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Redlands Community College women’s golf team posted three sub-315 rounds to place third in the 2024 Oklahoma Baptist University Fall Invitational.

The Cougars carded a 930 tally (312/308/310) to finish behind four-year programs Northwestern Oklahoma State (895) and the host team (899).

Redlands beat Seminole State College by 78 strokes and OBU’s junior varsity squad by 171 strokes.

Daniela Espinoza was fourth overall with a 222 (78/70/74), edging out teammate Sophia Blake (74/76/73) by a stroke, who took fifth.

When Abner Doubleday created baseball in the mid-1800s, it’s safe to say he never imagined the sport evolving to the point where electronic communication devices are being placed in catcher’s masks, let alone infielders wearing watches that tell them in real time what pitches are being called from the dugout and what defensive schemes to adjust to according to those pitches.

Yet those are just some of the devices being tested in college ranks as well as Major League Baseball.

The process has now made its way, in limited form, down to the high school ranks.

The comforts of home brought little relief for El Reno High School’s volleyball team in the Indians effort to break free from a recent losing streak.

Playing at Jenks Simmons Field House for the first time in 19 days, El Reno dropped a 3-0 match to Class 4A’s seventh-ranked Cache by scores of 25-10/25-23/25-19.

El Reno, which led the second game 22-20, dropped to 10-15 on the season with its fourth-straight loss and sixth out of the last seven matches.

MIDWEST CITY – El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team will be on the road for the upcoming Class 5A regional playoffs after dropping its final two games of the district race.

Needing a win over Carl Albert to get into a possible tie for second place and the right to host a home regional, El Reno was blanked by the Titans 10-0 to lose the season series with its arch-rival.

It was the second straight shutout loss for the Indians, both by run-rule, to close out the District 5A-2 race with a 7-5 record. El Reno dropped to 12-10 for the season.

Calumet High School’s baseball team had its five-game win streak snapped last week in the finals of the Ripley Invitational, losing 9-8 to Class A’s 10th- ranked Navajo.

The Chieftains had the tying run, Carson Cooper, at third base in the bottom of the seventh inning via a single and two sacrifice grounders. However, Cooper was left stranded on a fly ball to center field.

UNION CITY – Struggling to break free from the loss column, Union City High School’s fast-pitch softball team closed out the regular season with an 8-1 setback to Class B’s fourth-ranked Lookeba-Sickles.

The loss was the second in a row for the Tigers and three out of the last four games. The others losses were to Little Axe (9-5) and Class B’s 13th-ranked Fort Cobb/Broxton (8-3).

The win came over Empire (12-3), leaving Union City with a 16-12 overall record.

Rummaging over what went wrong in a 31-point shutout loss to Weatherford was not what head coach Russell Cook wanted for his El Reno High School football team going into its bye week.

Yet instead of dwelling on the negatives, Cook says his players have gone back to the basics and responded well during open week.

“We were dealing with a few injuries and the bye week allowed us to get healthy. I think the kids have responded well and we had a good week of practice.

“We went into the week focusing on us and correcting the things we needed to do to get better,” said Cook.

Despite being handed its first shutout loss in district play, El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team remains in the hunt for one of the two hosting rights for the upcoming regional playoffs.

El Reno suffered a 10-0 shutout to front-runner Piedmont last week as the Wildcats swept the season series with the Indians. The loss dropped Bri Michalicka’s team to 7-4 in the District 5A-2 standings.

“We didn’t take care of business against Piedmont but we still have a second chance,” said Michalicka.

EDMOND – Freshman Ethan Brooks and the rest of the El Reno High School cross country teams got an early look at the competition for the upcoming regional and state meets.

Running in the Class 5A division of the Edmond Santa Fe Pre-State Meet, Brooks placed fifth overall and was one of two medalists for El Reno.

“He said early on that he was having a bad race. Still pretty good for a bad one,” said El Reno head coach Anthony Klipp.

The other medalist was senior Emmary Elizondo, placing 22nd overall. 

El Reno High School’s volleyball team will play its final five regular-season matches at home after wrapping up a grueling seven-match road swing with a 3-2 loss at Noble.

El Reno won the first (25-22) and third (25-17) games over the Bears but dropped the other three by a combined 13 points, including a 15-7 loss in the fifth set.

It was the second straight five-game loss for El Reno, which fell to 10-14 on the season and 1-6 on the recent road trip. The Indians slipped to 0-4 in the Suburban Conference standings with the Noble loss.