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Five different players scored touchdowns as Kingfisher officially began its quest for the playoffs.The Jackets scored the game’s first 42 points Friday before cruising to a 58-26 homecoming victory against Bridge Creek.It was the District 3A-1 opener for both teams as KHS improved to 3-1 overall.

Kerri Lafferty feels her team can be better and the time to get better starts now.The Kingfisher High School girls placed third in last Saturday’s Edmond Pre-State Cross Country Meet.The race was held at Edmond Santa Fe High School, the site of this year’s state meet.

Admittedly, it wasn’t Cashion’s best.It was still almost better than the rest.Cashion’s cheerleading team had its best-ever showing at the highest level when it finished as co-state runner-up at last weekend’s Class 2A competition in Tulsa.The team’s 226.

A quarter-century of work has paid off.Crescent laid claim to its second state championship in cheerleading last Saturday when it won the Class 2A competition at the UMAC in Tulsa.The group of lady Tigers scored 244.6 points to outgun co-runners-up Cashion and Haworth, who tallied 226.8 points each.

Although they didn’t win the Class 4A competitive cheer state championship, Kingfisher High School cheerleaders still came home from Tulsa with some prestigious hardware.

Vaughn Raney from Oklahoma City University hauled in NAIA scholar-athlete recognition. Raney, a senior and a Cashion High School alumnus, maintained a 3.550 grade-point average while pursuing a master’s degree in health care practice management.

Crescent 37Newkirk 7Score by quarterNewkirk 0 0 0 7 - 7Crescent 0 16 6 15 - 37Scoring summary:C - Tanner Rice 5 run (Rice run)C- Tayon Johnson 20 run (Johnson run)C - CJ Wilson 15 pass from Kade Varner (pass failed)C - Ethan Ryans 27 pass from Rice (Johnson run)C - Luke Descher 3 run (Johnson...

Dover’s best fast-pitch softball season came to an end Thursday.Leedey defeated the Lady Longhorns in back-to-back games in Kingfisher to claim a Class B district championship.Dover was the district host, but with its softball field under construction, the district was moved to Kingfisher.

Emma Lukasek delivered the final heroics Monday as the Kingfisher High School softball team erased a threerun deficit in its final at-bat.Lukasek slapped a threerun double in the bottom of the seventh as KHS defeated the OKC Broncos 12-11 in a back-and-forth affair.

Crescent heads into the district portion of its season on a roll.The Tigers won their third straight game last Friday as they blasted Newkirk 37-7 at home.Since losing their opening game to Hennessey, the Tigers have outscored their last three foes 88-25.