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CALUMET – A late run of baskets proved too little too late for Calumet High School’s girls basketball team in a 57-26 loss to Southwest Covenant School in the Chieftains final home game of the regular season.

The loss dropped Calumet to 1-16 on the season and extended its current losing streak to four games after dropping outings in the West Central Tournament. Calumet fell to Class A’s ninth-ranked Canute (63-16) and Corn Bible Academy (52-13).

A two-game offensive explosion has lifted Redlands Community College women’s basketball team into a tie for second place in the NJCAA Region 2 standings.

The Cougars improved to 13-3 on the season and 3-1 in the region standings with wins over Western Oklahoma State College (78-57) and Seminole State College (80-68).

Redlands is now tied with Eastern Oklahoma, one game back of Connors State College for first place in the region.

El Reno native Ashlyn Evans-Thompson led the Cougars in scoring with a line of 52 points, 17 rebounds, six assists and four steals.

Deazhon Perkins scored a squad-high 22 points as Redlands Community College men’s basketball team jumped back into the win column with a 78-74 decision over Seminole State College.

The victory came on the heels of a 103-98 setback to Western Oklahoma State College. The split left the Cougars with a 10-8 overall record and a 2-2 mark in the NJCAA Region 2 standings.

Redlands is sitting alone in fifth place.

Perkins led all Redlands scorers for the two-game set with 57 points after scoring 35 in the loss to WOSC. He had five rebounds, three steals and two assists.

A few minutes into the fourth period of El Reno’s semifinal game of the Shawnee Invitational against Coweta, Jennifer Douglas called Pauline Black-Harmon to the end of the bench and asked her one simple question.

“Do you want to get it today or tomorrow?” said Black-Harmon.

Her coach’s query was referring to the school’s all-time rebounding record.

At that point the senior post player was on the bench with El Reno holding a commanding 70-20 lead after three periods.

Broken water pipes at Jenks Simmons Field House forced Mobile Meals to shut down, hopefully for no more than a week. El Reno Schools Superintendent Matt Goucher said the pipes that broke overnight on Jan. 16 were on an exterior wall at Jenks. With arctic temperatures arriving a few days before, the pipes were an easy target for the subfreezing temps.

Goucher said he is surprised the pipes had not broken before. In February of 2021, winter weather kept temperatures at or near zero for well over a week.

El Reno firefighter Gage Pittman (left) holds a set of battery-powered spreaders as fellow firefighter Nathan Dewberry (center) uses battery-operated cutters. Both devices were used on the door to free the driver of this vehicle involved in a two-vehicle accident on North Country Club Road near the entrance to Adams Park last week.

ERFD Sgt. Slade Terry (right) holds the door while talking to the driver.

According to the ERFD report, both drivers required medical assistance from Pafford Medical Services but were able to walk to stretchers on the scene.

According to a biologist with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, birds this time of year are looking for unfrozen water to migrate toward and with recent temperatures below freezing, when unfrozen ponds are located, they become crowded such as the one near the overpass (second photo), which was home to thousands of several different species of waterfowl.

Canadian County commissioners have agreed to spend more to stabilize the subgrade for a parking lot resurfacing project outside the county assessor’s building.

The commissioners, at their weekly meeting Jan. 16, voted 3-0 to approve a $15,296 change order for the long-awaited parking upgrade.

This increases the cost to $236,121.

When the old pavement was removed, officials discovered a wet subgrade. Recent wet weather delayed the process further.