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While their coaches wore matching sweatshirts with the logo “Merry Swishmas,” it was El Reno High School’s girls basketball team lighting up the bottom of the nets.

The Indians turned eight first-period turnovers by Guthrie into a 17-0 run to kick-start a 64-30 victory over the Bluejays in the final home game before the Christmas break.

The win snapped a two-game losing streak for El Reno, which improved to 4-3 on the year. The season-high point total lifted the Indians to 3-1 in District 5A-2 play and into third place.

Gabe Osborn made two free throws with eight-tenths of a second left as El Reno High School’s boys basketball team pulled off its biggest comeback since large schools in Oklahoma shifted to district play.

El Reno rallied from 15 points down after one period to defeat Guthrie 62-58 and earned its first District 5A-2 victory of the season.

The four-point win pulled the Indians out of the cellar in the league standings to 1-3 and tied for fifth.

El Reno High School senior Mason Fulton recently signed a national letter of intent to play baseball for Redlands Community College.

The Mid America Nationals in Enid is annually one of the toughest events on the schedule for El Reno High School’s wrestling team and the final scores proved it.

El Reno was 26th as a team with 81.5 points despite placing eight of its 13 wrestlers in the top 24 of respective brackets. There were 38 teams overall from Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, and five of those squads did not score a point.

Riding consistent numbers from its top scorers, Okarche High School’s girls basketball team knocked off two ranked teams en route to the title from the 2025 South Canadian Classic.

Okarche, now 6-2 on the year and ranked No.5 in Class A, defeated Turpin (63-41) before downing Class B-2’s third-ranked Leedey (47-39). The Warriors toppled Cheyenne/Reydon (49-47) in the finals.

Katie Parham was named the Most Valuable Player after putting up a three-game line of 49 points, 15 rebounds and six steals.

Okarche High School’s boys basketball team, ranked No.1 in Class A, steamrolled its way to the title from the 2025 South Canadian Classic – winning by an average of 54 points.

The Warriors move to 8-0 on the year and now have won 49 straight games dating back to 2023.

Okarche defeated Lookeba-Sickles (99-21) before beating Class B-2’s 13th-ranked Leedey (99-45) and second-ranked Vici (83-53). The Warriors had a total point output of 281-119.

HARRAH – What started out to be a promising tournament ended on a sour note as El Reno High School’s girls basketball team dropped a 54-29 contest to Shawnee in the third-place game of the Harrah Panthers Classic.

The loss to the Suburban Conference rival Wolves left El Reno with a 1-2 record for the event after losing to Colorado’s Class 6A Pine Creek (48-31) and beating Star Spencer (47-19) in the opener.

HARRAH – After two close misses, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team ended a five-game losing streak to open the 2025-26 season with a 62-53 decision over Star Spencer.

The win came in the seventh-place game of the Harrah Panthers Classic and followed losses to Harrah (53-48) and John Marshall (65-61) by a combined nine points. The 1-2 tourney mark leaves El Reno with a 1-5 record for the season.

By defeating the Bobcats, El Reno avoided going winless in the classic after taking the title the past two seasons.

El Reno High School teamed up with Etta Dale Junior High to win eight out of 10 exhibition matches against Weatherford last week in girls wrestling action.

Autym Baker posted a 1-1 record, including a fall, while Seeley Chronister had a takedown working at the final buzzer in a close 4-3 loss to Weatherford’s top wrestler, Cashlie Bowman.

El Reno’s Leah Lopez won an 11-7 match over Kamdyn Kerth and Alivia Jackson pulled out a 3-1 victory over WHS’ Kyli Robbins.

Weatherford’s Aiden Willard pinned El Reno High School wrestler Nicholas Mitchum with 57 seconds left in their heavyweight match as the Eagles rallied for a 39-38 victory.

The loss to Weatherford, ranked No.14 in Class 4A, dropped the unranked Indians to 1-1 on the dual season.

“We knew it was going to be close. I had it as a three-point dual and we gave up bonus points where I had us not giving up bonus and that came to bite us in the butt.