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Taytim Woods scored 14 or more points in all three games as Union City High School’s girls basketball team won the consolation championship at the 2022 Paden Pirates Invitational.

The Tigers moved to 10-8 on the season with a 65-59 win over Carney in the consolation title game.

Union City lost to Sasakwa 50-31 in the opening game before beating Paden’s junior varsity 41-17 in the second round.

Woods had 34 points in the win over Carney and closed the set with 69 points. Mackenzie DeLong followed with 18 points for the tourney, while Bailee Jackson scored 14.

Dealing with both COVID-19 and injury voids in its lineup, El Reno High School’s wrestling team continued a grueling dual schedule last week against perennial powerhouse Tuttle.

Giving up 18 points on forfeits and missing three starters, El Reno suffered a 62-15 loss to the top-ranked team in Class 4A. The Indians, ranked second in Class 5A, slipped to 4-3 on the season.

Both El Reno teams were playing in the Shawnee Invitational this weekend, which is the last regular-season tournament of the year for the Indians.

Three guards combined for 35 points as Calumet High School’s girls basketball team jumped back into the win column with a 43-27 victory over Sentinel in the first round of the West Central Tournament.

Calumet, coming off a 53-45 loss to Class A’s 12th-ranked Arapaho-Butler, improved to 12-7 on the year.

Brie Myers led the guard trio with 15 points to go along with four rebounds and four steals. Mattie Pritchett followed with 11 points, four boards and two steals.

Despite posting wins in four of its last five games, including a 51-46 overtime win over Hennessey, Okarche High School’s boys basketball team remains in the 17th spot in the latest Class A poll.

The Hennessey win, which came after a 12-7 scoring edge in the overtime period, moved the Warriors to 13-5 on the season.

Okarche was held to 12 points in the first half, but rebounded with double-digit efforts over the final three periods including a 17-11 run in the fourth period to force overtime.

MIDWEST CITY – Missing four starters and losing out on early-round bonus points after a series of byes, El Reno High School’s wrestling team rallied for a second-place finish at the 2022 Malcolm Wade Invitational.

El Reno, ranked second in Class 5A, racked up 199.5 points to finish behind seventh-ranked Guthrie’s 226. The Bluejays were crowned the Suburban Conference champions since the event doubled as the league tourney.

Dominick Havern hit one of two free throws in the waning seconds as El Reno High School’s boys basketball team snapped a three-game losing streak with a 62-59 road win over Class 5A’s 16th-ranked Guthrie.

The victory moved El Reno, ranked 13th in the same poll, to 6-5 on the season. More importantly, it lifted the Indians to 3-1 in the Suburban Conference standings.

El Reno was holding a 61-59 lead but Guthrie was playing for the final shot when Havern got a strip steal, forcing the Bluejays to foul the guard with 1.7 seconds left.

Shooting 41 percent from the floor, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team rebounded from its first conference loss of the season with a 58-44 road victory over Guthrie, ranked 17th in Class 5A.

El Reno, the third-ranked team in the same poll, moved to 9-2 on the season with its seventh win by double digits and improved to 3-1 in the Suburban Conference standings.

The Indians were 24-of-52 from inside the arc for 46 percent but had their overall shooting mark pulled down five points after going 1-of-9 from the perimeter.

Jennifer Douglas knows firsthand the gut-wrenching feeling to look up at the scoreboard at the end of a game and see your team on the wrong end of a 70-plus-point loss.

Toward the end of her first year as a head coach in 2014, Douglas’ U.S. Grant Generals suffered an 80-8 playoff loss to Edmond Santa Fe.

“It was tough, I can tell you that. A lot of things go through your head and you question, what do you do? How do you keep pushing those girls and how do you get them to still like basketball and encourage them to do so?” said Douglas.

Schedule Update - El Reno’s home game with Lawton MacArthur, scheduled for Thursday night, was canceled due to Lawton schools being out for COVID-19 issues. The boys’ game will be played Feb. 7 at Jenks Simmons Field House at 7:30 p.m.

For one of the few times this season, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team was clearly at a head and shoulders disadvantage in its Suburban Conference battle with top-ranked Del City.