Kyle Yowell’s complete game gem helped deliver another state tournament appearance for the Cashion baseball program.

The senior right-hander allowed just five hits and struck out 10 Friday as Cashion downed Coalgate 5-0 in a Class 2A-I regional championship game at home.

The win sent Cashion to this week’s state tournament for the sixth straight season.

The defending state champion Wildcats begin their quest for a repeat at 4 p.m. Thursday against No. 6 Oktaha in the state quarterfinals at Shawnee.

Oktaha and Cashion have played in the last two championship games with the Tigers winning in 2024 before Cashion got its first ever title last year.

Yowell and Coalgate’s Jett Walkup were in a pitcher’s duel for three innings as neither hurler was willing to give up a run.

Yowell kept it up. The Wildcats got to Walkup in the fourth.

Ryder Lykins led off with a double and scored two batters later on Crew Atkinson’s RBI fielder’s choice.

Kellen Smith later drove in two runs with a single of his own.

That was more than enough for Yowell, who didn’t walk a batter, but Cashion gave him two extra runs of support in the fifth.

Rival Fields had an RBI sacrifice fly and Garet McKeever an RBI groundout to push the advantage to 5-0.

Prior to that, Yowell was able to escape a bit of trouble as Coalgate got two on base with a double and an error.

He got out of the inning by coaxing a groundout and strikeout.

Yowell then allowed just one base runner over the final two frames and struck out four during that stretch.

Third-ranked Cashion opened the regional Thursday with a 19-1 win over Watonga and then kept itself in the driver’s seat by thumping Coalgate 18-3 in the semifinal.

The Wildcats had 17 hits against Watonga, including a three-run homer by Fields in the third and a two-run shot by Lykins in the fifth.

Lykins collected 7 RBIs in the semifinal win against Coalgate.

That included a threerun double to get the scoring started in the first inning and a two-run single in the fourth.

He was 3 for 4 in the game as Cashion had 13 hits as a team. Ryker Johnson also had three hits and scored three times.

Smith, Fields and Brian Nabavi each collected two hits. Nabavi scored four runs.

Cashion enters the state tournament with a 24-7 record.