El Reno Chamber of Commerce Director Karen Nance presented a collage of articles from the El Reno Tribune about the El Reno High School Lady Indians state basketball championship team to EHS coaches and Superintendent Matt Goucher.
The team gathered outside Swadley’s Restaurant where they were also honored for their perfect 28-0 season.
Keeping up the pressure on Guthrie for third place, El Reno High School’s baseball team swept two games from U.S Grant last week at the Hub Reed Complex.
El Reno defeated the Generals 21-0 in the first game after scoring 12 runs in the bottom of the second inning with one out.
The Indians backed that up with a 15-1 win in game two, scoring 15 unanswered runs.
Despite a hard-fought battle, El Reno High School’s boys soccer team closed out District 5A-2 play with a 2-0 home loss to Carl Albert.
The loss dropped El Reno to 1-6 in league play as the Indians finished in seventh place. The win boosted Carl Albert into third place in the standings.
The Titans scored in the 36th minute of the first half on a header off a corner kick.
However, the Indians defense and keeper Gage Baeriswyl kept the Titans off the board the remainder of the half.
A loss of the pre-match coin flip ended up costing El Reno High School’s girls soccer team strategically in its battle with Carl Albert for the District 5A-2 title.
Carl Albert won the toss and took the wind, netting two first-half goals.
The Titans would then load the box on defense over the final 40 minutes, with the wind at El Reno’s back, to preserve the 2-0 shutout.
El Reno High School’s girls golf team logged its second straight top five finish with yet another sub-400 round.
The Indians carded a 385 in the Pryor Invitational to edge out Dewey by a stroke for the top five and 12 over Collinsville. Fort Gibson took the title with a 327, followed by Bixby (332), Hilldale (357) and Owasso’s junior varsity (382).
Numbers continue to drop for El Reno High School’s boys golf team as the Indians took fourth place at the 2024 Marlow Invitational played at the Generations Golf Club.
El Reno carded a 325 total to edge out Duncan’s junior varsity by a stroke and Velma-Alma by eight shots in the 18-team field.
Marlow won the event with a 294, followed by Kingston (307) and Marlow’s junior varsity with a 312.
El Reno High School, the 2023 team champion, put its title on the line last week during the 2024 Oklahoma Scholastic Shooting Sports Program State Championship at the OTA Shooting Park on Jensen Road.
Early-round matches were shot under heavy fog that rolled into Canadian County just minutes before the start of the event.
El Reno was dethroned as the team champion.
Four errors led to five early Noble runs as El Reno High School’s baseball team fell 11-2 to the Bears at the Hub Reed Complex in a key District 5A-1 battle.
Noble, which took the series opener by an 8-0 score, moved to 11-1 in the league standings to maintain the second seed.
El Reno slipped to 14-12 on the year and 6-4 in 5A-1 for fourth place.
Davin Shamblin singled in the bottom of the first and moved to third on a Noble error off a pop fly by Mason Fulton. He scored on a groundout by Hernan Blanco to tie the score at 1-all.
El Reno High School’s track teams ran in the Elk City Track Classic, with the boys team earning 15 points from its sprinters and three relay squads.
The Indians 4x800-meter relay team of Caiden Hooyman, Shannon Russell, Antonio Baxajay and Brendon Evans earned four points with a fifth-place finish in a time of 10 minutes and 15.81 seconds.
The 4x200-meter squad of Nakos Plentybears, Antwon Grayson, Jacon Nichols and Kaleb Blackwolf added four points with a fifth-place showing in 1:38.67.
A six-year drought of home playoff matches came to an end last week as El Reno High School’s girls soccer team defeated Southeast 3-1 to secure no worse than the runner-up spot from District 5A-2.
The top two teams from each district are awarded hosting rights for the first round of the 16-team Class 5A playoffs.
El Reno has not hosted a playoff match since a 2-0 loss to Santa Fe South in 2018.
