Sports

Having watched a trip to dual state slip through its grasp in the late matches of the Class 5A District 3 Championships, the upper weights for El Reno High School’s wrestling team felt there was something to prove. “For sure. We felt like we had to redeem ourselves.

El Reno High School’s girls basketball team moved to within a game of earning just its second 20-win season under head coach Jennifer Douglas after earning back-to-back road wins in District 5A-1 play.

Clutch free-throw shooting from Carter Roman Nose helped seal a pair of nail-biting victories for El Reno High School’s boys basketball team last week in District 5A-1 play.

Thirteen different players scored as Okarche High School’s girls basketball team won its seventh straight game with a 59-19 decision over cross-county rival Calumet. The win pushed the Warriors to 15-7 on the year and 2-0 versus small schools inside Canadian County.

Pushed by a 16-12 run in the fourth quarter, Calumet High School’s boys basketball team is king of the hill among Canadian County’s small schools following a 55-51 win over Class A’s fourth-ranked Okarche.

Redlands Community College women’s basketball team had its three-game win streak snapped last week with a 65-40 road loss to region front-runner Connors State College.

Back-to-back losses have slipped Redlands Community College men’s basketball team two spots down in the latest NJCAA Region 2 standings.

El Reno High School girls basketball coach Jennifer Douglas presented senior Pauline Black-Harmon with a plaque last week honoring her accomplishment as EHS’ all-time leading rebounder. She broke the record set in 1996 by LeAnn Bezner.

Shaking off a series of first-half turnovers, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team led Altus wire to wire last week to remain unbeaten on the season.

El Reno High School guard Carter Roman Nose went into last week’s game against Altus needing 29 points, more than he had scored in any game this season, to reach the 1,000-point career scoring mark. He needed less than two quarters to reach that mark.