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Returning to the Oklahoma City Tennis Center for its third tourney of the season, El Reno High School’s girls squad ran into some tough brackets at the 2023 Guthrie Invitational.

El Reno logged a 13th-place finish, led by Jayna Graham at No.1 singles.

She posted a 2-2 record following a 6-1/6-2 win over Putnam City’s Van Sui. Graham had a bye following losses to Oklahoma Bible Academy’s Ashley Miller (6-0/6-0) and Carl Albert’s Zoey Shaw (6-0/6-2).

Bri Barksdale took 15th at No.2 singles with a 1-3 mark but logged six winning games in her three losses.

Playing shorthanded for the second of three matches due to red-card suspensions, El Reno High School’s girls soccer team stayed in contention for a playoff berth with a 3-2 road win at Guthrie.

El Reno improved to 5-5 on the season and 2-3 in the District 5A-2 standings for sixth place.

The Indians trail Southeast, Carl Albert and Guymon (2-2) by a game in the loss column for third place and have the latter two remaining on the schedule.

The top four teams in each district make the playoffs.

While not officially eliminated from postseason contention, El Reno High School’s boys soccer team will need to win out and get some help from other squads after dropping a 5-0 road match at Guthrie.

The shutout loss, the third in league play, dropped El Reno to 3-7 on the season and 1-4 in the District 5A-2 standings.

The Indians are sitting at seventh but are just a game and a half out of fourth place with two district matches left against Guymon and Carl Albert..

The top four teams in each district make the playoffs.

Slipping back over the 400-stroke plateau in its last two outings, El Reno High School’s boys golf team posted a pair of 15th-place mid-season finishes.

The Indians, playing down two starters, were 15th in the Carl Albert Invitational on the John Conrad Course in Midwest City with a round of 408. The event also served as the 2023 Suburban Conference Championships, with El Reno taking fifth among league schools.

An early trek around the layout for the Class 5A state tourney was not a memorable one for El Reno High School’s girls golf team as the Indians took 13th place in the 2023 Ardmore Invitational.

Playing Dornick Hills Country Club, El Reno shot a 447 team score after being plagued by four putts due to what head coach Cameron Wilkins called “lightning fast greens.”

“We should have been around 10th or so if we could have figured out the greens sooner,” said Wilkins.

Tinkering with its lineup ahead of the pending playoffs, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team dropped three of four games against all ranked opponents.

The Tigers, who hold the No.6 spot in Class 2A at 16-12 on the season, fell to Class 3A’s sixth-ranked Amber-Pocasset 15-0.

The other setbacks were to Class 2A’s top-ranked Shattuck (13-1) and 17th-ranked Okarche (9-4).

The win was a 9-0 shutout of Class 2A’s 14th-ranked Central.

Placing six golfers in the top seven spots of the individual medalist chase catapulted Redlands Community College’s golf team to the 2023 Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships.

Playing at Lake Murray State Park Golf Course in Ardmore, Redlands carded a 36-hole total of 653 to win by 85 strokes over Seminole State College. Murray State (806) took third.

The event also serves as the NJCAA Region 2 Championships.