YUKON – Lilly Thomas pulled down a defensive rebound off a missed 3-pointer in the waning second as El Reno held off a late charge by Coweta for a 48-45 semifinal win at the Class 5A Oklahoma Girls State High School Basketball Championships.
It was El Reno’s second three-point victory of the postseason and sent the Indians into the championship game for the fourth time in six seasons.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Sometimes a team’s best offense is a good defense – even in the state tourney.
Making its first-ever appearance in the Jim Norick Arena a/k/a the Big House, El Reno leaned heavily on its defense to overcome a slow shooting effort to defeat Durant 42-25 in the quarterfinals of the 2025 Class 5A Girls Oklahoma State High School Basketball Championships.
“Our defense did carry us and played a big part in this win. I’m glad we did everything we did to stop the things they were doing,” said El Reno senior Emmary Elizondo.
OKLAHOMA CITY – El Reno had its shots to advance in the 2025 Class 5A Boys Oklahoma State High School Basketball Championships, they were just falling every other way but through the rim.
Making its 41st state tournament appearance and the ninth trip to the Elite Eight under head coach Rodney Haydon, El Reno missed 42 shots in a 65-57 loss to Tulsa Memorial.
The setback ends El Reno’s season at 25-4 as the Indians were trying to advance to the semifinals for the first time since 2019 and the 25th overall.
El Reno High School senior wrestler Matthew Snyder recently signed with Kansas-based Baker University.
Baker is coached by former EHS head coach Tyrone Lewis.
El Reno High School will be hosting the 2025 Oklahoma Powerlifting Coaches Association’s state meet and the Indians will have a shot at another team title.
Entering as the Northwest Regional champions, El Reno will have seven lifters in the high school division at state. Two of those are regional champions, Latin Everheart and Armando Sauz-Gonzalez.
Everheart (132) won all three categories with a deadlift of 425 pounds, a squat of 370 pounds and a 245-pound bench press for a 1,040 total.
El Reno High School’s soccer teams opened up a two-match road swing recently with a pair of losses to Class 4A powerhouse Weatherford.
The El Reno girls dropped to 1-1 on the season with a 4-0 shutout loss to the Eagles, getting three shots each from Madison Rochdi and Conley Knapp.
The Indians were out-shot 16-6 by Weatherford.
Yaneth Moran-Flores was in net for El Reno before suffering a shoulder injury, logging four saves.
Paced by freshman Radley Miller, El Reno High School’s girls golf team opened up the 2025 season with a ninth-place finish in the 2025 Bixby Showcase.
Playing the Southlake Golf Course in Jenks, El Reno carded a 402 to finish eight shots back of Piedmont for eighth place.
The Indians, the lone Class 5A squad in the 15-school field, were 19 shots better than Deer Creek and 31 ahead of Bartlesville.
The grueling road trip to the Oklahoma panhandle did little to cool the offense for El Reno High School’s baseball team in a two-game district sweep of Guymon.
El Reno moved to 5-0 on the season with an 8-1 victory and an 11-0 shutout over the Tigers. The Indians improved to 4-0 in the District 5A-1 standings and remain tied with Carl Albert, Noble and Guthrie for first.
UNION CITY – Aiden Williams hit a bases-loaded triple with two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning as Union City High School’s baseball team rallied from three runs down to defeat Class 2A’s 10th-ranked Vanoss, 8-7.
The win, followed by a 3-0 shutout of Destiny Christian, moved Union City to 6-0 on the season. The Tigers are ranked 11th in the state in the Class A, Division II poll.
Williams’ triple was one of three extra base hits as Josh Putnam doubled to highlight his 2-for-4 effort.
Carding two rounds at 320 and under, Redlands Community College women’s golf team opened up its spring schedule with a 13th-place finish at the 2025 Diffee Invitational.
Playing at Kickingbird in Edmond, Redlands shot a 633 (313/320) to beat out three other four-year programs in the 16-team field.
The Cougars were just seven strokes out of the top 10 (626), set by Northwest Missouri.
Southwestern Oklahoma State won the event with a 604 clip.
