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Banner School’s basketball teams recently competed in the Middleberg Invitational.

CALUMET – Calumet High School’s boys basketball team features a roster of several players who can flip the script on any opponent at a moment’s notice, and last week it was guard Hunter Arnold’s turn.

Tied with Hydro-Eakly at 8-all with two minutes left in the first period, the junior turned back-to-back steals into uncontested layups and a four-point lead. He added a third steal and a basket less than a minute later as the Chieftains never trailed again in a 64-34 win over the Bobcats.

CALUMET – Calumet High School’s girls basketball team played solid offense and defense against Class A’s 15th-ranked Hydro-Eakly, but unfortunately, neither element came together for long periods of time.

The unranked Chieftains were outscored in all four periods as the Bobcats spoiled Calumet’s senior night activities with a 58-28 win.

Calumet was coming off a 43-29 loss to Laverne a day earlier as the Chieftains have now lost three games in a row and five out of the last six.

The losing streak leaves CHS with an 11-11 season record.

After hearing an appeal from school administration, the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association has handed down the equivalent of a five-match suspension for El Reno High School head wrestling coach Tyrone Lewis.

El Reno Superintendent Matt Goucher confirmed the district received a letter of notice from the OSSAA on Jan. 26. The letter stated that Lewis is to be suspended until the Oklahoma State High School Wrestling Championships, set for Feb. 24-25.

El Reno High School’s basketball teams had only one date scheduled last week, a road trip to state-ranked Kingfisher.

However, those games were canceled due to winter weather and have been rescheduled for Feb. 13. Game times will be 6:30 p.m. for varsity girls and 8 p.m. for boys.

Both teams will return to action Tuesday night at Lawton MacArthur.

El Reno High School’s wrestling team headed west to California recently as one of two programs from Oklahoma to compete in the 2023 MidCals Classic – placing fifth overall.

The 68-team tournament is hosted by Gilroy High School, south of San Jose, which is coached by former NCAA All-American and UFC champion Daniel Cormier. He wrestled at Oklahoma State for two seasons with El Reno head coach Tyrone Lewis and both trained on the Olympic circuit from 2004 through 2008.

Maple School will see plenty of basketball this weekend as the dependent school west of El Reno hosts the west area basketball playoffs for Divisions II and III in the Oklahoma Rural Education System Playoffs.

Superintendent Chuck Hood said Maple would play host to the games starting Jan. 28, and continuing Jan. 30 and Feb. 2 and 3.

Hood said 24 games will be played at the Maple gymnasium, with teams from Darlington, White Rock, Robin Hill, Maple, Oak Grove, Riverside, Banner, Middleberg, Friend and Pleasant Grove competing.

Okarche High School’s girls basketball team seems to be hitting a late-season stride as the Warriors have put together a double-digit win streak after beating Class A’s 18th-ranked Okeene 61-24 in the title game of the Coyle Invitational.

The 37-point win pushed Okarche’s current win streak to 10 games as the Warriors, ranked seventh in the same Class A poll, improved to 16-4 on the season.

Okarche, which has scored no less than 49 points in any game over the win streak, defeated Mulhall-Orlando (91-31) and Southwest Covenant School (73-38) to reach the Coyle finale.

Calumet High School’s boys basketball coach Jacob Mayfield now has a fistful of titles from the famed West Central Tournament after his Chieftains logged a 68-62 overtime win over Class B’s 13th-ranked Sentinel in the title game.

The win capped a 3-0 run through the field that included wins over Corn Bible Academy (80-34) and Canute (75-60). The sweep extended Calumet’s win streak to 17 games and bumped the Chieftains up a spot to fourth in the latest Class B poll. Calumet is now 19-1 on the season.

Jaiana Wiggins logged a double-double as Redlands Community College women’s basketball team snapped a two-game losing streak with a 68-62 road win over Western Oklahoma State College.

The Cougars improved to 10-11 on the season and 3-4 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings, which ties Redlands for sixth with Connors State College. RCC’s two-game losing streak was to Murray State (71-45) and Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa (63-51) – the league’s top two teams.