Sports

While most teams get a holiday break, that’s not fully the case for three basketball squads in Kingfisher County.The Kingfisher and Lomega girls and the Okarche boys will take part in tournaments next week.The two girls teams will play in Ada at the Bertha Frank Teague Mid-America Classic.

A final tune-up before the holiday break saw Lomega bring home a 97--31 win from Cherokee last Friday.However, the Lady Raiders won’t have to wait as long as most teams before playing again.

Dover boys basketball will spend Christmas with an undefeated record.The Longhorns assured that fact last Thursday with a 77-36 victory over Hillsdale Christian School in Hillsdale.Already up by eight points after a quarter, the Longhorns exploded for a 33-4 run in the second.

Without knowing the score, John Hardaway would have had a fairly decent idea of how his Cashion team fared against Washington by looking at another stat.Rebounds. “They’re always a really physical team that can kill us on the boards,” said Hardaway.

Okarche didn’t lead for long.But the Lady Warriors did lead when it mattered most.Logan White’s bucket with 5 seconds left on Friday lifted Okarche to a 35-33 victory over visiting Seiling, one that seemed improbable most of the night.

When Okarche lost backto- back games in late January and early February 2024, coach Aaron West had a message for the local sports reporter.“We will get it fixed,” he wrote in a text, almost apologizing for the losses.Whatever was broken did in fact get fixed…and there hasn’t been a breakdown since.

Three Yellowjackets reached the finals and one secured gold over the weekend at the Kingfisher High School Invitational wrestling tournament.That showing was pivotal in the Jackets earning runner-up honors in the team standings.KHS scored 261.5 points, falling just shy of champion Hobart’s 265.5.

Erika Price’s gold medal led Kingfisher to a fourthplace finish last weekend in the Kingfisher High School Invitational wrestling tournament.Price won the bracket that spanned three weight classes – 105, 110 and 115 pounds.

Lomega started the game on fire Tuesday and rode it to a 75-38 home win over Kremlin-Hillsdale.The Raiders hit five of their 10 3-pointers in the first quarter.That helped get them to a 13-point lead they never lost.

Oklahoma State University softball coach Kenny Gajewski was the guest speaker at Tuesday’s meeting of the Kingfi sher Rotary Club. Among those in the audience were some future Kingfi sher High School softball players (and who knows...maybe future Cowgirls).