Kingston New Year’s Classic approaching Girls

The New Year’s Classic is the annual tournament that Kingston hosts, and it is fast approaching. Coach Chad Rumer and the Lady Redskins missed a chance earlier this season to get a shot at the Lady Pirates of Dale at the Boomerang tournament –Dale’sowntournament.The Kingston should have won the semi-final game against Elgin, which would have pitted them against Dale. Even though they didn’t win the tournament, the Lady Redskins defeated Millwood in the consolation game.

Here’s a breakdown of the upcoming tournament. The Lady Pirates will come in as the #1 seed. They are currently are 10-1 and # 1 (2A). he other ranked teams in the tourney are, Silo # 7 (3A), the Lady Redskins # 9 (3A), Marlow, #12 (3A) and Latta is # 11 (2A). The rest of the bracket is made up by Broken Bow (4A), Atoka (3A) and Talahina (2A).

The first-round games, barring upsets, will lead up to very competitive semi final games on Friday night. The likely teams could be Dale vs Latta and Kingston vs Silo.

Silo will get things started with an 11:00 a.m. game on Thursday with Talahina. Dale will take on Atoka in the1:40p.m.game.Lattaand Marlow will be at 4:20 p.m. The Lady Redskins will play the 7:00 p.m. game against Broken Bow.

This year, the tournament will be missing two great Redskins and Lady Redskin fans and supporters, Wayne “Coach”WestandGlen“Frog” Henry who have both passed in the last two weeks.

Kamry Bohanon dribbles down court during the Kingston v Madill game.

Crockett Uber