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After suffering an opening-round loss, Dover salvaged the consolation championship from the Skeltur Conference Tournament last weekend.The Lady Longhorns picked up their trophy after Saturday’s 56-37 victory over Pond Creek-Hunter at Stride Bank Center in Enid.

Lomega didn’t get the championship it wanted, but did get the bounce-back win it needed.The Raiders rebounded from an upset loss to Cherokee in Friday’s semifinals to beat Ringwood 70-50 Saturday in the Cherokee Strip Conference Tournament’s third-place game.

Kingfisher’s defense is going to keep it in any game.If the shots are falling too?The Jackets can look unbeatable.They looked the part Saturday as they blistered 5A No. 16 Guthrie 60-40 to win their sixth consecutive Buckle of the Wheatbelt Invitational championship.

Girls7th place – Edmond Santa Fe JV 37, Chisholm 345th place – Guthrie 56, Harrah 253rd place – Guymon 57, OCA 48Championship – Kingfisher 45, Yukon 31Boys7th place – Harrah 78, Chisholm JV 355th place – Chisholm 52, Guymon 443rd place – OCA 66, Yukon 56Championship – Kingfisher 60, Guthrie 40

Guymon and Yukon were able to hang tough.They just couldn’t hang with Rayland Garner.The Kingfisher High School senior scored 47 points over the final two days to lead the Lady Jackets to their second consecutive Buckle of the Wheatbelt Invitational championship.

Top-ranked Tuttle easily took care of the competition during District 4A-2 duals on Thursday.Wrestling on their home mats, the Tigers qualified for dual state by defeating Kingfisher, Douglass and Newcastle in an afternoon of round-robin duals.Tuttle has won dual state 12 consecutive years.

Both Lomega teams moved easily into the semifinals of the Cherokee Strip Conference Tournament.The top-seeded and defending champ Lady Raiders hammered Deer Creek-Lamont 90-26 at Pioneer-Pleasant Vale High School.The team made 15 3-pointers, five each by Darcy Roberts and Abby Swart.

Turns out the 2022 Tournament of Champions is going to have a strong Kingfisher County flavor.It was reported last week that the Kingfisher High School boys had accepted an invitation to play in next season’s tournament.

Never count out Okarche. The Warriors erased a big early deficit, a smaller one in the final minutes of regulation and eventually pulled out a 51-46 overtime win Tuesday night at Hennessey.

It had been more than two weeks since the Kingfisher girls basketball team took the court.Edmond Santa Fe’s JV team took on the brunt of that frustration.The Lady Jackets began defense of their Buckle of the Wheatbelt Invitational title Thursday with a 78-28 victory over the Lady Wolves at the APB.