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Shooting the fourth highest team score in the final round, Redlands Community College’s golf team slipped to ninth place in the final standings at the 2022 NJCAA Women’s National Golf Championships.

The Cougars fired their lowest score of the tourney, a 321, in the third round to enter the final day in seventh place.

However, Redlands carded a 339 over the final 18 holes to drop two spots.

Redlands, playing the Mayfair Country Club course in Sanford, Fla., posted scores of 331/330/321/339 for a 72-hole total of 1,321.

Four area seniors, three from El Reno High School, have been selected to play in the 2022 Western Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association’s All-Star Games.

El Reno’s Vincent Walker was named to the Large West team as a pitcher, while Brayden Fulton was picked as one of two catchers on the same squad. Dacus Cooper was selected as an infielder.

The trio will join Calumet’s Jaxon Olive, who was named to the Small West squad as an outfielder.

El Reno High School seniors Tetona Woods, left, and Janae Black-Harmon signed national letters of intent to play basketball for Coffeyville Community College in Kansas last week.

Trimming 36 strokes from his total at state as a freshman, El Reno High School sophomore Bryan Richardson placed 74th in the medalist chase at the 2022 Class 5A Boys State Golf Championships.

Playing the 6,601-yard course at Duncan Golf and Tennis Club, Richardson carded rounds of 109/100/105 for a 54-hole total of 314.

Consistent play at the halfway point has put Redlands Community College in position to make a run for a top five finish during the 2022 NJCAA Women’s National Golf Championships.

Playing the par-72, 5,941-yard Mayfair Country Club course in Sanford, Fla., Redlands was sitting in eighth place after 36 holes with a team total of 661.

The Cougars, after posting rounds of 330/331, are six strokes behind Eastern Florida State (655) for seventh and eight shots behind Dodge City Community College (653) for sixth.

El Reno High School’s 2022 track season came to an end at the Class 5A West Regional held at Putnam City, with no thinclads advancing to the state meet.

The Indians had no field event entries for either boys or girls and the runners were primarily in the shorter distances.

Maria Moreno was 11th in the preliminary heats of the 100-meter dash with a time of 14.09 seconds, followed by Gracie Wieland (14.64) in 14th and Madeline Taylor (15.57) in 16th.

Minco sophomore Daigan Miller won gold medals at the recent Class 2A state meet in Catoosa.

She ran a 5:29.84 in the 1,600 meters and a 12:03.35 in the 3,200 meters.

Miller is the daughter of Dale and Deah Miller, granddaughter of Brenda and Allen Miller and niece of El Reno’s Matt Miller.

PIEDMONT – In a near repeat of last year’s postseason run, El Reno High School’s baseball team exited the Class 5A, Region 1 Championships with two losses to Lawton Eisenhower.

El Reno ended its season with a 17-20 record after dropping a 1-0 contest to the Eagles in the elimination round. Lawton Eisenhower held off a late rally by the Indians in the opening round of the regional for a 7-5 win. In the contest, El Reno led 1-0, giving up seven runs in the bottom of the first inning before chipping away at the deficit.

El Reno High School junior Madison Patswald placed 64th overall as an individual medalist last week during the 2022 Class 5A Girls State Golf Championship.

Playing at Chickasaw Pointe Golf Club in Kingston, Patswald carded rounds of 114 and 112 for a 226 total.

Durant won the team title with a 632 tally for 36 holes, followed by Tulsa Bishop Kelley (669) and Carl Albert (683).

The Suburban Conference had two other teams make state as Piedmont (773) was sixth and Guthrie (785) was seventh.

LAWTON – Watching both teams warm up, El Reno High School girls soccer coach Andrea Williams knew there was not a clear-cut favorite in the Indians first-round playoff game with Lawton MacArthur.

“This is a toss-up, we look pretty even,” said Williams.

Turns out she was right.

Making its fifth playoff appearance in eight years under Williams but the first since 2018, El Reno played the higher-seeded Highlanders to a stalemate for 80 minutes of regulation play and 7:09 into the first overtime period.

Then disaster struck.