Sports

Kerri Lafferty saw one part of Kingfisher’s numbers go down last week.Now she wants to see the other part be lower as well.The KHS girls took fourth place Saturday at the 2022 Edmond Pre-State Cross Country Meet at Santa Fe High School.

Kingfisher High School took sixth place at this year’s Class 4A state cheerleading competition.Judges awarded KHS 242.4 points out of a possible 300 after their routine Saturday at Union High School in Tulsa.

State Cheer Class 4a At Union High SchoolCrossings Christian 279.4 Heritage Hall 260.4 Bristow 250.4 Washington 249.2 Pauls Valley 246.0 Kingfisher 242.4 Weatherford 233.8 Sallisaw 230.2 Sulphur 229.0Class 2ACrescent 252.0 Okemah 232.8 Haworth 222.8 Cashion 221.2 Pawnee 195.6 Ketchum 195.

The youth movement in Hennessey has the Lady Eagles in contention in the world of cross country.HHS took fifth last Saturday at the 2022 Edmond Pre-State Cross Country Meet held at Santa Fe High School.It’s the same site state will be held late next month.

Kingfisher took runner- up and Hennessey fourth last Saturday during the high school girls race of the ninth annual Mike Driskill Invitational cross country meet.The meet was run at Hennessey’s Turkey Creek Golf Course.KHS finished 11 points behind Guthrie in the team race.

Crescent will have the opportunity to defend its cheer state championship and will do so - yet again - as a regional champ.The Tiger squad earned that distinction at last Saturday’s Class 2A regional championships held at Stroud High School.Crescent is one of three local squads to advance to state.

Class A and B softball and baseball playoffs begin this week with district tournaments.The only local team hosting a district are the Dover Lady Longhorns, who welcome Glencoe and Mulhall-Orlando to town on Friday.

Cashion coach Lynn Shackelford knew his team’s first two opponents posed significant challenges the Wildcats would need to overcome in order to notch one in the win column.He was right as the two-time defending Class A champs lost to a pair of Class 2A contenders in Rejoice Christian and Pawhuska.

The game was never in doubt.At certain points, the same can’t be said for Kingfi sher’s focus.The Yellowjackets did, however, pay enough attention to hand the visiting Chisholm Longhorns a 56-6 defeat last Friday night.

Only one area football team is undefeated heading into district play.It’s the Crescent Tigers. Perennial power Morrison was their latest victim as Crescent prevailed in an 18-7 slugfest for homecoming last Friday night.