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El Reno misses state by four points, Okarche wins regional

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El Reno High School’s trapshooting team narrowly missed a ninth trip to state in its 10th season of competing in the Oklahoma Scholastic Shooting Sports Program.

Competing in the North Regional Championships, one of two in the state, El Reno tied with Medford for ninth place with a team score of 182. The top eight squads earn state passes, with the cutoff being Pond Creek-Hunter with 186 points.

The load of buckshot can be seen flying past the smoke from the shotgun of Kenna Stamm

Shuffled lineups net two top five finishes for EHS

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Shuffling lineups to cover missing players, El Reno High School’s tennis teams earned two top five finishes at the 2026 Elgin Owl Western Open, held at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center.

Jacob Richey, playing No.2 singles, was the highest placer in fourth following a 6-2/6-1 setback to Elgin’s Van Jameson in the third-place match. He defeated Woodward’s Cooper Gregory (6-2/4-6/10-6) in the quarterfinals but fell to Kingfisher’s J.P. Charqueno (6-2/6-1) to play for the bronze.

Jacob Richey watches a forehand return shot fly over the net

Rain assists El Reno win

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With lightning and rain bearing down on the Hub Reed Baseball Complex, Mother Nature made the final out in the El Reno bracket of the 2026 Kingfisher Festival.

Play was suspended with El Reno leading Altus 1-0 in the bottom of the fifth inning. The Indians had the bases loaded following a walk by Preston Ashford, a sacrifice bunt by Matthew Velarde, an error off an Austin Steffler pop-up and a fielder’s choice bunt by Coy Atkins.

Play was to resume after a 30-minute delay, but the Bulldogs opted to take the loss and head home.

Ryker Crain reaches down to tag a Weatherford base runner on a play at the plate

El Reno swept by Titans in District 5A-2 openers

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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.

DeMarco Guzman had one of the shots in the loss to Carl Albert

El Reno sweeps Spartans, jumps Midwest City in 5A-1 standings

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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.

Austin Steffler (33) slaps the ball into the outfield

Cougars cap month with wins

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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.

Linksters post top 15 finishes

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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.

Radley Miller watches a putt roll toward the cup

Thinclads times better at Bridge Creek meet

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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 rallies to down Union City in bedlam battle

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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.

Blake Bailey stretches out but was unable to reach a wide pickoff throw

Winegeart hits three homers in slugfest; UC Tigers log wins

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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.

Kamryn Cook snags a pop-up
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