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Scoring the first 23 points of the  game, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team opened up its 2022-23 home slate with an impressive 61-19  win over Lawton Eisenhower.
El Reno, now 2-0 on the season, dominated on both ends of the floor after holding the Eagles to 10 first-half points and blanking the Eagles offense in the first period.
The Indians led 18-0 after one period as five players contributed to the effort. Lilly Thomas and Nazhoni Sleeper scored six points each, while Emmary Elizondo, Pauline Black-Harmon and Bryhanna Blackowl scored a basket each.

Knocking down six 3-pointers in the first period,  El Reno High School’s boys basketball team posted a 78-43 wire-to-wire victory over Lawton Eisenhower last week in its 2022-23 home opener.
El Reno improved to 2-0 on the season after scoring the first 16 points of the contest, four of those coming off a technical foul against Ike. Carter Roman Nose made one of the two free throws, then buried a corner 3-pointer off the inbound play.

El Reno High School senior Ryan Sigler points to “Paula the Pin Pony,” the wrestling team's mascot for the season.  After every fall recorded, the wrestler getting the pin has to ride Paula off the mat. The mascot is a way to keep wrestlers and fans engaged in the dual according to head coach Tyrone Lewis. El Reno, ranked sixth in Class 5A, took a 2-0 record into Tuesday's match with cross-county rival Piedmont.

The guard-post combination of Carter Roman Nose and James Reveles combined for close to half of the scoring for El Reno High School’s boys basketball team in a 45-31 season-opening win over Shawnee.

The victory counts in the Suburban Conference standings since it's the lone non-tournament meeting.

Both teams struggled on offense as El Reno’s 29 percent shooting mark was six points higher than the Wolves. The Indians were 12-of-31 (39 percent) from 2-point range, while hitting 2-of-17 3-point attempts for 12 percent.

For 54 days, senior Ryan Sigler has stewed over El Reno High School’s only shutout loss of the football season at the hands of the Midwest City Bombers. Last week he got his revenge.

Sigler, wrestling at 215 pounds, pinned Midwest City’s Noah Haydon at the 2:41 mark for El Reno’s eighth and final fall as the Indians opened up the 2022-23 dual season with a 69-10 explosion over the Bombers.

Despite missing all 13 shots from behind the 3-point arc, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team kicked off the 2022-23 season and the Suburban Conference schedule with a 42-28 win over Shawnee.

El Reno trailed 13-12 after one period but took a 20-19 lead into the break after both teams combined for just 14 points in the second period.

The Indians found a scoring spark with 11 points in each of the final two periods, while the defense limited the Wolves to a free throw in the third period and eight points over the final eight minutes.

Head coach Haley Mitchell feels her Okarche High School girls basketball team still has to earn the respect of pollsters on the court, which the Warriors did in the first game after the season’s initial rankings.

Okarche got double-digit scoring efforts from Scout Payne and Jalie Rother to lead the Warriors to a 71-23 win over Coyle. Ranked sixth in that first poll, OHS improved to 3-2 on the season.

Payne knocked down four 3-pointers en route to her 18 points. Rother scored 10 of her 18 points for the game in the first period, six of those off a pair of 3-pointers.

Hunter Arnold knocked down a trio of 3-pointers en route to his team-leading 26 points as Calumet High School’s boys basketball team went on the road to defeat Granite 69-62 in a top 15 battle.

Calumet, ranked sixth in the first Class B poll of the season, improved to 5-1 with its third straight win. Granite, ranked 14th in the same poll and coached by Okarche alum Kol Bomhoff, had its five-game win streak snapped by CHS.

Redlands Community College women’s basketball team rallied from a nine-point deficit to open the fourth quarter last week to steal a 51-48 win over Southwestern Christian College’s junior varsity.

The victory was part of a holiday split as the Cougars dropped a 72-68 game to Crowder College. Redlands took a 5-5 season record back into NJCAA Region 2 action at Eastern Oklahoma State College.

Redlands put up an 18-point fourth period against the Eagles to sweep the season series, getting eight points in the paint from Jaiana Wiggins and three more from Isabelle Stafford.

Coming back to the bench two years ago, head coach Rodney Haydon said it would take time and patience to retool El Reno High School’s boys basketball program back into a state-tournament team.

Tuesday night the Indians head to Shawnee to begin Haydon’s third season of his second stint as head coach with roster pieces that could very well send El Reno back to the Big Eight in Class 5A.

“We for sure have a lot of playing time and experience coming back and several move-ins that could get a lot of playing time. We have a chance to have a lot of depth,” said Haydon.