February 2022

Two-platooning both its guard and post players, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team battled a pair of top 10 teams within a 24-hour period and walked away with impressive wins.

El Reno, ranked second in the state in the West bracket, defeated fourth-ranked Lawton MacArthur 43-33 and then backed it up with a 65-47 decision over ninth-ranked Guthrie. The wins swept the season series with both schools.

The Guthrie victory left El Reno with a 16-3 overall record and a 6-1 mark in the Suburban Conference standings going into the showdown with top-ranked Carl Albert.

El Reno High School students, from left, Kolt LaFoe (headband), Carlie Golden and Brady Hardaway react to an official’s call that favored one of the EHS basketball teams during their Suburban Conference games with Guthrie. The trio were acting behind a makeshift ESPN set as a prop in front of the student section at Jenks Simmons Field House.

The student section has had several dress-up themes over the course of the basketball season for home games and sports a following of more than 100 students at those contests.

Roblyer Rocks, front row from left, Mason Jordan and Demarco Guzman; back row, Jillian Crawford, Lillie Arrasmith, Remy Whitney, Cooper Coble, Gabe Flores and Camryn Headley.

Freshman Carter Roman Nose knocked down a handful of 3-pointers in the first half as El Reno High School’s boys basketball team put up 46 points before intermission and cruised to a 74-53 win over eighth-ranked Guthrie.

El Reno, ranked seventh on the West side of the state, improved to 10-9 on the season and swept the Suburban Conference series over the Bluejays. The Indians are now 5-2 in the league standings.

The win over Guthrie came on the heels of a 74-73 loss to fifth-ranked Lawton MacArthur as the Highlanders got an Arzhonte Dallas basket with 2.2 seconds left.

The Okarche High School Speech Team took part in two competitions during January, qualifying 18 events for regionals and garnering two school awards.

Eight OHS students competed in Comanche High School’s invitational tournament and brought home the sweepstakes trophy in Class 3A.

El Reno High School senior Caleb Hulbutta, left, and Mikey Devereaux, center, signed national letters of intent.

Hulbutta inked with Emporia State University and Devereaux with Northeastern Oklahoma A&M.

Pictured with the duo is classmate Xzavier Devereaux.

Calumet January Students of the Month, from left, Colton Vaught, Jocelyn Ewton, Brianna Myers and Aiden White.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho have successfully added close to seven acres to the tribes trust portfolio after the Department of the Interior approved adding the former Rodeo Joe’s to the list.

The 6.812 acres is west of El Reno and just south of I-40 and south of Geary.

The property was once a dance hall.

County road crews were working overtime last week when the area was hit by some 7 inches of snow. Here, a county grader plows through snow on Reno, looking west from Choctaw.

Darlington School’s boys basketball team won the Organization of Rural Elementary Schools (ORES) West Area 3 Championship with a 50-27 victory over Oak Grove.

The Chiefs advance to the ORES state tournament on Thursday in Earlsboro. It’s the ninth straight trip to state for Darlington.