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The lack of clutch hits with runners in scoring position came back to haunt El Reno High School’s baseball team in a 10-5 non-district loss to Noble in the regular-season finale for both schools.

El Reno, by dropping its second straight non-district home game, will take a 14-19 overall record into the Class 5A West Region 1 Championships, which started Thursday in Piedmont.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Union City’s historical run to the Class 2A Oklahoma State High School Slow-Pitch Softball Championships came to an end in the quarterfinals with a 17-5 loss to fourth-ranked Cyril.

The Tigers, ranked sixth in the state, end their season with a 26-15 record.

“I was really proud of them. We could have given up but the bottom half of our order kept the game going and allowed our seniors to get up to bat again.

El Reno High School’s wrestling program held a national letter of intent signing day recently as from left, Will Heger, Kylar Kurtz and Dailey Jennings signed with college programs.

Heger and Jennings will wrestle at the University of Central Oklahoma, while Kurtz will follow in his father, Kevin’s footsteps and wrestle at Harvard College.

Looking on is head coach Tyrone Lewis.

El Reno’s Remy Whitney recently placed twice in the USA Wrestling Women’s Nationals.

She was fourth in the 14-and-under division at 85 pounds and then took fifth in the 15-and-under division at 39 kilograms.

With those finishes, she earned a tryout spot for the Pan American Games later this year.

Navigating through what head coach Jennifer Myers called a “rough day,” El Reno High School’s girls tennis team failed to advance any players to the 2023 Class 5A Girls Tennis Championships.

Playing in the Class 5A West Regional in Duncan, El Reno logged two seventh-place finishes from its doubles teams, while singles players took eighth.

Despite posting two of its better rounds of the season, El Reno High School’s boys golf squad missed out on team and individual passes to the 2023 Class 5A Boys State Golf Championships.

Playing in the 5A West Regional on the Augusta Course at Cedar Valley Golf Club in Guthrie, El Reno fell short of the final team pass by 74 strokes, which went to Noble with a 36-hole total of 666.

Duncan (582), Piedmont (614), Carl Albert (629), Bishop McGuinness (637) and Altus (639) were the other five schools to make state.

A pair of rallies went against Union City High School’s baseball team as the 18th-ranked Tigers dropped back-to-back games in the Class A, Region 2 Championships at Canute.

Union City jumped out to a 7-1 lead of 15th-ranked Hydro-Eakly in the first game, before watching the Bobcats string together an eight-run rally to take the contest by a 9-7 score.

The Tigers fell behind 7-1 to Hominy in an elimination game before mounting a late rally of their own to cut that deficit to two runs. However, the Tigers had their season end with a 7-5 setback to fall to 20-7 overall.

MIDWEST CITY – While El Reno High School’s track team was posting better times and measurements, it was Mother Nature that proved to be the fastest mover at the 2023 Suburban Conference Track and Field Championships.

Despite starting three hours early, a fast-moving rainstorm forced the meet to be called off with four events on the track and one field event left unsettled.

“With the regional meet so close, the coaches didn’t want the take the chance of someone getting hurt or pulling a muscle,” said El Reno head coach Graham Snelding.