HARRAH – What started out to be a promising tournament ended on a sour note as El Reno High School’s girls basketball team dropped a 54-29 contest to Shawnee in the third-place game of the Harrah Panthers Classic.
The loss to the Suburban Conference rival Wolves left El Reno with a 1-2 record for the event after losing to Colorado’s Class 6A Pine Creek (48-31) and beating Star Spencer (47-19) in the opener.
HARRAH – After two close misses, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team ended a five-game losing streak to open the 2025-26 season with a 62-53 decision over Star Spencer.
The win came in the seventh-place game of the Harrah Panthers Classic and followed losses to Harrah (53-48) and John Marshall (65-61) by a combined nine points. The 1-2 tourney mark leaves El Reno with a 1-5 record for the season.
By defeating the Bobcats, El Reno avoided going winless in the classic after taking the title the past two seasons.
El Reno High School teamed up with Etta Dale Junior High to win eight out of 10 exhibition matches against Weatherford last week in girls wrestling action.
Autym Baker posted a 1-1 record, including a fall, while Seeley Chronister had a takedown working at the final buzzer in a close 4-3 loss to Weatherford’s top wrestler, Cashlie Bowman.
El Reno’s Leah Lopez won an 11-7 match over Kamdyn Kerth and Alivia Jackson pulled out a 3-1 victory over WHS’ Kyli Robbins.
Weatherford’s Aiden Willard pinned El Reno High School wrestler Nicholas Mitchum with 57 seconds left in their heavyweight match as the Eagles rallied for a 39-38 victory.
The loss to Weatherford, ranked No.14 in Class 4A, dropped the unranked Indians to 1-1 on the dual season.
“We knew it was going to be close. I had it as a three-point dual and we gave up bonus points where I had us not giving up bonus and that came to bite us in the butt.
Juliana Thomas came up with a steal in the waning seconds to preserve a two-point victory as El Reno High School’s girls basketball team jumped back into the district win column.
El Reno moves to 2-1 on the season with a 43-41 road win over Noble. The Indians hold the same record in the District 5A-2 standings and move up to third behind Carl Albert and Midwest City – both at 2-0.
Thomasv steal came near mid-court and resulted in a jump ball whistle as time expired. El Reno led 43-39 and fought off four 3-point shots by Noble in the final two minutes.
A third straight double-digit loss has dropped El Reno High School’s boys basketball team to the cellar of the 5A-2 standings for the first time since large schools switched to district format.
El Reno suffered a 62-40 setback to Noble to slip to 0-3 on the year. It’s the first time in more than a decade for the Indians to start a season with three straight losses.
Rodney Haydon’s team is tied with Guthrie, Guymon and Southeast for fifth in the standings but slides to eighth on the tiebreaker points.
Haydon Mayfield put up team-high efforts in points, rebounds, assists and steals as Calumet High School’s girls basketball team won its third straight game with a 76-30 rout of Hinton.
Calumet, ranked No.7 in the latest Class B-I poll, moves to 5-1 on the season with the 46-point win.
Mayfield logged 36 points off 46 percent shooting including a trio of 3-point baskets off a 33-percent effort. She had a double-double with 13 rebounds, eight assists and eight steals.
Gavin Righter scored seven 2-point baskets en route to a team-high 14 points as Union City High School’s boys basketball team won its third game.
The Tigers 71-27 blowout of Cordell moves unranked Union City to 4-3 on the season.
Max Norton knocked down a pair of 3-pointers to highlight his nine points, while Kaden Stewart had a trey and nine points total. Braxton Sickler netted two treys and eight points.
The Tigers had 12 players score in the 54-point blowout.
Calumet 95, Hinton 49
Suffering its first loss in the month of December since 2022, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team was held to 13 made baskets in a 52-36 setback to Midwest City.
The loss dropped El Reno to 1-1 on the season and in District 5A-2 standings, tied for fourth place with Lawton.
El Reno led the contest four times in the first half, the largest being 10-7 on two free throws by Eryn Roman Nose with 1:36 left in the first period. The Indians led 12-11 in the second period on a basket by Layni Wright but would give up 15 straight points to the Bombers.
Thirty-one turnovers, with 11 coming in the second period, proved to be the thorn in the side of El Reno High School’s boys basketball team in a 71-45 loss to Midwest City in its home opener.
The 26-point loss, the second 20-plus-point setback for the Indians, dropped El Reno to 0-2 on the season and 0-2 in District 5A-2 standings.
It’s the first 0-2 start for El Reno since 2013 and the 21st loss by 20 points or more over that 12-year period.
