El Reno High School’s boys basketball team hosted Weatherford last week in a varsity, junior varsity scrimmage at Jenks Simmons Field House.
Each period lasted 10 minutes. The Indians won two of the first three periods.
Bouncing back from its first conference loss of the season, Redlands Community College women’s basketball team defeated Paris Junior College last week 74-62.
The 12-point win over the Texas-based college avenged an earlier loss to the Dragons. Redlands is now 5-3 on the season heading into the Thanksgiving holiday break.
The Cougars return to the court Monday for a home twinbill with Eastern Oklahoma State College, with the women’s game set for a 5:30 p.m. tipoff, followed by the men’s game.
El Reno is set to open the 2021-22 basketball season on Dec. 3 at home against Shawnee.
It will also open up Suburban Conference play for the Indians.
CALUMET – It took nearly six minutes for Calumet High School’s boys basketball team to shift its high-powered offense into gear against an upset-minded Hammon squad.
Yet, when the Chieftains hit their stride, it quickly became a runaway 66-44 victory for Calumet.
With its second straight win, Calumet improved to 5-1 overall.
The Chieftains remained at 2-1 in the Washita Valley Conference standings with the non-conference victory over the Warriors.
CALUMET – In what looked to be a battle of freshman post players, it was a guard who ended up coming up with the clutch shot of the game as Hammon defeated Calumet High Schoolvs girls basketball team 40-39.
Warriors guard Maley Chaney made the first of two free-throw attempts with 2.3 seconds left to give Hammon the one-point advantage.
Chaney missed the second attempt, which was collected by Calumet post player Lilly Thomas, who took two dribbles before launching a last-ditch 3-point shot at the buzzer that hit off the front of the rim.
While dropping two of its first five games of the 2021-22 season, Redlands Community College women’s basketball team remains among the early leaders in the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference standings.
That’s because one of the Cougars three wins was a 67-55 decision over Northern Oklahoma College of Enid in the OCAC opener. Redlands is 3-2 overall with wins over Frank Phillips College (61-49) out of Texas and Southwestern Christian College’s junior varsity (72-55).
In one of its biggest victories in recent seasons, Redlands Community College men’s basketball team opened up Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference play with a 63-53 win over Northern Oklahoma College of Enid.
The win lifted the Cougars to 5-3 on the season following victories over OnPoint Hoops Academy (80-77), Next Level Prep (110-57), Southwestern Christian Academy (67-57) and Nation Wide Academy (113-63).
Making his high school debut as a freshman with 84 yards and a touchdown off 10 carries against Southeast, El Reno High School coaches had high hopes for Malachi Nicholson as a featured running back in 2021.
“He’s going to be a great running back, which is what we have known. It was not like we didn’t know what we were getting all along,” said El Reno head coach Chuck Atchison.
After averaging 8.4 yards per carry against the Spartans, Nicholson was gearing himself to be the bell cow in the Indians backfield during his sophomore season.
Despite losing two regular-season games due to COVID-19, El Reno High School’s football team made the playoffs for a fourth straight year.
The Indians offense averaged more than 254 yards per game over its nine contests with the help of several key players such as senior running back Mikey Devereaux and
junior quarterback Evan Roman Nose.
In what has turned into a rare losing streak, Calumet High School’s girls basketball team dropped its third game in a row last week with a 67-49 road setback to Lomega.
The non-conference loss dropped the Chieftains to 2-3 on the season.
Calumet was held to single-digit scoring in two of the four periods, which allowed the Raiders to outscore CHS by 15 combined points in those frames.
Lomega led 11-7 after one period, 32-20 at the break and 48-25 after three periods. Calumet cut into the final deficit by way of a 24-19 scoring edge in the fourth period.
