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For the second time this season, Kingfisher’s seventh grade football team suffered defeat in overtime. Weatherford scored on the second play of its overtime possession Monday to pull out a 22-16 victory over the visiting Jackets. The loss ended the seventh graders’ season at 3-5.

Winless Watonga wasn’t supposed to give Crescent much of a game in their Week 7 matchup. And it didn’t. Crescent dominated virtually every aspect of the game Thursday night to defeat the visiting Eagles 35-6. The victory improved the Tigers’ record to 5-1 overall and 2-1 in District A-3.

It appears nothing’s going to come easy as Kingfisher attempts to lock up a playoff spot in 2020. The Jackets took a big step in that direction Thursday night as they held off Perkins-Tryon 38-31 at home in a pivotal District 3A-1 game.

If you do things right long enough, it eventually turns your way. That’s the message Paul Hix has preached to his Hennessey Eagles since the beginning of the 2019 season. On Thursday night, things turned the Eagles’ way.

Scoring summary: K - Cade Stephenson 2 run (Aaron Delatorre kick) M - Clint Campbell 10 run (Hunter Ryan kick) K - Stephenson 44 pass from Jax Sternberger (Delatorre kick) M - Collin Gibson 1 run (pass failed) M - Collin Gibson 1 run (pass failed) K - Stephenson 33 run (Delatorre...

A nine-stroke swing helped Maddi Kamas handily win her third Oklahoma Junior Golf Tour tournament of the season. Kamas fired an evenpar 71 Sunday at the Lincoln Park Golf Club West course in Oklahoma City to win the 2020 Best of the West Classic.

True, Kingfisher got the win last Friday night when the Jackets resumed their district schedule with a 21-13 victory at McLoud. That doesn’t mean they left Pottawatomie County feeling too good about it.

Kingfisher - Jayden Newkirk 6th, 17:38.9; Connor Hine 10th (9th), 17:56.6; Braden Burns 70th (56th), 20:03.5; Xavier Ridenour 71st (57th), 20:05.7; Coleman Gilles 105th (78th), 21:16.5 Kingfisher - Zoey Evans 6th , 12:35.9; Katon Lunsford 7th, 12:37.8; Emmy Lunsford 9th, 12:52.

Heading into last weekend’s meet, Kingfisher High School cross country coach Kerri Lafferty knew there was a chance for her runners to have individual successes. “Their course is pretty flat,” said Lafferty of the layout for Chisholm/OBA Cross Country Invitational on Saturday in Enid.

Paul Hix said last week’s football game for his Hennessey Eagles “felt like one hand was tied behind our backs.” That’s not a knock on his team, just the situation it has faced for the last few weeks.