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Kingfisher’s basketball games at Blanchard scheduled last Tuesday were postponed.Blanchard reported multiple COVID-19 issues.The games are now slated Feb. 10.Issues also affected wrestling this weekend.Kingfisher was set to host the Western Conference Wrestling Tournament Friday and Saturday.

Hennessey suffered its second narrow loss to Watonga in just a matter of days.The Eagles went on the road Tuesday and were knocked off 61-56 in overtime by Watonga.

Cashion carried over its momentum from the Three Rivers Conference Tournament into last week.The Wildcats won their fifth straight game by knocking off Class A’s 12th-ranked Seiling 53-43 at home.

Playing for the fifth time in a week on Monday, the Dover boys continued to push their record toward .500.Behind a big second quarter push, the Longhorns knocked off Geary 72-48 at home.

LADY WARRIORS - Team members for the 2021-22 Okarche junior high girls basketball team include, from left: front row, Katy Creswell, Lyla Zaragoza, Emma Alig, Katie Parham, Sara Jacobs and Kennedy Blackwood; middle row, Scout Payne, Julia Rayburn, Averi Wilson, Maycie Moore, Bella Hufnagel and...

Lomega’s bid to repeat as Warrior Classic champion fell short in the finals.A massive second quarter by Sentinel helped the Bulldogs earn a 71-54 victory in Saturday’s championship game.The Bulldogs turned a seven-point deficit into a double-digit lead by scoring 29 points in the second quarter.

Despite being the seventh seed, the Dover boys nearly brought home a tournament title.Ringwood outlasted Dover 36-33 Saturday night to win the Okeene Invitational championship.

Gant Browning was Kingfisher’s lone placer and scored half of the team’s points at last weekend’s Cushing Tiger Invitational wrestling tournament.Browning took sixth at 113 pounds after being edged by Cushing’s Iziah Tusler, 4-2, in the fifthplace match.

Kingfisher won three of the five matches that were wrestled last Thursday to win a 38-16 win over Clinton in a dual at the APB.The night served as homecoming and senior night for the Jackets (See Jan. 9 edition for photos).Prior to the dual, Isaac Long was named homecoming king.

What’s old was new again at the Three Rivers Conference Tournament.The Okarche girls and Cashion boys brought home championship trophies Saturday night from the Stride Bank Center in Enid.Both were No. 1 seeds and experienced a bit of deja vu with the championship victories.