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Redlands Community College women’s basketball team was held to a season-low offensive effort last week with a 62-38 road setback to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M.

The loss dropped the Cougars to 11-9 on the season and 4-5 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings - alone in sixth place.

Redlands was held to single digits in two of the four periods and had only a high of 11 points. The Cougars were 15-of-43 (35 percent) from the field and 2-of-10 (20 percent) from the 3-point arc.

Despite having the ball for a final possession, Redlands Community College men’s basketball team could not get off a shot in a 90-89 road setback to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M.

The loss ended a two-game win streak for Redlands, which slipped to 17-6 on the season. The Cougars are now 5-4 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings for fifth place.

Redlands was led in scoring by Henry Sanchez with 29 points and three rebounds.

Savon Myers logged 21 points and three caroms.

The Pride of El Reno Marching Band’s flag corps performed part of a new routine during halftime of a recent EHS basketball game.

Just when Noble thought it was brewing a possible upset, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team showed why they are the defending Class 5A state champs and District 5A-1 contender.

Holding a slim 10-7 advantage on the Bears with 2:49 left in the first period, El Reno went on an 11-0 break to close the frame and built a double-digit lead it would never relinquish.

The Indians defeated Noble 52-32 to keep pace with Carl Albert for the District 5A-1 lead. The Titans (11-0) lead the league by a game and a half over El Reno (9-1) but have only two outings left.

Riding a string of basket runs to start each of the first three periods, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team thrashed a Noble zone defense en route to an 88-43 road win over the Bears.

The 43-point win gave El Reno the regular-season sweep of the Bears as the Indians moved to 19-1 on the season.

More importantly, it kept EHS in the driver’s seat of the District 5A-1 standings at 11-0.

On a night when discipline on offensive shot selection was a bit loose, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team used its defense to spark a wire-to-wire victory over Southeast.

El Reno logged 20 steals, 12 in the first half, en route to a 71-25 win over the Spartans and a sweep of the season series with Southeast by a combined 101 points. The Indians won the first meeting in December by 55 points.

A trio of double-digit runs over the first three periods allowed El Reno High School’s boys basketball team to reach double-digit wins in the District 5A-1 standings and move a game closer to the 20-win mark.

El Reno improved to 18-1 on the season and 10-0 in the district chase with an 89-58 victory over the Spartans to sweep the season series by a combined 84 points.

The loss dropped Southeast (5-5) to fourth in the standings, five games back of the Indians. Carl Albert and Lawton MacArthur remain tied for second at 8-2, two games back of El Reno.

El Reno High School’s boys wrestling team wrapped up its regular-season tournament schedule with an eighth-place showing at the recent 2025 Chickasha Classic.

The Indians, ranked 13th in Class 5A, scored 104 points in the 18-team meet which was won by the host with 287.5 points.

Piedmont (201) was a distant second and Yukon (151) was sixth.

Mason Hoffman (106) scored 24 team points with a second-place finish following a 3-0 loss to Del City’s Evan Colbert.

Hoffman logged a 4-1 record including one fall over Southmoore’s Jayden Camua (2:37).

One of four county entries in the 30-squad field, El Reno High School’s girls wrestling team placed 23rd in the recent 2025 Sand Springs Girls Only Invitational.

El Reno logged 133.5 team points behind six placers. Remy Whitney (100) led the way with a runner-up finish and 38 points, losing in the finals to Westmoore’s Kyrain Perez by a 10-9 margin.

The freshman went 4-1 with three falls, the quickest in 1:54 over Tonkawa’s Jazmin Dollarhide.