Redlands Community College women’s basketball team used a 10-1 run in the first period to pull away from Eastern Oklahoma State College for a 69-47 win in its regional home opener.
The 22-point victory over the Mountaineers lifted Redlands to 15-1 on the season and extended its current win streak to 15 games. The Cougars are 2-0 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings, tied for first with three other squads.
Pushing four players into double digits, Redlands Community College men’s basketball team snapped a three-game losing streak with an 85-73 home win over Eastern Oklahoma.
The Cougars improve to 7-9 on the season and 1-1 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings - tied for fourth.
Damond Matthews went 7-of-16 from the floor en route to his team-high 19 points. He added eight rebounds, three assists and two steals.
Glenn Bishop Jr. was close behind with a double-double line of 17 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists.
Freshman Jaida Richardson scored a season-high 18 points but it wasn’t enough as El Reno High School’s girls basketball team kicked off the 2026 portion of its schedule with a 61-38 road loss to Midwest City.
The loss snapped a two-game winning streak as El Reno slipped to 5-4 on the season.
The Indians are now 4-2 in the District 5A-2 standings but remain in third place.
Richardson scored three 2-point baskets, hit two of the team’s three treys on the night and went 6-of-7 from the free-throw line.
In just his second game back from emergency appendectomy surgery, Bradley Island scored a season-high 19 points in a losing effort as El Reno High School’s boys basketball team dropped a 64-51 road game at Midwest City.
The 13-point loss gave the league-leading Bombers the sweep of El Reno in District 5A-2 play. Midwest City beat the Indians by 25 points inside Jenks Simmons Field House.
El Reno, winner of three straight going into the 2026 opener, slipped to 3-6 overall and 2-4 in the league. The Indians are tied for fourth with Lawton in the 5A-2 win column at 2-4.
The first tournament outing of the new year had two El Reno High School wrestlers fall a win shy of placing at the 2026 SuperGirl 64 in Tulsa.
Seeley Chronister (135) won her final four matches en route to a 4-2 mark. The run included an 11-0 shutout of Adyson Nida of Perry and a 1:38 fall over Kyra Duncan of Rogers, Ark.
Her other wins were by a combined 12 points including an 8-0 shutout of Piedmont’s Natalie Lindo.
Bentley Sharp (235) was the other near-placer after posting a 4-3 mark that included two falls - the fastest being a 1:15 pin of Catoosa’s Rylan Elerick.
OKARCHE – Down by a point and the momentum favoring Tonkawa, Okarche High School’s boys basketball team showed the visiting Buccaneers how a top-ranked team responds.
They flipped the on switch.
Okarche went from a 7-6 deficit early in the first period to a 22-9 lead in a matter of two minutes en route to a 99-46 victory over Tonkawa to snap a three-game losing streak.
The Warriors move to 11-3 on the season.
OKARCHE – Converting six second-period turnovers from its pressure defense into 11 points, Okarche High School’s girls basketball team pulled away from a pesky Tonkawa squad en route to a 55-30 victory.
Okarche, ranked No.5 in Class A, moves to 9-2 on the season with its sixth straight victory.
The Warriors led 18-11 after one period but used three of those turnovers to spark a 9-2 break to open the second period. Logan White, Katie Parham and Callie Cramer scored from the paint before Emory West’s 3-pointer (4:22) made it a 27-13 game.
Nine players scored at least three points to spark Redlands Community College women’s basketball team to a 70-51 road win over Connors State College to open NJCAA Region 2 action.
The Cougars move to 14-1 on the season with the 19-point victory and pushed its current win streak to 14 straight games.
Redlands shot 22-of-58 (38 percent) from the floor including five 3-pointers off a 28 percent effort from behind the arc.
The Cougars were 21-of-32 (66 percent) from the free-throw line.
Redlands Community College men’s basketball team kicked off NJCAA Region 2 action on the wrong foot last week, suffering a 106-81 road setback to Connors State College.
The 25-point loss, the worst of the season for RCC, extended its current losing streak to three games.
The Cougars are now 6-9 on the season.
Redlands shot 45 percent from the field (28-of-62) but made only six 3-point baskets off 29 percent shooting. The team was 19-of-29 (66 percent) from the free-throw line.
A feverish second-half rally fell four points short as Okarche High School’s boys basketball team dropped a 97-93 shootout with Class 6A’s Southmoore in the seventh-place game of the 60th Annual Tournament of Champions.
“Even though we got beat, I was pleased with the way we played. I thought we battled two out of three days really well.
“With the physicality of Class 5A and 6A schools, it was obviously better competition than we’ve played in a long time,” said Okarche head coach Aaron West.
