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Calumet sweeps county battles with win over Okarche; Tigers prowling

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Pushed by a 16-12 run in the fourth quarter, Calumet High School’s boys basketball team is king of the hill among Canadian County’s small schools following a 55-51 win over Class A’s fourth-ranked Okarche.

Calumet, the top-ranked team in Class B, improved to 24-0 on the year and extended its regular-season win streak to 44 games dating back to last season.

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Three-game win streak snapped by region leader

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Redlands Community College women’s basketball team had its three-game win streak snapped last week with a 65-40 road loss to region front-runner Connors State College.

The 25-point loss dropped Redlands to 14-5 overall and back into a tie for second place in the NJCAA Region 2 standings with a 4-2 mark – even with Northeastern Oklahoma A&M.

The Cougars entered the game with the Cowboys after beating Murray State College (68-65) to extend their win streak to three games.

Cougars upended with league slide

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Back-to-back losses have slipped Redlands Community College men’s basketball team two spots down in the latest NJCAA Region 2 standings.

The Cougars dropped a home game to Murray State College (94-83) before taking to the road for a 105-63 blowout loss to Connors State College, leaving RCC with a 10-10 overall record.

Redlands is now seventh in the regional standings with a 2-4 record.

Deazhon Perkins scored 33 points against Murray State and led all Redlands scoring for the two-game set with 60 points. He added five rebounds and a steal.

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Rebounding award

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El Reno High School girls basketball coach Jennifer Douglas presented senior Pauline Black-Harmon with a plaque last week honoring her accomplishment as EHS’ all-time leading rebounder.

She broke the record set in 1996 by LeAnn Bezner.

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El Reno becomes only unbeaten 5A team with victory

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Shaking off a series of first-half turnovers, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team led Altus wire to wire last week to remain unbeaten on the season.

The Indians moved to 17-0 overall with a 66-39 decision over the Bulldogs and now are the only unbeaten team in Class 5A. It was the Indians 17th straight double-digit win.

El Reno moved to 8-0 in the District 5A-1 standings and remains a game ahead of Shawnee (7-1), which the Indians were slated to host Monday in a makeup game.

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El Reno muzzles Bulldogs in 5A-1 home sweep

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El Reno High School guard Carter Roman Nose went into last week’s game against Altus needing 29 points, more than he had scored in any game this season, to reach the 1,000-point career scoring mark.

He needed less than two quarters to reach that mark.

Surpassing his previous season best single game mark by five, Roman Nose scored 31 points in the first half as the Indians jumped back into the win column with a 78-23 victory over the Bulldogs.

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Carl Albert rallies past EHS for dual state ticket

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MIDWEST CITY – After two date and time shuffles as well as three teams dropping out, the District 5A-3 championship came down to a decades-old rivalry between state powers. Carl Albert, ranked ninth in the state, won the final four weights to rally past 11th-ranked El Reno for a 37-27 victory. The 10-point win sends the Titans to the Class 5A Dual State Championships Feb. 10 in Enid.

The district duals were moved twice from the original Jan. 16 date and were whittled from five teams to two after Woodward, John Marshall and Bishop McGuinness backed out.

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Bad call?

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El Reno High School student King Samad shows his dislike for a call during a recent EHS home basketball game.

The Indians were slated to host Altus Friday night inside Jenks Simmons Field House.

El Reno will have two more home contests to follow against Elgin (Feb. 2) and Shawnee (Feb. 13) before the end of the regular season.

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Nicholson joins elite El Reno field with All-State nod

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For just the second time in the past 24 years, El Reno High School has elevated a player to the Oklahoma Coaches Association’s All-State Football Game in back-to-back seasons.

Senior Malachi Nicholson was named to the Large West offense last week after his record-breaking season.

The running back becomes the school’s 47th All-State selection since 1942 and follows in the footsteps of last year’s selections Ryan Sigler and Evan Roman Nose.

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ER girls remain undefeated with close 53-43 win

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In one of its longest-running rivalries, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team capped off a four-game road stretch with a 53-43 win over Carl Albert in its return to District 5A-1 play.

The 10-point decision was the closet margin of victory this season for El Reno, which improved to 16-0. All wins have been by double digits including a 13-point victory in the first league meeting with the Titans.