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El Reno High School senior Caroline Huber recently signed a national letter of intent to play soccer next season for Seminole State College. Huber is a returning three-year starter for the Indians.

Jaxon Olive signed with Northern Oklahoma College recently for a baseball scholarship starting with the 2022-23 term.

Olive is a senior at Calumet High School and was joined by family, Anthony Bryner, Jadon Olive, Jaclyn Bryner and Layne Olive.

January 4, 2022
Wrestling vs. Weatherford
Junior High (6 p.m.)
Varsity (7 p.m.)
Jenks Simmons Field House

January 6, 2022
Wrestling vs. Guthrie
Junior High (6 p.m.)
Varsity (7 p.m.)
Jenks Simmons Field House

January 6-8, 2022
Boys & Girls Basketball @ Anadarko Invitational

January 11, 2022
Boys & Girls Basketball vs. Del City
Girls (6 p.m.)
Boys (7:30 p.m.)
Jenks Simmons Field House

PIEDMONT – Seven different players scored for El Reno High School’s girls basketball team in a cross-county rivalry game with Piedmont as the Indians closed the 2021 portion of their schedule with a 55-30 victory.

The Wildcats, holding the seventh spot in the Class 5A poll, were the sixth straight ranked team for El Reno to play this season. The Indians, ranked third in the same 5A poll, improved to 5-1 overall.

PIEDMONT – Quick starts have been key for El Reno High School’s boys basketball team and the Indians did it again in the first of two rivalry meetings with Piedmont.

The Indians used a 22-10 break in the first period and then held off a second-half charge by the Wildcats for a 61-52 victory.

With its third win in a row, El Reno, ranked 12th in Class 5A, improved to 4-2 on the season.

El Reno High School’s wrestling team was one of several ranked Oklahoma programs to take part in the 2021 Kansas City Stampede held in Missouri over the weekend.

Niko Gonzalez, Dailey Jennings and Rylee Walborn, shown here in a recent dual with Blanchard, were among the 11 grapplers the Indians took to the national tourney.

See story in an upcoming issue.

(Tribune photographer/Glen Miller)

Pushing three players in double-digit scoring, Union City High School’s girls basketball team snapped a three-game losing streak with a 65-40 win over Gracemont.

The game was a makeup from an earlier date which was postponed due to COVID-19 complications. The Tigers improved to 5-6 on the season but more importantly, earned their first Washita Valley Conference win in five attempts.

Thirteen players got into the scoring act for Union City High School’s boys basketball team as the Tigers jumped back into the win column with a 65-42 road decision over Gracemont.

The victory moved Union City to 6-5 on the season and 2-3 in the Washita Valley Conference standings.

J.D. Riley scored a team-high 11 points, highlighted by a trio of 3-point baskets. Colson Combs and Tyler Norton paced those shooters in single digits with seven points each. Blake Ross, Ruston Dawson and Cody Woods chipped in six points each.

It’s been said there is life after football and Chuck Atchison has decided he wants to try and see if that old saying is really true - while he still can.

In a move which stunned some, the El Reno High School football coach of five years resigned his current position last week to become the district’s new Director of Operations.

Winning four of the final five weights, El Reno High School’s wrestling team remains undefeated at home this season with a 39-33 win over Class 4A’s fourth-ranked Blanchard.

The dual was the fourth this season for El Reno against ranked opponents, three of those being top five schools.

The Indians, the No.2 team in the latest Class 5A poll, improved to 3-2 on the year.

“It was a hard fight and we just had to keep going and get better from here on out. We finished with a close one but we got the win,” said 195-pounder Xzavier Devereaux.