A pair of 15-point runs wrapped around halftime allowed El Reno High School’s boys basketball team to rally and pull away from Lawton Eisenhower for an 85-55 win in the semifinals of the 2025 Anadarko Warriors Classic.

The 35-point blowout of the Eagles moved El Reno to 9-0 on the season and into the finals for a third straight season and the fourth time in five seasons.

However, as the event was postponed a day due to winter weather, there will be no championship game played in either the boys or girls divisions.

Funeral services for Rev. Robert McKinley Simpson Jr. will be held at 12 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15 at the Gib Miles Emergency Response Center in Geary with Rev. Rudy Tartsah Jr. officiating.

Burial will follow in the Geary Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Turner Funeral Home.

El Reno pushed through with an aggressive annexation plan during a second special city council meeting Tuesday night.

And just like the first gathering held the week before, the residents of the targeted areas were having none of it. 

The city of El Reno has invested close to $10 million in improvements to waterline infrastructure in addition to well fields and the water treatment plant to avoid issues caused by past extreme winter weather events.

The push for improvements stemmed from the deep freeze of 2021 when Oklahoma residents experienced several days of subarctic February temperatures.

Those temperatures, coupled with loss of power at the water treatment plant, strained the city’s water tower reserves.