The lack of key hits on offense and too many errors on defense may have cost El Reno High School’s baseball team a shot at hosting a regional for the upcoming Class 5A playoffs.

Needing to sweep its final two doubleheaders in District 5A-1 play, El Reno dropped a set to Noble last week by scores of 8-1 and 10-0 to slip into third place in the league standings.

El Reno, now 12-7-2 on the year, is tied with Guthrie at 8-4 but currently holds a 54-51 edge in tiebreaker points over the Bluejays. The teams open a two-game set Monday at the Hub Reed Complex.

Front row, Asher Brooksher, Eli Kerford and Ryker Penwright; back row, Mason Black, Cash Linn, TK Wells, Alexander Berry, Dante Paukei and Coach William Wells. Not pictured is Coach Tevyn Mack.

Freshman Ethan Brooks won his first varsity race on the hardtop last week as El Reno High School’s track teams posted top 10 finishes at the 2025 Route 66 Classic in Chandler.

Brooks accounted for 16 of the 38 points for the boys, who placed seventh overall out of 24 teams.

He won the 1,600-meter run with a time of four minutes and 42.05 seconds, earning 10 points, and beating Metro Christian’s Owen Schwerdtfeger by over eight seconds.

The other six points came off a third-place effort in the 800-meter run in 2:02.34.

Senior Conley Knapp scored a hat trick in the first 20 minutes en route to a career-high five goals as El Reno High School’s girls soccer team scored a 10-0 mercy-rule victory over Western Heights.

With its fifth shutout of the season, El Reno moved to 6-4 on the season and 4-0 in the District 5A-2 standings. The Indians were tied with Bishop McGuinness both in record and tiebreaker points.

The match was stopped in the 28th minute of the second half when Knapp took a pass from Haven Fleenor and kicked in a left-footed goal, her fifth of the night, off 10 attempts.