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Seniors Carter Roman Nose and Tre Davis joined a long and esteemed list of El Reno High School players to earn the highest honor allocated to a senior – a spot on the Oklahoma Coaches Association’s All-State squad.

Roman Nose and Davis were named to the Large West squad for the 2025 OCA All-State Boys Basketball Games to be played July 30 at Tulsa Memorial High School.

The pair were joined by Calumet’s Kyler Thiessen and Okarche’s Hunter Mueggenborg, who were named to the Small West team. The West teams will take on squads from the East at 7 and 8:30 p.m.

El Reno High School senior Brooklynn Huggins (seated in white) signed last week to wrestle for Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa.

El Reno High School senior Brailyn Pfeifer (seated center) signed recently with the University of Central Oklahoma for cheer.

Dropping its team score for a second straight outing, El Reno finished second to archrival Carl Albert at the 2025 El Reno Girls Golf Invitational hosted at Crimson Creek Golf Course.

The Titans, ranked second in Class 5A in the OSSAA rankings and seventh statewide, carded a 338 to win by 15 strokes over El Reno. 

The Indians, ranked third in 5A and 18th overall, shot their best round in more than four years with a 353.

El Reno High School’s boys golf team now has a barometer of where it needs to go by season’s end to be in the running for a state ticket, opening up its 2025 schedule with a 13th-place effort in the Southern Oklahoma Invitational.

Playing at the Duncan Golf Club, El Reno carded a 371 to finish as the seventh best Class 5A team in the field. 

Class 3A’s Plainview won the event with a 308. Marlow (314), Velma-Alma (315), Duncan (328) and Elgin (328) rounded out the top five.

It took a few innings for El Reno High School’s baseball team to readjust from the upper echelon pitching faced from two state-ranked teams in the Chickasha Festival.

When it did, though, the Indians jumped back into District 5A-1 play with a doubleheader sweep of John Marshall by scores of 15-0 and 10-0 to remain undefeated in league play.

El Reno is now 10-2-2 on the season and moves to 8-0 in league play with its fourth twinbill sweep. The Indians remain tied with Noble, Carl Albert and Guthrie and will now face the trio over the next 21 days.

Picking up where he left off in cross country, El Reno High School freshman Ethan Brooks spearheaded the boys track team to a tie for eighth place in the 2025 Piedmont Wildcats Invitational.

Brooks collected 12 of the team’s 14 points with two top five finishes. He took the silver, worth eight points, in the 1,600 meters with a time of four minutes and 33.15 seconds.

He was 1.9 seconds behind winner Isaiah Blevins of Guthrie.

In the 800-meter dash, Brooks was placed in the slower heat but still posted a time of 2:01.93 for fourth overall, earning four team points.

Crimson Creek Golf Course hosted the 2025 El Reno High School Girls Invitational.

The 15-team field included eight Class 5A schools including Carl Albert and EHS.

See recap in Wednesday’s edition.

A 10-8 loss to Minco in the River Series extended a multi-game losing streak for Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team. The Tigers dropped to 5-13 overall with their seventh loss in the past eight games, including four in a row.

The win in that span was a 10-0 shutout of Bray-Doyle in the first game of the Fort Sill Freedom Fest, followed by setbacks to state-ranked Cyril (10-1), Central High (12-7) and Chattanooga (19-13).

Calumet logged 16 extra base hits over the five games including 10 home runs, three triples and three doubles.

El Reno High School senior Lathen Pruitt (seated center) signed to play college football last week with Kansas Wesleyan University.