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Rummaging over what went wrong in a 31-point shutout loss to Weatherford was not what head coach Russell Cook wanted for his El Reno High School football team going into its bye week.

Yet instead of dwelling on the negatives, Cook says his players have gone back to the basics and responded well during open week.

“We were dealing with a few injuries and the bye week allowed us to get healthy. I think the kids have responded well and we had a good week of practice.

“We went into the week focusing on us and correcting the things we needed to do to get better,” said Cook.

Despite being handed its first shutout loss in district play, El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team remains in the hunt for one of the two hosting rights for the upcoming regional playoffs.

El Reno suffered a 10-0 shutout to front-runner Piedmont last week as the Wildcats swept the season series with the Indians. The loss dropped Bri Michalicka’s team to 7-4 in the District 5A-2 standings.

“We didn’t take care of business against Piedmont but we still have a second chance,” said Michalicka.

EDMOND – Freshman Ethan Brooks and the rest of the El Reno High School cross country teams got an early look at the competition for the upcoming regional and state meets.

Running in the Class 5A division of the Edmond Santa Fe Pre-State Meet, Brooks placed fifth overall and was one of two medalists for El Reno.

“He said early on that he was having a bad race. Still pretty good for a bad one,” said El Reno head coach Anthony Klipp.

The other medalist was senior Emmary Elizondo, placing 22nd overall. 

El Reno High School’s volleyball team will play its final five regular-season matches at home after wrapping up a grueling seven-match road swing with a 3-2 loss at Noble.

El Reno won the first (25-22) and third (25-17) games over the Bears but dropped the other three by a combined 13 points, including a 15-7 loss in the fifth set.

It was the second straight five-game loss for El Reno, which fell to 10-14 on the season and 1-6 on the recent road trip. The Indians slipped to 0-4 in the Suburban Conference standings with the Noble loss.

Redlands Community College women’s golf team opened up its fall schedule with a fifth-place effort in the 2024 Oklahoma Women’s Intercollegiate.

Played on the Lawton Country Club Course, Redlands carded a 638 (317-321) tally, which was 16 strokes back of the University of Texas at Dallas (622).

Cameron (593) won the event, followed by Angelo State (611) and Northwestern Oklahoma State (613).

Redlands was scheduled to open a three-match road swing Sunday at the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain.

People matter.

Their stories matter. 

That’s a major point of the lesson Brian Rukes set out to convey to his students as they embarked on a journey to recognize the El Reno men who gave their lives for this nation during a time of war. 

Along the way, the lesson adopted a code the El Reno High School English teacher and district historian strives to live by: “If not me, then who? And if not now, when?”

When Brian Rukes isn’t teaching English to El Reno High School students or working to build the Gold Star Plaza at Memorial Stadium, he spends his spare time taking EHS reunion groups on tours of the beloved high school. 

Rukes spent countless hours researching the early years of EHS, which started in 1892. Class photos of those early years have been created and in another research assignment, Rukes’ students took on the task of identifying the students.