Sports

El Reno High School’s tennis teams took part in the Henryetta Invitational over two separate days, with both squads competing tough on the consolation side of the brackets.

The El Reno boys took sixth place in all divisions as No.1 singles player Jacob Guerrero went 1-2 with losses to the host (6-0/6-1) and McAlester (6-0/6-0).

His win was a straight sets decision over Pryor’s Zander Newmann.

Jim Rinehart went 1-2 at No.2 singles with losses to Henryetta (6-1/6-0) and McAlester (6-4/3-6/10-8).

He defeated Okmulgee’s Nylem Gentry in two sets (6-1/7-5).

UNION CITY – Mother Nature was the hardest batter to strike out as Calumet and Union City’s slow-pitch softball teams closed out the regular season with the second installment of Canadian County bedlam rivalry. Swirling winds played havoc with pitchers from both schools which combined for 20 walks in a 16-5 win by Union City to split the series. Calumet won the first installment 10-4 six days earlier.

Calumet High School’s baseball team, the top ranked team in Class B, will take an eight-game win streak into the postseason after winning the Roff Invitational.

The Chieftains move to 14-3 on the spring with the title, beating Allen (8-0), Class B’s sixth-ranked Roff (4-1) and Class 4A’s Ada in the championship.

The win over the Cougars came in extra innings as Calumet scored four runs in the eighth, sparked by a Kaleb Thiessen double, a single by Kyler Thiessen, a Dalton Belcher sacrifice and an RBI-single from Brendon Voss.

El Reno High School senior Grady Lesperance and his shadow seem to have the same thing on their minds, chasing down a foul ball for an out during a recent home game at the Hub Reed Complex.

El Reno returns to the HRC Tuesday for a single game with Noble before hosting U.S. Grant in a twinbill Wednesday.

MIDWEST CITY ‒ Playing in its final regular-season tournament, El Reno High School’s baseball team posted a 1-3 record against a stout field at the 2024 Bill Tipton Classic hosted by Carl Albert.

El Reno was placed in the Midwest City pool, one of three in the event, going 1-2 with losses to Cache (11-1) and Midwest City (5-4) in eight innings. The win was a 9-1 decision over Del City.

In the cross-bracket game, El Reno dropped a 13-4 decision to Bethany.

El Reno High School’s baseball team held a Little League Night recently at the Hub Reed Complex.

Players from the El Reno Young Guns took the field with their high school partners for the national anthem and then snagged foul balls during the game.

El Reno High School’s girls soccer team clinched a playoff berth last week with a 7-0 road win over Western Heights as the Indians remain locked in a tie for first place in District 5A-2.

The win was El Reno’s fourth straight shutout in league play as the Indians are now 5-0 in the 5A-2 standings and tied with Carl Albert, which visits Memorial Stadium Thursday night.

El Reno currently holds a lead over the Titans in tiebreaker points, 20-17, with Southeast (4-1/12) lurking close behind in third after a loss to Carl Albert last week.

Chances of making the playoffs for El Reno High School’s boys soccer team took a major blow last week as the Indians dropped a 2-1 road match to Western Heights.

The loss was the second straight in league play for El Reno, which slipped to 3-7 on the season and 1-4 in the District 5A-2 standings. The Indians are sitting in seventh place with two matches left, needing to leapfrog to fourth place to make the playoffs.

El Reno hosts district leader Southeast (5-0) and third-place Carl Albert (3-2) this week.

El Reno High School senior and two-time state qualifier Hannah Koen (center) signed a national letter of intent last week to wrestle at Baker University in Kansas.