Sports

Battling gusting winds and occasional spritzing rain throughout the day, Redlands Community College’s golf team defended its title for a third straight year at the 2024 Women’s Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships.

Playing on its home turf of Crimson Creek Golf Course, Redlands shot a 36-hole total of 638 to win by 89 strokes over Murray State College (727) – the only other full squad in the field.

The Cougars carded a 323 in the morning round, but shaved eight shots off that total in the afternoon session for a 315 effort.

El Reno High School seniors Pauline Black-Harmon (left of 5A state championship trophy) and Nazhoni Sleeper (right) signed national letters of intent to play basketball next season for Seminole State College.

The Belles play out of NJCAA Region 2 and are coached by former Redlands Community College coach Rita Story-Schell. 

Rallying from an 8-0 deficit, Redlands Community College’s baseball team posted a 10-8 win over Randall University’s junior varsity to complete a sweep of the Saints.

The Cougars took the first game of the doubleheader 11-0, which snapped a six-game losing streak. The sweep lifted Redlands to 7-30 on the season.

The 21-run scoring blitz came off a 14-of-48 (.292) hitting effort. Seven of those hits went for extra bases, led by home runs each from Ryan Sessions and Ben Huntley.

Brothers Kyler and Kaleb Thiessen combined to go .500 from the plate and scored four runs as Calumet High School’s baseball team posted its second straight win with an 11-3 decision over Binger-Oney.

Calumet, the top-ranked team in Class B, moved to 8-3 on the season with the victory.

The Thiessens went 4-of-8 from the plate with two base hits each and scoring two runs apiece. Kyler Thiessen doubled for the team’s lone extra base hit.

Dalton Belcher and Brendon Voss each added a single as Calumet went 6-of-16 from the plate.

After being handcuffed to a pair of runs in the first two games of the Chickasha Baseball Festival, El Reno High School jumped back into the win column with an 8-0 run-rule shutout of Guymon. The blanking of the Tigers, the third win over Guymon in a week, moved El Reno to 10-4 on the season.

The shutout halted a two-game losing streak as the Indians lost to Bridge Creek (5-1) and Marlow (19-1) to open the event.

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.