After losing the opening weight, El Reno High School’s wrestling team reeled off 11 straight wins to help spark a 57-12 victory over Class 4A’s 11th-ranked Weatherford.
The Indians, the top-ranked team in Class 5A, improved to 4-1 on the season. The Eagles were the fourth top 15 opponent that El Reno has faced this season, posting a 3-1 record.
Okarche High School's boys basketball team tuned up for this weekend’s Three Rivers Conference Championship run with an 81-27 road win over Cordell.
The Warriors, ranked sixth in Class A, improved to 11-1 on the season with their 11th straight win.
Okarche’s offense exploded on the Blue Devils for 32 points in the first period before adding a pair of 20-point efforts over the next two periods for the 54-point blowout.
While giving players five days off before getting back to work in 2023 might seem a bold move to some critics, El Reno High School boys basketball coach Rodney Haydon has one simple response.
“The guys have earned it,” said Haydon.
Indeed, the Indians have earned some rest after posting their best season start since 2018 with a 6-1 record and a No.4 ranking in the last Class 5A poll before the holiday break.
However, the work did not end for El Reno with its 54-47 cross-county rivalry win over seventh-ranked Piedmont.
Jennifer Douglas has never mixed words when it comes to losing games.
“Of course I want to win. Of course I was mad we lost. I’m never OK with losing,” said Douglas.
However, the veteran El Reno High School girls basketball coach knows that her team can learn a lot from the back-to-back losses going into the holiday break.
“We lost to Choctaw, which is top four in Class 6A and to Piedmont, which was ranked 11th at the time in Class 5A, and we feel we should have been higher because we ranked them in the top six.
El Reno High School’s boys basketball program held its annual alumni game recently inside Jenks Simmons Field House.
The Indians current varsity team defeated the team of former players by a narrow 73-70 score.
See Wednesday’s edition for a mid-season breakdown of the Indians basketball team ahead of the tournament in Anadarko set for Jan. 5-7.
Just like she did as a little kid, Jaylin Reveles spent the days leading up to Christmas giving the presents under the family's tree a shake trying to figure out what was inside.
“Of course,” said Reveles.
While all those presents turned out to be what a teenager needed, in reality, Reveles knows she’s already received the biggest gift of her sophomore year in college months earlier – a second chance to play.
El Reno High School’s wrestling team closed out the 2022 portion of its schedule with another brutally tough event, this time heading out of state for the Kansas City Stampede.
The event is billed as one of the top 10 tournaments in the nation and featured 69 schools from 13 different states. El Reno, ranked first in Class 5A, placed 18th overall with 87 points and was one of six Oklahoma schools entered.
The inside-outside combination of Emma Stover and Jalie Rother vaulted Okarche High School’s girls basketball team into the short Christmas break on a five-game win streak.
The Warriors defeated Watonga (79-45) and Oklahoma Bible Academy (71-52) to move to 6-2 on the season.
Okarche heads into the famed Tournament of Champions (Dec. 28-31) having logged six games with 70 or more points on offense.
Calumet High School’s boys basketball team charged into the holiday break riding an eight-game winning streak after defeating Corn Bible Academy 75-34.
The Chieftains, ranked seventh in Class B, improved to 10-1 on the season.
Calumet shot 40 percent from the field after making 27-of-59 (46 percent) shots from 2-point range. The squad hit 5-of-22 3-pointers for 23 percent.
Calumet led in transition points (25-0), paint points (54-16), assists (18-9) and steals (29-5), but was outrebounded 39-36.
With Piedmont scheming to shut down El Reno High School’s top two scorers in James Reveles and Carter Roman Nose, the Indians needed another player to step up and fill in the void in this top 10 battle.
Alex Elizondo was happy to oblige.
The point guard scored a team-high 16 points as El Reno defeated the seventh-ranked Wildcats 54-47. The Indians, ranked sixth in the same Class 5A poll, improved to 6-1 on the season and 2-0 in the Suburban Conference standings.
