For 54 days, senior Ryan Sigler has stewed over El Reno High School’s only shutout loss of the football season at the hands of the Midwest City Bombers. Last week he got his revenge.
Sigler, wrestling at 215 pounds, pinned Midwest City’s Noah Haydon at the 2:41 mark for El Reno’s eighth and final fall as the Indians opened up the 2022-23 dual season with a 69-10 explosion over the Bombers.
Despite missing all 13 shots from behind the 3-point arc, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team kicked off the 2022-23 season and the Suburban Conference schedule with a 42-28 win over Shawnee.
El Reno trailed 13-12 after one period but took a 20-19 lead into the break after both teams combined for just 14 points in the second period.
The Indians found a scoring spark with 11 points in each of the final two periods, while the defense limited the Wolves to a free throw in the third period and eight points over the final eight minutes.
Head coach Haley Mitchell feels her Okarche High School girls basketball team still has to earn the respect of pollsters on the court, which the Warriors did in the first game after the season’s initial rankings.
Okarche got double-digit scoring efforts from Scout Payne and Jalie Rother to lead the Warriors to a 71-23 win over Coyle. Ranked sixth in that first poll, OHS improved to 3-2 on the season.
Payne knocked down four 3-pointers en route to her 18 points. Rother scored 10 of her 18 points for the game in the first period, six of those off a pair of 3-pointers.
Hunter Arnold knocked down a trio of 3-pointers en route to his team-leading 26 points as Calumet High School’s boys basketball team went on the road to defeat Granite 69-62 in a top 15 battle.
Calumet, ranked sixth in the first Class B poll of the season, improved to 5-1 with its third straight win. Granite, ranked 14th in the same poll and coached by Okarche alum Kol Bomhoff, had its five-game win streak snapped by CHS.
Redlands Community College women’s basketball team rallied from a nine-point deficit to open the fourth quarter last week to steal a 51-48 win over Southwestern Christian College’s junior varsity.
The victory was part of a holiday split as the Cougars dropped a 72-68 game to Crowder College. Redlands took a 5-5 season record back into NJCAA Region 2 action at Eastern Oklahoma State College.
Redlands put up an 18-point fourth period against the Eagles to sweep the season series, getting eight points in the paint from Jaiana Wiggins and three more from Isabelle Stafford.
Coming back to the bench two years ago, head coach Rodney Haydon said it would take time and patience to retool El Reno High School’s boys basketball program back into a state-tournament team.
Tuesday night the Indians head to Shawnee to begin Haydon’s third season of his second stint as head coach with roster pieces that could very well send El Reno back to the Big Eight in Class 5A.
“We for sure have a lot of playing time and experience coming back and several move-ins that could get a lot of playing time. We have a chance to have a lot of depth,” said Haydon.
Tyrone Lewis knew it would take time to rebuild El Reno High School’s wrestling program into the national powerhouse it was when he won multiple state titles under his mentor Archie Randall.
Now entering his sixth year as head coach, Lewis feels all the pieces of that rebuilding puzzle rest before him, it’s just a matter of getting them to fit into the right spots.
Redlands Community College women’s basketball team used a 26-8 second-period scoring blitz to rally from a four-point deficit en route to its first NJCAA Region 2 win of the season.
The Cougars outscored Seminole State College 41-18 over the middle two periods to secure a 72-58 win over the Trojans. The victory moved the Cougars to 4-4 on the season and 1-1 in the region standings.
Redlands trailed 17-13 after one frame but uncorked a scoring blitz behind a trio of Macy Moore 3-pointers.
It’s been a close but no cigar kind of start to the NJCAA Region 2 schedule for Redlands Community College men’s basketball team as the Cougars dropped back-to-back single-digit losses.
Redlands had a two-game win streak snapped with an 83-77 setback at Northern Oklahoma College of Enid, then returned home for a see-saw 84-77 loss to Seminole State College.
The Cougars, slated to play Saturday at Frank Phillips College in Texas, dropped to 4-5 on the season with the league losses.
A big portion of the numbers from El Reno High School’s football season was generated by underclassmen, but head coach Russell Cook is quick to point out their success was spearheaded by senior leadership.
Six of the players from the class of 2023 were honored last week with spots on the 2022 All-District 5A-1 team, including two superlative awards on defense.
Representing El Reno on the senior-only team were Evan Roman Nose, Ryan Sigler, Devonne Smith, Diante Palmer, Nate Karty and James Reveles.
