VELMA – Jackson Lohrer scored a game-high 19 points to lead three Velma-Alma players in double-figures, and the seventh-ranked Comets beat Healdton, 79-40, Saturday to claim their ninth-consecutive district championship.
The Comets’ 19th win of the season earned them the Class A-Area 3 District 7 Championship and moved them into the winner’s bracket of regional. Velma-Alma has won district titles in 28 of the last 29 seasons. Only in 2017 did the Comets not win a district championship during head coach Kenny Bare’s tenure.
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