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DUNCAN – El Reno High School’s softball team will have to take the long road back through the consolation bracket to make the state tournament after dropping a 2-1 game to host Duncan in the Class 5A Region 2 Championships.

El Reno went 1-1 on the first day of the regional, defeating Ardmore 13-5 in the first round before losing to the Demons on the championships side.

The Indians took a 16-15 overall record into a day two elimination game against Ardmore, which knocked out Western Heights.

The winner of that game must defeat Duncan twice in order to make state.

In a top 15 Class 5A battle, seventh-ranked Piedmont played the spoiler role with a 3-0 win over El Reno High School’s volleyball team on senior night.

The 25-20/25-10/25-18 loss to the Wildcats ended a three-game win streak for 11th-ranked El Reno, which closed out the regular season with a 20-12 record.

The Indians finished Suburban Conference play with a 2-3 record with the setback.

El Reno had an off serving night against the Wildcats, going 40-of-49 from the line for 81.6 percent. The team logged an ace each from Qyra Jones, Avery Peffer and Bri Barksdale.

After snapping a 15-match on-field losing streak, Redlands Community College’s soccer team suffered its second double-digit loss to Rose State College for the 2021 season.

The Cougars fell to the Raiders 18-0 at Memorial Stadium as Rose State outscored Redlands 37-1 in the two meetings this fall.

The setback dropped RCC to 2-5 in NJCAA Region 2 action.

Redlands was limited to only two shots, one each from sisters Yalexy and Yesenia Rodriguez.

Cougars goalie Kalie Winstead faced 35 shots on goal, allowing all 18 of the Raiders scores but logging 17 saves.

While El Reno did not have a female runner at the recent Edmond Pre-State Cross Country Meet, the Indians did field a full team for the boys Class 5A Division.

The Indians placed 16th overall in the final team standings, completing the 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) course with a total time of one hour and 43.60 minutes. The top five runners, who set each school’s overall score, had an average time of 20:47.92 for El Reno.

The youth deer gun season is a perfect time to get youngsters into the woods for a great hunting experience when the weather is a bit warmer than during regular deer gun season.

The season’s young participants will also be the first hunters in Oklahoma to get the chance to harvest a deer with a firearm this fall. The season will be Oct. 15-17.

Sitting at 0-5 on the season and coming off back to back District 5A-1 setbacks, El Reno High School’s football team is in desperate need of a mark in the win column.

And it doesn’t matter who its against said head coach Chuck Atchison.

“We want a win period. That’s it, it doesn’t matter who we are playing.”

El Reno will get a good shot at that elusive first win of 2021 Thursday when the Indians travel to Oklahoma City’s Speegle Stadium to take on Capitol Hill. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.

“Winning a game will solve a lot of our problems,” said Atchison.

El Reno High School’s volleyball team took over sole possession of third place in the Suburban Conference standings last week with a 3-0 road win over Del City.

The 25-6/25-16/25-16 victory over the Eagles lifted El Reno to 2-2 in the league standings. El Reno, ranked 11th in Class 5A, improved to 20-11 on the season heading into Tuesday’s match against No.7 Piedmont.

El Reno served at 96 percent for the match with 15 aces. Bailey Denwalt led the way with seven aces, followed by Madison Patswald with six and Qyra Jones with two.

Take away two defensive breakdowns and Etta Dale’s seventh-grade football team would have had a total domination of the Guthrie Bluejays on both sides of the football last week.

Instead, the Indians walked away from Memorial Stadium with a 30-12 win and a 4-1 overall record after a recent road loss to Piedmont.

Guthrie scored a touchdown on a 65-yard run on its first offensive play, then added a 13-yard scoring pass on fourth down in the third period. The Bluejays ran less than 25 plays on the night thanks to El Reno’s ball-control ground game.

What started out as a promising sight quickly turned to a disastrous first period as El Reno High School's football team dug itself a hole in which the Indians could not climb out from Friday night in a 49-8 loss to Lawton MacArthur.

The setback dropped the Indians to 0-5 on the season and 0-2 in the District 5A-1 standings. The Highlanders, meanwhile, kept pace with Noble and Ardmore for the district lead at 2-0 while improving to 5-0 on the year.

While El Reno’s offense was cutting loose at the plate on senior night, Indians right-hander Raley Hartley kept McLoud’s bats handcuffed with her second straight home shutout in a 10-0 win last week.

The victory was the sixth in a row for El Reno, now over .500 for the season at 15-14.

Hartley threw four innings, allowing two hits and striking out one. She had a .697 strike percentage after 23 of her 33 pitches found the zone. Hartley got help from the defense as center fielder Maddie Moss chased down two fly balls for outs.