The outcome of El Reno High School girls basketball team’s season seems to uphold Aristotle’s famous teachings that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
However, those parts that made up a 24-5 squad and carried the Indians to their second state championship game in four years were pretty darn good and were recently honored with eight spots on the 2022 All-Suburban Conference Team.
For a team with one senior returning starter and slotted to finish in the middle of the conference race in the preseason, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team turned a lot of heads during the 2021-22 season.
El Reno exited the playoffs in the area round but closed the year with a 14-12 record.
The Indians were ranked 12th in the state, seventh on the West side, but played to a 5-1 record in league play and a second-place finish to eventual state runner-up Del City.
A dropped fly ball off the bat of Brayden Fulton allowed Davin Shamblin to score from third as El Reno High School’s baseball team blanked Guthrie last week 10-0 in five innings for its first on-field victory in District 5A-1 play.
The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Indians, who improved to 6-3 on the season.
El Reno moved to 3-0 in the 5A-1 standings after two recent losses to Bishop McGuinness were converted into forfeit wins.
El Reno head coach Keith Hill said the Irish used an ineligible player and had to forfeit the first five games.
El Reno High School senior Molly Carson signed a national letter of intent last week to become a member of the Oklahoma City University’s stunt team.
She is the second EHS cheerleader in recent years to sign with the Stars.
While able to put runs on the scoreboard, El Reno High School’s baseball team struggled to convert those into wins in the score book during the Indians three games of the Union City Spring Break Festival.
El Reno’s current losing streak extended to five games after losses to Comanche (5-3), Heavener (7-4) and a 10-2 setback to Class 2A’s eighth-ranked Wister.
The Indians were slated to return to District 5A-1 play on Monday against Guthrie with a 3-5 overall record.
El Reno High School picked up two of the top honors from Suburban Conference coaches during recent voting for All-Conference teams. See stories in Saturday’s edition.
Redlands Community College’s baseball team had a rough spring break slate, losing all six games to extend the Cougars losing streak to seven straight.
Rose State swept two games from the Cougars by scores of 5-4 and 10-4. The University of Arkansas Rich Mountain swept four games from Redlands in NJCAA Region 2 action, winning the games at Don Brown Field by scores of 10-7 and 18-2.
The Bucks won the home games of the series 10-0 and 10-7. The sweep by UARM left Redlands with a 13-17 overall record and a 2-6 mark in the Region 2, Division 2 standings.
CALUMET – Overnight hail storms, high winds and colder than usual temperatures played havoc with all the sites hosting games for the 2022 Union City Spring Break Festival.
Calumet lost one of its three varsity games against Watonga due to rain, but Class A’s 20th-ranked Chieftains were able to split their other two outings including an 8-7 come-from-behind win over Tipton.
The loss was an 8-3 decision to Comanche that left Calumet with a 3-1 spring record.
Logging the fifth highest point total among the 63 schools making up the three classes of the Large School Division, El Reno High School defended its Class 5A title at the 2022 Oklahoma Football Coaches Association’s State Powerlifting Championships.
Played inside Jenks Simmons Field House and Annex, El Reno amassed 58 points to secure the 5A team title by 24 points over McAlester.
Lawton Ike was third with 28 points, followed by Noble (18), Durant (14), Pryor (10), Ardmore (9), Guthrie (6), Woodward (2) and scoreless Lawton MacArthur.
El Reno High School’s baseball team was slated to be back on the diamond for the 2022 Union City Spring Break Festival looking to snap a two-game losing streak.
The Indians slipped to 3-2 on the season and 0-2 in District 5A-1 play with a 7-6 loss to Bishop McGuinness at the Hub Reed Complex.
Much like the road game with the Irish, El Reno jumped out to an early 6-1 lead after two innings but struggled to put runs on the board over the final five innings.
