The El Reno girls and boys teams, both 1-2 on the year after losses to Cache, will host the COPA El Reno tourney starting Thursday.
The girls play Crooked Oak Thursday at 3 p.m. and the boys Putnam City West’s JV at 7:30 p.m.
The event wraps up Saturday.
Though enduring a loss and a tie, Calumet High School’s baseball team emerged from its first action of the spring season with a winning record.
The Chieftains, ranked second in Class B, hosted two games in the Union City Spring Break Festival. Calumet dropped a 7-3 contest to Allen, ranked No.17 in Class A-I, after walking or hitting seven batters – accounting for five of the AHS scores.
Calumet rebounded to defeat 10th-ranked Verden (Class A-II) by a 13-5 margin.
Stepping closer to the double-digit win mark for the spring season, Union City High School’s baseball team won both of its varsity games in its own Spring Break Festival.
The Tigers, now 9-1 and ranked 11th in the state in Class A-II, defeated Class B’s 17th-ranked Varnum (7-6) and Lookeba-Sickles (5-0).
Those wins came on the heels of a non-tourney loss to Turpin (15-1) and an 8-2 win over Hollis, ranked 14th in Class A-I.
In its first spring tournament with a mix of two- and four-year programs, Redlands Community College women’s golf team took third place in the 2025 Kyle Blaser Invitational.
Held on the Gaillardia Country Club Course, the Cougars posted a 984 total for the 54-hole event.
Redlands logged duplicate 331 tallies over the first 36 holes before firing a 322 over the final 18 holes.
Texas Wesleyan University took first place at 951, while Oklahoma City University was runner-up with a 963. Redlands was the highest-placing two-year program in the field.
Shortly after the El Reno girls won their second straight Class 5A state championship, I was stopped on press row and asked a question I was not ready to answer.
“You’ve got to be excited,” inquired one media member.
To the victor go the spoils as El Reno High School’s boys basketball team, the outright league champion, claimed nine spots on the five lists making up the 2025 All District 5A-1 Team.
Three of those honors were superlative awards as Rodney Haydon was named Coach of the Year. He was joined by senior Tre Davis, who was named Player of the Year, and senior Carter Roman Nose, who was tabbed as Defensive Player of the Year. Carter also earned a first-team spot.
El Reno High School fell a few pounds and points shy of winning its second championship of 2025 as the boys squad earned a runner-up finish at the 2025 Oklahoma Powerlifting Coaches Association’s State Meet.
The Indians had seven lifters in the high school division as El Reno racked up 47 points. Durant won the Class 5A team chase with 54 points.
El Reno High School’s girls golf team posted its first sub-400 team score of the 2025 season but now know they have work left to do to make an impact on the state tourney level.
Playing the Class 5A Girls State Preview at Lincoln Park, El Reno took seventh with a 394. Carl Albert won the title with a 347, followed by Duncan (352), Bishop McGuinness (357), Ada (371), Tulsa Bishop Kelley (380) and Lawton MacArthur (392).
El Reno freshman Radley Miller (44-47) and junior Lily Elliott (48-43) led El Reno’s effort with duplicate rounds of 91.
OKLAHOMA CITY – For just the third time in the storied 60-year history of the Jim Norick Arena, the Class 5A Girls Oklahoma State High School Basketball Championships was settled between a pair of past winners.
El Reno, the defending state champion, was expected to have an uphill battle in defense of that title against four-time winner Booker T. Washington, led by Baylor signee Marcayla Johnson.
While Johnson scored a team-high 24 points, 16 coming in the second half, the Hornets proved no match for El Reno.
With her body aching from a hard fall taken a quarter earlier, Raegan Bugaj stepped to the free-throw line at the Jim Norick Arena with 5.7 seconds left in the state title game.
She gently lifted up her glasses and wiped away a mixture of sweat and tears from under each eye.
“It was tears,” said Bugaj.
