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A long scoring drought nearly cost Kingfisher its sizable lead.But the Lady Jackets made the plays down the stretch to snap their twogame losing skid.Afterwatchinga23-point lead get knocked all the way down to seven, KHS pulled away from Cache late in Friday’s 46-33 road win.

Five Jackets walked off the medal stand with gold to lead Kingfisher to a third-place finish over the weekend.KHS scored 155.5 points to finish behind Watonga and Edmond Memorial in the revamped Kingfisher High School Invitational.

- Jan. 5-6 Pawhuska Tournament - Jan. 8 - Girls Conference Tournament - Jan. 9 - Dual at Casady - Jan. 11 - Three-way with Clinton/Marlow - Jan. 12-13 - Boys Conference Tournament

A couple weeks ago, the Kingfisher girls wrestling program got its first dual win.Now it owns a tournament championship as well.The Lady Jackets had three champions and several other medalists over the weekend to win the team title at the Kingfisher High School Invitational.

Steven Wilson wanted to try something new this season and wasn’t sure what to expect.Needless to say, the Kingfisher High School wrestling coach was happy with the results.The Jackets opted out of this year’s Perry Tournament of Champions and instead took part in the Newkirk Dual Tournament Dec.

Dover fans saw one big win and two big milestones all in one game.The Lady Longhorns dominated Class A’s topranked Garber 54-28 at home on Tuesday night.In the process, both Karlee and Katelyn Harviston surpassed the 1,000-point mark for their careers.

Marissa Sandlin didn’t score a point for fifthranked Tuttle in the first half.Her second-half performance lifted her team to a huge road win.Sandlin’s three-point play with 1:21 left in the game Tuesday proved to be the catalyst in a 40-37 victory at Kingfisher.

Dover almost overcame a huge early deficit and redhot shooting by Garber.Almost. The Wolverines snapped Dover’s five-game win streak by winning their own fifth straight game, 53-47.The road win pushed Garber to 5-1 while Dover dropped to 7-4.

Ben Marsh is officially red-hot.The Lomega junior scored 34 points Tuesday to lead the Raiders past visiting Kremlin-Hillsdale 75-41.The Broncs had no answer for Marsh, who scored at least seven points in every quarter.

Foul trouble and some ice-cold shooting caught up to the Okarche Warriors.They had their five-game winning streak snapped Saturday in a 62-55 defeat to host Leedey in the championship game of the South Canadian Classic.