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El Reno High School’s girls basketball team, the only undefeated team in Class 5A, is now one game away from logging a perfect regular season following a 52-40 road win over Guthrie.

The Indians improved to 22-0 on the season and swept the series over the Bluejays with the 12-point win – the 21st double-digit decision of the year for El Reno.

The win moved El Reno to 13-0 in the District 5A-1 standings. The Indians lead both Shawnee and Carl Albert (13-0) by three games in the standings with one game left – a home date with Shawnee.

El Reno High School’s boys basketball team had a season-long five-game win streak snapped last week as the Guthrie Bluejays handed the Indians a 67-61 setback in their final road game of the regular season.

The loss dropped El Reno to 16-6 on the season as the Bluejays swept the regular-season series with EHS by a combined nine points. However, the setback did not hurt the Indians in District 5A-1 play as far as seeding.

UNION CITY – Morgan Brothers banked in a layup at the buzzer to set Union City High School’s girls basketball team on the path to the Class A, Area 2, District 7 Championships.

The basket sealed a 67-65 semifinal win over Cordell and pushed Union City into the double-elimination portion of the Class A playoff bracket. The Tigers followed it up with a 61-47 win over Rock Creek in the title game.

Redlands Community College women’s basketball team remains within striking distance of the lead in the NJCAA Region 2 standings following a 54-49 win over Northern Oklahoma College of Enid.

The Cougars improved to 16-5 on the season and took over sole possession of second place in the standings with a 6-2 mark.

Redlands trails Connors State (7-2) by half a game in the win column for the lead but lost the first head-to-head meeting.

Despite pushing four players into double digits, Redlands Community College men’s basketball team dropped its fourth straight game in NJCAA Region 2 action.

The 90-84 setback to Northern Oklahoma College of Enid left the Cougars with a 10-12 overall record. Redlands slipped to 2-6 for seventh place in the Region 2 standings.

Jordan Kwende paced the Redlands scorers with a double-double effort of 21 points and 13 rebounds.

OKLAHOMA CITY – It took less than three minutes for El Reno High School post player Pauline Black-Harmon to etch her name into the program’s record books for a second time this season.

The career-rebounding leader added her name to the list of the 1,000-point career scorers with a bank shot early in the first period of the Indians 71-24 wire-to-wire victory over Western Heights.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Josiah Reveles knocked down six 3-pointers in the first half and Carter Roman Nose posted his first triple-double of the season as El Reno High School’s boys basketball team defeated Western Heights 78-44.

The win kicked off a two-game road swing for the Indians, who were slated to visit Guthrie Friday. El Reno sweeps the regular-season series with Western Heights with the 34-point win to improve to 16-5 on the year.

El Reno High School junior Carter Roman Nose was recently presented the trophy ball and poster honoring his milestone of surpassing 1,000 career points.

Pictured from left are his father, Perry, mom, Stephanie, brother, Evan and EHS head coach Rodney Haydon.

El Reno High School’s powerlifting teams have found mixed results during the first meets of the 2024 season.

The boys varsity squad placed three in the Little Axe Invitational, led by a gold-medal effort of 810 pounds from Jeremiah Ortiz in the 123-pound bracket. He posted a 335-pound deadlift, followed by a 300-pound squat and a 175-pound bench press.

Tucker McDaniel (145) took silver with a total weight of 860 pounds. His best efforts were a 350-pound deadlift and a 340-pound squat.

Jacob Mayfield admits that keeping a zero in the loss column was not a preseason goal of his Calumet High School boys basketball team when the season started in November.

“Sure, we wanted to win every game we played, but going undefeated was not a goal,” said Mayfield.

Yet that’s just what happened after his Class B’s top-ranked Chieftains completed the regular season with a 63-34 win over Binger-Oney in the championship game of the Washita Valley Shootout.