Kingfisher Oklahoma

Gone is the chance for a perfect season and that long win streak. But the chance for a repeat? That still remains. The Kingfisher Yellowjackets made their way into their fourth straight Class 4A state basketball tournament as expected last weekend. How they got there was the unexpected part.

A look up and down the stat sheet proved there wasn’t a lot that separated Okarche and No. 1 Hydro-Eakly in their Class A girls basketball semifinal.

Two Kingfisher County basketball teams still have at least one game remaining this season. The Cashion and Kingfisherboys’ teams will begin their quests for a gold ball when the state tournament for Classes 2A, 3A and 4A tips off Thursday at various sites around Oklahoma City.

In each of the three games against Weatherford this season, the Kingfisher girls basketball team was “right there” with Class 4A’s fourth-ranked team. There was a stretch in each of those previous three losses where struggles in one aspect or another ultimately cost KHS the game.

Caddo got two of the biggest plays of the game and that was enough to undo Cashion’s season.

Funeral mass for Julia Suzanne “Julie” Kraus was Tuesday, March 10, at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Kingfisher with Father Francis Nguyen and Father Aaron Foshee officiating. Interment followed at the Kingfisher Cemetery Julie was born Aug.

Leta Mae (Buckner) Stitt was born Sept. 3, 1926, to John and Francis (Hawkins) Buckner in Dover. She passed away Saturday, March 7, in her home west of Dover at the age of 93. Leta Mae was the oldest of 10 siblings. She grew up in Dover and graduated from Dover School in 1945.

Memorial service for Leslie Ann Murray Wall, 69, Dover, will be 1 p.m. Saturday, March 21, at Dover Christian Church officiated by Jimmy Berkenbile. Cremation arrangements are by Cordry-Gritz Funeral Home, Hennessey. Leslie was born in Grand Rapids, Mich.

The Cashion High School chess team won the Oklahoma Scholastic Chess Organization’s state championship held March 7 at Carl Albert High School. Pictured are, from left, Connor McCabe, sponsor Vernon Richards, Jayden Collier, Guiliani Martinez, Abe Ross and Jahmad James.

The following traffic accidents are being investigated by the Kingfisher Police Department: February 21, 8:10 p.m. - At 201 S. Main St. Bennie Ridenour, 21, Kingfisher, driving a 2010 Chevrolet, was backing out of a parking space at Love’s Country Store.