Five of its seven qualifiers placed in the top 10 as El Reno High School recently won the Class 5A team title at the 2021 Oklahoma Football Coaches Association’s State Powerlifting Championship.

El Reno logged 88 total points from its seven lifters to beat out Ardmore by 35 points for the title. Lawton Eisenhower was third with 35 points. The Indians had the third highest overall point total behind 4A winner Miami (118) and 3A state champion Sulphur (105).

There were 45 districts in the Large School division comprised of Classes 3A-6A.

Redlands Community College’s baseball team snapped a four-game losing streak last week with a 15-12 win over Rose State College to split a doubleheader with the Raiders.

The Cougars improved to 3-11 on the season after dropping the series opener 9-4. That loss came on the heels of setbacks to Cowley County by scores of 10-0 and 10-6.

The win over Rose State was fueled by a nine-run effort over the third through fifth innings, six of those runs coming in the fifth. Holden Tate and Duke Crossley doubled in runs, while Tylor Richey and Patrick Hunter had an RBI-single each.

Redlands Community College’s basketball teams are struggling through three-game losing streaks which have dropped both squads down in the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference standings.

The RCC men lost a close 66-56 game to Seminole State College last week on the heels of setbacks to Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa (73-64) and Eastern Oklahoma (98-84).

The Cougars are now 8-8 on the season and 2-8 and ranked eighth in the OCAC standings.

Redlands Community College’s golf team opened up the spring season recently with a fourth-place finish in the Diffee Invitational held at Kickingbird Golf Course in Edmond.

The Cougars had a 36-hole total of 625 after rounds of 314-311. The University of Central Oklahoma won with a 610 total, followed by Rogers State (613) and Southwestern Oklahoma State (618).