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El Reno High School’s Lily Owen ran a personal best time to pace all El Reno High School runners at the 2025 Edmond Santa Fe Wolf Pack Run – one of the largest mid-season races.

Owen posted a time of 23 minutes and 10 seconds to place 40th overall.

She was one of 20 runners to cover the 5-kilometer (3.1- mile) course in the 23-minute range.

She surpassed her previous best 5K time of the season by a minute and 38 seconds and missed the top 35 by 10 seconds.

Six extra base hits over a three-game stretch helped push Okarche High School’s fast-pitch softball team into the playoffs on a two-game win streak.

The Warriors defeated Okeene (9-1) and Thomas/Fay-Custer (9-1) but fell to Garner (5-2) to close the regular season with a 17-13 overall record.

Callie Cramer posted two singles, a double, a triple and a home run.

Bella Hufnagel doubled and Lawson Geheb slugged two homers.

Cramer’s five hits led the team, while Kate Baustert and Chesney Black had three hits each.

Union City High School’s baseball team earned its highest ranking of the season last week, moving up to the No.8 spot in the latest Class A poll of the regular season.

The Tigers, now 18-10 overall, won three of four games to close out the regular season with the loss coming to Binger-Oney (2-1), the No.13 team in the same poll.

The wins were over Paden (7-0), Hydro-Eakly (8-4) and Sentinel (9-1).

Union City batted .256 (20-of-78) for the four-game stretch with a home run by Carson Biffle.

Redlands Community College’s soccer team hosted Eastern Oklahoma after a recent slate of road games.

Redlands Community College wrapped up its recent three-match road swing in NJCAA Region 2 play with a 1-2 record after dropping a 3-0 score to the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain.

The loss came on the heels of a 3-1 win over Northeastern Oklahoma A&M. Redlands is now 2-3 in the Region 2 standings for fifth place. The Cougars are 4-3-1 on the season.

Redlands goals in the NEO win were by Jaidyn Gonzalez, Paige Treat and Jordan Willeford. Ashanti Lewis logged two assists and Gonzalez a third.

Finishing as the highest-placing two-year program in the field, Redlands Community College women’s golf team kicked off the 2025 portion of its schedule with a top five effort.

Playing in the Oklahoma Women’s Intercollegiate at Lawton Country Club, Redlands was fourth with a 36-hole total of 616 (314/302).

Ivanna Gerez paced the Cougars with a 147 tally (74/73) to place third – three strokes off the winning mark.

Running against a mix of two- and four-year programs, Redlands Community College men’s cross country team placed 23rd in the recent 2025 Southern Stampede.

Running the 8-kilometer course at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, Redlands posted a total time of two hours and 33.21 minutes and racked up 690 points. The average team time was 30:40.

Freshman Andres Mandujano broke his own program record by 16 seconds with a time of 26:51 to place 102nd. Four other runners set personal time records in the 268-runner field as Joseph Thompson (30:21) placed 224th.

Though the non-district portion of the 2025 season did not turn out as expected, El Reno High School’s football team exits bye week with key pre-season goals still obtainable.

Head coach Russell Cook said in the preseason that winning a district title and getting back into the Class 5A playoffs were the program’s two main goals.

El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team snapped a three-game losing streak by posting a 2-1 record in the Del City Festival.

The Indians, now 8-13 on the year, defeated the Oklahoma City Broncos (2-1) and Putnam City (7-0) but dropped a close contest to 20-game winner Newcastle (2-1).

El Reno entered the two-day festival after losing a 10-6 battle with Guthrie in District 5A-2 play. The Indians slipped to 2-5 in the league standings but remain in fourth place.

A two-match win streak keeps El Reno High School’s volleyball team tied for the lead in the Suburban Conference standings following a 3-1 victory over No.16 Noble.

The 25-18/25-19/23-25/25-21 win moved the 12th-ranked (5A) Indians to 15-10 on the season and 3-0 in the conference standings, avenging two earlier tournament losses to the Bears.

Both teams served at 89 percent or higher with a combined 25 aces. El Reno logged 12 aces off a 91 percent effort. Dailey Maples, Jaida Richardson and Brantlie Charmasson led the way with three aces each and Ava Felton with two.