Kingfisher Oklahoma

There will be no formal services for Lester Albert Evans, 96. Cremation arrangements are by Cordry-Gritz Funeral Home. Lester Albert Evans, 96, Hennessey, died Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, at Hennessey Care Center. He was born in Chickasha on Sept. 29, 1923, to Albert and Mary Capitola Barny Evans.

C. Francis “Buddy” Voskuhl, 90, Hennessey, passed away in his home Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Funeral Mass will be noon Saturday, Sept. 19, at Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church in Hennessey. Rosary will be on 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, also at St. Joseph’s. There will be no visitation.

Maddi Kamas caught fire down the stretch to turn the Battle for Broken Arrow into a battle for second place. The Kingfisher High School senior birdied three of her final four holes at The Club at Indian Springs Sunday to win the Oklahoma Junior Golf Tour Event.

Kingfisher’s softball team went toe-to-toe with one of the state’s best Monday before coming up just short. Newcastle plated a pair of unearned runs in the fourth inning to earn a 2-0 victory over the visiting Lady Jackets in a District 4A-1 contest.

Life continues to be good in Cashion. The Wildcats dominated fellow Class A top-10 foe Minco 47-0 on the road last Friday night to earn its third blowout victory of the season. Along the way, quarterback Ben Harman threw for 347 yards and two touchdowns.

Gutsy or dumb. The distinction is often a fine line for coaches and while the truth lies closer to the former, the outside opinion is sometimes shaped by a single play. Turns out Crescent’s J.L. Fisher is gutsy this week.

Weather put an end to the Highway 81 Classic softball tournament Kingfisher was to take part in last weekend. But it didn’t completely keep KHS off the diamond. The Lady Jackets squeezed in wins over Tonkawa and Laverne at Chisholm ahead of a busy week.

Kingfisher’s seventh grade football team grabbed its first win of the season last Thursday. The Jackets pitched a shutout on the road to beat Perry 20-0. The Jhett Birdwell to Jackson Willbanks connection proved to be a valuable one for the Jackets.

The Kingfisher coaching staff had a lot more of them at their disposal than Chisholm last Friday night. The result was a 45-8 home victory for the Jackets in their final non-district game.

To watch children’s faces light up when they discover a book that truly excites them is one of the perks of Audry Sanders’ job as a children’s librarian.