Kingfisher Oklahoma

There have been a few changes in the roster the last five years, but one thing has remained constant: Lomega wins the Cherokee Strip Conference Tournament.

Win it if you can, but if you can’t, win two. The sentence might be confusing upon its first read, but that was the message John Hardaway gave his Cashion Wildcats last week. His team was undefeated, ranked seventh in Class 2A…and was the FIFTH SEED in the Cashion County Line Tournament.

Three tournaments. Three championships. That’s the story this year for the Okarche Lady Warriors as they claimed yet another title last weekend…and yet another one at Coyle. Okarche rode a hot start Saturday to defeat Crescent 42-30 in Saturday’s championship of the Coyle Invitational.

In a bit of deja vu, Weatherford won its third straight girls Buckle of the Wheatbelt tournament championship. For the second straight year, the Lady Eagles defeated KHS in the finals. This time around the final margin was 49- 35 as Class 4A’s fourth-ranked Lady Eagles improved to 15-0.

Less than 24 hours after helping lead his team to another tournament championship, Bijan Cortes announced a big decision about his future. The Kingfisher High School junior made it public early Sunday evening that he had committed to play basketball for the University of Oklahoma.

Three Kingfisher County football players have earned one of the top honors for prep players in the state. Cashion’s Ryan Baker and Kingfisher’s Wes Hine and Riley Myers were selected to the Oklahoma Coaches Association All-State team, it was announced Monday.

Dover salvaged a seventh-place finish in the Skeltur Conference Tournament. The Longhorns got 31 points from Joriaun Caldwell as they defeated Cimarron 54-48 at the Stride Center in Enid.

Just when you thought it was safe to resume normal driving speeds in and around Kingfisher, a new highway construction project is slated to begin Feb. 10. Oklahoma Department of Transportation spokesperson Lisa Salim confi rmed Friday that a $1.

The Rev. Marvin Lev-en, longtime former pastor at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, is one of the priests named for alleged sexual abuse allegations in an ongoing investigation by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley said last week.

Two former Kingfisher County Sheriff’s Offi ce employees filed a wrongful termination lawsuit Jan. 16 against Sheriff Dennis Banther and the county, alleging they were fi red last year in retaliation for their association with a possible political rival.