Sports

Lynn Shackelford had a fairly simple assessment of Rejoice Christian’s Chance Wilson.“If there’s a better quarterback in the state in any class, I’d like to see him,” said Cashion’s head coach.

Dover and Okarche will join forces this week to play host to the annual Dover Fall Baseball Festival.The festival will feature 16 games over three days beginning Thursday.All of Thursday’s and Saturday’s games will be played in Dover.Games on Friday will be hosted by the Longhorns and at Okarche.

We’ll have results and stories from Week 0 football games for Kingfisher, Cashion, Hennessey and Crescent. Plus, results from Kingfisher’s annual cross country meet for high school and junior high teams.

Kingfisher’s big homestand continued throughout the week as the Lady Jackets went 3-2, including splitting four district softball games.Two district wins were delivered on Monday as KHS run-ruled John Marshall by a pair of matching 12-0 scores.

It was a big-time debut in two respects.The Kingfisher High School girls cross country team opened its 2022 season Saturday by winning the team championship at the Weatherford Invitational meet at Rader Park.

Kingfisher won’t have to go far at all for its second cross country meet of the season.The Kingfisher Cross Country Invitational is this Saturday, Aug. 27.The meet will be contested at Briscoe Park and will feature four races:• High school boys at 8:30 a.m.• High school girls at approximately 9 a.m.

A pair of lopsided wins on Saturday helped ease the pain of a disappointing defeat on Friday for the Kingfisher High School softball team.

Weatherford High School Invitational Rader Park High school girls (2,400 m)Kingfisher 37 Guthrie 65 Woodward 92 Weatherford 104 Hennessey 136 Hammon 151 Mooreland 181 OKC Knights 182 Fairview 200 Apache 303Hennessey – Jocelyn Matousek 24th (19th), 10:26.02; Tayler Franklin 27th (22nd), 10:27.

Week 0 marks the beginning of football season in Oklahoma high school sports and all local schools are taking advantage of the early start.Kingfisher, Cashion, Crescent and Hennessey kick off their 2022 campaigns this Friday night. (Ed.

Kingfisher and Cashion were among the Oklahoma high school football teams that got their first live action of the season on Thursday.KHS traveled to Fairview for its first and only scrimmage of the season. The teams were joined by Watonga.