Competing with what head coach Anthony McDonald called “the most heart than anytime all year,” El Reno High School’s wrestling team defeated Carl Albert to win the Class 5A District 3 Championship.
The 38-33 decision over the eighth-ranked Titans moved the 13th-ranked Indians to 6-3 on the season. It also secured El Reno’s first trip back to the Class 5A Dual State Championships since 2021 and just the third since 2007.
Union City High School’s boys basketball team rode a pair of fourth-period comebacks to secure third place in the 2025 Paden Pirates Classic.
The Tigers have won three of their last four games to improve to 6-12 on the season. Union City defeated Oilton (51-49) in the first round of the classic after trailing by 12 points in the fourth period.
Following a loss to Class A’s 19th-ranked Dewar (53-31) in the semifinals, Union City rallied in the fourth to defeat the host team 60-58 on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Aiden Williams.
Fueled by three games of double-digit scoring from Katie Parham, Okarche High School’s girls basketball team, ranked 20th in Class A, has quietly strung together a four-game win streak.
The Warriors defeated Cushing JV (57-16), Crescent (43-41) and Southwest Covenant (49-27) to win the title at the 2025 Coyle Invitational. Okarche added a non-tourney win over Crescent (58-32) to move to 14-7 on the year.
Parham closed the four-game set with a team-high 58 points, followed by 28 points from Callie Cramer and 23 by Scout Payne.
Connors State, the defending NJCAA Region 2 champion, outscored Redlands Community College women’s basketball team 21-12 in the fourth period to rally for a 69-64 victory.
The Cougars trailed 33-32 at the half but went on a 20-15 run in the third period to secure a 52-48 lead going into the final 10 minutes.
The 12 points in the fourth period was the lowest frame of the game.
With the loss, the fourth in a row for Redlands including a road setback to Murray State (75-71), the Cougars drop to 9-8 overall. Redlands is 2-4 in the Region 2 standings - tied for sixth.
Missed shots and turnovers in the final 10 minutes cost Redlands Community College men’s basketball team a shot at beating reigning NJCAA Region 2 champion Connors State.
The Cowboys erased a deficit behind five RCC turnovers leading to 12 points and a 56-all tie with four minutes to play. Connors State outscored the Cougars 14-10 the remainder of the game for a 70-66 victory.
SHAWNEE – All-tournament selection Raegan Bugaj made 5-of-6 free throws in the final 1:17 as El Reno High School’s girls basketball team defeated the host team 45-34 in the third-place game of the 2025 Shawnee Invitational.
El Reno improved to 14-1 on the season after having its 41-game win streak snapped a day earlier in a semifinal loss to Yukon (52-48). The Indians extended their program-best win streak in the first round with a blowout win over Northwest Classen (55-8).
SHAWNEE - An untimely shooting drought spelled the end to El Reno High School’s boys basketball team’s longest win streak in over two decades as the Indians fell to Broken Arrow 55-46 in what proved to be the finals of the 2025 Shawnee Invitational.
With only six teams on the boys side, the event was switched to a round-robin format as both the Indians and Tigers entered the matchup undefeated in their two previous games.
El Reno High School’s wrestling team, ranked 11th in the state, will enter this week’s Class 5A, District 3 Championships coming off a 10-day break.
The championship is being hosted by Carl Albert and will be settled between the No.7 Titans, El Reno and Bishop McGuinness.
Woodward and John Marshall are also in the district but will not wrestle according to sources.
The district winner earns a trip to the 2025 Dual State Championships.
Judging from the number of friends, colleagues and former players filling the pews at First Baptist Church for his memorial service, Ken Posey touched countless lives in his 83 years on this earth.
Mine was one of those.
Both its offense and defense look to be running at full strength as El Reno High School’s girls basketball team picked up its first District 5A-1 sweep of the season with a 68-27 road win over Elgin.
El Reno was coming off a 76-3 win over Santa Fe South, which set season-best marks for both scoring and points allowed. The 73-point blowout was the largest winning margin of the year and featured 24 steals.
