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El Reno High School’s wrestling team continues to show just why it’s ranked among the top 10 in Class 5A last week with two impressive bounce-back performances. Two days after dropping its first dual of the season, the eighth-ranked Indians improved to 3-1 with a 69-6 drubbing of U.S. Grant.

Nine EHS wrestlers then went to Enid for the nationally-recognized 2019 MidAmerica Nationals and came away with a 12th-place tie with Piedmont, which handed El Reno its first dual loss only days earlier.

HARRAH – Making its first appearance in the Harrah Panthers Classic, Class 3A’s sixth-ranked Kingston made it quickly clear they wanted to stop El Reno’s top two scorers.

That they did as Indians guards Ashlyn Evans-Thompson and Jaylin Reveles were held to a combined 10 points. What the Redskins didn’t expect was the rest of El Reno’s team to pick up the slack in the way they did.

The Indians got nine points or more from five different players as El Reno rallied from a 36-30 halftime deficit to defeat Kingston 61-53 in the first round of the classic.

HARRAH – Overcoming a dozen unforced turnovers, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team picked up its first win of the season Thursday with a 64-54 come-from-behind decision over Stillwater.

The win came in the quarterfinals of the 2019 Harrah Panthers Classic as the Indians, ranked No.7 in the newest Class 5A poll, improved to 1-1 on the season.

El Reno trailed the Class 6A Pioneers at halftime but clawed back to within two points at the end of three periods, 46-44, with a late 3-pointer by Gana Nicholson.