Sports

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

El Reno High School’s volleyball team stepped closer to another 20-win season last week with a 3-0 victory over Weatherford. The 25-12/25-12/25-18 decision lifted the Indians, ranked 11th in Class 5A, to 18-11 on the season.

An unassisted goal by Marissa Kirkendall with 2:07 left in overtime snapped a 15-match on-field losing streak for Redlands Community College’s soccer team, defeating Murray State College 3-2. Redlands improved to 2-4 on the season and in the NJCAA Region 2 standings with the win.

Union City High School’s softball team reached the title round of the Class A, District 12 Championships recently before having its season end with back-to-back losses to ninth-ranked Cyril. The Tigers defeated Waurika 11-3 before dropping the games to the Pirates by scores of 6-0 and 9-0 .

Rebounding from a first-round loss to fifth-ranked Dale, Calumet High School’s baseball team reached the finals of the Class A, District 4 Championships before bowing out to the Pirates. The Chieftains 10-0 and 12-2 losses to Dale were split by a 13-3 win over Okarche.