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El Reno High School’s baseball team battled cold weather, high winds and a tough pair of small schools to split two games in the 2023 Union City Spring Break Festival.

The Hub Reed Complex was one of the host sites for the event as El Reno defeated Granite 8-7 before dropping a 5-0 game to Wister. The split left the Indians with a 3-5 overall record.

El Reno scored six runs in the first inning against Granite before the Panthers rallied with seven unanswered runs.

The Indians then rallied with a two-run fourth inning to secure the win.

An eight-game run through the Waukomis Invitational left Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team with a 6-2 record and a runner-up finish.

The Tigers, now 10-4 on the season, defeated the host team 17-7 along with Dover (12-4), Arapaho-Butler (16-13), Woodland (6-5/22-6) and Frontier (18-7).

Union City dropped two games to Hydro-Eakly by scores of 13-3 and 29-6. For the eight-game stretch, Union City went 120-of-224 (.539) from the plate with 25 doubles, five triples and five home runs.

Calumet High School’s baseball team ran into a tough slate of games in two separate spring break festivals, dropping three games over the break.

The Chieftains, ranked third in Class B, fell to 2-3 on the season after losing a 6-1 game to Class 2A’s 16th-ranked Haskell in the Union City Spring Break Festival.

Calumet then played two games in the Edmond Festival, losing to 5A power Piedmont (8-1) and 6A’s Moore (6-0).

The Chieftains went 14-of-73 (.192) for the three-game set with only two extra base hits, doubles from Hunter Arnold and Carson Cooper.

Both the boys and girls teams were scheduled to play this week in the Noble tourney starting on Thursday.

Taking three out of four games from National Park over the weekend, Redlands Community College’s baseball team moved to within a game of .500 for the season.

The Cougars won the first three games by scores of 4-1, 14-2 and 12-3 before the Nighthawks avoided a sweep with a 12-9 win in the series finale.

Redlands improved to 13-15 on the season with the victories and 5-3 in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings for fourth place.

The Cougars bats had a combined 32-of-116 (.276) effort over the four-game series with seven doubles and four triples.

El Reno High School senior Bre Spann recently signed an NJCAA national letter of intent to play soccer for Redlands Community College.

Calumet High School senior Allie Harris won the 3-point shooting contest at the Class B state tourney.

For her efforts she earned a $1,000 check for science and math supplies.

Jennifer Douglas can now check off one of the postseason honors that has eluded the veteran coach in her seven seasons at the helm of the El Reno High School girls basketball program.

Douglas was named by her peers as Coach of the Year on the 2023 All-Suburban Conference Girls Basketball Teams. The seven member coaches voted on three squads and honorable mention prior to the state tourney.

“I did not expect to get it. I thought Coach Carr (Eric) at Piedmont deserved it because this was his last year and they beat us and won the conference.

Three El Reno High School wrestlers picked up the highest honors of their careers recently during voting by the selection committee for the 2023 Oklahoma Coaches Association’s All-State Wrestling Squads.

Will Heger and Dailey Jennings were elevated to All-State status and will wrestle for the Large West squad in the All-State Games. Those wrestling matches will be held at Tulsa Union High School on July 26 at 7 p.m.

Prior to a few days of rest ahead of the Union City Spring Break Festival, El Reno High School’s baseball team split a home doubleheader at the Hub Reed Complex.

El Reno dropped the U.S. 81 meeting with Chickasha by an 11-3 margin after allowing nine runs in the third inning – helped along by three Indians errors.

El Reno led the game 2-1 at that point despite leaving the bases loaded in the bottom of the first inning.

Rebounding from the loss, El Reno scored three runs in the bottom of the first en route to a 4-0 win over Clinton.