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Kingston Arnold hit an RBI-triple to score Dalton Belcher in the top of the eighth inning as Calumet High School’s baseball team tuned up for the regional round of the playoffs with a 3-1 over Weatherford.

Calumet, ranked fourth in Class B, improved to 16-7 on the spring season.

The Chieftains scored two runs in the eighth as Kyler Thiessen drew a one-out walk before scoring on Belcher’s single.

Calumet closed the game with four base hits, two each from Arnold and Belcher – one of those a double.

Extending its current win streak to seven games, Union City High School’s baseball team captured the 2023 Class A, District 18 Championship.

The Tigers, ranked 18th in the state, improved to 20-5 on the season after beating Southwest Covenant (14-0) and sweeping two games from Central High by scores of 13-7 and 5-0.

Union City now advances to the Class A, Region 2 Championships which were slated to start Thursday in Canute.

The Tigers got strong pitching wins from Rocky Carroll, Tyler Norton and Laven Zeier in the district run.

Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team will carry a three-game win streak into the regional round of the playoffs following an 8-5 tuneup victory over rival Hinton.

The Tigers, ranked sixth in the state, moved to 24-14 on the season with the win and were slated to play in the Region 1 Championships at Shattuck, which started Thursday.

Union City was coming off a sweep of Quinton by scores of 12-2 and 11-1 to win the school’s first-ever District 6 Championship.

Losing three of four games to Murray State has slipped Redlands Community College’s baseball team into a tie for fifth place in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings.

The Cougars avoided the sweep with an 11-8 win in the final game after dropping contests by scores of 11-1, 7-0 and 8-6. Redlands is now 12-16 in the division and 20-28 overall.

Redlands is tied with Northern Oklahoma College of Enid, but the Jets hold the head-to-head tiebreaker.

El Reno High School’s baseball team needed, but did not get, just one or two clutch hits in last week’s non-district clash with Class 6A’s Ponca City – which ended in a 2-0 loss to the Wildcats.

The Indians had six base runners in the game and left five of those stranded on base.

Four were in scoring position, with two left stuck at third on two-out strikeouts.

The loss dropped El Reno to 12-18 on the season.

Back-to-back setbacks will leave El Reno High School’s girls soccer team in sixth place in the final District 5A-2 standings following a 6-0 road loss to Carl Albert.

El Reno was slated to wrap up the regular season Tuesday night at Mount St. Mary, a non-district contest, after posting a 2-5 mark in 5A-2 play. The Indians took a 5-7 overall record into the match with the Rockets.

Carl Albert outshot El Reno 14-2, with 12 of those shots by the Titans on frame.

Ximena Salazar and Maddie Rochdi recorded the shots for the Indians.

El Reno High School’s boys soccer team dropped its third straight match last week with a 3-0 setback to Carl Albert to end District 5A-2 action.

The Indians slipped to 3-9 on the season and 1-6 in league play, leaving El Reno in seventh place.

It was the fourth shutout loss for EHS in District 5A-2 play.

El Reno had eight shots in the loss, four of those from Kenneth Solis. Edgar Perez and Maurico Ruiz added two shots each.

Eduardo Flores was in net for the Indians, allowing all three goals but logging eight saves.

El Reno High School’s track team found success with its relay teams and throwers at the 2023 Woody Bearden Invitational in Pauls Valley.

The boys team placed seventh in the final standings with 22 points, aided in part by a fourth-place toss of 37 feet, 1 inch by R.J. Parker in the shot put.

El Reno’s sprint relay team of Elijah Fisher, Latin Everheart, JaRon Irving and Malachi Nicholson took the silver with a time of 44.66 seconds.

Fisher and Nicholson then teamed with Avery Mouse and Shane Caso to run the 1,600-meter relay in a time of 4:19.03 to place sixth.

El Reno High School tennis player Bri Barksdale reaches out to hit a return shot at the net during a recent doubles match at the Putnam City North Invitational.

El Reno was scheduled to play Piedmont, weather permitting, this week in a dual at Legion Park.

Big timely hits carried El Reno High School’s baseball team to its second straight District 5A-1 sweep as the Indians scored 30 runs en route to victories over Guymon at the Hub Reed Complex.

El Reno took the series opener by an 11-1 margin as Gavin Tinsley’s walk-off single down the third-base line in the bottom of the fifth scored Gabe Compton for the game-winning run.

The Indians then used four walks, three hit batsmen, two triples from Tinsley and a three-run triple by Davin Shamblin to highlight a 10-run first inning en route to a 19-1 win in game two.