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ANADARKO – After a 33-point blowout win in the opening game, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team suffered narrow back-to-back losses in the 2021 Anadarko Warrior Classic. The losses dropped El Reno, ranked 12th in Class 5A, to 5-5 on the season.

Sporting new singlets for the start of 2022, El Reno High School’s wrestling team showed little adverse effects from a 16-day layoff for the holidays, winning the first seven weights against Weatherford in a battle of top 15 teams.

Calumet High School’s girls basketball team kicked off the new year by extending its current win streak to two games last week with a 68-43 decision over Geary in Washita Valley Conference action. The unranked Chieftains improved to 7-6 on the season and 4-1 in the WVC standings.

Knocking down 35 baskets from the field, Okarche High School’s boys basketball team logged its third-highest winning margin of the season last week in a 90-49 victory over Cordell.

Redlands Community College men’s basketball team started the second half of its season last week with an 80-75 road win over Texas-based Frank Phillips College. The non-conference win was the fourth in the past six games for the Cougars, who improved to 10-7 on the season.

Opening the season with more questions than answers as to what type of ball team Rodney Haydon would field for the 2021-22 season, the veteran skipper could not be more pleased with his Indians start.

A famous quote from the basketball movie Hoosiers is: Five players on the floor functioning as one single unit: team, team, team - no one more important than the other. It's a phrase that El Reno High School's girls basketball team has been living out over the first six games of the 2021-22 season.

While the All-State teams will not be decided until January, El Reno High School's football program should have several players in contention for Oklahoma's highest prep honor after a strong showing in recent voting for All-District.

EDMOND – After a run through the junior college ranks, including surgeries and rehab stints for both a wrist and knee injury, El Reno native Callen Haydon says he finally feels at ease with his basketball career. “I’m comfortable and I feel like I’m at home.

El Reno High School sent 11 wrestlers to the 2021 Kansas City Stampede, with nine posting one victory or more and the Indians earning one placer in the stout field.