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OKLAHOMA CITY – Mixing up the lineup for the Putnam City North Tournament produced El Reno High School’s first team title of the 2023 tennis season.

The El Reno girls won the doubles-only event after placing third or higher in all three divisions. With her twin sister out of the lineup due to school conflicts, Melanna Idell teamed up with Zoey Johnson to win the No.2 doubles field with an 8-5 pro set decision over Lawton.

The pair opened with an 8-1 win over Oklahoma Christian School before beating Putnam City North 8-2 in the semifinals.

Union City High School base runner Tyler Norton tries to step on second base before getting tagged by a Southwest Covenant School infielder, who dropped the ball in the process.

The two schools opened up the Class A, District 18 Championship being hosted by Union City.

The Tigers went on to win the game 14-0.
 

El Reno High School’s golf teams continue to look for consistency in overall scoring after three events last week produced mixed results.

The El Reno girls were sixth in the 2023 Suburban Conference Golf Championships, held in conjunction with the Carl Albert Invitational. Playing the John Conrad Golf Course in Midwest City, the Indians carded a 394 score.

Kallie Maifield paced the squad with a round of 89, followed by a 96 from Madison Patswald and a 99 from Skylar Ayers. Emma Patswald posted a score of 110 and Trinity Black a 118.

El Reno High School’s track team split meets recently, with the field events taking part in the 2023 Yukon Classic, while the runners headed north for the Langston Invitational.

Eryn Roman Nose cleared the bar at 4 feet, 8 inches in the high jump but did not make the finals. Jayda Cook and Brooklynn Black threw both the discus and shot put, with Cook reaching 86 feet in the discus and Black 72 feet.

Cook had a mark of 31-0 in the shot and Black posted a 23-0 throw.

Union City and Calumet High School’s slow-pitch softball teams were trending in opposite directions despite both entering the playoffs with losses to close out the regular season.

Union City, ranked sixth in Class 2A, was hosting a district tourney after losing 16-0 to Class B’s fourth-ranked Lookeba-Sickles to close the regular season at 21-14.

The Tigers went 3-1 in the recent Fletcher Spring Swing with wins over Geronimo (12-2), Mt. View-Gotebo (12-11) and Central (4-1).

The loss was to Class 2A’s fourth-ranked Cyril 7-0.

State-ranked Calumet and Union City High School’s baseball teams earned hosting rights for the district round of the playoffs and charged into the postseason on winning notes.

Calumet, ranked fourth in Class B, took a 13-7 record into the playoffs after defeating Hinton 9-1 to close out the regular season. The Chieftains were coming off a 1-2 run in the Roff Invitational that included a 4-3 win over Class A’s sixth-ranked Tushka.

The setbacks were to Class A’s top-ranked Rattan (11-1) and Class B’s No.2 Roff (13-0).

Redlands Community College’s baseball team stayed in the thick of the chase for a spot in the postseason tournament by splitting a recent four-game set with Carl Albert.

Each team won a home game, with Redlands logging wins by scores of 14-3 and 7-1.

The Cougars losses came by way of 10-4 and 14-5 margins.

The split left Redlands with a 19-25 overall record and an 11-13 mark and fifth place in the NJCAA Region 2, Division II standings.

The Cougars 30-28 lead in runs scored came off a 38-of-119 (.319) batting average with nine extra base hits.

El Reno High School’s baseball team lost the consolation finals at the 2023 89ers Classic in Guthrie by way of a 4-1 loss to Perkins-Tryon, but the big story came a day earlier.

Sophomore pitcher Gavin Tinsley threw his first-ever perfect game in the Indians 8-0 shutout win over Kingfisher.

It was El Reno’s second win of the year over the Yellowjackets.

“I was extremely excited and proud of him. Gavin pitched with conviction and commanded all three pitches and was dialed in from the first pitch to the last,” said El Reno head coach Keith Hill.

El Reno High School’s girls soccer team had its two-match win streak snapped last week as playoff hopes took a serious, if not fatal, setback with a 5-0 shutout loss to Guymon.

It was El Reno’s fourth shutout loss in league play as the Indians slipped to 5-6 on the season. The loss dropped EHS to sixth in the district standings at 2-4.

Guymon led 2-0 at the half after squeezing two of its seven shots off the hands of El Reno keeper Bri Vickers.

Guymon scored on its first and fourth shot attempts of the first half and steamrolled past El Reno High School’s boys soccer team 11-1 in a critical District 5A-2 match for both teams.

The win kept the Tigers within striking distance of third, while the loss kept El Reno locked in seventh place in the district standings at 1-5. The Indians slipped to 3-8 on the season.