Playing one of the toughest schedules in Class 5A, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team avoided its second three-game losing streak of the season with a 72-45 win over Lawton Eisenhower in the seventh-place game of the Shawnee Invitational.
El Reno, ranked 13th in Class 5A, improved to 6-6 on the season.
The victory came on the heels of a setback to Class 6A’s 16th-ranked Broken Arrow (64-54) and Class 5A’s 20th-ranked Southeast (65-63).
Facing a lineup of three ranked teams, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team rallied from an opening-round loss to win the consolation title at the 2021 Shawnee Invitational.
El Reno, ranked seventh in Class 5A, improved to 8-4 on the season after a 59-40 win over Coweta in the consolation finals.
The win over the 10th-ranked (5A) Tigers came on the heels of a 41-31 victory over No.9 Shawnee (5A).
The Indians opened with a 43-36 setback to 5A’s fifth-ranked Ardmore.
Union City High School’s boys basketball team defeated Prue, Sasakwa and Mason to win the 2021 Paden Pirates Invitational over the weekend.
MIDWEST CITY – El Reno High School’s wrestling team faced an uphill battle from its opening-round matches in the 55th Malcolm Wade Invitational as nine of the 16 teams entered appear in the top 15 of the Class 5A poll. El Reno, one of those ranked teams at No.4, battled through the stacked brackets to place eight wrestlers en route to a fourth-place overall finish with 154 points.
Duncan, tied for second in the state with Glenpool, won the team title with 234 points. The Warriors were second with 190 points and Shawnee third with 165.5 points.
Briana Stevenson gets a boost into the air from teammates, from left, Krystiana Guzman, Samyra Hunter and Analexis Lozano during a stunt at a recent El Reno High School basketball game. EHS cheerleaders and pep band have been practicing social distancing and wearing masks during home games this season.
Jumping back into the win column, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team got the first win on its current six-game road swing with a 43-37 victory over the Duncan Demons.
The non-conference win moved El Reno, ranked seventh in Class 5A, to 6-3 on the season heading into this weekend’s Shawnee Invitational.
El Reno outscored the Demons in three of the four periods, leading 10-7 after one frame, 20-12 at the half and 33-24 going into the fourth. Duncan trimmed three points off the deficit behind a 13-10 scoring edge over the final eight minutes.
Fueled by a 15-point scoring edge in the third period, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team snapped a three-game losing streak with a 65-35 win over Duncan.
The non-conference victory lifted the Indians, down several spots in the latest Class 5A poll to 13th, to 5-4 on the season heading into weekend play in the Shawnee Invitational.
“We made a big shot at the end of the second quarter and then came out in the second half and had that big run. We created turnovers that led to some easy baskets,” said El Reno head coach Rodney Haydon.
UNION CITY – Playing the first home game since the death of head coach Robert Duvall, Union City High School’s boys basketball team posted a wire-to-wire win over Gracemont.
The victory lifted the Tigers to 2-5 on the season and 1-2 in the Washita Valley Conference standings. It was the first game of 2021 for Union City due to COVID-19 concerns.
UNION CITY – In a much-anticipated return to the court, Union City High School’s girls basketball team overwhelmed Gracemont last week to earn its first Washita Valley Conference victory.
The Tigers improved to 3-4 on the season and 1-2 in the WVC standings with a 49-22 win over the Lions.
Gracemont, which had only five players, kept it close in the first period despite a 3-pointer and eight total from Union City guard Taytim Woods. The Tigers led 10-8 going into the second period.
El Reno High School’s girls basketball team let a key win slip through its fingers last week as Lawton MacArthur scored a basket off an offensive rebound at the buzzer.
The 61-60 non-conference road loss to the Highlanders, ranked fifth in Class 5A, left El Reno with a 5-3 overall record.
The Indians, ranked seventh in the same poll, slipped to 2-2 in games away from Jenks Simmons Field House. The setback to the Highlanders was the first of a six-game road slate for El Reno, which won’t play at home again until Jan. 29.
