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With only two wins and out of the playoff picture in early April, El Reno High School’s boys soccer team has kicked its way into the Class 5A postseason – and they did it in the final 25 minutes of district play.

Trailing Guymon 1-0, El Reno scored two second-half goals to defeat the Tigers 2-1 and clinch the final playoff spot from District 5A-1.

While the top three teams, Southeast, Bishop McGuinness and Capitol Hill are still jockeying for playoff seeds, El Reno and Guymon were tied for fourth going into their district finale at 3-3.

In a period of four days, El Reno High School’s girls soccer team's postseason hopes went from a shot at winning the district title to needing help just to make the playoffs.

After losing to Bishop McGuinness in a battle of unbeaten District 5A-1 teams, El Reno proceeded to drop matches to Guthrie (2-1) and Guymon (1-0) and slip from first into fourth place in the league standings.

“We just squandered this away. Two matches in a row, I thought we were the better team on the field and we just could not finish,” said El Reno head coach Andrea Williams.

The Indians played over the weekend in the 2021 Guthrie 89’ers Day Invitational. El Reno lost 8-4 to Ponca City, but snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 12-5 win over Clinton.

Keith Hill’s team was playing Midwest City when the game was halted in the third inning by heavy rains and was not resumed.

El Reno was scheduled to return to the diamond Monday and Tuesday to wrap up league play against Guthrie.

Kaleb Melvin saved one of his best pitching efforts of the season for his final home game as Calumet High School’s baseball team won the Class A, District 16 Championship.

Melvin tossed a seven-inning no-hitter as the 16th-ranked Chieftains defeated Binger-Oney in the championship game 7-0.

Calumet, now 17-4 on the season, defeated Oklahoma Christian Academy (5-3) in the first round before handing the Bobcats their first loss of the double-elimination tourney by an 11-1 score.

Redlands Community College’s soccer team went into weekend action looking to snap a seven-match losing streak after dropping a 4-2 decision to Murray State College.

Redlands, which defeated the Aggies earlier this season, slipped to 1-8 on the season and in the NJCAA Region 2 standings. The Cougars fell to eighth in the league.

The setback came two days after a close 3-2 loss to Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa.

Stepping up its offensive attacks, Redlands had 22 shots in the two matches. Katy Eddy led the way with seven shots, two goals and an assist.

Braydon Armstrong struck out the final batter with the tying run at second base as Union City High School’s baseball team defeated Thomas/Fay-Custer 5-4 to win the Class A, District 14 Championship.

Union City, ranked 14th in the state, improved to 22-8 on the season with the win over the Terriers, its second of the tourney after a 12-5 win in the semifinals. The Tigers opened with a 10-0 shutout of Southwest Covenant.

Debbie Maguire sat in the crowd gathered for the 2021 Crime Victims Vigil holding her daughter’s hand and listening to grandmothers Anita Gibbins and Terri Heinley talk about how violent crime changed their lives forever.

It was a feeling Maguire knows all too well.

“I felt so much of the family’s pain. Sitting there listening to them tell their story and then seeing the picture in front of them, I knew I needed to talk,” said Maguire.

Holding back 30 years worth of tears and heartbreak, Maguire spoke about the day her two children were shot to death.

The conference center at Redlands Community College was all about science as students from county high schools showcased their research and discussed their findings as part of the BlueSTEM AgriLearning Center’s 2021 Agriscience Symposium.

Some 19 students representing El Reno, Yukon and Calumet high schools took part in the Tuesday evening symposium.

The BlueSTEM Center is a partnership between the USDA and its Grazinglands Research Lab at Fort Reno, Redlands and El Reno Public Schools.