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OKLAHOMA CITY – For the second time this season, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team needed extra time to settle the outcome of a top 10 matchup with Bishop McGuinness.

And for a second time it was the home team that emerged with a loss.

El Reno went into McCarthy Gymnasium and outscored the Irish 12-7 in overtime for a 69-64 victory.

The win avenged an earlier double overtime home loss to McGuinness - the East’s third seed for the upcoming playoffs.

Getting balanced scoring from 11 different players, Darlington School’s boys basketball team extended its run of titles at the recent 2022 Oklahoma Rural Elementary Schools State Championships.

Competing out of Division III, the Chiefs defeated Hodgen 47-29 in the quarterfinals and then won 55-27 over Peggs in the semifinals.

Darlington defeated Oak Grove 42-18 in the championship game for a sixth straight state championship.

The Chiefs won the Division III title in 2016 and again a year later, before taking the Division II championship in 2018 and again in 2019.

Despite making it a two-possession game twice in the third period, Redlands Community College women’s basketball team could not overcome a disastrous opening period against Murray State College.

Redlands gave up the game’s first 11 points and did not score on back-to-back possessions the entire first period en route to a 70-58 setback to the Aggies.

The loss dropped the Cougars to 5-6 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings and into sixth place. Redlands is 11-8 on the year.

Nine Redlands Community College players chipped in points for a sweet Valentine’s Day treat for head coach Jose Molina as the Cougars defeated Murray State College 72-56.

The win was the second in a row for the Cougars, who improved to 6-6 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings and into sixth place. Molina’s team is now 14-12 on the year.

“This is the best team I’ve had here in five years as head coach of the program,” said Molina.

Redlands shot 51 percent from the floor (30-of-59) despite making just 4-of-18 shots from the 3-point line for 22 percent.

The El Reno Fire Department responded to a trailer fire Saturday at the El Reno Village Mobile Home Park, 1501 S. Rock Island Avenue.

Chief Jason Duff said the blaze was reported at 5:55 p.m. His department responded with two engines and its mobile command unit and had the blaze under control within 30 minutes. Thick black smoke from the fire could be seen for miles.

Firefighters used thermal imagery to detect hot spots inside the trailer which was fully engulfed upon arrival.

How does a university professor from South Carolina become infatuated with the history and romance of Route 66?

Apparently like a lot of people.

“I saw the movie Cars,” said Nolan Stolz, Associate Professor of Music at the University of South Carolina Upstate. The school is located in Spartanburg, S.C.

Stolz, who holds a doctorate in music, actually has a much deeper history with the Mother Road than the colorful movie that hit the silver screen in 2006.

An El Reno man accused of stabbing two others – and killing one of them – in 2020 is to face a jury in early March.

Christopher Gene Nelson, 23, faces two felony counts – first-degree manslaughter and assault and battery with a deadly weapon.

Nelson is accused of stabbing two other El Reno residents, Miguel Jones and Lonnie Monaco. According to documents filed with the court, Jones was stabbed in the heart with a CRKT knife (Columbia River Knife and Tool), killing him. Monaco suffered a slash to the kidney.