Sports

A group of guys better known for their basketball skills are playing a variety of different sports this spring.Track wasn’t among them...until last Friday.“They came up and said they wanted to do some events, but really didn’t want to run,” said Kingfisher High School boys track coach Timmy Winans.

Lomega and Okarche are going to have the opportunity to show off their new-look ballparks this month.The OSSAA announced district assignments for Class A and B baseball and all of slowpitch softball last week.Those assignments revealed that Okarche and Lomega will serve as host sites.

Kingfisher was the only non-6A school in last Thursday’s Enid Invitational.Still, the Jackets managed a fourth-place finish in the team standings behind Norman North, Ponca City and Enid.

Brian Richardson faced rebuilding efforts at his two previous coaching stops.Make it three in a row. Richardson was approved Monday as the new girls basketball coach at Hennessey High School.The hire was made during the board of education’s regular April meeting (see related story).

Much like the regular- season championships, Okarche swept the Most Valuable Player honors for the Three Rivers Conference.Senior Emma Stover was named 2022-23 MVP for the girls and freshman Jett Mueggenborg for the boys after a recent vote of the conference’s coaches.

Lomega’s Darcy Roberts was recently named the Most Valuable Player of the Cherokee Strip Conference.Roberts averaged 17.1 points, 8.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists a game during her senior campaign.Lomega was 29-3 and finished as the Class B state runner-up.

Matt Peck of Dover was named co-coach of the year in the Skeltur Conference.Peck just wrapped up his first year as head coach of the Lady Longhorns.Dover went 23-7 and advanced to the Class B area consolation semifinals.The Lady Longhorns were runners-up to Garber in the conference tournament.

A blustery north wind didn’t stop Allie and Abbie Justiz.The Bishop McGuinness duo on Wednesday led their team to a dominant win at the Kingfisher Large School Girls Golf Invitational.Allie Justiz shot a 4-under- par 68 and her sister a 72 as the Irish shot a team score of 317.

Diego Muñoz provided a shutout in goal to bring the Kingfisher High School boys a second straight win.Muñoz had 10 saves last Thursday as the Jackets earned a 1-0 victory at Harding Charter in Oklahoma City.