El Reno High Schools boys basketball team will kick off a slate of 11 games in the month of January on Tuesday night with a road trip to Midwest City.
Seven of those games are on the road including trips to Anadarko and Shawnee for tournament play.
Hezakiya Satepauhoodle (15), Kason Haydon (3) and Jacob Nichols (5) will be key players for the 3-5 Indians.
Eryn Roman Nose (4), Juliana Thomas (2), Halli Ferguson (5) and Jaida Richardson (25) will play key roles as the 5-3 Indians return to the court Tuesday night in Midwest City.
Like the EHS boys squad, the girls will play 11 dates in the month of January, four of those inside Jenks Simmons Field House.
El Reno High School’s football program recently put the wraps on the league portion of the 2025 season with seven players earning spots on the various squads making up the 5A-2 All-District Awards.
The honors are senior-only, other than the Most Valuable Player, and voted on by member coaches. El Reno was fifth in the league this year with a 3-4 record, missing a postseason berth by the narrowest of margins following a 14-13 loss to Noble in a must-win game.
Editor’s Note: Due to early holiday deadlines, the final two games of the tourney will appear in the Jan. 7 edition.
The assault on the state record for the most consecutive victories has ended as Okarche High School’s boys basketball team had its 51-game win streak snapped in the first round of the 60th Tournament of Champions.
The defending two-time Class A champions were outscored 15-5 in the final five minutes by Tulsa East Central en route to an 82-69 loss to the Class 5A powerhouse.
While no teams have tipped off their NJCAA Region 2 schedules, Redlands Community College women’s basketball team has positioned itself to be a contender for the 2026 regular-season title.
Redlands closed out the 2025 portion of its schedule with a 94-46 win over Southwestern Christian University to move to 13-1 on the season.
The Cougars have the best record in Region 2 at the break and are one of just two teams with double-digit wins ahead of Northern Oklahoma College of Enid at 10-0.
Redlands Community College men’s basketball team will be looking for consistence when the Cougars hit the road Monday to kick off NJCAA Region 2 action at Connors State College.
Jose Molina Negron’s team is currently 6-8 on the season but the Cougars have not won more than two games in a row.
Redlands was ranked sixth in the Region 2 preseason poll and currently holds that position in the win-loss record among league teams.
The need for consistency falls on both ends of the court.
While gaining valuable mat time against stout competition, El Reno High School’s girls and boys wrestling teams placed only one entry at the 2025 Kansas City Stampede.
The lone placer came from the girls team as Bentley Sharp (235) took eighth with a 3-3 overall record.
She posted two close wins by a combined five points before scoring an 8-2 decision over Glenpool’s Tatum Brown.
El Reno was one of 14 Oklahoma teams, including Yukon and Piedmont, to make the journey to Missouri for the event. Thirteen states were represented in the 78-team field.
The pending Tournament of Champions in Tulsa could derail its efforts but Okarche High School’s boys basketball team remains on track to rewrite the state record books for most consecutive wins.
Okarche, ranked No.1 in Class A, moved to 10-0 on the season with victories over Watonga (113-84) and Seiling (99-28).
The Warriors have now won 51 straight games dating back to 2023, as Aaron West’s team needs 16 more to tie the state mark for consecutive wins. The record of 67 was set 66 years ago by Byng (1957-59).
Logan White hit a game-winning shot with three seconds left as Okarche High School’s girls basketball team capped off the 2025 portion of its schedule with a 35-33 win over powerhouse Seiling.
The Wildcats, a Class B state semifinalist last season and currently ranked third in the B-1 polls, led Okarche by seven points with two minutes to play. However, the Warriors got clutch baskets from Callie Cramer, Katie Parham and Ally Baustert to close the gap before White’s game-winner.
Two days removed from a season-high point total, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team made the 4.5 hour (one-way) bus ride to Guymon and came away with a 47-36 victory over the Tigers.
The 11-point decision extended El Reno’s current win streak to two games as the Indians move to 5-3 on the season going into the holiday break.
More importantly, it was EHS’ third straight league win, moving the team to 4-1 in the District 5A-2 standings for third place.
El Reno made 15 baskets in the game, four of those 3-pointers, while hitting 13-of-18 (72 percent) free throws.
