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Taylor Acosta hit a walk-off double as El Reno High School’s softball team defeated Enid 6-5 to close out the 2024 EHS Invitational with an undefeated record.The Indians improved to 3-1 on the season by sweeping all three games of the El Reno Festival, losing a fourth game to rain.

Though it’s been rumored Piedmont might be throwing the ball more than in past seasons, El Reno High School head coach Russell Cook is taking no chances on the Wildcats making a major offensive shift.The Wildcats are one of two opponents El Reno will face in the first four weeks of the season,...

El Reno High School’s volleyball team hosted its annual tournament over the weekend at Jenks Simmons Field House.El Reno posted a 3-2 record in the event to win the silver bracket championship.  

Just two days into fall drills, El Reno High School’s football team got its “Friday Night Lights” fix by capping off a four-hour practice under the glow of Memorial Stadium.“We spent the first two hours on the practice field and it was cool to get grass back under our feet.

After squaring its match with Tecumseh at a game-all, El Reno High School’s volleyball team dropped back-to-back games to the Savages to open the 2024 campaign with a 3-1 loss.Tecumseh won a close 25-22 opening game before El Reno rallied from three points down to pull out a 26-24 win in game two.

Bri Michalicka’s tenure as El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball coach hit a rough patch along Interstate 40 last week as the Indians opened the 2024 season with a 12-0 loss to Weatherford.El Reno was held to two hits in the shutout loss as the team went 2-of-11 from the plate with no walks and...

Maizlynn Steenbergen recently won the Lake Hefner golf tournament championship for the girls 12- to 14-year-old age group.She has won the event three years in a row.It was the first time for Steenbergen to play 18 holes each day of the event, posting rounds of 92 and 96 to secure the...

UNION CITY – Rookie head coach Terra Funk got her first career win last week as Union City High School’s fast-pitch softball team ran through its lineup two and a half times in the bottom of the first inning.The result of those 21 batters was 16 runs, 14 hits and five walks as the Tigers defeated...

UNION CITY – Facing two-time state champion Fort Cobb-Broxton to kick off its 2024 fall season, Union City High School’s baseball team hung with the Mustangs for two innings.Then the floodgates opened.The Mustangs, who won the fall (2023) and spring (2024) state titles, scored 10 runs over the...

With only five upperclassmen on its roster, El Reno High School’s volleyball team was set to open the 2024 season with the proverbial “young squad” tag.Just so happens, that tag may also be one of the team’s assets according to head coach Kristin Koehler.“All of our girls played on varsity last...