Sports

Sometimes in a David vs. Goliath confrontation, the big guy gets the upper hand.

Weatherford quarterback Stone Chism, a 6-2, 217-pound junior, scored on a 4-yard run with 29.5 seconds left as the Eagles rallied in the fourth period to defeat El Reno High School’s football team 28-26.

The loss, an eerie flashback to the 2022 meeting in which the Eagles scored the game-winning touchdown with 22 seconds left in a one-point decision, dropped El Reno to 1-2 for the season.

El Reno High School’s softball team ran into a buzz saw over the weekend as the Indians dropped four games in the Bixby Invitational, three of those against Class 6A opponents.

The losses were to Broken Arrow (5-1), Muskogee (11-3) and Bixby (12-4), followed by an 8-0 shutout at the hands of Perry. The losses came on the heels of a close 7-6 setback to Guthrie in a non-tournament game.

El Reno has now dropped its last six games to fall to 10-10 overall heading back into District 5A-2 play this week against Carl Albert and Piedmont.

El Reno lost three matches over the weekend in the Noble Invitational.

See Saturday’s edition for a complete roundup from the event as well as EHS’ recent road loss at Elgin.

Amya Lindsay scored a hat trick and then some last week as Redlands Community College snapped a four-match losing streak to start the season with a 5-1 win over Connors State College.

The win lifted the Cougars to 1-4 overall and 1-3 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings and into seventh place.

Lindsay, a sophomore, scored the first four goals for Redlands in the first half. She closed the match with a team-leading nine shots. Alisha Leonard scored on her only shot of the night as RCC took a 5-0 halftime lead.

El Reno High School’s volleyball team continues to struggle with consistency over the best of five head-to-head matches following a pair of 3-0 shutout losses.

The Indians slipped to 3-6 on the season following a 25-18/28-26/25-15 home loss to Chickasha in the volleyball installment of the U.S. 81 Battle.

El Reno led the Chicks in two of the three games including an eight-point advantage in the game two loss. That setback came on the heels of a 25-14/25-21/25-10 road loss at Class 5A’s 14th-ranked Duncan.

A five-hit effort at the plate spelled the end of a six-game win streak for El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team as the Indians suffered a 4-0 non-district road loss to Duncan.

The loss came on the heels of a 9-4 revenge win over Noble, with the two-game split leaving El Reno with a 10-5 overall record.

The victory over the Bears lifted the Indians to 4-3 in the District 5A-2 standings and moved EHS to within a half game of Noble for third place.

Senior Malachi Nicholson leads all El Reno High School running backs with 474 yards and six touchdowns in only two games.

The Indians were hosting Weatherford Friday night.

The team from Oklahoma Peak Performance, including three El Reno sisters, recently won the USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Championship in the 13-year-old USA Bracket.

The event was held in Minneapolis, Minn.

There were 36 teams in the USA Bracket with OP2 being the lone squad from Oklahoma.

The squad posted an 8-3 record en route to the title and an 18-7 mark in the number of sets won versus lost.

Calumet High School’s fast-pitch softball team was able to break its recent run of scoreless games and turn hits into runs last week, splitting a two-game road set at Burns-Flat.

The Chieftains, now 4-16 on the season, defeated Olustee/El Dorado 16-6, followed by a 19-7 loss to Burns Flat/Dill City.

Going into the triangular, 11 of the previous 12 games for Calumet had been shutout affairs, with CHS going 1-10 in those games. Included in that string was a recent 15-0 setback to Fort Cobb-Broxton.

After watching a 14-game win streak snapped by another one-run affair against cross-county rival Okarche, Calumet High School’s baseball team rebounded with a 15-1 victory over Lomega.

The Chieftains, now 15-1 on the season, remain second in the latest Class B poll behind Fort Cobb/Broxton.

Calumet defeated Class A’s 18th-ranked Arapaho-Butler (5-0) and Granite (9-1) before dropping a 7-6 game to Okarche, ranked 10th in Class A. The Chieftains left the tying run at second in the seventh inning of the loss after a single and stolen base from sophomore Kaleb Thiessen.