Redlands Community College women’s basketball team snapped a two-game losing streak in NJCAA Region 2 play with an 86-61 home victory over Western Oklahoma State College.
The two-game slide, which included a 68-57 setback at Eastern Oklahoma State College, had dropped the Cougars out of second in the region standings. The win over the Pioneers lifted RCC, now 17-7 on the season, to 7-4 in the league standings for fourth place.
A multi-game losing streak has kept Redlands Community College men’s basketball team hovering near the bottom of the NJCAA Region 2 standings.
The Cougars dropped games to Eastern Oklahoma (84-68) and Western Oklahoma (93-81) to extend their losing streak to seven games. Redlands is now 10-15 on the season and 2-9 in the region standings for seventh place.
Deazhon Perkins had a line of 31 points, four steals and two rebounds for the two setbacks.
Gregory Limage followed with 21 points, six boards and a pick, followed by 20 points and 10 boards from Adidas Davis.
Held to just a pair of extra base hits, Redlands Community College’s baseball team dropped three home games to Illinois-based Lewis and Clark Community College.
Redlands slipped to 2-13 on the season after dropping the set by scores of 4-2, 9-7 and 24-12.
The series was trimmed from four to three games due to weather.
The Cougars went 21-of-97 (.216) from the plate with a double each from Easton Andrews and Gavyn Smith.
By switching the state’s largest two classifications to district play for the 2023-24 basketball season, the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association eliminated traditional drama around the East/West split and final seeding rankings.
“You already know where you are headed,” said El Reno head coach Rodney Haydon.
Based off district play results after 13 games, El Reno went into last week’s regular-season finale with Shawnee with a solid notion of the paths to state for both the boys and girls teams.
El Reno High School seniors Kaylee Davis and Hannah Koen punched return tickets to the 2024 Oklahoma Girls State High School Wrestling Championships, which start Thursday at the State Fair Arena.
This year, however, the pair will have another teammate in the hunt for a state medal as Brooklynn Huggins joins the EHS lineup.
El Reno took five wrestlers to the recent Class 6A East Regional hosted by Glenpool.
The Indians compete in the upper division since the state offers just two flights for girls.
Seventy-five days after starting its journey at home, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team made history twice last week with a 43-28 victory over Shawnee on the same Jenks Simmons Field House court.
El Reno’s 15-point win over the Wolves put the finishing touches on a 14-game sweep through the league lineup to lay claim to the first-ever District 5A-1 title.
The victory also capped off El Reno’s regular season with a 23-0 record, marking the first time in school history for an EHS girls team to take an undefeated record into the playoffs.
El Reno High School’s boys basketball team experienced firsthand the old adage that it’s hard to beat the same team three times in one season – let alone four.
The Indians outscored Shawnee 23-13 in the fourth period to rally from a six-point deficit and pulled out a 69-65 win over the Wolves in the final game of the regular season.
Seniors on El Reno High School’s girls basketball team were honored last week prior to the start of the final regular season game.
Each senior was given a wooden jersey-shaped plaque and a Pendleton blanket provided by C&A Tribes District 2 legislators George Woods (Cheyenne) and Kendricks Sleeper (Arapaho).
El Reno would then defeat Shawnee to cap the school’s first girls undefeated regular season.
El Reno High School seniors Dion Kaulaity and Malachi Nicholson used the recent national signing day to ink letters of intent to play college football.
El Reno High School senior Grady Lesperance (seated second from left) signed a national letter of intent to play baseball next season at Redlands Community College.
Lesperance is a two-year starter for the Indians.
