Owls cruise to district title 50-29

NORMAN — Elgin used a dominating third-quarter performance to build a 23-point lead over Community Christian School and cruise to a Class 4A district championship win Friday night.

The Owls held a 38-15 lead at halftime en route to its 50-29 victory. The win sends the Owls to the 4A Regional Tournament at Bethany on Thursday where they will play the winner of the Bethany-McGuinness game played Saturday night.

Head coach Ryan Green said the district title is the sixth in seven years for Elgin. The Owls, 12-12, have won three of their last five games.

Elgin outscored Community Christian 16-0 in the third quarter, with five players notching baskets, including three three-point buckets.

“Defensively we did a great job, especially on their number 15 who is a great player,” Green said.

Christian Reed led Elgin in scoring with 12 points followed by Denton Glover with 11 and Jake Lohman with 10. Point guard Jaylon Nettles tallied four points but had numerous assists to set up baskets by his Owl teammates.

“He (Nettles) did a good job and he only had one turnover,” Green said. “He also had four steals that were big big.”

Community Christian outscored Elgin 14-12 in the final eight minutes as the hosts began to pressure Elgin in the backcourt while also hitting four three-point buckets but it was too little too late to overcome the 23-point deficit.

Elgin hit seven three-point buckets with two each from Nicholas Meraz and Glover.