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Running against stiff competition from smaller classifications, El Reno High School’s track teams closed out the 2025 regular season with only a handful of medals from the 2025 Weatherford Eagles Invitational.

The El Reno boys took 12th place with 18 points, primarily from Ethan Brooks.

The freshman scored 16 points, 10 of those coming from a victory in the 3,200-meter run.

He posted a time of 10 minutes and 41.43 seconds, which was more than 17 seconds faster than runner-up Keon Lackey of Weatherford.

While as a team, El Reno High School missed a ticket to the Class 5A Boys State Golf Championships by 31 shots, Jacen Bear missed an individual pass by a few clicks on a cellphone screen.

Tournaments have been using a cellphone app, approved by the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association, to keep real-time scores for two seasons.

The data can be viewed by coaches, players or anyone purchasing the app subscription.

The app is being used in conjunction with the standard written scorecard.

OKLAHOMA CITY – After waiting out the at-large bid process the last two seasons to get passes to the NJCAA Women’s National Golf Championships, Redlands Community College punched its ticket outright.

Playing the North layout at the Lake Hefner Golf Course, Redlands won the 2025 NJCAA Central District Women's Golf Championship by three strokes over Texas-based Blinn College.

“They wanted to win and they were out there fighting for it. They stayed mentally tough and proved they wanted it,” said RCC head coach Taylor Sliauter.

Due to schedule voids due to weather, El Reno High School’s tennis teams picked up a home dual with Del City, defeating the Eagles by a combined 8-2 margin.

The El Reno boys won all six of their matches as singles player Jim Rinehart logged two wins by scores of 6-4/6-1 and 6-0/6-1.

Sergio Rosas lost just six games en route to a pair of wins by scores of 6-4/6-0 and 6-0/6-1.

Devlon Galyon and Aydan Steffler paired up for a 6-4/6-4 doubles win.

Nova Underwood and Jonathan Albrecht won their pairs match by a 6-1/6-3 tally.

Ethan Brooks added two more medals to his freshman season haul as El Reno High School’s track teams took part in the 2025 Suburban Conference Track and Field Championships. The El Reno boys took fifth overall with 40 team points, 16 of those from Brooks.

He earned second place in the 800-meter run with a time of two minutes and 1.03 seconds. He was a mere 36/100ths of a second behind winner Ayden Ringwald of Shawnee.

Brooks was second in the 1,600-meter run at 4:38 - three seconds behind Guthrie’s Isaiah Blevins.

Carter Roman Nose, El Reno boys basketball’s all-time career scoring leader, recently signed to play college basketball for the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond.

Roman Nose will be the next EHS star to play for the Bronchos following Callen Haydon.

El Reno High School senior Tre Davis signed with Edmond-based Oklahoma Christian University.

Davis helped the Indians win their first-ever district title and surpassed the 1,000-point career scoring mark this past season.
 

El Reno High School’s boys golf team will have to wait two days to play for a spot in the Class 5A Oklahoma State High School Golf Championships after the Enid regional was delayed by rain.

The Indians will be among 14 teams bidding for one of the six team tickets to state, to be held May 11-12 in Muskogee.

El Reno was coming off a 14th-place effort in the 2025 Max Williamson Invitational played at Dornick Hills in Ardmore. The Indians carded a 36-hole total of 711.

Jacen Bear (94-81) and Charles Woolworth (90-85) paced El Reno with duplicate 175 tallies.

Canadian County’s three small-school slow-pitch softball teams all exited the postseason in the district round, with Okarche and Union City advancing to the championship round before bowing out.

The Warriors defeated Afton (17-0) and Class 3A’s 16th-ranked Hominy (3-2) to reach the title round of the District 15 Championship.

However, the Bucks rebounded from that one-run loss to oust Okarche with duplicate 3-1 victories.

With second place and hosting rights on the line for the upcoming playoffs, El Reno High School's girls soccer team allowed three goals in the first 10 minutes of its showdown with Carl Albert.

It was a start in which the Indians could not recover.

The Titans defeated El Reno 4-1 to secure second place in the District 5A-2 standings and will host Noble.

El Reno, now 7-6 overall, slipped to third with a 5-2 league mark and will travel to Duncan.