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Turning in what head coach Cameron Wilkens calls a starting point, El Reno High School’s girls golf team teed it up in the first tournament of the season last week.

El Reno placed near the top 10 in the team race at the 2022 Weatherford Invitational with a round of 471.

“I think that score reflects every girl shooting about 10 strokes more than what they have been shooting.

“This is a starting point,” said Wilkens.

A cold front that moved over the Prairie West Golf Course between nines played havoc with El Reno High School golfers as well as the rest of the field at the 2022 Weatherford Invitational.

“The greens were very fast and a cold front came in during the turn which added several strokes onto everyone’s scores. We did OK for our first tournament of the year but we have a lot of work to do on things such as our short game and our putting.

After averaging six hits in each of the first two games of the Vici Invitational, Calumet High School’s baseball team was stymied to a single hit in the championship game.

Caleb Meschberger logged a single in a 7-0 loss to Vici, the No.9 team in Class A. The Chieftains did get two free passes by Hunter Arnold, but struck out seven times. The loss dropped Calumet to 5-2 on the season.

Calumet reached the title game with wins over Fargo-Gage/Fort Supply (2-1) and Class A’s 19th-ranked Mooreland (6-3).

El Reno High School baseball player Kolt Glenn wraps up tight in a blanket while watching Wednesday’s District 5A-1 game against Guthrie at the Hub Reed Complex. School athletic trainer Alex Bray sits bundled up as well as a stiff north wind dropped game-time temperatures into the high 30s.

The outcome of El Reno High School girls basketball team’s season seems to uphold Aristotle’s famous teachings that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

However, those parts that made up a 24-5 squad and carried the Indians to their second state championship game in four years were pretty darn good and were recently honored with eight spots on the 2022 All-Suburban Conference Team.

For a team with one senior returning starter and slotted to finish in the middle of the conference race in the preseason, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team turned a lot of heads during the 2021-22 season.

El Reno exited the playoffs in the area round but closed the year with a 14-12 record.

The Indians were ranked 12th in the state, seventh on the West side, but played to a 5-1 record in league play and a second-place finish to eventual state runner-up Del City.

A dropped fly ball off the bat of Brayden Fulton allowed Davin Shamblin to score from third as El Reno High School’s baseball team blanked Guthrie last week 10-0 in five innings for its first on-field victory in District 5A-1 play.

The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Indians, who improved to 6-3 on the season.

El Reno moved to 3-0 in the 5A-1 standings after two recent losses to Bishop McGuinness were converted into forfeit wins.

El Reno head coach Keith Hill said the Irish used an ineligible player and had to forfeit the first five games.

El Reno High School senior Molly Carson signed a national letter of intent last week to become a member of the Oklahoma City University’s stunt team.

She is the second EHS cheerleader in recent years to sign with the Stars.

While able to put runs on the scoreboard, El Reno High School’s baseball team struggled to convert those into wins in the score book during the Indians three games of the Union City Spring Break Festival.

El Reno’s current losing streak extended to five games after losses to Comanche (5-3), Heavener (7-4) and a 10-2 setback to Class 2A’s eighth-ranked Wister.

The Indians were slated to return to District 5A-1 play on Monday against Guthrie with a 3-5 overall record.

El Reno High School picked up two of the top honors from Suburban Conference coaches during recent voting for All-Conference teams. See stories in Saturday’s edition.