Sports

We’ll have results and stories from Week 0 football games for Kingfisher, Cashion, Hennessey and Crescent. Plus, results from Kingfisher’s annual cross country meet for high school and junior high teams.

Kingfisher’s big homestand continued throughout the week as the Lady Jackets went 3-2, including splitting four district softball games.Two district wins were delivered on Monday as KHS run-ruled John Marshall by a pair of matching 12-0 scores.

It was a big-time debut in two respects.The Kingfisher High School girls cross country team opened its 2022 season Saturday by winning the team championship at the Weatherford Invitational meet at Rader Park.

Kingfisher won’t have to go far at all for its second cross country meet of the season.The Kingfisher Cross Country Invitational is this Saturday, Aug. 27.The meet will be contested at Briscoe Park and will feature four races:• High school boys at 8:30 a.m.• High school girls at approximately 9 a.m.

A pair of lopsided wins on Saturday helped ease the pain of a disappointing defeat on Friday for the Kingfisher High School softball team.

Weatherford High School Invitational Rader Park High school girls (2,400 m)Kingfisher 37 Guthrie 65 Woodward 92 Weatherford 104 Hennessey 136 Hammon 151 Mooreland 181 OKC Knights 182 Fairview 200 Apache 303Hennessey – Jocelyn Matousek 24th (19th), 10:26.02; Tayler Franklin 27th (22nd), 10:27.

Week 0 marks the beginning of football season in Oklahoma high school sports and all local schools are taking advantage of the early start.Kingfisher, Cashion, Crescent and Hennessey kick off their 2022 campaigns this Friday night. (Ed.

Kingfisher and Cashion were among the Oklahoma high school football teams that got their first live action of the season on Thursday.KHS traveled to Fairview for its first and only scrimmage of the season. The teams were joined by Watonga.

Kingfisher split its first two games Thursday in the Highway 33 Classic softball tournament.The Lady Jackets opened pool play on their main field with a 10-1 victory against Watonga before falling later in the day to defending champ Dibble, 9-1.

Kingfisher High School senior catcher Mya Dewberry lunges in an attempt to haul in a foul ball during the Lady Jackets’ home opener last Monday against Bethany. The game was the first of a long home stand for KHS through the end of this month.