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Shawn Booth is apparently a prophet and the Crescent Tigers are district champs.Crescent trailed rival Cashion 14-7 at halftime on the road Thursday in this year’s version of the “War on 74.”Booth, Crescent’s onetime head coach who is now the defensive coordinator, had a message for the team.

Rylee Buck caught fire Tuesday night to help give her coach a win in his debut…against his alma mater. The Dover sophomore scored 26 points as the Lady Longhorns opened the season with a dominating 61-19 win at Cimarron.

The Cashion community came together not just for a rivalry football game Thursday night, but also to honor one of its own. The jersey of the late Brexten Green was retired during a ceremony at halftime of the Wildcats’ home game with Crescent.

For the second straight year, Kingfisher will travel to the Ardmore area for the first round of the Class 3A playoffs.Thursday night’s win at Anadarko gave KHS a third place finish in District 3A-1 behind champion Metro Christian and runner-up Perkins-Tryon.Anadarko is fourth.

Anadarko’s loss was truly Kingfisher’s gain.TheYellowjacketsturned two Anadarko third-quarter fumbles into 14 points Thursday night to help earn a 27-22 come-from-behind win.The victory wrapped up a 7-3 regular season for KHS and gave the Jackets third place in District 3A-1 with a 5-2 mark.

DOVER FFA traveled to Indianapolis, Ind., from Oct. 26-29 for the 95th National FFA Convention. Dover FFA members supported their neighboring school, Kingfi sher, by sitting in and watching their ag issues competition.

Hopes of a Hennessey district championship remained strong at halftime last Friday night. By the end of the third quarter, they were all but gone. Millwood rattled off 42 unanswered points in the second half - 30 of them in the third quarter - to knock off the upset-minded Eagles 58-22.

Kingfisher was unable to light up the scoreboard against North Rock Creek Friday night.That’s because there were no lights to be lit.A major power outage that turned the entire city dark just before kickoff forced the Yellowjackets to push their senior night game to Saturday afternoon.

For the first eight weeks of the season, it was the opposing teams making mistakes and Crescent taking advantage.The roles were reversed last Friday.Minco built an early 20-0 lead and Crescent never fully recovered in a 42-32 defeat at home.

Cashion’s season wasn’t on the line at Hinton, but its postseason hopes were.And when push came to shove in a physical battle with the Comets, Cashion proved its still got some shove left.The Wildcats locked up their spot in the playoffs Friday with a 19-4 road win.