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For The Times & Free Press Work on the dome-shaped Eagle Event Center is “progressing and our end of November target may be more like an end of December opening,” said Hennessey School Superintendent Dr. Mike Woods.

Tuttle 41 Kingfisher 18 Tuttle 14 0 13 14 - 41 Kingfisher 0 12 6 0 - 18 Scoring summary: T - Triston Truelove 71 run (Bryce Legg kick) T - Ethan Paxton 4 pass from Cole Battles (Legg kick) K - Cade Stephenson 35 run (kick blocked) K - Keaton Abercrombie 9 pass from Stephenson (pass failed) T -...

As seventh graders, this year’s crop of eighth grade football players were defeated by Chisholm. Kingfisher returned the favor Monday night by knocking off the Longhorns 12-8 in the eighth grade junior high game at Chisholm.

Playoff chances for the Kingfisher High School softball team took a big hit last week. The Lady Jackets dropped three District 4A-1 contests, including a double-header sweep Tuesday at Blackwell. That was preceded by Monday’s loss at McLoud, which knocked off KHS to start the season.

Following are results from the 2019 Kingfisher Cross Country Invitational held here last Saturday. The results include team finishes as well as individual finishes for runners from county schools.

For more than half the game last Friday night, it appeared an upset was brewing between Crescent and Morrison. The Tigers - in their home opener - had Class A’s eighth-ranked Wildcats’ offense stymied and even held a 10-point lead.

Of all things working for or against Paul Hix and the Hennessey Eagles in their season opener at Perkins-Tryon last Friday, the one thing they could have used was just a little bit of luck. They got absolutely none of it.

A slow offensive start against a team that’s going to almost exclusively run the ball doesn’t lend itself to an explosive football game on the scoreboard.

Perhaps the fate of Kingfisher’s much-anticipated football season opener with Tuttle was sealed on the first snap of the respective teams’ offenses.

Kingfisher cross country coach Kerri Lafferty couldn’t help but be at least a little giddy on Saturday. In just one week, her cross country teams showed considerable improvement, most notably the reigning Class 4A state champion girls squad.