Okarche sweeps PC-H

After suffering three straight losses, the Okarche boys basketball team can go into the Christmas holiday on a positive note.

Despite struggling from long range and at the free throw line, the Warriors overcamePondCreek-Hunter for a 60-51 home victory last Friday night.

Four Okarche players scored in double fi gures as they shrugged off the losing skid and improved to 7-5.

Logan Kroener led the way with 18 points.

Meanwhile, Kaleb Harris, Joseph Schaefer and freshman P.K. Harris scored 11 points apiece.

Kaleb Harris chipped in a team-high six assists.

All that despite the team shooting just 7 percent (1 of 15) from 3-point range.

Okarche did its damage with defense and the fruits of that labor.

The Warriors forced 32 turnovers and scored 33 points off of them.

Kroener led the Warriors with 10 steals. Harris added another four.

That defense also limited the visitors to 39 percent shooting (16 of 41).

Pond Creek still led 12-10 after a quarter, but Okarche won each of the next three periods.

The Warriors led by three at halftime and then seven after three quarters.

Although Okarche had its issues at the foul line, the Warriors still made enough (19 of 34 for 56 percent) to keep a safe distance in the fourth.

Kaleb Harris made all six of his attempts.

The Panthers were led by Corbin Burnham’s 24 points.

Despite Christmas being less than a week away, the Okarche girls’ defense wasn’t in a giving mood last Friday night.

The Lady Warriors won their ninth straight game with an easy 54-20 home win against Pond Creek-Hunter.

The guests shot just 24 percent and turned the ball over 32 times against Okarche, which improved to 11-1 going into the holiday break.

Okarche didn’t allow a point in the first quarter and just two points the entire fi rst half.

That allowed the Lady Warriors to build up a 28-point halftime lead.

Okarche’s contributions were not only more frequent on the offensive end, but also spread out.

No Lady Warrior reached double figures, but 10 of them scored.

Sage Griswold led the way with nine points. All but two came in the early fi rst-half surge.

Madison Owens scored eight points while Rachel McDowell and Emma Stover scored seven points apiece.

Pond Creek-Hunter, which was just 1 of 10 from the field in the fi rst half, finished 7 of 29 overall (24.1 percent).

The Okarche teams return to action Tuesday, Jan. 7, when they host Cordell.