Sports

Returning to the Oklahoma City Tennis Center for its third tourney of the season, El Reno High School’s girls squad ran into some tough brackets at the 2023 Guthrie Invitational. El Reno logged a 13th-place finish, led by Jayna Graham at No.1 singles.

Playing shorthanded for the second of three matches due to red-card suspensions, El Reno High School’s girls soccer team stayed in contention for a playoff berth with a 3-2 road win at Guthrie. El Reno improved to 5-5 on the season and 2-3 in the District 5A-2 standings for sixth place.

While not officially eliminated from postseason contention, El Reno High School’s boys soccer team will need to win out and get some help from other squads after dropping a 5-0 road match at Guthrie.

Slipping back over the 400-stroke plateau in its last two outings, El Reno High School’s boys golf team posted a pair of 15th-place mid-season finishes. The Indians, playing down two starters, were 15th in the Carl Albert Invitational on the John Conrad Course in Midwest City with a round of 408.

Union City and Calumet high school’s baseball teams are riding late-season win streaks following recent tournament action. Union City, ranked 18th in Class A, improved to 15-5 after winning three of its last four games.

An early trek around the layout for the Class 5A state tourney was not a memorable one for El Reno High School’s girls golf team as the Indians took 13th place in the 2023 Ardmore Invitational.

Tinkering with its lineup ahead of the pending playoffs, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team dropped three of four games against all ranked opponents. The Tigers, who hold the No.6 spot in Class 2A at 16-12 on the season, fell to Class 3A’s sixth-ranked Amber-Pocasset 15-0.

Placing six golfers in the top seven spots of the individual medalist chase catapulted Redlands Community College’s golf team to the 2023 Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships.

League leader South Arkansas got a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning to defeat Redlands Community College 6-5 and sweep the four-game series over the Cougars. Redlands slipped to 17-23 for the season after losing the first three games of the series by scores of 12-2, 12-1 and 11-4.

CENTRAL Arcadia: April 10. Elevation is 1 ft. above normal, water temperature 59°F and stained. Crappie fair on jigs and minnows around brush structure, docks and rocks. Largemouth bass good on plastic baits and spinnerbaits around brush structure and shorelines.