Sports

Just a few short months ago, Bijan Cortes and Trey Alexander were on opposing teams at State Fair Arena while battling it out for Class 4A boys basketball supremacy.

A number of current and future golfers were a part of the first of two golf camps held this summer at Kingfisher Golf Course.

PREP HOOPS FINAL FOUR – The Oklahoma Eagles reached the final four last week at the 32-team Prep Hoops regional championships held at The Rock in Edmond.

Kingfisher Little League has a second team headed to an OK Kids state tournament this summer. The Kingfisher Blue Sox won their coach pitch regional last weekend in Woodward to advance to this week’s state tournament in Clinton.

Cashion High School cheerleaders recently attended Jeff and Craig Cheer Camp held June 7-9 in Norman. The group received multiple awards, including as Dynamite Sticks, Champions Cup, Top Team Motions and performance awards.

One of Kingfisher’s former All-State baseball players has at least two more years to go in his career. Matt Hopkins recently signed to play baseball at Emporia State University in Kansas. He recently completed a two-year stint at Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kan.

The Fourth of July is for fireworks. The fifth is for t-ball... at least for the Kingfisher Smash. The collection of Kingfisher youth punched their ticket to the OK Kids state t-ball tournament with last Saturday’s regional championship.

A former Oklahoma State quarterback and professional baseball player is now working in Kingfisher as a State Farm agent. Josh Fields spoke to the Kingfisher Lions Club last Thursday after recently becoming a part of the Kingfisher community. Fields works with his wife and they have three children.

Oddly enough, a hole in which he double bogeyed might have been just the one that won Kingfisher’s Heath Myers the Oklahoma Golf Association Stroke Play Championship last week.

Parents, if you’re skeptical about your high school athlete saying they don’t have any kind of morning workouts or summer league next week…don’t be. They’re not just trying to sleep in; they’re telling you the truth.