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Kingfisher snapped a five-game losing skid Thursday with a 10-0 victory at Okarche. The win pumped the Lady Jackets’ record to 10-9 as the regular season hits its final three-week stretch.

There may very well be times Crescent’s inexperienced football team struggles mightily this season. The season opener just wasn’t one of them. The Tigers got 2019 off to a solid start last Friday with a 37-14 victory at Woodland.

For the first time in the program’s history, the Kingfisher High School girls cross country team opened a season as a reigning state champion. That came last Saturday when the Lady Jackets finished fourth at the Watonga Cross Country Invitational.

Before the season started, the one thing Cashion head coach Lynn Shackelford said might set his team apart from others in 2019 is its depth. He’s already got one big example to fall back on. The only starting position Shackelford needed to fill from last year was at quarterback.

FRESHMAN YELLOWJACKETS - Members of the 2019 KHS freshman football team are, from left: front row, Jax Sternberg-er, Cade Cooper, Kyle Borelli, Aaron Delatorre, Luie Torres, Tristun Burnham, Harrison Evans, Jud Birdwell, Cesar Rodriguez and Kale Westfahl; middle row, Leyla Avila, Brett Schlabs,...

Dove hunting season will open Sunday, Sept. 1, across Oklahoma. The dove opener is always a highly anticipated opportunity for many hunters to get back into the field and harvest some game after the long, hot summer.

The final tune-up for the Kingfisher football team is in the books. The Jackets traveled to Clinton Thursday for a scrimmage against the Red Tornadoes and Alva. “We did some good things and still have some things to correct,” head coach Jeff Myers said of the outing.

Despite a pair of district losses last week, Kingfisher’s softball team remains in solid position to garner a playoff spot. The Lady Jackets dropped a 9-2 home bout with Cushing on Monday and then were shutout 8-0 by Newcastle on the road Thursday.

Things went mostly as expected when Kingfisher and Casady hooked up last Friday for the first football scrimmage of the year. “I’d say that’s about right,” head coach Jeff Myers said of the annual trip to Oklahoma City to take on the private-schooled Cyclones.