January 2024

Helen Virginia (Green) Jones of El Reno passed from this life on Jan. 13, 2024. Helen was born Aug. 13, 1934, to C.G. and Lula Bernard (Tarpley) Green. She was one of four children. Helen met the love of her life, James A. Jones, when she was 14 and he was 15.

While the count toward becoming the school’s all-time leading rebounder has dwindled below 20, El Reno High School post player Pauline Black-Harmon showed last week not to overlook her scoring prowess.

Jaylen Harper hit a 3-pointer with 3.2 seconds left as Guthrie remains tied for the lead in the District 5A-1 standings with a 66-63 win over El Reno High School’s boys basketball team. The loss snapped a five-game win streak for the Indians, who fell to 9-3 overall.

Fueled by seven placers, El Reno High School’s wrestling team took sixth place out of 21 squads at the 58th Annual Malcolm Wade Invitational. El Reno scored 141 points but was edged out of the top five by Chickasha by two points.

It was a near clean sweep for El Reno High School’s girls wrestling team last week at the 58th Annual Malcolm Wade Invitational as four of its first entries captured gold. All five wrestlers placed, with Nylley Miller (105) taking fourth after a loss in the third-place match.

Before Mother Nature played havoc with sports schedules across Oklahoma, two area basketball teams garnered mixed results over a four-game span. Okarche High School’s girls basketball team split a pair of games to move to 8-7 on the season.

After getting a 12-point wake up-call victory over Arapaho-Butler three days earlier, Calumet High School’s boys basketball team kicked off the famed West Central Tournament with a lopsided 102-30 blowout of Corn Bible Academy.

Redlands Community College women’s basketball team finds itself tied for fourth place in the NJCAA Region 2 standings after splitting the first two games of league action.

Ijai Johnson led a quintet of players in double digits as Redlands Community College men’s basketball team picked up its first NJCAA Region 2 win of the season with a 96-93 decision over Eastern Oklahoma State College.

The city of El Reno threw support to a plan proposed by the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes to build Fitness Courts, possibly in several areas of the community. The plan is aimed at creating spaces for people to gather for outdoor fitness activities.