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Class A Third Round Thomas 44, Tonkawa 8 Pawnee 58, Colcord 15 Pawnee 58, 15 Texhoma 7 Ringling 23, Texhoma 7 Morrison 32, Wewoka 24 Pawhuska 58, Warner 0 Mooreland Crescent Mooreland 33, Crescent 14 Woodland 38, Gore 18 Cashion Hooker 22 Cashion 60, Hooker 22 Class A Quarterfinals Pawnee...

Playing for the first time in 21 days, the Crescent Tigers will now have to wait about nine months to see the football field again. Mooreland halted their season Friday in a 33-14 win at Crescent in the third round of the Class A playoffs.

Not since Cashion’s fourth contest of the season have the Wildcats had much to worry about in the second half of a football game. But that was the situation they faced last Friday when they led Hooker by just six points at the break of their third-round playoff game.

Holland Hall was as good as advertised and that proved to be bad news for Kingfisher’s 2020 football season.

A win by Kingfisher’s football team at Holland Hall on Friday (after press time of this edition) will delay the scheduled start of the KHS basketball seasons. The season is tentatively scheduled to begin Tuesday, Dec. 1, with Newcastle visiting the APB.

Southwestern Oklahoma State University got there first and it paid off. Lomega senior Adysen Wilson recently signed a letter of intent to continue her basketball career at the Weatherford school that’s become the best NCAA Division II program in the state.

It didn’t take Mia Farrell long to figure out a small campus in Bethany was right for her future. “From the second I stepped foot on the campus, I knew it was home,” Farrell said of Southwestern Christian University.

It wasn’t snowing outdoors, but there was way too much Snowden indoors last Friday for Burlington. Noah Snowden and Blake Snowden combined for 40 points in a 75-37 road win for Lomega as the Raiders improved to 3-0 and won their Cherokee Strip Conference opener.

Crescent has moved into the third round of the Class A football playoffs, yet hasn’t played a game since Week 10. That’s 2020. The Tigers received their second straight forfeit win last week when Wayne bowed out of the playoffs due to COVID-19 concerns.

Ben Harman had one of the best passing performances by a quarterback in playoff history as Cashion cruised into the next round of the Class A playoffs. Harman threw for 437 yards and five touchdowns in Cashion’s 42-0 home win over Elmore City-Pernell.