El Reno High School’s baseball team needed, but did not get, just one or two clutch hits in last week’s non-district clash with Class 6A’s Ponca City – which ended in a 2-0 loss to the Wildcats.
The Indians had six base runners in the game and left five of those stranded on base.
Four were in scoring position, with two left stuck at third on two-out strikeouts.
The loss dropped El Reno to 12-18 on the season.
Back-to-back setbacks will leave El Reno High School’s girls soccer team in sixth place in the final District 5A-2 standings following a 6-0 road loss to Carl Albert.
El Reno was slated to wrap up the regular season Tuesday night at Mount St. Mary, a non-district contest, after posting a 2-5 mark in 5A-2 play. The Indians took a 5-7 overall record into the match with the Rockets.
Carl Albert outshot El Reno 14-2, with 12 of those shots by the Titans on frame.
Ximena Salazar and Maddie Rochdi recorded the shots for the Indians.
El Reno High School’s boys soccer team dropped its third straight match last week with a 3-0 setback to Carl Albert to end District 5A-2 action.
The Indians slipped to 3-9 on the season and 1-6 in league play, leaving El Reno in seventh place.
It was the fourth shutout loss for EHS in District 5A-2 play.
El Reno had eight shots in the loss, four of those from Kenneth Solis. Edgar Perez and Maurico Ruiz added two shots each.
Eduardo Flores was in net for the Indians, allowing all three goals but logging eight saves.
El Reno High School’s track team found success with its relay teams and throwers at the 2023 Woody Bearden Invitational in Pauls Valley.
The boys team placed seventh in the final standings with 22 points, aided in part by a fourth-place toss of 37 feet, 1 inch by R.J. Parker in the shot put.
El Reno’s sprint relay team of Elijah Fisher, Latin Everheart, JaRon Irving and Malachi Nicholson took the silver with a time of 44.66 seconds.
Fisher and Nicholson then teamed with Avery Mouse and Shane Caso to run the 1,600-meter relay in a time of 4:19.03 to place sixth.
El Reno High School tennis player Bri Barksdale reaches out to hit a return shot at the net during a recent doubles match at the Putnam City North Invitational.
El Reno was scheduled to play Piedmont, weather permitting, this week in a dual at Legion Park.
Big timely hits carried El Reno High School’s baseball team to its second straight District 5A-1 sweep as the Indians scored 30 runs en route to victories over Guymon at the Hub Reed Complex.
El Reno took the series opener by an 11-1 margin as Gavin Tinsley’s walk-off single down the third-base line in the bottom of the fifth scored Gabe Compton for the game-winning run.
The Indians then used four walks, three hit batsmen, two triples from Tinsley and a three-run triple by Davin Shamblin to highlight a 10-run first inning en route to a 19-1 win in game two.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Mixing up the lineup for the Putnam City North Tournament produced El Reno High School’s first team title of the 2023 tennis season.
The El Reno girls won the doubles-only event after placing third or higher in all three divisions. With her twin sister out of the lineup due to school conflicts, Melanna Idell teamed up with Zoey Johnson to win the No.2 doubles field with an 8-5 pro set decision over Lawton.
The pair opened with an 8-1 win over Oklahoma Christian School before beating Putnam City North 8-2 in the semifinals.
Union City High School base runner Tyler Norton tries to step on second base before getting tagged by a Southwest Covenant School infielder, who dropped the ball in the process.
The two schools opened up the Class A, District 18 Championship being hosted by Union City.
The Tigers went on to win the game 14-0.
El Reno High School’s golf teams continue to look for consistency in overall scoring after three events last week produced mixed results.
The El Reno girls were sixth in the 2023 Suburban Conference Golf Championships, held in conjunction with the Carl Albert Invitational. Playing the John Conrad Golf Course in Midwest City, the Indians carded a 394 score.
Kallie Maifield paced the squad with a round of 89, followed by a 96 from Madison Patswald and a 99 from Skylar Ayers. Emma Patswald posted a score of 110 and Trinity Black a 118.
El Reno High School’s track team split meets recently, with the field events taking part in the 2023 Yukon Classic, while the runners headed north for the Langston Invitational.
Eryn Roman Nose cleared the bar at 4 feet, 8 inches in the high jump but did not make the finals. Jayda Cook and Brooklynn Black threw both the discus and shot put, with Cook reaching 86 feet in the discus and Black 72 feet.
Cook had a mark of 31-0 in the shot and Black posted a 23-0 throw.
