Sports

From the players on the court to the fans in the stands at Jenks Simmons Field House, all eyes were on the basketball to see if it would fall through the hoop after it was shot by El Reno High School junior Carter Roman Nose during a recent home game against Guthrie.

SHAWNEE – Riding a combined 27 points from two all-tournament selections, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team defeated Yukon by 19 points to win its third in-season tourney crown.

In the first of three meetings this season, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team defeated the host team 52-37 to win the consolation title at the 2024 Shawnee Invitational. The 15-point decision lifted El Reno to 11-4 on the season.

While the count toward becoming the school’s all-time leading rebounder has dwindled below 20, El Reno High School post player Pauline Black-Harmon showed last week not to overlook her scoring prowess.

Jaylen Harper hit a 3-pointer with 3.2 seconds left as Guthrie remains tied for the lead in the District 5A-1 standings with a 66-63 win over El Reno High School’s boys basketball team. The loss snapped a five-game win streak for the Indians, who fell to 9-3 overall.

Fueled by seven placers, El Reno High School’s wrestling team took sixth place out of 21 squads at the 58th Annual Malcolm Wade Invitational. El Reno scored 141 points but was edged out of the top five by Chickasha by two points.

It was a near clean sweep for El Reno High School’s girls wrestling team last week at the 58th Annual Malcolm Wade Invitational as four of its first entries captured gold. All five wrestlers placed, with Nylley Miller (105) taking fourth after a loss in the third-place match.

Before Mother Nature played havoc with sports schedules across Oklahoma, two area basketball teams garnered mixed results over a four-game span. Okarche High School’s girls basketball team split a pair of games to move to 8-7 on the season.

After getting a 12-point wake up-call victory over Arapaho-Butler three days earlier, Calumet High School’s boys basketball team kicked off the famed West Central Tournament with a lopsided 102-30 blowout of Corn Bible Academy.

Redlands Community College women’s basketball team finds itself tied for fourth place in the NJCAA Region 2 standings after splitting the first two games of league action.