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.
El Reno High School’s boys basketball team snapped a four-game losing streak against the Oklahoma City Storm, closing out the 2022-23 regular season with a 72-44 victory over the home-school program.
The 27-point win came in the third game over four days for El Reno, which lost two previous contests to Kingfisher and Bishop McGuinness. The Indians, ranked third in the Class 5A West standings, took a 15-6 record into the regional round of the playoffs.
The Elite Eight is a term commonly associated with Okarche High School’s girls basketball program and the Warriors are once again on the doorstep of yet another berth in the state tourney.
The seventh-ranked Warriors defeated No.9 Arapaho-Butler 66-44 to win the Class A, Area II, Region C Championships. Okarche will take its four-game win streak into the area title game against third-ranked Vanoss Friday in Shawnee, with the winner punching a state ticket.
Okarche is now 22-5 on the season and sports an 11-0 record against other Class A teams.
Five players posted numbers in double figures as Calumet High School’s boys basketball team defeated Kremlin-Hillsdale 69-50 to win the Class B, Area I, Region A Championships.
The victory extended the Chieftains win streak to 23 games.
Fourth-ranked Calumet now takes a 25-1 record into the Area I championship game on Friday against No.8 Goodwell.
That game will be played in Woodward with the winner moving on to state.
El Reno High School’s baseball program held a pancake breakfast fundraiser recently.
More than 300 people were served pancakes and sausage, and in addition to decal and team hat sales, generated $3,200 for the program to use toward expenses.
Redlands Community College’s mascot tries to fire up the crowd during a recent home basketball game.
The face under the mascot is El Reno High School alum Campbell Eaton.
CALUMET – No matter the outcome of the regional finals, Calumet High School’s boys basketball team will be one of three Canadian County small schools automatically advancing to the area round of the postseason.
The Chieftains, ranked fourth in the state, secured the pass to area with a 74-47 win over 20th-ranked Lomega in the semifinals of the Class B, Area I, Region A Championships.
El Reno High School junior Pauline Black-Harmon mugs for the camera with head coach Jennifer Douglas as the two sort balloons marking Black-Harmon reaching 500 career rebounds during a recent game.
The post player has 504 career rebounds and is chasing LeeAnn Bezner’s school record of 656 caroms.
MUSTANG – The first tickets to the 2023 Oklahoma State High School Wrestling Championships were punched here last week for two El Reno High School grapplers.
Competing in the Girls West Regional, Kaylee Davis and Hannah Koen placed fifth or better in their weight classes to earn state spots. The pair combined for 43 of El Reno’s 54 points.
“I could not be prouder of those girls. From the moment their feet hit the ground on campus they started training and were 100 percent bought in. They embraced the process and trusted us coaches and worked their tails off every day.
It took six periods before the season series between El Reno High School’s boys basketball team and rival Bishop McGuinness ended in a non-amicable split on Valentine's Day.
The Irish scored the final three points to pull out a 74-72 double overtime victory and handed El Reno its second straight loss.
The Indians dropped a 59-33 road game to Class 4A’s top-ranked Kingfisher the night before.
El Reno was set to close out the regular season against the Oklahoma City Storm, a home-schooled program, which has beaten the Indians the past four seasons.
