Sports

The start of District 5A-2 play for El Reno High School’s soccer teams did not go as planned as both teams dropped road matches to archrival Carl Albert.

The El Reno girls fell to 2-5 on the season with a 7-0 setback to the Titans. It was the third straight shutout loss for the Indians and the fourth in the last five matches.

Carl Albert is now 4-1 in the last five meetings with El Reno dating back to 2022 by a staggering 19-2 scoring margin. Three of those meetings were shutout losses for the Indians.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Mixing together 14 walks with timely hits, El Reno High School’s baseball team earned its first District 5A-1 sweep of the season with a pair of run-rule shutouts over Southeast.

El Reno defeated the Spartans in a doubleheader 14-0 and 11-0 to move over .500 for the first time this spring at 8-6.

More importantly, the Indians are now 5-3 in the District 5A-1 standings and leapfrogged Midwest City into fourth place.

Following a brutal non-conference schedule, Redlands Community College’s baseball team closed out the month of March on a hot streak with four wins in five outings.

The Cougars are now 13-23 on the season but three of the four wins came in NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 play.

Redlands took the league series over Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa by a 3-1 margin after wins of 29-3/24-13 and 20-8. The loss was a 12-6 decision to the Mavericks.

The other win in the four-game run was an 18-8 decision over Southwestern Christian University’s junior varsity.

Working through different lineups for the latter part of the season, El Reno High School’s girls golf team logged two top 15 finishes last week including a top five mark in its own event.

Carl Albert won the 2026 El Reno Girls Invitational, played at Crimson Creek Golf Course, with an 18-hole score of 357, followed by Guthrie with a 370 and the Indians with a season-low effort of 385.

El Reno edged Hobart by two strokes and Heritage Hall by three.

Better weather conditions led to improved times for El Reno High School’s track teams at the Fifth Annual Bridge Creek Invitational.

The El Reno boys took 12th place with four team points but had marked improvements in times. Donovan Mahseet paced the effort with a fourth-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 46.47 seconds, which was close to three seconds faster than his first meet.

Mahseet also ran the 110-meter high hurdles in seventh place with a time of 17.87 seconds.

CALUMET – Wyatt Cox hit a walk-off single to score Kingston Arnold as Calumet High School’s baseball team rallied to defeat Union City 14-4 in a cross-county rivalry meeting of top five teams.

Calumet, ranked No.1 in Class B, rebounded from a loss to Tuttle in the I-40 Classic finals to move to 5-2 on the season. It was the Chieftains second win over a ranked team against one loss.

Lila Winegeart had a career day at the plate for Calumet High School’s slow-pitch softball team, hitting not one but three home runs in three consecutive at bats in the Chieftains 28-17 win over Hammon.

Her first homers of the season and an intentional walk in her fourth trip to the plate resulted in eight runs batted in for Calumet. She had a pair of two-run homers and a three-run blast.

El Reno High School baseball player Garrett Moss pulls on the hose while waving a spray of water on the infield at the Hub Reed Baseball Complex following a recent home game.

The Indians won two out of three games over the weekend in the Putnam City tournament to get back to even ground on the season.

Closing out halves haunted El Reno High School’s girls soccer team in back-to-back losses at the 2026 COPA El Reno tournament.

El Reno took fourth and slipped to 2-4 on the season with setbacks to Putnam City (2-0) in the third-place match and an upset loss to Pathways (1-0) in the semifinals.

The Indians snapped a two-match losing streak in the first round with a win over Capitol Hill (4-0).

In the loss to the Pirates, El Reno allowed a goal in the final five minutes of the first half, then a second off a penalty kick with 29 seconds left in the match.

El Reno High School’s boys soccer team is off to its best start in recent seasons after going 2-1 in the COPA El Reno tourney en route to a third-place finish.

Improving to 5-1 on the year, El Reno defeated Guymon (2-0) in the third-place match following a close loss to Yukon (2-1) in the semifinals, which stopped a four-game win streak.

The Indians opened the event with a win over Pathways (3-0). El Reno now has four shutout victories in six matches.

In the win over Pathways, Tristan Chandler scored a goal off one of his team-high five shots.