El Reno High School junior Lilly Owen leads a group of runners on the second lap of the Class 5A Girls Oklahoma State High School Cross Country Championships in Edmond.
Owen finished in the middle of the pack over a fast-paced run.
See Saturday’s edition for a recap of Owen’s run.
Eight El Reno High School softball players, five of those underclassmen, earned spots on two of the teams making up the 2025 All-District 5A-2 honors.
El Reno went 5-5 in district play, finishing fourth, while sporting a 13-18 overall record.
The slate included 10 games against Class 6A schools and 22 outings against ranked opponents – four of those in the top five of respective polls.
El Reno High School’s volleyball team, which placed third in the league, landed three players on the 2025 All-Suburban Conference team - voted on by member coaches.
The Indians, ranked 14th in Class 5A, closed the season with a 4-2 mark in league action and 19-14 for the season.
El Reno reached the championship round of the regional playoffs before bowing out.
The effort landed a first-team pick on the all-conference team for sophomore Radley Miller.
Brantlie Charmasson was tabbed for the second team and Daily Maples was named honorable mention.
In her third appearance in the postseason, El Reno High School junior Lily Owen punched her ticket to this weekend’s Class 5A State Cross Country Championships.
Running in the 5A West Regional in Moore, Owen posted a time of 22 minutes and 16.77 seconds to place 20th overall. Her time was good enough to grab the second individual state pass handed out from the meet.
It’s the second year for El Reno to send a female runner to state.
Owen’s third trip to regional was her best time, beating her freshman time by 5:44 and last year’s mark by 50 seconds.
Ten Redlands Community College runners will be headed north to Iowa for the 2025 NJCAA Division II National Cross Country Championships to be held Nov. 8 in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
The men’s team took fourth place at the recent NJCAA Region 2 Championships in Arkansas to punch a team ticket. All three of the Cougars female runners earned national passes as individuals.
The men’s team posted a total time of two hours and 30.58 minutes on the 8-kilometer (4.97-mile) regional course. The team’s average time was 30:11, leading to a team point total of 92.
Leonn Taylor waves to the camera while trying to hold his umbrella in the stands at Memorial Stadium last week waiting for El Reno High School’s football team to resume its game with John Marshall. Helping hold the umbrella is Kellie Evey.
A handful of dedicated fans waited through an hour and a half lightning delay to watch the Indians finish off a four-plus-hour game with a 66-8 win over the Bears in a key District 5A-2 contest.
Playing through a steady rain for three and a half quarters, El Reno High School’s football team stayed in the hunt for a berth in the postseason with a 66-8 blowout of John Marshall.
El Reno moved to 3-5 overall with its largest winning margin of the season. More importantly, the Indians remain tied with Lawton and Noble for the fourth and final playoff spot from District 5A-2 with a 2-3 record.
Second-half goals from Paige Treat and Ashanti Lewis lifted Redlands Community College women’s soccer team to a 2-0 win over Northeastern Oklahoma A&M.
By winning the regular-season finale, the Cougars charge into the NJCAA Region 2 Championship for the first time since 2018 as the third seed out of the North Division.
Redlands was 5-7 in the NJCAA Region 2 regular-season standings for sixth overall. Beau Richmond’s team was 7-7-1 for the year, its best record since 2018.
Admittedly I was not a fan of the design or aspects of the new coliseum at the Oklahoma City Fair Park when it was first announced.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Basketball and wrestling state championships for all classifications in the state for basketball and wrestling will be decided in the Oklahoma City metroplex through the year 2030.
The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association announced a new five-year deal between the OG&E Coliseum at OKC Fair Park and the University of Oklahoma’s Lloyd Noble Center to host the championship tournaments beginning in 2026.
