Doubles from Hayden Anderson, Wyatt Dean and Jaxon Olive sparked a 10-hit performance at the plate as Calumet High School’s baseball team snapped a two-game losing streak with an 11-1 win over Earlsboro.
Calumet, coming off losses to Sentinel (12-7) and Class B’s 11th-ranked Lookeba-Sickles (13-7) in the Panthers Labor Day Festival, improved to 5-7 on the fall season.
Redlands Community College’s soccer team uncorked a season-high 21 shots but managed only one goal in a 3-1 road loss in Arkansas to National Park College.
The setback left RCC with an 0-4 record for the season and in the NJCAA Region 2 standings.
Redlands’ goal came in the first half on an unassisted shot by Yalexy Rodriguez, who logged a team-high 10 shots in the loss.
Delia Palmar recorded five shots, followed by Marissa Kirkendall with two shots.
Jordan Evans, Yesenia Rodriguez, Stephany Soto and Ariana Whitfield added a shot each.
The arrival of college football means it’s time to dust off the decoys for Oklahoma’s early teal and resident Canada goose hunting seasons.
Both opportunities will kick off Saturday, Sept. 11.
Blue-winged and green-winged teal are early migrants through Oklahoma as they fly southward on their journey to wintering grounds in Mexico and Central and South America.
They migrate quickly and don’t stay in Oklahoma very long. Teal are small, fast fliers and usually are seen in flocks of six to 15 birds.
NORTHEAST
Eucha: September 5.
Elevation normal, water 70s and clear.
Largemouth bass good on jerk baits and plastic baits along the river mouth, rocks and shorelines. Channel catfish fair on cut bait and live bait below the dam, docks and shorelines. Crappie fair on jigs and minnows around brush structure and shorelines.
Take away a horrific start and El Reno High School’s softball team outplayed and outscored Guthrie in the first game of a key District 5A-2 matchup at the Ashbrook North complex.
However, the Indians could not overcome the 13 runs given up to the Bluejays in the first three frames, leading to an 18-8 setback.
The loss dropped El Reno to 3-7 on the season and kept the Indians in the fifth-place spot in the league standings at 1-3. Guthrie improved to 8-1 in 5A-2 action and maintained its hold on the No.2 position.
The Indians, ranked 10th in Class 5A, were on the road against Duncan last week, dropping a 3-0 decision to the Demons, who are ranked 15th in the same poll.
EHS was slated to be home on Tuesday to play Chickasha.
Thursday’s cancellations put a damper on the atmosphere surrounding the rivalry game with Piedmont as final touches on the historic makeover of Memorial Stadium were being wrapped up.
“I think we are about 95 percent complete now. King Electric was out there Wednesday running the new lines and wiring to the scoreboard and clocks and those will be hooked up to the main power. Everything should be ready to go by Friday night,” said El Reno Athletic Director Rodney Haydon.
While both El Reno High School softball and volleyball programs lost games last week due to COVID-19 complications with opposing teams, Athletic Director Rodney Haydon does not see the virus as a growing problem for sports just yet.
“It really has not been an issue until this week. We had an athletic directors meeting last week and we didn’t even discuss cancellations. I think it’s not so much a COVID-19 issue but more of a numbers game and being cautious,” said Haydon.
Union City High School’s softball team won the first round of the Canadian County Bedlam Series with Calumet last week before dropping a two-run game to Class B’s fifth-ranked Lookeba-Sickles in a triangular with both schools.
The Tigers defeated the Chieftains 12-0 before having their six-game win streak snapped with a 7-5 loss to the Panthers. The split left Union City with a 10-6 record after wins over Bray-Doyle (9-7), Okarche (11-10) and Fletcher (11-3) leading up to the triangular.
CALUMET – After being held to two hits by Jaxon Olive in a 9-0 shutout loss to Class B’s fourth-ranked Fort-Cobb/Broxton a day earlier, Calumet High School’s baseball team snapped a three-game losing steak with a 12-2 win over Verden.
The Chieftains improved to 4-4 on the fall with the come-from-behind win over the Tigers.
Calumet’s offense took advantage of seven errors and four walks in the win, while James Daughety and Gavin Tinsley were both hit twice by pitches. One of those free passes and a hit batsman came with the bases loaded during a seven-run second inning.
