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Local competitive cheer teams will get their shot at reaching state later this month.The OSSAA cheer regionals will be held at two locations Saturday, Sept. 18.Cashion and Crescent will be taking part in the 2A regional at Chickasha.

A pair of early-week district losses further hampered Kingfisher’s efforts of potentially hosting a softball bi-district.The Lady Jackets were dealt home defeats of 12-3 Monday against Bridge Creek and 15-0 Tuesday when Chickasha visited.The losses dropped the Lady Jackets to 2-6 in District 4A-4.

High School Boys5KOKC Knights 73Heritage Hall 78Elk City 84Weatherford 132North Rock Creek 144Kingfisher 174Kremlin-Hillsdale 180Chisholm 186Jones 190Lomega 246Mooreland 256Clinton 303Kingfisher - Connor Hine 5th, 19:17.06; Connor Askey 22nd (20th), 21:15.31; Coleman Gilles 34th (30th), 22:06.

Cashion may very well win a second consecutive Class A football state championship.It just won’t do so as an undefeated team.The Wildcats fell short on their final possession last Friday and were knocked off 34-27 by visiting Rejoice Christian at Maxon Field.

Kingfisher 46Alva 8Score by QuarterAlva 0 0 8 0 - 8Kingfisher 7 20 19 0 - 46Scoring summary:K - Harrison Evans 5 pass from Jax Sternberger (Alan Munoz kick)K - Marcus Lemon 15 pass from Sternberger (Munoz kick)K - Slade Snodgrass 5 pass from Sternberger (kick failed)K - Sternberger 1 run (Munoz...

The third year of the Paul Hix era at Hennessey already has one thing the first two didn’t.A win in the season opener.The Eagles were highly effective in their run game, forced five turnovers and left Crescent last Friday night with a 27-14 victory.Hennessey ran for 208 yards and averaged 7.

With a small senior class and a mass exodus of production from the graduating group of last season, Jeff Myers knew there were questions to be answered when Alva visited for the 2021 football season opener.Those answers were mostly favorable in a 46-8 runaway win for the Yellowjackets.

Kerri Lafferty knows the grind that is the life of a cross country runner.You train for hours to run for minutes.So the Kingfisher High School cross country coach doesn’t hide her emotions when she sees her runners rewarded on the course.

KINGFISHER at Weatherford, 7:30 p.m.CRESCENT at North Rock Creek, 7 p.m.CASHION at Perry, 7 p.m.HENNESSEY vs. Hinton, at home, 7 p.m.

Different ends of the softball spectrum were visited early last week by Kingfisher High School during district games. After not surrendering a run in a double-header sweep against John Marshall on Monday (see Wednesday, Aug.