With its overall score consistently coming in around 400, El Reno High School’s girls golf team is turning its attention toward cutting out needless mistakes ahead of the upcoming Class 5A West Regional Championships.
El Reno will be among the 12 teams bidding for one of the six West passes to the state tournament, which will be held this year at Chickasaw Point in Durant.
The West regional will be played on the South Course at Lake Hefner.
Despite holding the No.1 spot in the 16-team bracket, El Reno High School’s trapshooting squad was thrown a tough pigeon in the second round of the 2022 Oklahoma Scholastic Shooting Sports Program’s State Shoot.
After defeating Sequoyah in its opening match with a team score of 195, El Reno drew perennial powerhouse and eventual state champion Merritt in the second round.
It took nine innings and a shocking loss for El Reno High School’s baseball team to shake off the rust of a four-hour bus ride to Guymon last week as the Indians rallied to split a District 5A-1 doubleheader with the Tigers.
El Reno slipped to fifth in the league standings at 6-5 after losing the first game to Guymon 3-0.
The Indians were tied 3-all after the first inning of the second game, before going on an 8-2 run to secure an 11-5 victory. The split left El Reno with a 14-16 overall record.
The Indians went into the final match of District 5A-2 play tied with Bishop McGuinness for fourth place, both schools at 3-3.
El Reno, which has won three straight, needed a road win against Guymon and an Irish loss to Midwest City to make the postseason.
Three home runs propelled Calumet High School’s slow-pitch softball team to its first win of the season, a 10-0 shutout of Olustee-El Dorado in the Fletcher Spring Swing Invitational.
Calumet moved into the playoffs with a 1-17 record after posting a 1-3 mark in the Fletcher tourney.
The Chieftains dropped games to Class 2A’s 13th-ranked Canute (17-0), Class 6A’s 20th-ranked Elgin (14-4) and the 15th-ranked (2A) host team by a 10-3 score.
The Chieftains were slated to play in the District 2A-1 Championship at Binger-Oney.
Calumet High School’s baseball team entered the Class A playoffs riding a seven-game win streak after closing out the regular season with an 11-1 non-tournament win over Binger-Oney.
The Chieftains, ranked 17th in the state with a 17-3 record, were hosts of the District 19 Championship.
Calumet’s win streak included the championship from the 2022 Johnny Bench Invitational after beating Class B’s seventh-ranked Leedy (8-2), Cheyenne/Reydon (7-2), Binger-Oney (14-2) and Tuttle’s junior varsity 5-3 in the title game.
Redlands Community College’s baseball team swept the home portion of its series with Northern Oklahoma College of Enid to remain at eighth place in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings.
The Cougars are 8-16 in the division after beating the Jets 2-1 and 5-4 at Don Brown Field. Redlands, 19-29 overall, dropped both road games by scores of 5-2 and 5-4.
Redlands was 30-of-115 (.261) from the plate over the four-game set, getting a double each from Nico Kuplik, Noah Edmond, Parker Ward and Reece Burke. Burke added a home run to the mix of extra base hits.
Dominating the overall shot total by 28 attempts, El Reno High School’s girls soccer team climbed into sole possession of third place in the District 5A-2 standings with an 8-0 shutout of Guthrie.
The win was the fourth in a row for the Indians, who improved to 9-2 overall. El Reno moved to 4-3 in the district standings, one game back of Piedmont for second with a match left to play at Guymon.
El Reno logged 33 shots in the win over Guthrie, 17 of those on goal, while the defense allowed five attempts.
None of the Bluejays shots got past EHS goalie Kinley Golden.
Shutting out Guthrie over the final 30 minutes of the second half, El Reno High School’s boys soccer team remains in the hunt for a playoff spot with a 2-1 win over the Bluejays.
With its third win in a row, El Reno jumped up to sole possession of fourth in the District 5A-1 standings at 3-3. The Indians, now 4-7 on the season, hold a half game lead in the league win column over Bishop McGuinness.
After tagging Kingfisher for a double-digit hit total in the opening game of the 2022 Guthrie 89’er Invitational, the wins and the base knocks seemed to dry up for El Reno High School’s baseball team.
El Reno slipped to 13-15 on the season with a 1-3 showing in the event.
Playing out of the Kingfisher bracket, the Indians defeated the Yellowjackets 7-1 but would follow it up with losses to the Oklahoma City Broncos (6-3), Midwest City (8-0) and Class 2A’s eighth-ranked Morrison (11-2).
