El Reno High School, the 2023 team champion, put its title on the line last week during the 2024 Oklahoma Scholastic Shooting Sports Program State Championship at the OTA Shooting Park on Jensen Road.
Early-round matches were shot under heavy fog that rolled into Canadian County just minutes before the start of the event.
El Reno was dethroned as the team champion.
Four errors led to five early Noble runs as El Reno High School’s baseball team fell 11-2 to the Bears at the Hub Reed Complex in a key District 5A-1 battle.
Noble, which took the series opener by an 8-0 score, moved to 11-1 in the league standings to maintain the second seed.
El Reno slipped to 14-12 on the year and 6-4 in 5A-1 for fourth place.
Davin Shamblin singled in the bottom of the first and moved to third on a Noble error off a pop fly by Mason Fulton. He scored on a groundout by Hernan Blanco to tie the score at 1-all.
El Reno High School’s track teams ran in the Elk City Track Classic, with the boys team earning 15 points from its sprinters and three relay squads.
The Indians 4x800-meter relay team of Caiden Hooyman, Shannon Russell, Antonio Baxajay and Brendon Evans earned four points with a fifth-place finish in a time of 10 minutes and 15.81 seconds.
The 4x200-meter squad of Nakos Plentybears, Antwon Grayson, Jacon Nichols and Kaleb Blackwolf added four points with a fifth-place showing in 1:38.67.
A six-year drought of home playoff matches came to an end last week as El Reno High School’s girls soccer team defeated Southeast 3-1 to secure no worse than the runner-up spot from District 5A-2.
The top two teams from each district are awarded hosting rights for the first round of the 16-team Class 5A playoffs.
El Reno has not hosted a playoff match since a 2-0 loss to Santa Fe South in 2018.
Two breakaway goals and a third off a header highlighted a seven-goal first half as Southeast handed El Reno High School’s boys soccer team a 10-0 defeat.
The loss dropped El Reno to 1-5 in the District 5A-2 standings, which is seventh, and officially eliminated the Indians (3-8) from postseason contention.
The Spartans scored first in the 33rd minute on the header off a corner kick. Southeast, which leads the district, added a rebound goal off a blocked save by El Reno keeper Aldo De La Torre for a 2-0 lead.
With all five bags breaking 90, El Reno High School’s boys golf team logged its lowest round of the season en route to a ninth-place finish at the 2024 Class 5A West Regional Preview.
The event was played at the John Conrad Municipal Golf Course in Midwest City, which will host the regional May 1. The preview also served as the 2024 Suburban Conference Championships.
Carl Albert won the event with a team score of 300, two shots better than Heritage Hall. Bishop McGuinness (317), Ada (317) and Choctaw (318) rounded out the top five.
Skylar Ayers fired a career-low round last week as El Reno High School’s girls golf team placed fifth in the Tecumseh Invitational, despite having one player down with sickness and another finishing her round feeling ill.
Ayers, a junior, carded an 86 on the Firelake Golf Course in Shawnee as El Reno logged a team score of 390. Ayers was seventh overall in the individual medalist race.
Durant won the tourney with a 338, followed by Perkins-Tryon (358), Ada (365) and Sulphur (384) ahead of the Indians.
El Reno High School’s tennis teams took part in the Henryetta Invitational over two separate days, with both squads competing tough on the consolation side of the brackets.
The El Reno boys took sixth place in all divisions as No.1 singles player Jacob Guerrero went 1-2 with losses to the host (6-0/6-1) and McAlester (6-0/6-0).
His win was a straight sets decision over Pryor’s Zander Newmann.
Jim Rinehart went 1-2 at No.2 singles with losses to Henryetta (6-1/6-0) and McAlester (6-4/3-6/10-8).
He defeated Okmulgee’s Nylem Gentry in two sets (6-1/7-5).
UNION CITY – Mother Nature was the hardest batter to strike out as Calumet and Union City’s slow-pitch softball teams closed out the regular season with the second installment of Canadian County bedlam rivalry. Swirling winds played havoc with pitchers from both schools which combined for 20 walks in a 16-5 win by Union City to split the series. Calumet won the first installment 10-4 six days earlier.
Calumet High School’s baseball team, the top ranked team in Class B, will take an eight-game win streak into the postseason after winning the Roff Invitational.
The Chieftains move to 14-3 on the spring with the title, beating Allen (8-0), Class B’s sixth-ranked Roff (4-1) and Class 4A’s Ada in the championship.
The win over the Cougars came in extra innings as Calumet scored four runs in the eighth, sparked by a Kaleb Thiessen double, a single by Kyler Thiessen, a Dalton Belcher sacrifice and an RBI-single from Brendon Voss.
