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Kingfisher didn’t have an individual champ, but landed two in the finals at last weekend’s Kingfisher High School Invitational wrestling tournament. Dawson Garvin wasDawson Garvin was runner-up at 120 pounds and Rylee Toepfer repeated the effort at 126 pounds.

It doesn’t get much more brown than Elk City’s Pioneer Center.The court. The chairs. The walls. The ceiling.It’s all brown and brings with it a certain level of dreariness when one walks into the otherwise beautiful facility.But then Allison Green lit the place up.

Both of Hennessey’s basketball teams will be entering the break on a positive note.The HHS girls downed Harding Fine Arts 69-19 Tuesday at the Eagle Event Center and the boys followed suit with their own 75-33 victory.For coach Courtney Markes’ team, it was a second win in three games.

Cashion secured most of the top honors when District A-3 football honors were announced last week.Ben Harman was named the district’s most valuable player.Offensive MVP went to Landon LaGasse and Nick Nabavi was the defensive MVP.

The Kingfisher girls contest at Newcastle was the exact opposite of the boys in regards to the amount of drama it provided.Kingfisher showed no signs of a letdown after the previous weekend’s tournament win by blowing out Newcastle 79-26 on the road.

Jadyn Rother helped keep Okarche in the game.Emma Stover made sure the Lady Warriors took it over.Okarche improved to 2-0 in Three Rivers Conference games Tuesday with a 65-51 win at Oklahoma Bible Academy in Enid.

Landon LaGasse won a football state championship on Saturday, then dropped a double-double on Thomas three days later.The Cashion Wildcats made their long-anticipated debut Tuesday as they dealt Thomas a 79-31 defeat on its own court.

Kingfisher’s expectation of winning played out in dramatic fashion on the basketball court.Cash Slezickey and Xavier Ridenour hit crucial shots in the game’s final 90 seconds and the team delivered multiple late defensive stops last Tuesday to lift KHS to a 42-41 victory at No. 9 Newcastle.

They didn’t wrestle like girls last Friday.They were girls.Kingfisher took part of an historic event last week as it fielded an all-female team at the “Wrestle Like a Girl” Cache Invitational.KHS had two wrestlers in high school brackets and seven more took part in the junior high field.

The 2021 holiday antlerless deer gun season will open in specific zones on Dec. 18 and run through Dec. 31.And the Wildlife Department is reminding everyone that “Hunters in the Know … Take a Doe!