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Redlands Community College women’s basketball team held off a second-half charge by Crowder College to extend its current win streak to 11 straight games with a 69-61 victory. The team moves to 11-1 on the season.

Redlands led 40-25 at the half but was outscored 36-29 over the final two periods. The Cougars shot 21-of-52 from the floor (40 percent), including six 3-pointers off 38 percent shooting.

Three players closed in double-digit scoring, led by 15 points, four rebounds and a steal from Myracle Washington.

Snapping a two-game losing streak, Redlands Community College men’s basketball team moved to an even .500 for the season with back-to-back double-digit wins.

The Cougars are now 6-6 overall after beating Strength-and-Motion (100-48) and Clarendon College (90-78).

Justice Johnson had a double-double of 17 points and 10 rebounds in the 52-point home blowout. He had a team-high 48 points and 16 rebounds for the two-game set.

A young El Reno High School wrestling team, which started four freshmen, kicked off the 2025-26 dual season last week by rallying from 10 points down to defeat Watonga.

El Reno posted a 58-21 victory by winning seven of the eight weights settled on the mat.

Both teams forfeited four weights with the Indians getting free wins from Zackary Pannell (165), Whylee Towns-Marquez (190), Turner Richardson (215) and Nick Mitchum at heavyweight.

Fast starts have been a key element to the success of El Reno High Schools girls basketball program under head coach Jennifer Douglas.

Last week the Indians, the two-time defending Class 5A state champions, kicked off the 2025-26 season with a 47-33 road win over the Lawton Wolverines.

It’s the eighth time in 10 years with Douglas at the helm for El Reno to win its season opener and the seventh in a row.

The only losses were to Piedmont (51-49) in 2016, Douglas’ first year, and to the Wildcats two years later by 16 points.

El Reno High School’s boys basketball team kicked off the 2025-26 season and District 5A-2 play on the wrong side of a 66-39 score in a road game at Lawton.

It’s just the third time since 2013 for the Indians to drop their season opener with the 27-point setback to the Wolverines being the worst of the three. The others were a 17-point loss to Carl Albert (2023) and a 20-point loss to Shawnee (2019).

Calumet High School’s girls basketball team knocked down 10 3-pointers to highlight an 82-35 win over The Academy to earn back-to-back wins for the second time this season.

The Chieftains, ranked No.8 in the first Class B-1 poll of the season, move to 4-1 overall.

Calumet shot 46 percent from behind the arc, 10-of-22, with Hayden Mayfield knocking down four treys and Randi Upchego three treys. Lila Winegeart had two 3-pointers and Angela De La Cruz added one 3-pointer.

Okarche High School’s boys basketball team continues its assault on the 66-year-old state record for most consecutive wins with a 98-51 blowout of Coyle.

The two-time defending state champion moves to 4-0 on the year with the 47-point blowout and the team now has won 45 games in a row dating back to the 2023-24 season.

The state record for the longest winning streak is 67 set by Byng (1957-59).

Showing little hangover from the recent holiday break, Redlands Community College women’s basketball team extended its current win streak to 10 games with a 91-38 blowout of Southern Nazarene University’s junior varsity.

Redlands is now 10-1 on the season.

The Cougars shot 51 percent from the floor (37-of-73) including a 7-of-18 effort (39 percent) from the 3-point arc. Redlands made 10 free throws off a 53 percent effort.

Four players closed in double digits, led by Myracle Washington with 16 points, seven assists, three rebounds and three steals.

Eight points separated Redlands Community College men’s basketball team from the win column as the Cougars dropped two outings inside a 24-hour period.

Redlands fell at home to Fort Scott Community College (74-72) before dropping a road game to Dallas College North Lake (91-85).

The Cougars are now 4-6 on the year.

Treston Gage paced all scorers for the two games with 32 points and added eight rebounds. Glen Bishop followed with 17 points, 12 rebounds and four steals.

With an unexpected first-round exit in last season’s Class 5A State Championships with a senior-heavy lineup, skeptics expected El Reno High School’s boys basketball team to be facing a major rebuild.

While it’s true there are holes in the starting lineup to fill, head coach Rodney Haydon says his current roster has the potential to make it back to state.

“Absolutely. The schedule will be tough, it was last year, but we’ll be battle-tested and ready to go. We wouldn’t put a product on the floor if we didn’t think we could go to a state tournament,” said Haydon.