Sports

Having been an upper echelon kicker in high school, college and then professionally, it didn't take A.J. Haglund long to figure out that his oldest son was a chip off the old block.

What took the El Reno native by surprise was the sport in which Brecken is excelling – golf.

“I couldn’t play a lot of golf in high school because of soccer. He (Brecken) started when he was 3 years old. I could tell he had a pretty good swing so we started getting him into tournaments when he was 5 and he’s already had two hole-in-ones since then.

El Reno High School assistant coach and equipment manager Fred Slaughter places a new helmet with the Indians 2021 season logo in a player’s locker Sunday in preparation for the start of preseason drills Monday.

Due to school starting later this week, head coach Chuck Atchison said the Indians would not have two-a-day drills but one longer session starting daily at 3:45 p.m.

El Reno High School’s softball team closed out the preseason last week with home scrimmages against Weatherford and Shawnee.

The Indians were set to open the 2021 season Tuesday at home against Bishop McGuinness.

With four scrimmages and just a three-week preseason window for practices, El Reno High School’s softball team is set to open its 2021 season Tuesday – and the Indians are eager to get started.

“I feel like we are ready. We have all the tools to get the job done and I think the girls feel the same way. They are in the right mindset to begin the season,” said El Reno head coach Kylee Webb.

Jordyn Littlebird, a fourth-grader at Darlington School, helped her Oklahoma Athletics 2021 team win the USSSA Midwest National Championship in Bettendorf, Iowa.

Littlebird pitched a no-hitter, striking out the nine batters faced en route to claiming the Most Outstanding Pitcher Award.

Calumet High School graduate Kaleb Melvin (8) helped the Enid Majors win the 2021 Connie Mack World Series, held recently in Farmington, N.M.

The Majors went undefeated on the season at 36-0 including a 10-2 win over the Dallas-based D-Bat United squad in the title game.

The Majors went 7-0 in New Mexico and was the first team ever from Oklahoma to qualify for the World Series after winning the South Plains Regional.

NORTHWEST

Canton: July 30.
Elevation above normal, water 86 and clear.
Striped bass hybrids, striped and white bass excellent on live shad in the main lake. Channel catfish good on shad and worms along the spillway.

Foss: Aug. 2.
Elevation 1 1/3 ft. below normal with gates closed, water 90s and clear.
Striped bass hybrids slow on drifting live bait in deep water. Walleye slow on worms. Crappie slow to fair around docks. Catfish fair on trotlines baited with cut bait and stinkbait.

El Reno High School graduates Riley Connor and Jaylin Reveles represented their alma mater last week as members of the West squads during the 2021 Oklahoma Coaches Association’s All-State Games.

Other than football, the games were contested in venues around the Tulsa area. El Reno was slated to have two players in the football game, which was held at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee.

The Indians have had one road scrimmage at Rush Springs and will play a preseason festival at Mustang on Friday and open the season Aug. 10 against Bishop McGuinness.

The Enid Outlaws recently won the 2021 The Basketball League (TBL) Championship in their first year of existence. The Outlaws defeated the Syracuse Stallions 129-108 and 120-107 to sweep the title series of the 29-team league.

Ten more teams are set to join the TBL in 2022.

The Outlaws are owned and operated by El Reno’s Jonathan Reed. The team is housed and practices out of OnPoint Hoops Academy in El Reno and plays home games
at the Stride Bank Center in Enid.