Redlands Community College’s baseball team suffered its first two losses in NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 action last week, dropping home games to Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa.
The 14-11 and 8-3 setbacks dropped the Cougars to 6-14 on the season and last in the league standings at 0-2.
Redlands batted .281 for the twinbill, belting out 18 hits leading to 14 runs.
The team had 15 walks but struck out 20 times,
Redlands Community College’s Ty’reek Johnson shoots a fast-break layup in the Cougars 81-71 loss to Northern Oklahoma College of Enid last week. The setback dropped RCC to 8-12 on the season and 2-12 in Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference play. The Cougars are now eighth in the league.
Aided by the first league title under head coach Jennifer Douglas, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team was awarded seven positions on the 2021-All-Suburban Conference Team.
Surprisingly, though, Douglas was not named the league’s Coach of the Year despite taking El Reno to the state semifinals for the second time in three seasons with a 15-6 record and a No.5 ranking in the final Class 5A poll. That honor went to Carl Albert’s Kyle Richey.
El Reno High School’s boys basketball team overcame a lot of unknowns during Rodney Haydon’s first season back on the bench, playing to within a basket of a trip back to the state tourney.
For the efforts, El Reno had five players pick up postseason honors during voting for the 2021 All-Suburban Conference Team including double awards for seniors Ryan Island and Darius Moore.
El Reno had its district 5A-2 series with Guymon canceled twice last week due to rain and wet field conditions. The Indians, 3-4 on the season, were slated to play this weekend in the Washita Valley Classic in Chickasha. Keith Hill’s team will then host Guymon on Monday at the Hub Reed Complex for a varsity only doubleheader. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.
El Reno will then host Southeast in a varsity twinbill on Tuesday starting at 4:30 p.m. The Indians are 2-0 in district play and ranked fourth among the eight teams behind Carl Albert, Piedmont and Guthrie.
El Reno’s Ximena Salazar dribbles down the field during a recent home match. Both El Reno teams were in the Northwest Classen Invitational this weekend at Taft Stadium
in Oklahoma City.
It was a slow offensive start for both Calumet and Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball teams as the pair returned from spring break with shutout losses.
Union City, ranked 20th in Class A, fell to 7-7 on the season with a 15-0 loss to Binger-Oney, the top-ranked team in the same poll. The Tigers were held to one hit - a third-inning single from Kylie McCoy.
She was erased a batter later on a fielder’s choice single from Haylie McCoy.
Playing its third series in a week, Redlands Community College’s baseball team headed north to Kansas to split a series with NJCAA Division 1 Hutchinson Community College.
The teams combined for 55 runs as the Blue Dragons won the opener 24-6. Redlands took game two 15-10.
The split came on the heels of the Cougars home sweep of Dakota College of Bottineau, based out of North Dakota, by scores of 3-1 and 9-0.
Redlands Community College’s basketball teams continue a rough stretch through the latter stages of the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference schedule, winning one of four games against Northeastern Oklahoma A&M over a 48-hour period.
Jay Niehues’ women's team snapped a three-game slide with a 57-45 home win over the Golden Norsemen, but lost the return game in Miami by a 70-56 count.
The split left the Cougars with a 9-6 overall record and a 6-6 mark in the OCAC standings, lifting the team up one spot to fifth.
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