Sports

The first tournament outing of the new year had two El Reno High School wrestlers fall a win shy of placing at the 2026 SuperGirl 64 in Tulsa.

Seeley Chronister (135) won her final four matches en route to a 4-2 mark. The run included an 11-0 shutout of Adyson Nida of Perry and a 1:38 fall over Kyra Duncan of Rogers, Ark.

Her other wins were by a combined 12 points including an 8-0 shutout of Piedmont’s Natalie Lindo.

Bentley Sharp (235) was the other near-placer after posting a 4-3 mark that included two falls - the fastest being a 1:15 pin of Catoosa’s Rylan Elerick.

OKARCHE – Down by a point and the momentum favoring Tonkawa, Okarche High School’s boys basketball team showed the visiting Buccaneers how a top-ranked team responds.

They flipped the on switch.

Okarche went from a 7-6 deficit early in the first period to a 22-9 lead in a matter of two minutes en route to a 99-46 victory over Tonkawa to snap a three-game losing streak.

The Warriors move to 11-3 on the season.

OKARCHE – Converting six second-period turnovers from its pressure defense into 11 points, Okarche High School’s girls basketball team pulled away from a pesky Tonkawa squad en route to a 55-30 victory.

Okarche, ranked No.5 in Class A, moves to 9-2 on the season with its sixth straight victory.

The Warriors led 18-11 after one period but used three of those turnovers to spark a 9-2 break to open the second period. Logan White, Katie Parham and Callie Cramer scored from the paint before Emory West’s 3-pointer (4:22) made it a 27-13 game.

Nine players scored at least three points to spark Redlands Community College women’s basketball team to a 70-51 road win over Connors State College to open NJCAA Region 2 action.

The Cougars move to 14-1 on the season with the 19-point victory and pushed its current win streak to 14 straight games.

Redlands shot 22-of-58 (38 percent) from the floor including five 3-pointers off a 28 percent effort from behind the arc.

The Cougars were 21-of-32 (66 percent) from the free-throw line.

Redlands Community College men’s basketball team kicked off NJCAA Region 2 action on the wrong foot last week, suffering a 106-81 road setback to Connors State College.

The 25-point loss, the worst of the season for RCC, extended its current losing streak to three games.

The Cougars are now 6-9 on the season.

Redlands shot 45 percent from the field (28-of-62) but made only six 3-point baskets off 29 percent shooting. The team was 19-of-29 (66 percent) from the free-throw line.

A feverish second-half rally fell four points short as Okarche High School’s boys basketball team dropped a 97-93 shootout with Class 6A’s Southmoore in the seventh-place game of the 60th Annual Tournament of Champions.

“Even though we got beat, I was pleased with the way we played. I thought we battled two out of three days really well. 

“With the physicality of Class 5A and 6A schools, it was obviously better competition than we’ve played in a long time,” said Okarche head coach Aaron West.

El Reno High Schools boys basketball team will kick off a slate of 11 games in the month of January on Tuesday night with a road trip to Midwest City.

Seven of those games are on the road including trips to Anadarko and Shawnee for tournament play.

Hezakiya Satepauhoodle (15), Kason Haydon (3) and Jacob Nichols (5) will be key players for the 3-5 Indians.

Eryn Roman Nose (4), Juliana Thomas (2), Halli Ferguson (5) and Jaida Richardson (25) will play key roles as the 5-3 Indians return to the court Tuesday night in Midwest City.

Like the EHS boys squad, the girls will play 11 dates in the month of January, four of those inside Jenks Simmons Field House.

El Reno High School’s football program recently put the wraps on the league portion of the 2025 season with seven players earning spots on the various squads making up the 5A-2 All-District Awards.

The honors are senior-only, other than the Most Valuable Player, and voted on by member coaches. El Reno was fifth in the league this year with a 3-4 record, missing a postseason berth by the narrowest of margins following a 14-13 loss to Noble in a must-win game.

Editor’s Note: Due to early holiday deadlines, the final two games of the tourney will appear in the Jan. 7 edition.

The assault on the state record for the most consecutive victories has ended as Okarche High School’s boys basketball team had its 51-game win streak snapped in the first round of the 60th Tournament of Champions.

The defending two-time Class A champions were outscored 15-5 in the final five minutes by Tulsa East Central en route to an 82-69 loss to the Class 5A powerhouse.