Sports

Back-to-back offensive explosions has kept El Reno High School’s girls soccer team locked in a three-way tie for first place in the District 5A-2 standings.

El Reno defeated Midwest City by an 11-0 margin and backed that up with a 6-0 home defeat of Guthrie to improve to 4-0 in the league standings tied with Southeast and Carl Albert.

The 17-goal blitz lifted El Reno to a positive 16 in the tiebreaker points, which is first ahead of Southeast (15) and Carl Albert (14). Only fourth-place Guymon (2-2/1) is on the positive side.

Despite being a player short, El Reno High School’s girls golf team placed seventh overall at the 2024 Carl Albert Lady Titans Invitational with a season-low round.

Played on the John Conrad Golf Course in Midwest City, El Reno shot a 381 for its second straight sub-400 round. The Indians were nine shots out of the top five.

The event also served as the 2024 Suburban Conference Girls Championship with Carl Albert taking both titles with a 319. Guthrie was second in both with a 350, while Elgin (379) was sixth overall and third among conference schools.

A stout field at the 2024 Guthrie Lady Bluejays Invitational pushed El Reno High School’s girls tennis team out of the top 10 in all four divisions.

The highest finish for El Reno was Delanda Robb at No.1 singles, taking 13th with a bye and default win over Putnam City's Raim Sui. She opened with a straight sets loss to Guthrie’s Emma Poupard, followed by a loss to Durant’s Hadley Perrin (6-0/6-1).

El Reno High School’s track teams headed north on the longest road trip of the season, a 260-mile round-trip jaunt to Ponca City for the 2024 Jerry Runyan Relays.

The boys team earned four points from a fifth-place finish by its sprint relay team of Phoenix Whiteshirt, Elijah Fisher, Malachi Nicholson and Kaleb Blackwolf with a time of 45.69 seconds. The junior varsity team was eighth at 47.53 seconds.

The same varsity lineup ran the 4x200-meter event in one minute, 37.69 seconds to place sixth. The JV team was sixth at 1:41.53.

The top-ranked team in Class B is picking up steam for another postseason run as Calumet High School’s baseball team defeated the host of the Cashion Invitational 2-0 in the championship game.

The victory over the Wildcats, ranked No.2 in Class 2A, extended the Chieftains win streak to five games. Calumet reached the title game with wins over Lomega (7-1) and Christian Heritage (11-1).

The Chieftains entered the event with a 10-3 win over Binger-Oney. The team’s current win streak lifted Calumet to 11-3 on the spring heading into the Roff Festival.

It’s been a rough start to the month of April for Okarche High School’s slow-pitch softball team, ranked 15th in Class 2A, as the Warriors have posted a 2-3 record.

Okarche defeated Minco (8-4) and Class 4A’s 14th-ranked Covington-Douglas (13-1), but fell to Mountain View/Gotebo (17-2) and two ranked schools. Binger-Oney, the top-ranked team in Class A, defeated OHS 15-4, while Class 3A’s second-ranked Ripley posted a 10-3 win over the Warriors.

The three straight losses left Okarche with an 11-12 overall record.

Redlands Community College women’s golf team struggled to a 14th-place finish at the Oral Roberts University Spring Invitational, shooting its lowest round of 338 on the final day.

The Cougars had a 54-hole total of 1,026 (341/347/338) to beat out Incarnate Word University by 250 strokes.

The event was played on the River Course at The Club at Indian Springs in Broken Arrow.

Daniela Espinoza had the low total for Redlands at 242 (81/83/78) to tie for 66th in the individual medalist race.

Clara Peake (82/83/82) carded a 247 tally to tie for 71st.

After dropping the series opener to Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa 4-3, Redlands Community College’s baseball team won two straight over the Mavericks to take the series.

The Cougars 11-6 and 13-8 victories lifted Redlands to 3-14 in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings for 11th place.

The series win also sparked a four-game win streak as Redlands swept a twinbill from Oklahoma Christian University by scores of 6-3 and 5-2 to improve to 11-31 for the season.

Over the five games, Redlands went 43-of-147 (.293) from the plate with 13 extra base hits.

Hundreds turned out for the community-wide celebration for El Reno High School’s girls basketball team.

The championship trophy sits at center court with the scoreboard lights showing the year, the final score of the
5A title game over Sapulpa and EHS’ season record. (Tribune photographer/Glen Miller)

Spurred by three sub-50 scores on the front nine, the Indians golf team took ninth place out of 16 teams at the 2024 El Reno High School Girls Invitational.

Played at Crimson Creek Golf Course, El Reno carded its first sub-400 team score of the season, shooting a 395 to edge out Yukon by nine strokes. Edmond Memorial won the event with a 344, followed by Marlow (348) and Heritage Hall (369).

The top nine teams all broke 400.