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CALUMET – In what looked to be a battle of freshman post players, it was a guard who ended up coming up with the clutch shot of the game as Hammon defeated Calumet High Schoolvs girls basketball team 40-39.

While dropping two of its first five games of the 2021-22 season, Redlands Community College women’s basketball team remains among the early leaders in the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference standings.

In one of its biggest victories in recent seasons, Redlands Community College men’s basketball team opened up Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference play with a 63-53 win over Northern Oklahoma College of Enid.

Making his high school debut as a freshman with 84 yards and a touchdown off 10 carries against Southeast, El Reno High School coaches had high hopes for Malachi Nicholson as a featured running back in 2021. “He’s going to be a great running back, which is what we have known.

Despite losing two regular-season games due to COVID-19, El Reno High School’s football team made the playoffs for a fourth straight year.

In what has turned into a rare losing streak, Calumet High School’s girls basketball team dropped its third game in a row last week with a 67-49 road setback to Lomega. The non-conference loss dropped the Chieftains to 2-3 on the season.

Union City High School’s boys basketball coach Kolton Brown has his first win streak after his Tigers defeated Wanette 61-22 last week in non-conference play. The win wrapped up a four-game road swing to start the 2021-22 season as the Tigers improved to 2-2 overall.

MIDWEST CITY – El Reno High School’s football season came to an end last week with a 42-7 loss to five-time defending state champion Carl Albert in the bi-district round of the Class 5A playoffs.

El Reno High School senior Ashlyn Evans-Thompson signed a national letter of intent last week to play college basketball for East Central University in Ada. Evans-Thompson is a four-year starter for the Indians at guard and a three-time first-team All-Suburban Conference selection.  

Kolton Brown earned his first win as Union City High School’s boys basketball coach last week as the Tigers defeated Binger-Oney 37-32 in the third of four road games to open the 2021-22 season. The Tigers improved to 1-2 on the year.