Putting together both hits and runs, El Reno High School’s softball team has been making some noise with a late-season push in the win column and the District 5A-2 standings.
El Reno defeated Enid last week 9-4 a day after completing a district sweep of Noble by way of a 17-6 road win over the Bears. The Indians are now 5-1 in their last six games, all on the road, to improve to 11-14 on the season.
CALUMET – As expected, the annual fall baseball Bedlam Battle between Canadian County’s two smallest schools came down to the final out in the seventh inning.
Calumet took a two-run lead into the top of the seventh against rival Union City, only to watch the Tigers get a lead-off single from Dalton Stout. That brought UCHS’ leading hitter Braydon Armstrong to the plate.
In what head coach Cody Schmidt called a “heck of a weird fast-pitch game,” Union City High School’s softball team closed out the regular season last week with a 20-17 loss to Fletcher.
The Tigers went 1-3 over their last three games, defeating Bray-Doyle (9-8) but losing to Cashion (11-1) to take a 14-11 overall mark into the postseason.
In the loss to Fletcher, the teams combined for 31 hits but left 15 runners stranded on base – 10 of those by Union City. The teams had a combined five errors.
From the outside, one might think a three-week break would be a good thing for El Reno High School’s football team to get rested up and prepared for the start of District 5A-1 play.
It’s been just the opposite for the Indians.
El Reno was slapped with a COVID-19 quarantine after two players tested positive following contact with a Cache player in the season opener. The Indians lost not only two games, Piedmont and Weatherford, but nine days of practice time.
One day after sweeping Capitol Hill in district play, El Reno High School’s softball team split two games in the 2021 Dale Festival against a pair of ranked teams.
El Reno improved to 9-14 on the season after beating Class B’s ninth-ranked Kremlin-Hillsdale (4-0) in the first game of the festival before falling 12-0 to Class A’s sixth-ranked Shattuck.
For the two festival games, El Reno went 10-of-38 from the plate for a .263 team batting average. C.C. Medders (.400), Chenoa White (.400) and Kira Taber (.333) led the team with two hits each.
El Reno High School’s cross country team had a male-only look over the weekend with no female runners taking part in the Eighth Annual Mike Driskill Turkey Creek Classic.
The boys team, running the 5-kilometer (3.1-mile course) at Turkey Creek Golf Course in Hennessey, posted a seventh-place finish with an average time of 21 minutes and five seconds and an overall time of 1:45:25.
Jacob Long led El Reno with a time of 19:35 to place 15th overall. Cole Strong was close behind in 19th place with a time of 20:02.
The Indians had the weekend off but were slated to host Santa Fe South Charter School in a nonconference match Tuesday night at Jenks Simmons Field House.
Etta Dale Junior High’s seventh-grade football team improved to 3-0 on the season last week with a 44-30 win over Del City.
The Indians are now 2-0 in Suburban Conference action after a recent 44-12 win over Noble. The other victory was a 34-16 decision over Elk City.
Kaleb Blackwolf gave El Reno an early lead in the win over the Eagles, returning the opening kickoff for a touchdown. He scored several in the game, including one in the fourth period to cap off the Indians scoring.
Anton Grayson scored a touchdown and had several 2-point conversion runs.
Just a day after earning its first Suburban Conference win of the season, El Reno High School’s volleyball team went on the road to drop a 3-0 match to Class 5A’s top-ranked Lawton MacArthur.
The 25-17/25-15-25-13 loss, coupled with a 3-1 come-from-behind win over Shawnee (23-25/25-14/25-21/25-22), leaves El Reno with a 12-8 record on the year.
The Indians slipped a spot to 11th in the latest Class 5A poll and are 1-1 in the Suburban Conference standings.
El Reno High School’s softball team dropped its third doubleheader series in District 5A-2 play last week as the Guthrie Bluejays completed a sweep of the Indians with a narrow 5-3 win.
The loss to the Bluejays comes on the heels of an 11-10 win over third-place Noble as El Reno moved to 2-6 in the 5A-2 standings and 6-13 on the season. The Indians are currently at sixth place in the district.
In the loss to Guthrie, El Reno logged seven hits, with Chenoa White going 3-for-3. Kira Taber, Bailey Brothers, Maddie Moss and Julie Holdcraft added singles.
