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After splitting a four-game series against South Arkansas College in NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 action, Redlands Community College’s baseball team jumped up to Division 1 to take on Rose State College.

The Cougars dropped both games against the Raiders by scores of 18-4 and 14-4 to slip to 17-27 on the spring. Redlands is 6-14 in the Division 2 chase after losing 13-10 and 15-9 to the Stars but rebounding for wins by scores of 11-10 and 21-8.

The Cougars were 50-of-164 (.305) from the plate over the six-game stretch, logging 15 doubles, five triples and seven home runs.

Trimming its team scores down closer to the 400 mark, El Reno High School’s girls golf team posted a pair of top 10 finishes last week. The Indians took ninth place at the Kingfisher Yellowjackets Invitational with a team score of 405.

The effort was paced by duplicate rounds of 99 from Berkley Kidd-Smith and Madison Patswald.

Skylar Ayers was the third lowest round with a 110, followed by Emma Patswald with a 114 and a 118 from Kallie Maifield.

Kenneth Solis spent the fall booting a football long distances at Memorial Stadium but last week he proved he can kick a soccer ball with just as much success.

The sophomore logged his first-ever hat trick as El Reno High School’s boys soccer team kept its playoff hopes alive with a 6-4 win over Midwest City.

“I’ve never had a hat trick before,” said Solis after his three first-half goals.

El Reno snapped a six-match losing streak with the win over the Bombers to improve to 2-7 on the season.

Facing 25-mile-per-hour gusts out of the west, the outcome of last week’s District 5A-2 match between El Reno High School’s girls soccer team and Midwest City came down to which team played the best into the wind.

That advantage favored El Reno as the Indians scored three goals into the wind en route to a 5-0 shutout of the Bombers.

The win was the second straight for El Reno, which climbed to 2-2 in the league standings and into fourth place, one game back in the loss column to Carl Albert, which is set to host Tuesday night.

El Reno High School’s baseball team snapped an eight-game losing streak by posting a 2-2 record in the 2022 Bill Tipton Classic – co-hosted by Carl Albert and Midwest City.

The Indians improved to 10-13 on the spring by sandwiching wins over Santa Fe South (11-4) and Lawton Eisenhower (15-10) around losses to Weatherford (9-1) and Midwest City (13-2).

El Reno went 21-of-76 from the plate over the four games for a .276 batting average, posting six doubles and a three-run home run from Dacus Cooper in the win over Lawton Ike.

Losing both its battles with a strong south wind and Kingfisher, El Reno High School’s tennis teams dropped to 1-2 on the dual season with a 5-2 loss to the Yellowjackets.

El Reno posted a 2-2 record on the girls side, losing both singles matches. Kambry Maifield fell 2-6/0-6 to Sydney Watkins at No.1 singles and Yui Kasahara lost to Kami Hamilton at No.2 singles 3-6/0-6.

El Reno High School hosted a freshman tournament at Crimson Creek Golf Course last week with the Indians placing third with a nine-hole team score of 242.

Team members and scores were Skylar Ayers (49), Trinity Black (56), Makenna Curtis (66), Kayla Wieland (70), Addysen Ashford (69), Amya Eaglenest (70), Samantha Johnson (70) and Emma Eisenhower (65).

El Reno High School’s trapshooting team will take the top seed into next week’s Oklahoma Scholastic Shooting Sports Program’s State Championships after winning the Northwest Regional.

The state shoot is Wednesday at the Oklahoma Trapshooting Association Park on Jensen Road. The OKSSSP is sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife.

El Reno logged the highest regional score with a 220, with sisters Emma and Madison Patswald finishing in a three-way tie for first place in the High School Girls Division with scores of 24.

A little home course knowledge worked its magic last week at the 2022 El Reno High School Invitational as the EHS boys golf team shaved 48 strokes off its score from the previous day.

The effort lifted the Indians to a fifth-place finish with a 390 total in the 11-team field.

Tuttle’s varsity won the event, held at Crimson Creek Golf Course, with a 332 tally. Altus was second with a 337, followed by Guymon (379) and Tuttle’s junior varsity at 383.

Weatherford was the only other team to break 400 at 398.

Battling through the toughest part of its District 5A-1 schedule, El Reno High School’s baseball team has suffered some hard knocks, the most recent delivered by co-leader Carl Albert.

The Titans defeated El Reno 14-0 and 13-1 in a doubleheader at the Hub Reed Complex. The losses dropped El Reno to fifth in the district standings at 3-4 and extended the Indians losing streak to eight games.

El Reno will take an 8-11 overall record into this week’s Bill Tipton Classic.