El Reno High School’s basketball teams dominated Noble recently with strong scoring in the paint.
Both EHS teams are 6-0 at the break and will be back in action Friday night at home against Elgin with tipoff set for 6 and 7:30 p.m.
Lila Winegeart and Angellyne De La Cruz knocked down a 3-pointer each as Calumet High School’s girls basketball team snapped a five-game losing streak with a 41-29 win over Harding Fine Arts.
The win left Calumet with a 2-8 record.
Winegeart led all Calumet scorers with 15 points off 7-of-19 shooting, while collecting eight steals and a rebound. De La Cruz paced those in single digits with eight points, seven rebounds and an assist.
Alice Park was close behind with seven points and six boards, while Brenlee Voss had five points and three boards.
Putting together back-to-back games with an offensive output over 90 points, Okarche High School’s boys basketball team closed out the 2024 portion of its schedule undefeated.
The Warriors defeated Watonga (98-27) and Seiling (90-18) to move to 11-0. Okarche entered the break having logged eight games over 90 points, with the win over Watonga being its season-high.
Okarche remains the top-ranked team in Class A, having garnered 72 of the 84 first-place votes cast.
Designing plays to feature a specific player is nothing new for El Reno High School’s boys basketball coach Rodney Haydon.
Yet when the outcome of the play is believed to be a career milestone, Haydon is going to go the extra mile.
Though it was a different season, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team started out the 2024 calendar year with a 58-point tournament win.
Last week the Indians ended the 2024 calendar of games with a 68-21 victory over Noble in district play. Between the two games were 27 straight victories.
El Reno improved to 6-0 on the 2024-25 season with the 47-point win over the Bears. More importantly, the Indians moved to 3-0 in the District 5A-1 standings and in pace with Carl Albert for the lead.
Three multi-point runs kept El Reno High School’s boys basketball team in the win column and undefeated heading into the holiday break following an 87-27 victory over Noble.
El Reno moved to 6-0 on the season with the 60-point win, its second largest winning margin of the season. The Indians are now 3-0 in the District A-1 standings, a game back of Carl Albert (4-0) in the win column and one in front of Lawton MacArthur (2-0).
El Reno High School honored two of its players to surpass the 1,000-point career scoring mark in the month of December.
Nick Owen has no problem with college athletes getting a little extra money in their pockets each month given the time commitment required to play college sports.
With expanding regular-season schedules, offseason training and degree course work, there is little free time to get even a part-time job to earn some spending money.
El Reno High School senior Izzy Choat (seated center) recently signed an National Letter of Intent to play softball for Kansas-based Independence Community College.
Choat is the second player from EHS to sign with a college program this school term.
El Reno High School’s basketball teams were slated to wrap up the 2024 portion of their schedules at home against Noble.
Both teams entered the District 5A-1 battles with the Bears with undefeated 5-0 records.
See Saturday’s edition for complete coverage of the contests with Noble.
