Losing streak keeps grasp on RCC men
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A losing streak which started at the end of 2019 continues to keep its grip on Redlands Community College men’s basketball team even into the new year following a 97-86
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Calumet, Okarche squads post 2020 wins, Union City swept by Bobcats
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Calumet High School’s boys basketball team stampeded into the new year, running roughshod over the Geary Bison to remain unbeaten on the season. The Chieftains, the top-ranked team in Class
EHS girls win battle of pressure defenses to pull past Guthrie
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El Reno High School’s girls basketball team got a dose of its own medicine last week and spent the better part of four periods enthralled in a top 20 chess match of full-court pressure defenses with Guthrie.
In the end, though, ninth-ranked El Reno made the right moves to pull away for a 50-37 decision over the No.16 Bluejays for its second straight win of the new year.
Indians rally in fourth period, unable to get past miscues, FT woes
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Despite shooting 60 percent from the floor in the fourth period, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team, ranked 11th in Class 5A, could not climb all the way back from a series of first-half miscues.
Yet the Indians came close.
Guthrie made 7-of-8 free-throw attempts in the final two minutes as the 19th-ranked (5A) Bluejays held off a feverish rally by El Reno for a 61-60 victory inside Jenks Simmons Field House.
Tough starts
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Redlands' Elijah Herron takes the ball to the hoop in the Cougars 78-58 loss to kick off 2020. The RCC women also lost at Crowder College, 64-57. ( Tribune photographer/
Put your hands together
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El Reno High School pom squad member Audri Loy claps out a cheer during the fourth quarter of the Indians win over the Elgin Owls last week. The victory was
Clutch free throws from Moore seal two-point win for Indians in thriller
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Darius Moore made only two free throws in last week’s game with Elgin to kick off the 2020 portion of El Reno High School’s boys basketball schedule, but they were his biggest shots of the season to date.
Moore sank both free throws with 4.2 seconds left as the Indians defeated Class 4A’s 15th-ranked Owls 50-48.
The non-conference win lifted El Reno, ranked No.13 in Class 5A, to 4-3 on the season. It was the Indians second straight win.
“That’s a good way to start off 2020,” said Moore.
Owlsome start to 2020
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The two-week break for the holidays proved to be just what El Reno High School’s girls basketball team needed to heal up and reset its direction for 2020.
“We had a couple of weeks off and it allowed us to touch back on what we did this summer,” said El Reno head coach Jennifer Douglas.
Touching back on summer meant using full-court pressure to speed up the game tempo and that’s just what El Reno did to Elgin last week, forcing the Owls into 33 turnovers en route to a 70-33 win.
Home action this week
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El Reno High School's winter sports teams get back into full swing this week. Above, Xzavier Oquendo and the EHS wrestling team will travel to Weatherford on Tuesday before hosting
To catch a Tiger
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Before her days as a “football mom,” El Reno native Ilene Scott loved the sport and still watches it on television whenever she can – even at the age of 90.
“I’m a big football fan. All my kids played football at either Minco or Kingfisher and I was a football mom for sure. The boys played in high school and all the kids loved football,” said Scott.
So where does her football allegiance fall on Saturday afternoons?
“Oklahoma or Oklahoma State, either one. I had children and grandchildren that went to both schools and I can root for either school,” said Scott.
