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Redlands Community College men’s basketball team was officially eliminated from the field for the NJCAA Region 2 Championships following an 84-74 road loss at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M. The Cougars took an 11-18 overall record into its season finale at Seminole State College.

Redlands Community College’s baseball team closed out February by winning five out of six games including a road sweep of North Central Missouri College. Playing in Joplin, Redlands defeated the Pirates 6-3, 2-1, 8-6 and 18-7 to close out the sweep, which left the Cougars with an 8-8 season record.

During practices leading up to the Class 5A West Region 3 Championships, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team spent extra time drilling long vertical passes to highlight its transition game. The work paid off in the title game.

A day removed from shooting under 40 percent, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team hit 56 percent of its shots from the 3-point arc en route to a 75-53 win over Mount St. Mary to win the Class 5A West Region 3 Championships. “We take things game by game and play to our strengths.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Though the team title eluded its grasp, El Reno High School’s wrestling program emerged from the 2023 Oklahoma State High School Wrestling Championships with a handful of firsts.

Canadian County’s three small schools remaining in the 2023 basketball playoffs took the high road, and higher seeds, into their respective state tournaments after winning area titles over the weekend.

Leaning hard on its defense to counteract an off shooting night, El Reno High School's boys basketball team earned a spot in the Sweet 16 of the Class 5A playoffs with a 25 point win over a scrappy Guymon team.

Despite a 10-day layoff, El Reno High School's girls basketball team looked highly efficient in the opening round of the Class 5A playoffs with a 49-point win over Mount Saint Mary.

They are not the first girls to compete for El Reno High School’s wrestling program, nor are they the first to qualify for a state tournament. Those glass ceilings were broken several years ago.

MIDWEST CITY – Tyrone Lewis quietly watched from the stands as his assistant coaches and El Reno High School wrestlers turned in their best postseason effort in more than a decade.