Sports

Ask Lynn Shackelford how he’s achieved 200 wins as a head football coach and he’ll rattle off a laundry list of reasons.Lynn Shackelford won’t be one of them.

Several weeks of planning and preparation and a week’s worth of activities culminate this Friday night at Kingfisher High School’s football homecoming.The Jackets will host Bridge Creek in the annual homecoming game.

As she grabbed a rare spare moment to catch her breath on the mat, Scout Snodgrass had one major observation.“Cheer is hard.

After an 11-game win streak, the Dover baseball team has lost two of its last three.The streak was snapped last Friday in the semifinals of the Mulhall-Orlando Tournament.Class A’s eighth-ranked Union City avenged an earlier loss to the Longhorns with a 4-3 victory.

Lawson Geheb pitched another shutout as Okarche got its first win over a ranked Class A softball opponent last Tuesday.Geheb allowed just one hit in an 8-0 home win over Union City, which was ranked 15th in the class.

Declan Matthews scored two touchdowns and the defense pitched a shutout Thursday as the Kingfisher seventh grade football team beat Clinton 14-0 at home.Matthews scored on a 1-yard run in the first half just after the Jackets blocked a punt.

Okarche had a season- high offensive output on Monday in winning its ninth straight game, but it likely wasn’t the Warriors’ most impressive performance of the week.Class A’s top-ranked team blanked visiting Hydro- Eakly 20-0 in just three innings to improve to 16-1 on the season.

Kennedy Stewart was excellent.Kaleigh Mills just happend to be a little better.A Kingfisher High School freshman, Stewart gave up just five hits and two runs over eight innings Thursday in a District 4A-3 game at Woodward.

High school girls3,200 mSouthwestCovenant 44 Bethany 84 Heritage Hall 101 Pauls Valley 107 Kingfisher 109 Casady 163 Washington 169 OCS 198 Woodward 202 ChristianHeritage 251 Cashion - Lyla Sloan34th, 14:07.6Kingfisher - Scout Snodgrass 8th, 13:09.9; Addison Price 13th, 13:19.

Southwest Covenant proved to be the best in the Bethany Bronchos Invitational cross country meet that featured some of the top girls teams on the west side of the state.