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Gold medals from Kaden Willms and Channing Dunn helped the Kingfisher junior high wrestling team bring home some hardware.The Jackets were runners- up at last weekend’s Clinton Junior High Hub City Tournament.Willms won the 119-pound weight class while Dunn was the champ at 126.

Another big early lead vaulted Lomega to another Cherokee Strip Conference win.The Lady Raiders stayed unbeaten in their conference Tuesday with a 68-51 victory at Medford.

Okeene tried to rally late in the first half.Dover would have none of it in the third quarter.The Lady Longhorns won for the eighth time in nine games Tuesday as they downed visiting Okeene 53-32.

Two days.Two tournaments.Two cities.Two championships.That’s what the Kingfisher junior high girls wrestling team accomplished last weekend as they brought home team titles from both the Clinton Middle School/Junior High Hub City Tournament and the Yukon Ladies Invitational.

New coach.Same result. The Okarche Lady Warriors have had different head coaches in each of the last three years they’ve participated in the Coyle Invitational.But each year, they’ve still come home with the championship trophy.

It’s safe to say Lomega all but owns the Cherokee Strip Conference Tournament championship.The Lady Raiders made it 10 in a row Saturday night when they downed Class B’s 17th-ranked Medford 62-44 in the championship game at Pioneer-Pleasant Vale High School.

Camdyn Richardson continued his torrid pace and it helped bring Hennessey another Yale Tournament championship.The Hennessey senior followed up Thursday’s school-record 56-point performance with 37 in the semifinals and then another 21 in the championship.

They found a way.Taylor Young knows that’s all that matters.Kingfisher won the girls championship of the Buckle of the Wheatbelt Invitational on Saturday by escaping Weatherford with a 46-45 victory in the championship game.

Cashion needed this one…in more ways than one.The Lady Wildcats got their biggest win of the season Saturday as they upset 2A’s eighth-ranked Riverside 50-45 to win their own Cashion County Line Tournament.It was Cashion’s first time to win its own tournament since 2018.

Kingfisher’s quest to return to the top of the Buckle of the Wheatbelt Invitational was derailed by a bunch of Boomers.The kind from Woodward.The Boomers continued their upward trend Saturday by knocking off the Jackets 65-56 in the championship game of the tournament.