El Reno High School’s softball team jumped out to a 2-0 lead over Piedmont last week before giving up 13 unanswered runs in a 13-2 defeat to the Wildcats.
The loss gave Piedmont the regular-season series sweep as the Wildcats retained the top spot in the District 5A-2 standings at 6-0.
Meanwhile, El Reno slipped to fourth in the league at 1-2 behind Guthrie (3-0) and Guymon (2-0).
El Reno is now 1-4 on the season.
Fueled by a top 20 finish by Cole Strong, El Reno High School’s cross country team kicked off the 2021 season at the Sand Plum Invitational hosted by Weatherford.
The El Reno boys placed fifth out of 10 teams with an overall score of 145, edging out Kingfisher (147) by two points and Carnegie (150) by five. Team scores come from the point value attached to the finish of the top five runners from each school. The lowest score wins the meet.
An eight-run second inning ignited a 14-2 home win over Verden last week as Union City High School’s softball team found its way back into the win column.
The Tigers improved to 6-5 on the season with the Verden victory and a 14-1 decision over Oklahoma Christian Academy.
The wins snapped a three-game losing streak for Union City which included losses to Luther (8-1) and Jones (4-3) in the Cashion tourney.
El Reno, ranked 10th in Class 5A and 6-1 on the year, was slated to play at No.3 Carl Albert on Thursday, before entering the Community Christian School tourney over the weekend.
Calumet High School’s baseball team was held to a single win in three recent outings, dropping the Chieftains to 3-4 on the fall season.
Tyler Tignor’s team defeated Lomega 10-1 before suffering losses to Class A’s No.17 Arapaho-Butler (10-0) and Drummond (11-2).
Calumet hit .328 (18-of-61) over the three games but had just two extra base hits, a two-run homer by Jaxon Olive and a double by Caleb Meschberger.
Olive went 4-of-9 (.444) for the set and drove in four runs.
Redlands Community College’s soccer team dropped its 2021 season opener recently, coming out on the short end of a 6-0 road score at the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain.
The Cougars had just three shots in the loss, one each from Marissa Kirkendall, Yalexy Rodriguez and Delia Palmer.
Kalie Winstead was in goal for the Cougars and faced 24 shots on goal by the Bucks, giving up all six goals but logging 18 saves.
Redlands is on the road for its first seven matches and will make its 2021 home debut Sept. 19 against Northern Oklahoma College.
Canadian Valley Art Guild will be resuming artist demonstration meetings.
September guest artist Alyona Korstina Dixon will conduct a demonstration in wool painting.
The event is set for Thursday, Sept. 9 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 400 Elm in Yukon. The public is invited to attend.
Canadian Valley Art Guild’s purpose is to promote community awareness of the visual fine arts and to aid artists in their endeavors.
Lamplighters OHCE Chapter of Canadian County met recently at a local church with Joan Herr calling the meeting to order.
Herr led in honoring the memory of Louise Wallace, longtime member and chapter secretary.
Janice Taylor led the flag salute, with Carol Stine offering devotionals titled “Raised Scars.”
Maxine Little read minutes of the previous meeting, while Patricia Morrison gave the treasury report.
Stine read Article 4 of the OHCE Constitution, while Taylor will cover Article 5 at next month’s meeting.
