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Displaying the teamwork which carried the program to its first-ever state title, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team doubled up its opponents on the scoreboard to defend its title at the Harrah Panthers Classic.

El Reno defeated rival Shawnee 45-34 in the championship game to move to 4-0 on the season.

The Indians reached the title game with victories over Star Spencer (64-14) and Bishop McGuinness (72-34).

Jennifer Douglas’ team has now won 32 straight games dating back to last season, with 27 of those falling in the regular season.

El Reno High School’s boys basketball team, an annual fixture in the Harrah Panthers Classic since 2015, has added another piece of golden hardware to its trophy case from the early-season tourney.

The Indians defeated Class 4A’s fifth-ranked Bishop McGuinness 70-44 in the title game to win their second straight HPC championship. Coupled with wins over Star Spencer (93-46) and John Marshall (75-68), El Reno moved to 4-0 on the season.

A string of seven straight victories, five by falls, through the middle weights allowed El Reno High School’s wrestling team to rally past Midwest City for its first dual win of the 2024-25 season.

El Reno, ranked 14th in the Class 5A Dual Rankings, improved to 1-1 with a 46-29 tally over the Bombers. It was the Indians third straight win over Midwest City.

The win got off to a fast start as Mason Hoffman (106) posted a 12-1 major decision over J.J. Reeves.

Midwest City rallied for an 18-4 lead behind two El Reno forfeits and a loss by EHS’ Hollis Gore (120) by fall.

For the second time in three days, P.J. Hall won a duel for El Reno High School’s girls wrestling team without ever breaking a sweat on the mat.

The senior (235) picked up a forfeit win to secure a 38-30 victory over Perry as the 10th-ranked Indians (6A) moved to 2-0 on the season.

Perry, ranked 11th in Class 5A, trailed the entire match but closed the gap to 32-30 with Avery Tetik’s 4:47 fall over El Reno's Emma Resendiz (190) in the next to last weight class.

El Reno could be expanding.

The city council voted to begin proceedings that would expand the city limits to the south and east. City Manager Matt Sandidge said the move is a “proactive” effort to help control development as Oklahoma City moves to the west. He said the city has also been approached by developers who have an interest in some of the area. 

The 5-0 vote was cast at Tuesday’s December council meeting.

STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

Some young students at Roblyer Middle School may have added another letter to the acronym. In their world, STEM is more like STEEM … which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Empathy and Math.

That’s how a presentation they made last week to a professional landscape architect, a city planner and a city manager came off.

Students and staff from El Reno High School came up with a variety of items as presents for the 2024 Gifts for the Yanks program, which has run for 79 straight years at EHS.

The presents were wrapped and delivered to the VA Hospital in Oklahoma City.

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation has named T.J. Dill as chief engineer and Steven Gauthe as state maintenance engineer.

El Reno’s Dill will serve alongside Brian Taylor, the current ODOT chief engineer in a co-capacity until Taylor’s retirement this coming summer.

In this senior position, he will oversee all statewide engineering and operations activities.

An El Reno High School graduate, Dill earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Oklahoma State University in 2011.