April 2024

Following a rough start, El Reno High School’s girls golf team rallied over the closing holes to tie for 11th place out of 23 teams in the 2024 Weatherford Invitational.

The Indians carded a 411 to tie Hooker, one shot from the top 10 and eight strokes out of eighth place, which was Tuttle at 403. El Reno was 19 shots away from Elk City’s fifth-place round of 392.

“Had everyone been able to cut a few strokes off their scores earlier in the round, we could have placed eighth or better,” said El Reno head coach Cameron Wilkins.

Winter weather threw a midweek hiccup into the schedule, but El Reno High School’s tennis teams were able to get in mixed results from two early-season events.

At the Lone Wolf/Big West Invitational played at Earlywine in Oklahoma City, El Reno’s girls No.1 doubles team of Jayna Graham and Brianna Barksdale took third place with a 2-1 record.

The pair defeated Elgin (7-6/6-3) but dropped a three-setter to Purcell (6-4/1-6/5-10) in the semifinals.

The duo bounced back for a 6-1/6-3 win over Chickasha’s Kiara Alexander and Tatum Whalley for the bronze.

Calumet High School’s pitching staff showed a little vulnerability against some Class 4A hitters over the weekend in the 2024 I-40 Classic as the Chieftains posted a 2-2 record. The top-ranked team in Class B moved to 7-3 on the spring with the split, beating Weatherford (11-3) and Clinton (10-0).

The losses came to Tuttle (7-5) and Elk City (9-4) after Calumet squandered a 4-1 lead.

Calumet and Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball teams found themselves on opposite ends of the win-loss spectrum at the close of play for March.

The Chieftains snapped a seven-game losing streak with a victory over Geary (5-4) and backed it up with wins over Corn Bible Academy (20-3) and Cement (10-0).

The three-game win streak moved Calumet to 4-7 for the spring.

Calumet went 28-of-55 (.509) from the plate over the three-game span, getting three doubles from Tina Ortiz. Mattie Beaver, Paige Miller, Lily Winegeart and Payton Barnes added one double each.