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The champion of the 2023 El Reno High School Softball Invitational will have to wait a few days before being crowned after Mother Nature halted play in the final game.

El Reno trailed Enid 3-1 in the bottom of the second inning when play was suspended.

“We are going to finish it when we go to Enid and then play another game after that,” said El Reno head coach Jason Little.

El Reno had two hits when play was suspended, one each from Iliana Ashford and Maddie Moss. Ashford scored on a sacrifice groundout by Kaydence Pawnee.

El Reno High School’s football program held its first day of padded preseason drills in near 100-degree temperatures Friday at Memorial Stadium.

The Indians will host Elk City Friday night in their only preseason scrimmage with junior high teams starting at 5 p.m., with the varsity to follow around 6:30 p.m.

El Reno had an extra week of preseason workouts before opening up the 2023 season on Tuesday at Tecumseh.

El Reno will host its annual tournament on Saturday inside Jenks Simmons Field House.

Calumet High School’s baseball team made quick work of Arapaho-Butler’s pitching staff in its 2023 season opener, cranking out 13 hits en route to a 20-0 run-rule victory.

The Chieftains went 13-of-25 (.520) from the plate with six doubles and a home run. Calumet took advantage of 11 walks against three strikeouts. Logging doubles for CHS were Kaleb and Kyler Thiessen, Derrick Krantzman, Kingston Arnold, Hunter Navanick and Carson Cooper. Brendon Voss recorded a homer for one of his two base hits.

El Reno High School junior Heath Shelton watches EHS defensive coordinator Michael Pruitt launch a drone to take video of an offensive session.

El Reno kicked off football practice last week and school will open for the 2023-24 term on Thursday.

YUKON – El Reno High School coach Jason Little has been preaching execution on the little things in the game of softball and how critical they become in any ballgame.

However, when you’re opening up the season against a perennial Class 6A powerhouse such as Yukon, the lack of execution usually ends up in a snowball effect resulting in a loss.

That’s just what happened last week when El Reno kicked off its 2023 campaign with a 10-2 setback to the Millers.

What was slated as a road game to open up the 2023 fall season turned into an 8-0 home win for Union City High School’s baseball team over Wellston.

The game was shifted back to Cecil Simmons Field after morning rains made Wellston’s field unplayable.

Union City broke open a scoreless game in the third with four runs, followed by two-run bursts in the fourth and fifth innings to enact the run-rule.

The Tigers had 10 base hits in the win, led by Korbin Cook’s 2-for-3 effort with a triple and a home run. He drove in two runs and scored twice.