-1 behind champion Metro Christian and runner-up Perkins-Tryon.Anadarko is fourth.

Anadarko’s loss was truly Kingfisher’s gain.TheYellowjacketsturned two Anadarko third-quarter fumbles into 14 points Thursday night to help earn a 27-22 come-from-behind win.The victory wrapped up a 7-3 regular season for KHS and gave the Jackets third place in District 3A-1 with a 5-2 mark.

DOVER FFA traveled to Indianapolis, Ind., from Oct. 26-29 for the 95th National FFA Convention. Dover FFA members supported their neighboring school, Kingfi sher, by sitting in and watching their ag issues competition.

Hopes of a Hennessey district championship remained strong at halftime last Friday night. By the end of the third quarter, they were all but gone. Millwood rattled off 42 unanswered points in the second half - 30 of them in the third quarter - to knock off the upset-minded Eagles 58-22.

Kingfisher was unable to light up the scoreboard against North Rock Creek Friday night.That’s because there were no lights to be lit.A major power outage that turned the entire city dark just before kickoff forced the Yellowjackets to push their senior night game to Saturday afternoon.

For the first eight weeks of the season, it was the opposing teams making mistakes and Crescent taking advantage.The roles were reversed last Friday.Minco built an early 20-0 lead and Crescent never fully recovered in a 42-32 defeat at home.

Cashion’s season wasn’t on the line at Hinton, but its postseason hopes were.And when push came to shove in a physical battle with the Comets, Cashion proved its still got some shove left.The Wildcats locked up their spot in the playoffs Friday with a 19-4 road win.

A class dominated at the top by teams from the northwest saw Lomega finish 20th Saturday at the Class 2A boys state cross country meet.Hooker won the state title with just 58 points in the event held at Edmond Santa Fe High School.

It was a state meet with some unexpected results.You can count Kingfisher’s in that mix.KHS took ninth Saturday at the Class 4A girls state cross country competition at Edmond Santa Fe High School.Fifth-rankedByngsurged to win the state championship with 108 points, nudging third-ranked Cache’s 117.