Deaton to step down as coach
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El Reno High School softball coach Davee Deaton, shown here talking to players after losing in the state quarterfinals, announced last week she will be stepping down as coach after
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Taking the high road
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While hanging a district championship banner in the locker room is off the table, El Reno High School’s football team has plenty of things to play for in Thursday’s regular-season finale.
The Indians are 8-1 on the season and head to Lawton to take on MacArthur in a game which will close out the fourth and final playoff spot from District 5A-1.
Preseason court time
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El Reno High School's girls basketball team kicked off preseason drills last week against Clinton. Above, Ashlyn Evans-Thompson drives by a defender for a layup. Below, Kenzie Holsted dribbles near
Numbers climbing
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El Reno's offensive numbers grew after a 61-0 rout of Southeast last week. Above, Xavier Devereaux runs for a score in the rain. Below, Dorian Plumley (2) hands off to
El Reno offense rains down on Spartans 61-0
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Facing the worst conditions of the season, El Reno High School’s football team had a goal to make quick work out of the Southeast Spartans on a
Huber edged out of state cross country
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El Reno High School’s cross country team came within seconds of advancing a runner on to this week’s Class 5A Cross Country State Championships. Competing at the Class 5A West
RCC soccer season ends with losses
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Redlands Community College’s soccer team closed out the regular season last week with shutout losses to Eastern Oklahoma and Rose State College. The Cougars dropped to 1-17 for the season
Barking at your feet
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There are four slices of the District 5A-1 playoff pie still on the serving plate, and with two games left in the regular season, El Reno High School’s football team is still sitting at the main table ready to eat.
Barking loudly at the Indians feet are the Altus Bulldogs, a team which El Reno head coach Chuck Atchison knows will be hungry to take a bite out of EHS’ part of that pie.
‘Titan’ic win
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El Reno's team of freshman and sophomore players beat Carl Albert 24-7 last week.
Success is the byproduct of the culture change in ER football; work remains
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One of the goals El Reno head coach Chuck Atchison has preached numerous times in practice and on game nights has been to change the overall culture around the Indians program.
A culture that believes any football team, no matter what grade, can step out on the field any given night and compete.
It’s no doubt that culture had slipped down to bare bones over the seasons from a 12-1 run in 2009 to when Atchison took over the program after the 2016 season.
