Sports

Body El Reno High School’s girls basketball team, the state runner-up in Class 5A, began work for the 2022-23 season with summer league play in Mustang.  

Body More than 40 young basketball players took part in El Reno High School’s girls basketball skills camp last week at Jenks Simmons Field House. Players were taught individual skills as well as team concepts.

Body MUSTANG – For 84 days, El Reno High School girls basketball coach Jennifer Douglas stewed over a four-point loss to McAlester in the Class 5A state championship game. Sharing in that pain were two of her star guards, Ashlyn Evans-Thompson and Tetona Blackowl.

Body Tyler Tignor’s final game as a head coach, at least for now, was a memorable one for sure.

Body El Reno High School kicked off the summer baseball season last week with two games against the Oklahoma City Broncos. The Indians dropped both games to the home-school team in the wooden bat division of the Red Dirt League. See Wednesday’s edition for a wrap-up of the openers.

Body Last week’s A Small Town Weekend event brought competitions for cars with both big and small wheels.

Body CENTRAL Arcadia: Elevation is 1 ft. above normal and falling, water temperature 72°F and stained. Saugeye fair on crankbaits around points. Channel and blue catfish good on cut bait and worms around riprap and shallows.

Body Unlike a year ago when Shanon Eichholz rallied over the final stage to win his division of the Route 66 Triathlon Festival, the El Reno native defended his title over the weekend with everyone else chasing him.

Body El Reno’s Ashlyn Evans-Thompson dives for a loose ball in the first half of the Oklahoma Girls Basketball Coaches Association’s (OGBCA) Large School All-State Game over the weekend in Mustang.

Body SHAWNEE – While its company catch phrase says it “gives you wings,” a popular energy drink may have been one of the deciding factors that shacked El Reno’s Ashlyn Evans-Thompson to the bench.