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El Reno High School’s girls soccer team clinched a playoff berth last week with a 7-0 road win over Western Heights as the Indians remain locked in a tie for first place in District 5A-2.

The win was El Reno’s fourth straight shutout in league play as the Indians are now 5-0 in the 5A-2 standings and tied with Carl Albert, which visits Memorial Stadium Thursday night.

El Reno currently holds a lead over the Titans in tiebreaker points, 20-17, with Southeast (4-1/12) lurking close behind in third after a loss to Carl Albert last week.

Chances of making the playoffs for El Reno High School’s boys soccer team took a major blow last week as the Indians dropped a 2-1 road match to Western Heights.

The loss was the second straight in league play for El Reno, which slipped to 3-7 on the season and 1-4 in the District 5A-2 standings. The Indians are sitting in seventh place with two matches left, needing to leapfrog to fourth place to make the playoffs.

El Reno hosts district leader Southeast (5-0) and third-place Carl Albert (3-2) this week.

El Reno High School senior and two-time state qualifier Hannah Koen (center) signed a national letter of intent last week to wrestle at Baker University in Kansas.

Running into a pitching buzz saw by front-runner Carl Albert, El Reno High School’s baseball team suffered its first league losses of the season at the hands of the Titans.

El Reno was a no-hit in the 11-0 setback to Carl Albert at the Hub Reed Complex, then managed just two hits in a 10-1 loss in Midwest City a day later.

It was the first series sweep allowed by El Reno this season, which slipped to 13-8 overall after having its three-game win streak halted. The Indians dropped to 6-2 in the District 5A-1 standings and into fourth place.

Guthrie scored three unanswered goals in the second half to defeat El Reno High School’s boys soccer team 3-0 in a key District 5A-2 match at Memorial Stadium.

The win kept Guthrie in the fourth spot in the league standings at 2-2, while El Reno slipped into a fifth-place tie with Western Heights and Del City at 1-3.

The Indians emerged from the district cellar with a 5-3 overtime win over Midwest City ahead of the loss to the Bluejays. El Reno is 3-6 on the season with the two-match split.

Back-to-back offensive explosions has kept El Reno High School’s girls soccer team locked in a three-way tie for first place in the District 5A-2 standings.

El Reno defeated Midwest City by an 11-0 margin and backed that up with a 6-0 home defeat of Guthrie to improve to 4-0 in the league standings tied with Southeast and Carl Albert.

The 17-goal blitz lifted El Reno to a positive 16 in the tiebreaker points, which is first ahead of Southeast (15) and Carl Albert (14). Only fourth-place Guymon (2-2/1) is on the positive side.

Despite being a player short, El Reno High School’s girls golf team placed seventh overall at the 2024 Carl Albert Lady Titans Invitational with a season-low round.

Played on the John Conrad Golf Course in Midwest City, El Reno shot a 381 for its second straight sub-400 round. The Indians were nine shots out of the top five.

The event also served as the 2024 Suburban Conference Girls Championship with Carl Albert taking both titles with a 319. Guthrie was second in both with a 350, while Elgin (379) was sixth overall and third among conference schools.

A stout field at the 2024 Guthrie Lady Bluejays Invitational pushed El Reno High School’s girls tennis team out of the top 10 in all four divisions.

The highest finish for El Reno was Delanda Robb at No.1 singles, taking 13th with a bye and default win over Putnam City's Raim Sui. She opened with a straight sets loss to Guthrie’s Emma Poupard, followed by a loss to Durant’s Hadley Perrin (6-0/6-1).

The top-ranked team in Class B is picking up steam for another postseason run as Calumet High School’s baseball team defeated the host of the Cashion Invitational 2-0 in the championship game.

The victory over the Wildcats, ranked No.2 in Class 2A, extended the Chieftains win streak to five games. Calumet reached the title game with wins over Lomega (7-1) and Christian Heritage (11-1).

The Chieftains entered the event with a 10-3 win over Binger-Oney. The team’s current win streak lifted Calumet to 11-3 on the spring heading into the Roff Festival.