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4 Kingfisher County players ‘make them quit,’ help lead team to softball national titleThey made them quit.A group of softball players from rural towns in northwest Oklahoma traveled to Music City USA recently and pulled off the improbable.They won a national title.

Oklahoma State University had 13 student-athletes named to the 2024 Academic All-Big 12 Baseball Team, including 11 on the first team.Among them was Ian Daugherty of Kingfisher, who earned the honor for the second time in his OSU career.

The Wake and Rake (WAR) 12-and-under baseball team just capped off its season by winning the United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA) DFW World Series in Dallas, Texas.The team from northwestern Oklahoma is coached by Gregg Ward of Edmond and Ted Briscoe of Elk City.

High school basketball fans in Oklahoma are in for a special treat - at least for one year.The OSSAA announced last week that every classifi cation - from B all the way up to 6A - will play the 2024-25 state tournament at State Fair Arena, also known at “The Big House.

The world’s most popular sport just got a boost in Kingfisher.Board of education members voted unanimously Monday to add junior high soccer to the roster of sports in 2024-25.

Dallas Hunt has kept his eye on Hennessey’s basketball success for several years.Now he gets the opportunity to build on it.Hennessey Board of Education members voted Tuesday in a special meeting to hire Hunt as the next high school boys basketball coach.

Josh Nolte, a 2022 graduate of Okarche High School, recently signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball next season at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Mo. Nolte recently completed his second year at Dodge City (Kan.

Sometimes plans change and that was the case for the Okarche girls basketball coaching search.It also left Josh Sumrall happy with the end result.The Okarche Board of Education during a special Wednesday meeting approved the hiring of Brett Tahah as the next coach of the basketball program.

Will Kroener (left photo) was fourth place in the junior male division while Tenley Ludwig (pictured left in the photo on the right) was the junior female state champion and teammate Carley Rother took third place.