Sports

For a third straight season, El Reno High School will have multiple entries at the 2025 Oklahoma Girls State High School Wrestling Championships.

Competing in the Class 6A West Regional Championships in Shawnee, freshman Remy Whitney and senior Brooklynn Huggins punched state tickets while helping El Reno to a 16th-place team finish with 51 points.

Whitney (100) was runner-up after losing a 6-0 decision to Westmoore’s Kyrain Perez for the gold. She posted a 3-1 record after falls over Lawton’s Makayla Minte (:51) and Western Heights’ Abigayle Spotler (:40).

Logan White scored a season-high 21 points to lead Okarche High School’s girls basketball team to the Class A, Area I, District 4 Championship with a 50-38 decision over Cherokee.

The Warriors, ranked 20th in the state, improved to 18-8 on the season.

Okarche moves into the double-elimination Region A winners bracket against Garber needing three straight wins to make a third straight trip to state.

Scoring 20 or more points in all four periods, Calumet High School’s boys basketball team took the first step toward its third straight trip to the Class B state tourney with a 97-55 win over Covington-Douglas.

The Chieftains third straight win came in the Area I, District 1 Championships, which moved Calumet to 22-3 on the season. The top-ranked team in the state moves to the Region A winners bracket to face Lomega.

Winning four of its last five outings, including two in a row, has vaulted the Redlands Community College women’s basketball team up two spots in the conference standings.

The Cougars defeated Eastern Oklahoma State College (58-38) and Western Oklahoma State College (64-58) to improve to 13-9 on the season.

Redlands moved up two spots in the NJCAA Region 2 standings to fourth with a 6-5 record.

Splitting a pair of conference games has left the Redlands Community College men’s basketball team alone in fifth place in the NJCAA Region 2 standings.

The Cougars defeated Eastern Oklahoma State College (67-61) at home before losing a road game at Western Oklahoma State College (76-72). The split left the Cougars with an 18-7 overall record and a 6-5 Region 2 mark.

Savon Myers led all Redlands scorers with 25 points, 11 assists, four rebounds and two steals. Glenn Bishop Jr. was close behind with 24 points, five boards and two steals.

Fred Slaughter has spent hundreds if not thousands of hours walking the basketball court inside Jenks Simmons Field House as either an assistant coach or fulfilling his duties as assistant athletic director.

If you don’t favor the sports pages, you might have missed the girls wrestling team saga at Edmond North High School. And you perhaps have not given deep thought to its significance.

El Reno High School’s basketball teams went into last week’s home finales against Santa Fe South in the top two spots in the District 5A-1 standings.

The boys defeated the St. Bernards 15-0 via a forfeit due to illness and ineligible players at the OKC school. The Indians moved to 13-0 in the district and claimed the title no matter the outcome of the Carl Albert road game.

The girls are second and need to win their last two league games to claim the title.

El Reno High School’s powerlifting teams recently took part in the Bethel Wildcats Invitational, with the boys squad taking fifth place in the Large School Division with 78 points.

The Indians had nine varsity placers as Brad Palmer (123) took fifth place with a total weight of 670 pounds. He logged lifts of 235 pounds (squat), 150 pounds (bench) and 285 pounds (deadlift).

For the first time since Aaron West returned to Okarche High School in 2012, the Warriors completed the rare double-double championship of the Three Rivers Conference.

After winning the in-season Three Rivers Conference Tournament title with a 27-point victory over Cashion, Okarche closed out the regular season and regular league slate with an 84-66 win over the same Wildcats.

The 18-point win over 11th-ranked (2A) Cashion lifted top-ranked Okarche to 25-0 on the season heading into the Class A playoffs.