Kingfisher Oklahoma

Dogs have always been my favorite people. I don’t like crowds and I’ve always had “hermit” tendencies, being quite happy alone with myself, my wife or my dog.

Kingfisher had one sizable disadvantage against Perkins-Tryon. Just that...size. The larger Lady Demons stymied the Kingfisher offense much of Thursday afternoon and eliminated the Lady Jackets 44-32 in their Class 4A area consolation quarterfinal at Enid High School.

From the start, it didn’t appear it would be Lomega’s day. And it wasn’t. The Raiders saw their season come to an end Wednesday as they fell prey to Cyril 74-56 in the Class B quarterfinals at State Fair Arena.

Missed chances meant missed shots. And that meant the end of the road for the Cashion Lady Wildcats. Minco used a big second half Thursday to surge past Cashion and take home a 46-37 victory from their Class 2A area consolation quarterfinal in Chickasha.

If it’s the state tournament and Lomega needs a big shot, Hensley Eaton has a knack for delivering. This time it wasn’t late in the game or down the stretch, rather less than halfway through the first quarter of the Lady Raiders’ Class B semifinal Thursday night against No. 3 Varnum.

Kevin Lewallen saw something in Darcy Roberts as a freshman last season when his Lomega Lady Raiders were making a march to a state championship. “She went out there and decided to become one of the best players in Class B,” Lewallen said a year ago.

Betty Ellen Brinkley Funderburg was born July 15, 1928, to Earl and Ada Wilson Brinkley in Wilburton and went home to be with her Heavenly Father on Feb. 28, 2021, with her best friend, her daughter, by her side.

Susan Gail Carlson, 52, passed away peacefully, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, at UT Southwestern in Dallas. She was born March 16, 1968, in Kingfisher to Mary Lou and Richard “Gene” Gaither. Susan was the proud and wonderful mother of two boys: Ryan and Devin Bilyeu, ages 30 and 26, respectively.

The cheerleading for “anti-Trump insurrectionist” attack dog Merrick Garland does not bode well. At his Senate confirmation hearing on Feb.

One of the best thought leaders on free speech was Frederick Douglass. While advocating for the freedom of all in the United States of America and advocating for the U.S. Constitution, he made two extremely relevant points: “To suppress free speech is a double wrong.