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Since the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association switched the state’s two largest classifications to in-season district play, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team has dominated voting for postseason awards.

The Indians have collected 27 all-district spots over the three years, including seven superlative awards and two Player of the Year laurels.

Those numbers include this year’s seven spots over the four teams making up the 2026 Girls All-District 5A-2 selections.

El Reno High School’s baseball team was slated to return to District 5A-1 play Monday and Tuesday against Santa Fe South before entering the Bryson Cael Memorial Festival.

The Indians are currently 2-5 on the season and 1-3 in district play.

Catcher Gage Lesperance makes a throw to first base to catch a runner. (Tribune photographer/Glen Miller)

Though finishing fifth in league play, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team rebounded from an 0-3 start to finish above .500 over the final 11 games of the race.

It was a turnaround which caught the eye of league coaches as El Reno collected six spots over the five squads making up the 2026 All-District 5A-2 selections.

It was the second most picks among the eight member schools behind district winner Carl Albert with 10, plus Coach of the Year Jay Price.

For the second straight year, the University of Central Oklahoma has signed one of the area’s top scorers.

Okarche High School senior Jett Mueggenborg (center) signed with the Bronchos in a small event at the school.

Mueggenborg is a three-time state champion and holds the school’s career scoring record and ranks in the top 10 for scoring in Oklahoma state tournaments.

Union City High School’s baseball team, ranked No.5 in Class A2, suffered its first loss of the season while hosting its annual spring break festival against a stack of ranked teams. The Tigers lost 9-3 to Talihina, No.9 in Class A, to slip to 5-1 on the season. Union City opened the event with wins over Class B’s fourth-ranked Leedey (7-6) and Class A2’s Depew (12-2).

In a new twist, El Reno High School’s baseball program took spring break off from competition instead of hosting games in the annual Union City Festival as it’s done for more than five years.

El Reno went into the break on a positive note after run-ruling Lawton Eisenhower 14-2 at the Hub Reed Complex to move to 2-5 on the season.

That win came less than 24 hours after dropping a 10-9 road game at Clinton.

El Reno High School’s tennis teams posted their first top 10 finishes of the season at the 2026 Lone Wolf Classic played at the Earlywine Complex.

The El Reno boys took third place behind Westmoore and Chisholm. The girls were fifth behind Chickasha, Westmoore, Chisholm and Weatherford.

Sergio Rosas paced the boys with a runner-up finish at No.2 singles.

He defeated Chisholm’s Houston Moore and John Marshall’s Tyler Moore in duplicate 8-1 pro-set matches.

Many matches were pro-sets due to the wind.

Reliever Mason Williams got the final out with the tying run at third base as Union City High School’s baseball team defeated Pioneer-Pleasant Vale 8-7 in a battle of top 10 teams.

The win moved Union City to 4-0 on the year and ahead of the Mustangs in the latest Class A2 poll to fifth place, while PPV slips from fourth to sixth.

Williams was credited with the save, while Blake Bailey got the win in relief of starter Aiden Williams. The trio had a combined seven-inning line of nine hits, eight walks, seven runs and six strikeouts.

Riding a 59-3 scoring edge, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team remains undefeated on the season with four wins en route to the title of its own spring break festival.

The Tigers are 6-0 after beating Community Christian (22-0), Burns Flat-Dill City (14-1), Bray-Doyle (12-0) and Hinton (11-2).

Union City went 78-of-110 (.709) from the plate for the four games including 21 extra base hits.

Kamryn Cook led the way with four home runs and three doubles.

The numbers and placing game worked against El Reno High School’s efforts to win a state title during the 2026 Oklahoma Powerlifting Coaches Association’s Large School State Championships.

El Reno added one lifter from a late at-large bid but still competed with seven overall, resulting in a fourth-place team finish with 30 points in the Class 5A division.

The Indians earned those points in two weights.