If you don’t favor the sports pages, you might have missed the girls wrestling team saga at Edmond North High School. And you perhaps have not given deep thought to its significance.
El Reno High School’s basketball teams went into last week’s home finales against Santa Fe South in the top two spots in the District 5A-1 standings.
The boys defeated the St. Bernards 15-0 via a forfeit due to illness and ineligible players at the OKC school. The Indians moved to 13-0 in the district and claimed the title no matter the outcome of the Carl Albert road game.
The girls are second and need to win their last two league games to claim the title.
El Reno High School’s powerlifting teams recently took part in the Bethel Wildcats Invitational, with the boys squad taking fifth place in the Large School Division with 78 points.
The Indians had nine varsity placers as Brad Palmer (123) took fifth place with a total weight of 670 pounds. He logged lifts of 235 pounds (squat), 150 pounds (bench) and 285 pounds (deadlift).
For the first time since Aaron West returned to Okarche High School in 2012, the Warriors completed the rare double-double championship of the Three Rivers Conference.
After winning the in-season Three Rivers Conference Tournament title with a 27-point victory over Cashion, Okarche closed out the regular season and regular league slate with an 84-66 win over the same Wildcats.
The 18-point win over 11th-ranked (2A) Cashion lifted top-ranked Okarche to 25-0 on the season heading into the Class A playoffs.
Second-half turnovers on offense plagued Calumet High School in a regular-season 59-44 loss to Shattuck.
The Chieftains slipped to 6-17 for the season.
Shattuck led 24-19 at the break and Calumet trimmed that deficit to four points in the third period before the miscues began adding up. The Indians used the turnovers to outscore CHS 35-26 over the final two periods.
Lila Winegeart scored a team-leading 21 points for Calumet after hitting four 3-pointers in the second half.
Using a 21-point third period, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team pulled away from Lawton MacArthur for a 60-37 road win that secured a home regional for the defending Class 5A state champions.
The 23-point victory moved El Reno to 18-2 on the season and keeps the Indians in position for a shot at defending their district title with an 11-1 record.
Carl Albert (12-0) leads the district but only by a game over the Indians.
El Reno holds the tiebreaker edge over the Titans by a 161-160 margin despite losing the first meeting by four points.
A record-setting season which has already produced the program’s longest winning streak in two decades added yet another first for El Reno High School boys basketball and head coach Rodney Haydon.
The Indians used a 7-2 run in the final two minutes to secure a 58-53 road win over Lawton MacArthur to remain unbeaten in District 5A-1 play.
El Reno moves to 12-0 in the district standings and secured a home regional with the win over the Highlanders. The Indians are now two games in front of Carl Albert (10-2) and hold a 160-133 edge over the Titans in tiebreaker points.
Katie Parham knocked down a trio of 3-pointers as Okarche High School’s girls basketball team won its second straight game with a 49-34 decision over Minco.
The Warriors, ranked 20th in Class A, improved to 16-8 on the season.
Parham was the top scorer for Okarche with 17 points. Callie Cramer logged six baskets and went 4-of-6 from the line to highlight her 16 points.
Scout Payne had five points and Katie Baustert and Logan White added three points each.
Calumet 40, Binger-Oney 33
Kingston Arnold hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer as Calumet High School’s boys basketball team retained the crown from the 2025 Washita Valley Conference Shootout for a fourth straight year.
The Chieftains, ranked No.1 in Class B, eclipsed the 20-win mark with the 54-52 win over Binger-Oney. It’s the ninth time since the 2013-14 season for Calumet (20-3) to reach 20 wins and the fourth straight season.
El Reno High School used the first national signing day to ink four football players to national letters of intent.
Seated from left are Noah Nicholson, Eric Parker, Latin Everheart and Elijah Fisher.
Nicholson and Parker signed with Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa. Everheart and Fisher both inked with Southwestern
College in Winfield, Kansas.
