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During practices leading up to the Class 5A West Region 3 Championships, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team spent extra time drilling long vertical passes to highlight its transition game.

The work paid off in the title game.

After defeating 14th-ranked Mount St. Mary 78-29 in the semifinals, El Reno used those long passes to pick apart 11th-ranked Guymon 79-37 to win the championship.

A day removed from shooting under 40 percent, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team hit 56 percent of its shots from the 3-point arc en route to a 75-53 win over Mount St. Mary to win the Class 5A West Region 3 Championships.

“We take things game by game and play to our strengths. Our shots were not falling yesterday but this was a different day and different game. Our shots were falling today,” said guard Alex Elizondo.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Though the team title eluded its grasp, El Reno High School’s wrestling program emerged from the 2023 Oklahoma State High School Wrestling Championships with a handful of firsts.

El Reno crowned two individual state champions in the same season for the first time since 2010 as Will Heger and Dailey Jennings captured gold medals.

Kaylee Davis not only became the first female wrestler in school history to place at state, the junior is the first EHS state champion in the girls division – now in its third sanctioned year at the championships.

Canadian County’s three small schools remaining in the 2023 basketball playoffs took the high road, and higher seeds, into their respective state tournaments after winning area titles over the weekend.

Fourth-ranked Calumet extended its winning streak to 24 straight with a 56-47 win over No.8 Goodwell in the Class B, Area II Championship. The Chieftains improved to 26-1 on the season with the nine-point win.

Calumet will be making its fourth trip to state in seven years under head coach Jacob Mayfield, who has one title (2017) and a runner-up (2019) finish.

Leaning hard on its defense to counteract an off shooting night, El Reno High School's boys basketball team earned a spot in the Sweet 16 of the Class 5A playoffs with a 25 point win over a scrappy Guymon team.

Hosting the West Region 3 Championships, El Reno's 62-37 win over the Tigers pushed the third-ranked Indians (16-6) into Saturday's title game where it will face Mount Saint Mary. Tipoff inside Jenks Simmons Field House is set for 7 p.m.

The Rockets defeated Altus, 54-49, in the other semifinal game.

Despite a 10-day layoff, El Reno High School's girls basketball team looked highly efficient in the opening round of the Class 5A playoffs with a 49-point win over Mount Saint Mary.

Hosting the West Region 3 Championships, El Reno shot 60 percent from the field en route to a 78-29 win over the Rockets to improve to 16-5 on the season.

“There was a lot of teamwork. We wanted to make sure everyone got a touch on the ball and not just one person on every play,” said El Reno junior Pauline Black-Harmon.

They are not the first girls to compete for El Reno High School’s wrestling program, nor are they the first to qualify for a state tournament.

Those glass ceilings were broken several years ago.

However, Friday morning, juniors Hannah Koen and Kaylee Davis are set to write a new chapter in the record books as the first El Reno female athletes to compete in the girls-only division at the Oklahoma State High School Wrestling Championships.

MIDWEST CITY – Tyrone Lewis quietly watched from the stands as his assistant coaches and El Reno High School wrestlers turned in their best postseason effort in more than a decade.

Wrestling in the Class 5A West Regional, El Reno qualified 10 wrestlers for this weekend’s Oklahoma State High School Wrestling Championship, which got under way Friday at the State Fair Arena.

After two road scrimmages, El Reno High School’s baseball team hosted Lawton Eisenhower last week at the Hub Reed Complex for its home scrimmage opener.

The Indians fell to the Eagles by a 2-1 score in seven innings.