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In its closest match of the season, El Reno High School’s volleyball team held off a late run by Shawnee to post a 3-2 win over the Wolves in Suburban Conference action. The Indians won by scores of 23-25/27-25/25-19/18-25/15-11 to improve to 3-4 on the season and 1-1 in the conference standings.

DEL CITY – A pair of big second-inning offensive explosions propelled El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team to back-to-back District 5A-2 victories last week while extending the Indians win streak in the process.

Run production continues to be an issue for both Union City and Calumet High School’s fast-pitch softball teams as both squads earned only one win in eight combined games last week. Union City slipped to 3-11 on the season with its lone win over four games, a 15-3 decision against Ninnekah.

Calumet High School continues to make its case to be the top-ranked team in Class B after winning the recent Okarche/Binger-Oney Tournament and sweeping both games of its own festival. The Chieftains, now 13-0, moved up a spot in the latest poll to No.2 behind Fort Cobb-Broxton (13-3).

Redlands Community College women’s soccer team has had a rocky start to the 2023 season with back-to-back losses including a 4-1 setback to Kansas-based Garden City in its home opener. The Cougars are 0-1 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings after a 4-0 loss to Northern Oklahoma College of Enid.

CHICKASHA – While he was expecting a fast start on the 104th installment of the U.S. 81 Battle, El Reno High School head football coach Russell Cook admits he was impressed with what his team delivered.

El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team snapped a three-game losing streak by winning a trio of games in the 2023 Shawnee Festival. El Reno improved to 7-4 on the season by defeating Del City (12-1), Duncan (13-2) and McAlester (3-0).

After winning the first game of the 2023 Suburban Conference opener at Carl Albert by a narrow 25-22 margin, El Reno High School’s volleyball team dropped three games to fall to the Titans, 3-1. Carl Albert rallied behind scores of 25-11/27-25/25-12 to drop El Reno to 2-4 on the season.

The El Reno Tribune’s 2023 Football Preview section contains the following: 2023 El Reno Indians Varsity The cat is out of the bag EHS 2023 Schedule Kicking up turf The run stops here

Missed opportunities has put El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team behind the eight-ball in the district standings as the Indians losing streak hit three games last week. El Reno dropped home games to Noble (2-1) and Carl Albert (14-4) to slip to 4-4 on the season.