El Reno’s junior high football teams returned to Memorial Stadium last week after a two-week road swing to split a Suburban Conference doubleheader with Guthrie.
The seventh-grade team lost 36-32 despite a 65-yard kickoff return and a 30-yard run, both for touchdowns, by Leo Willis.
The eighth-grade team moved to 6-0 on the year with a 28-18 win, aided by a 30-yard scoring jaunt by Tahir Neal.
Redlands Community College’s golf team has been on a stellar roll after taking second place at the recent Oklahoma Baptist University Fall Invitational.
Playing the 5,803-yard Shawnee Country Club Course, Redlands carded a 36-hole total of 636 (313/323) to finish 13 shots back of the host school. Northwestern Oklahoma State (645), University of Arkansas-Monticello (648) and Seminole State College (744) rounded out the field.
Avenging an earlier one-goal loss to the Bucks, Redlands Community College’s soccer team earned its first road win of the season with a 3-0 shutout of the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain.
The victory came in the second of four straight road matches for the Cougars, who improved to 3-8 on the season and 2-6 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings – which is sixth.
El Reno High School’s football team will be facing a few new wrinkles brought on by this week’s District 5A-1 home game against Midwest City – first starting with the day. The game is Thursday at Memorial Stadium with kickoff at 7 p.m.
While Thursday games are nothing new to El Reno, the situation which brought it on is.
The game does not fall over EHS’ fall break or against an opponent which shares a stadium.
“This year every team was supposed to schedule a Thursday game due to the shortage of officials and it’s going to stay that way.
While the play took only a few seconds to unfold, it seemed like a lifetime to El Reno High School linebacker Diante Palmer.
“It was going in slow motion. I could see the ball coming into the end zone,” said Palmer.
The senior broke up a two-point conversion pass from Noble quarterback Colin Fisher to help preserve a wild 41-40 win for El Reno on homecoming night.
“I saw them drop down for a pass and the only thing that went through my head was go for the ball. I was going for the interception but I also really wanted to just break up the pass,” said Palmer.
It’s taken over four decades but Calumet High School’s baseball team has found its way back to the state baseball tourney after winning the Class B, Region 3 Championships.
Calumet, ranked third in the state, defeated Big Pasture (11-4) and Moss (13-1) to punch its state ticket with a 24-4 overall record.
The Chieftains open up the Class B State Championships Thursday at Edmond Memorial. Calumet has made state in the fall just one time before, losing 16-0 to Asher in 1975 – a gap of 45 years.
On the field it was not a memorable night for El Reno High School’s three seniors as the Indians fast-pitch softball team dropped an 11-1 game to the Oklahoma City Broncos to close out the 2022 regular season.
El Reno is now 12-16 on the season and will play in the Class 5A, Region 1 Championships at Carl Albert. The Indians face Ardmore in the first round Wednesday at 2 p.m.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Senior Kira Taber hit the game’s second pitch over the center field wall at Rapp Field as El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team uncorked an 18-hit attack on Bishop McGuinness.
Taber’s homer, her second of the season, was one of two round-trippers by El Reno and 10 extra base hits as the Indians rolled to a 23-4 road win over the Irish to sweep the season series.
Rubbing elbows with some of the top NCAA programs in the country, Redlands Community College’s cross country teams took part in the famed Oklahoma State University Cowboys Jamboree.
“When we lined up at the start of the races, they announced they had eight of the top 10 NCAA Division 1 teams there, so it was the best of the best in the nation. It was insane,” said RCC head coach Natalie Graves.
Calumet High School’s baseball team had a lackluster tuneup outing ahead of the upcoming regional round of the Class B playoffs, losing a 5-1 home game to Amber-Pocasset.
The loss dropped the Chieftains, ranked third in the state, to 22-4 on the season.
Calumet was set to host the Region 3 Championships, facing Big Pasture (22-6) in the first round. Moss and Mulhall-Orlando are the other two schools entered and the top two survivors make the state tourney.
Kaleb Thiessen and Caleb Meschberger both singled for the only hits by Calumet in the loss to the Panthers.
