A loss of the pre-match coin flip ended up costing El Reno High School’s girls soccer team strategically in its battle with Carl Albert for the District 5A-2 title.
Carl Albert won the toss and took the wind, netting two first-half goals.
The Titans would then load the box on defense over the final 40 minutes, with the wind at El Reno’s back, to preserve the 2-0 shutout.
El Reno High School’s girls golf team logged its second straight top five finish with yet another sub-400 round.
The Indians carded a 385 in the Pryor Invitational to edge out Dewey by a stroke for the top five and 12 over Collinsville. Fort Gibson took the title with a 327, followed by Bixby (332), Hilldale (357) and Owasso’s junior varsity (382).
Numbers continue to drop for El Reno High School’s boys golf team as the Indians took fourth place at the 2024 Marlow Invitational played at the Generations Golf Club.
El Reno carded a 325 total to edge out Duncan’s junior varsity by a stroke and Velma-Alma by eight shots in the 18-team field.
Marlow won the event with a 294, followed by Kingston (307) and Marlow’s junior varsity with a 312.
El Reno High School, the 2023 team champion, put its title on the line last week during the 2024 Oklahoma Scholastic Shooting Sports Program State Championship at the OTA Shooting Park on Jensen Road.
Early-round matches were shot under heavy fog that rolled into Canadian County just minutes before the start of the event.
El Reno was dethroned as the team champion.
Four errors led to five early Noble runs as El Reno High School’s baseball team fell 11-2 to the Bears at the Hub Reed Complex in a key District 5A-1 battle.
Noble, which took the series opener by an 8-0 score, moved to 11-1 in the league standings to maintain the second seed.
El Reno slipped to 14-12 on the year and 6-4 in 5A-1 for fourth place.
Davin Shamblin singled in the bottom of the first and moved to third on a Noble error off a pop fly by Mason Fulton. He scored on a groundout by Hernan Blanco to tie the score at 1-all.
El Reno High School’s track teams ran in the Elk City Track Classic, with the boys team earning 15 points from its sprinters and three relay squads.
The Indians 4x800-meter relay team of Caiden Hooyman, Shannon Russell, Antonio Baxajay and Brendon Evans earned four points with a fifth-place finish in a time of 10 minutes and 15.81 seconds.
The 4x200-meter squad of Nakos Plentybears, Antwon Grayson, Jacon Nichols and Kaleb Blackwolf added four points with a fifth-place showing in 1:38.67.
A six-year drought of home playoff matches came to an end last week as El Reno High School’s girls soccer team defeated Southeast 3-1 to secure no worse than the runner-up spot from District 5A-2.
The top two teams from each district are awarded hosting rights for the first round of the 16-team Class 5A playoffs.
El Reno has not hosted a playoff match since a 2-0 loss to Santa Fe South in 2018.
Two breakaway goals and a third off a header highlighted a seven-goal first half as Southeast handed El Reno High School’s boys soccer team a 10-0 defeat.
The loss dropped El Reno to 1-5 in the District 5A-2 standings, which is seventh, and officially eliminated the Indians (3-8) from postseason contention.
The Spartans scored first in the 33rd minute on the header off a corner kick. Southeast, which leads the district, added a rebound goal off a blocked save by El Reno keeper Aldo De La Torre for a 2-0 lead.
With all five bags breaking 90, El Reno High School’s boys golf team logged its lowest round of the season en route to a ninth-place finish at the 2024 Class 5A West Regional Preview.
The event was played at the John Conrad Municipal Golf Course in Midwest City, which will host the regional May 1. The preview also served as the 2024 Suburban Conference Championships.
Carl Albert won the event with a team score of 300, two shots better than Heritage Hall. Bishop McGuinness (317), Ada (317) and Choctaw (318) rounded out the top five.
Skylar Ayers fired a career-low round last week as El Reno High School’s girls golf team placed fifth in the Tecumseh Invitational, despite having one player down with sickness and another finishing her round feeling ill.
Ayers, a junior, carded an 86 on the Firelake Golf Course in Shawnee as El Reno logged a team score of 390. Ayers was seventh overall in the individual medalist race.
Durant won the tourney with a 338, followed by Perkins-Tryon (358), Ada (365) and Sulphur (384) ahead of the Indians.
