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Calumet High School suffered an unexpected quarterfinal loss last week in the Class B Oklahoma State High School Baseball Championships, which were delayed two days due to wet weather.

The Chieftains, ranked fourth in the state, end their spring season with a 19-8 record following a 9-4 loss to fifth-ranked Moss.

Calumet fell behind 9-1 after five and a half innings before mounting a rally. The Chieftains scored three runs in the third inning after getting a single from Derrick Krantzman, a double from Kingston Arnold and an RBI-single from Kaleb Thiessen.

El Reno High School, making its first team appearance since 2018, slipped to 10th place over the final 18 holes at the 2023 Class 5A Girls Oklahoma State High School Golf Championships.

The Indians were tied with Elgin for ninth place after the first 18 holes with a team score of 417. While El Reno was able to trim nine shots off that score during day two of the championships at Dornick Hill Golf Club in Ardmore, the Owls would improve by 17 shots to bump EHS to 10th place.

El Reno closed with an 825 total for 36 holes, while Elgin carded an 817.

The lack of clutch hits with runners in scoring position came back to haunt El Reno High School’s baseball team in a 10-5 non-district loss to Noble in the regular-season finale for both schools.

El Reno, by dropping its second straight non-district home game, will take a 14-19 overall record into the Class 5A West Region 1 Championships, which started Thursday in Piedmont.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Union City’s historical run to the Class 2A Oklahoma State High School Slow-Pitch Softball Championships came to an end in the quarterfinals with a 17-5 loss to fourth-ranked Cyril.

The Tigers, ranked sixth in the state, end their season with a 26-15 record.

“I was really proud of them. We could have given up but the bottom half of our order kept the game going and allowed our seniors to get up to bat again.

El Reno High School’s wrestling program held a national letter of intent signing day recently as from left, Will Heger, Kylar Kurtz and Dailey Jennings signed with college programs.

Heger and Jennings will wrestle at the University of Central Oklahoma, while Kurtz will follow in his father, Kevin’s footsteps and wrestle at Harvard College.

Looking on is head coach Tyrone Lewis.

El Reno’s Remy Whitney recently placed twice in the USA Wrestling Women’s Nationals.

She was fourth in the 14-and-under division at 85 pounds and then took fifth in the 15-and-under division at 39 kilograms.

With those finishes, she earned a tryout spot for the Pan American Games later this year.

Navigating through what head coach Jennifer Myers called a “rough day,” El Reno High School’s girls tennis team failed to advance any players to the 2023 Class 5A Girls Tennis Championships.

Playing in the Class 5A West Regional in Duncan, El Reno logged two seventh-place finishes from its doubles teams, while singles players took eighth.

Despite posting two of its better rounds of the season, El Reno High School’s boys golf squad missed out on team and individual passes to the 2023 Class 5A Boys State Golf Championships.

Playing in the 5A West Regional on the Augusta Course at Cedar Valley Golf Club in Guthrie, El Reno fell short of the final team pass by 74 strokes, which went to Noble with a 36-hole total of 666.

Duncan (582), Piedmont (614), Carl Albert (629), Bishop McGuinness (637) and Altus (639) were the other five schools to make state.

A pair of rallies went against Union City High School’s baseball team as the 18th-ranked Tigers dropped back-to-back games in the Class A, Region 2 Championships at Canute.

Union City jumped out to a 7-1 lead of 15th-ranked Hydro-Eakly in the first game, before watching the Bobcats string together an eight-run rally to take the contest by a 9-7 score.

The Tigers fell behind 7-1 to Hominy in an elimination game before mounting a late rally of their own to cut that deficit to two runs. However, the Tigers had their season end with a 7-5 setback to fall to 20-7 overall.

Marshyl Stennett’s three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning allowed Redlands Community College’s baseball team to avoid being swept by Western Oklahoma State College in a key regional series.

The Pioneers, currently third in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings, won three games of the series by scores of 3-2, 9-0 and 10-2.

Stennett’s homer carried the Cougars to a 9-8 victory in game three of the series which was played in Altus due to wet conditions at RCC’s Don Brown Field.