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Cashion secured most of the top honors when District A-3 football honors were announced last week.Ben Harman was named the district’s most valuable player.Offensive MVP went to Landon LaGasse and Nick Nabavi was the defensive MVP.

The Kingfisher girls contest at Newcastle was the exact opposite of the boys in regards to the amount of drama it provided.Kingfisher showed no signs of a letdown after the previous weekend’s tournament win by blowing out Newcastle 79-26 on the road.

Jadyn Rother helped keep Okarche in the game.Emma Stover made sure the Lady Warriors took it over.Okarche improved to 2-0 in Three Rivers Conference games Tuesday with a 65-51 win at Oklahoma Bible Academy in Enid.

Landon LaGasse won a football state championship on Saturday, then dropped a double-double on Thomas three days later.The Cashion Wildcats made their long-anticipated debut Tuesday as they dealt Thomas a 79-31 defeat on its own court.

Kingfisher’s expectation of winning played out in dramatic fashion on the basketball court.Cash Slezickey and Xavier Ridenour hit crucial shots in the game’s final 90 seconds and the team delivered multiple late defensive stops last Tuesday to lift KHS to a 42-41 victory at No. 9 Newcastle.

They didn’t wrestle like girls last Friday.They were girls.Kingfisher took part of an historic event last week as it fielded an all-female team at the “Wrestle Like a Girl” Cache Invitational.KHS had two wrestlers in high school brackets and seven more took part in the junior high field.

The 2021 holiday antlerless deer gun season will open in specific zones on Dec. 18 and run through Dec. 31.And the Wildlife Department is reminding everyone that “Hunters in the Know … Take a Doe!

Dylan Hight dominated the first half.It was Bryson Cash’s turn in the second.Combined, it was enough to lift Perry past Hennessey 59-40 Saturday in the boys championship of the Frontier Shootout.

Okarche bounced back from its first loss of the season to beat a county rival for some hardware.The Lady Warriors on Saturday night held off Cashion 50-47 to win third place in the NEXTera Energy Resources Invitational at Garber.

Not too many girls basketball teams can give up more than 70 points and still win.Then again, Lomega isn’t your typical program.Class B’s top-ranked Lady Raiders held off rally after rally from No. 8 Arnett to survive an 80-73 shootout Saturday in the finals of the Canton Invitational.