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Though El Reno High School’s boys golf team cut 23 strokes off its score from its first effort on the Duncan Golf and Tennis Club Course, a spot in the Class 5A Boys Oklahoma Golf Championships was not in the numbers.

Playing in the Class 5A Regional Championships, El Reno took ninth with a 36-hole total of 717 and missed a team pass to state by 57 strokes.

The six teams earning state passes were Duncan (591), Bishop McGuinness (616), Lawton MacArthur (618), Elgin (650), Newcastle (653) and Collinsville (660).

OKLAHOMA CITY – For the first time this season, El Reno High School fielded full squads for both boys and girls at the 2026 Lone Wolf Coyote Classic.

The boys earned a pair of fourth-place finishes, led by Sergio Rosas at No.1 singles. He defeated Purcell’s Asa Byrng (6-3/6-2) in the first round but dropped matches to Moore’s Jackson Tait (6-0/6-1) and Anadarko’s Sam Battiest (6-1/6-1).

Calumet High School’s baseball team regained the top spot in the final Class B poll of the spring following a 7-4 win over Weatherford.

The Chieftains will take a seven-game win streak and a 14-6 overall record into the regional round of the postseason.

The win over the Eagles followed Calumet’s sweep of Waynoka (18-2/17-0) to win the Class B, District 2 Championship.

Over the three games Calumet went 30-of-63 (.476) from the plate with 12 extra base hits. Seven of those were doubles, paced by Konnor Thiessen and Chase Woolley with two each.

Calumet High School’s slow-pitch softball team took a three-game win streak into the regional round of the Class A playoffs after beating Oklahoma Bible Academy (No.11/2A) in a tuneup game.

The win lifted the Chieftains to 21-8 on the year after sweeping Ringwood 6-0 and 8-2 to claim the District 10 Championship.

The Chieftains hit .402 (39-of-97) for the three-game set with only five extra base hits. Kyah Baker had three doubles, followed by two-baggers each from Jacks Bates and Randi Upchego.

Despite a pair of bookend victories in a series with Carl Albert, Redlands Community College’s baseball team will be on the road for the crossover round of the 2026 NJCAA Region 2, Division II Championship.

The Cougars defeated the Vikings 21-11 and 7-4, but dropped the middle two games of the series by duplicate 12-10 scores.

The split left Redlands with a 20-34 season record.

The two teams were tied with Northern Oklahoma College of Enid for third in the West side of the Division II standings with 11-13 records.

El Reno High School senior Preston Ashford, who wears No.8, adjusts his batting gloves before heading to the plate in the Indians senior night win over Putnam City.

Cheering him on with signs and yells were his sister, Addysen Ashford (right) and grandmother, Ruby Hibberts (center).

El Reno defeated the Pirates by eight runs.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Tied at halftime against Western Heights, El Reno High School girls soccer coach Anthony Klipp uttered a simple but clear message to his players.

“You can lose one of these last two matches and still make the playoffs, but this is not the one you can lose,” said Klipp.

His players responded with five unanswered goals in the second half en route to a 6-1 victory over the Jets.

Two days later the Indians then locked down a spot in the postseason with a 3-1 win over Guthrie.

El Reno High School’s boys soccer team could finish in a tie for the fourth spot in the District 5A-2 standings, but the squad will not be going to the playoffs.

The Indians dropped a 2-1 match to Western Heights before closing the regular season with a 3-0 shutout of Guthrie.

The split left El Reno with an 8-5 record on the year and a 3-4 mark in the league standings.

El Reno is currently tied for fifth with Western Heights. Carl Albert, which has a match left with Guthrie, is fourth at 3-3 but holds the tiebreaker edge over both EHS and the Jets.

El Reno High School’s tennis team had one of its strongest showings of the season last week at the 2026 Elgin Owl Classic.

The boys fielded a full squad for the first time this year and took fifth in the team standings with 12 points, highlighted by its singles players who were both consolation champs.

Sergio Rosas, playing the No.1 bracket, lost to Weatherford’s Carson Bonner (7-5/6-1) but rebounded to defeat Kingfisher’s Wyatt Long (6-0/6-2) and Southeast’s Miguel Garcia (6-0/6-1).

El Reno High School catcher Austin Steffler said it best when describing senior right-hander Jonathan Shelley’s first varsity start of the season.

“Jonathan’s fast ball is moving,” said Steffler.

Shelley, who missed two-thirds of the season with a hamstring injury, pitched five innings of three-hit baseball as the Indians snapped a six-game losing streak with a 9-1 run-rule of Putnam City.

Shelley allowed one run and a walk, while fanning six batters. He retired the first eight batters in order, allowed the free pass, then retired four of the next five batters faced.