Okarche High School’s girls basketball team reached the 20-win plateau for a second straight year with a 58-24 win over Canton in the title game of the Class A, Area 2, District 5 Championship.
The Warriors, ranked seventh in the state, improved to 20-5 on the year and advanced to the Region C Winners Bracket needing three more wins to make the state tourney.
Okarche will host Coyle Thursday at 6 p.m.
After seeing his team squander a double-digit lead in their first meeting with Guthrie, which led to a three-point home loss, El Reno High School head basketball coach Rodney Haydon was determined to avoid a repeat.
“Obviously we watched a lot of film from that game and talked about what happened and what we could do to make sure it didn’t happen again.
“Plus there was some extra motivation to get some revenge and learn from that first meeting,” said Haydon.
Turnovers and defending the 3-point line turned out to be the thorn in the side of El Reno High School’s girls basketball team in last week’s 43-39 road loss to Class 5A’s seventh-ranked Guthrie in Suburban Conference action.
The loss snapped a six-game win streak for El Reno, ranked third in the same Class 5A West rankings, and leaves the Indians with a 4-2 conference record and 13-4 overall mark.
The EHS girls team will be at the 2023 Regional Wrestling Championships Monday and Tuesday in Mustang, with spots at state on the line.
After having its 12-game win streak snapped by Class 2A’s second-ranked Amber-Pocasset, Okarche High School’s girls basketball team closed out the regular season with a 54-40 win over Cashion.
The Warriors, ranked seventh in the same Class 2A poll, improved to 19-5 on the season. Okarche fell to the Panthers by a 47-43 margin in its closest contest since the famed Tournament of Champions in December.
Emma Stover led Okarche in scoring in the win over Cashion with 27 points and logged 35 for the two-game set.
Okarche High School’s boys basketball team turned a double-digit steal count into a 20-6 scoring edge in points off turnovers en route to a 64-56 win over Class A’s 17th-ranked Cashion to close out the regular season.
The Warriors, ranked fifth in Class A, improved to 22-2 on the season and extended their current win streak to nine games. The Cashion win was the seventh this season against a ranked opponent.
The game was tied 28-all at the half before Okarche went on a 36-28 run over the final two periods, including a 23-17 run in the fourth period.
Seven turnovers in the second period, three of those shot-clock violations, hampered Redlands Community College women’s basketball team last week in a 71-50 loss to Eastern Oklahoma State College.
The Cougars are on a three-game losing skid which dropped them to 3-7 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings and down to seventh place. Redlands took a 10-14 overall record into a road game at Connors State.
The loss to Eastern came on the heels of a 64-54 setback to Northern Oklahoma College of Enid. The two losses were against two of the top four teams in the region standings.
A four-game losing streak has sent Redlands Community College men’s basketball team to the bottom of the NJCAA Region 2 standings following an 83-70 setback to Eastern Oklahoma State College.
The Cougars were coming off an 82-72 loss to Northern Oklahoma College of Enid and stand at 2-8 in the league and 10-14 on the season. Redlands trails NOC Tonkawa (3-8) by a half game and Murray State by a full game but are only two games back of fifth-place Western Oklahoma.
Redlands Community College’s baseball team kicked off its 2023 season by winning three of four games against Oklahoma Christian University’s junior varsity squad.
The Cougars split the first two games, winning 8-4 and losing by a close 4-2 margin. Redlands then took the series by sweeping both games over the second day with scores of 12-2 and 19-9.
Redlands’ 41 runs for the series came off a .400 batting average as the Cougars went 42-of-105 from the plate. Three of the four games were double-digit hit totals including 16 in the final game.
It took two periods to shake off the rust of a long break but El Reno High School’s boys basketball team did just what it needed to do in its final game before reporting date for playoff seedings – win and in a convincing fashion.
El Reno used a 26-5 run in the third period to pull away from a pesky Noble team for a 68-36 victory. The win, the third in a row, moved the Indians to 3-2 in the Suburban Conference standings.
