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Head coach Lynn Shackelford wanted his football team to impose its will on Barnsdall last week. The Wildcats did that for the most part and Mother Nature took care of the rest as Cashion advanced to the Class A semifinals with a 28-6 victory on the road.

Wrestling and basketball seasons offi cially begin this week for Kingfi sher High School teams. The KHS wrestling squad will open the season Tuesday, Dec. 3, at home against Weatherford. The dual will be held at the APB. Junior high teams will begin at 6 p.m.

Lomega dialed up a long distance homecoming win against Union City. The Lady Raiders buried 15 3-pointers as part of an 84–47 victory last Friday night. The sharpshooting helped improve Lomega to 4-2 entering the Thanksgiving break. Prior to the game, Hensley Eaton was crowned homecoming queen.

Oklahoma Bible Academy used a dominant third quarter last Friday to spoil Dover’s basketball homecoming. Prior to the games, Yazaret Gamez and Trinton Ritz were crowned homecoming queen and king. In the boys game, the Trojans outscored the host squad 14-4 in the third en route to a 65-52 victory.

Aaron West said it was like watching two different teams. The Okarche boys basketball coach watched his Warriors dig themselves a 15-point deficit last Friday night only to come away with a 54-44 homecoming win against Oklahoma Christian Academy. “It was a tale of two halves,” West said.

Two former Kingfisher County baseball standouts will be teammates for one more season, but will venture their different ways afterward. Austin Neal and Miguel Obeso signed last month to continue their baseball careers at four-year schools.

Entering this postseason, Barnsdall hadn’t won a playoff game since 1992. The string of 12 consecutive first-round losses stretched back long before any of the current Panthers were born. That streak ended Nov. 11 when Barnsdall went on the road to knock off Commerce 33-7.

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Kingfisher has played its share of top-notch football teams in 2019. From Bethany to Tuttle to Heritage Hall to Perkins-Tryon, the Jackets have met up with title contenders in multiple classes. It might very well have played the best of the bunch last Friday night.

If Forrest Gump were describing Cashion’s football team, he’d say the Wildcats were like a box of chocolates. You truly never know what you’re going to get. Well, except wins, that is.