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Three pitchers combined for a two-hitter as El Reno High School’s baseball team capped off the regular season with an 8-0 shutout of Santa Fe South.

El Reno, with its second win in the past 10 games, will now take a 14-18 season record into the postseason. It was the third win this season for EHS over Santa Fe South by a combined 16-3 margin.

The Indians were slated to start the Class 5A West Region 1 Championships on Thursday against Lawton Eisenhower in Noble. Southeast is the other team in the four-team bracket, with the winner advancing to state.

OKLAHOMA CITY – El Reno High School boys soccer team’s come-from- behind run to get into the postseason came to a halt last week as the Indians dropped a 4-0 match to Santa Fe South in the opening round of the Class 5A playoffs.

El Reno, which had won four of its last six matches to take the fourth seed from District 5A-1, ends its season with a 5-10 record.

PIEDMONT – El Reno High School’s track team split forces last week for the 2021 Suburban Conference Track and Field Championships, with several young thinclads competing in the freshman division.

Gracie Wieland was one of those ninth-graders who dropped down a division and went on to win the 400-meter dash with a time of one minute and 8.3 seconds. She also ran the 300-meter dash, placing fourth with a time of 30.41 seconds.

Ochien Gross joined her classmate with a silver-medal effort in the shot put with a throw of 28 feet.

A strong afternoon round was enough to send two El Reno High School golfers to the 2021 Class 5A Boys State Golf Championships.

Playing in the Class 5A West Regional at Duncan Golf and Tennis Club, Dallon Biswell and Bryan Richardson qualified for state as individual medalists. The pair was among the six golfers not on one of the state-qualifying teams to earn passes.

Richardson carded a 93 during his afternoon round, which was seven shots better than his opening round, to close with a 193.

For the first time in over five seasons, El Reno High School’s tennis team will be represented by a doubles squad at the Class 5A Girls State High School Championships.

Seniors Kenzie Holsted and Riley Connor took fourth place in No.1 doubles out of the Duncan regional. El Reno could also have a singles player at state as Carlota Monje earned an alternate spot with a fifth-place effort at No.1 singles.

The state meet started Friday at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center.

Redlands Community College’s baseball team won one of two games in Tishomingo recently to avoid being swept by Murray State College during NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 action.

The Cougars dropped both games in El Reno by scores of 4-2 and 19-5. Redlands won the seven-inning game at Tishomingo by a 13-4 tally, but lost the other contest 14-8.

Redlands slipped to 6-18 in conference play and 13-35 on the season.

The Cougars offense put up 28 runs over the four games off .348 hitting, going 46-of-132 from the plate. The team drew 13 walks but struck out 31 times.

Redlands Community College’s soccer team continues to battle through a losing streak which has now stretched to 10 matches after recent road setbacks to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M and Rose State College.

The Cougars slipped to 1-11 on the season and in the NJCAA Region 2 standings after dropping a 5-0 match to NEO.

Redlands then allowed a season-high goal count in a 14-0 loss to the Raiders.

An injury forced RCC to play without a goalie for part of the match which led to the lopsided score.

Larry Quisenberry of El Reno pulled a 46-pound blue catfish from Lake El Reno. The catch was made April 27 about 2:30 p.m.

The fish measured 47 1/2 inches and Quisenberry said he used shad as the bait.

Despite cutting 17 shots off its score from the first time playing the Aqua Canyon Course at the Cimarron Nation Golf Club, El Reno High School’s girls golf team fell short of the mark needed to make state.

“I’m disappointed and the team is disappointed because we know that we could have done better than we did. But the team this year is young, and they are only going to continue getting better and I can see next year as El Reno’s year,” said head coach Sarah Brower.

El Reno High School’s tennis team closed out the regular season last week by scoring 32 points at the 2021 Lawton MacArthur Highlander Classic.

Played at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center, El Reno placed 10th overall, finishing ahead of Anadarko and Purcell. The Indians were a point behind Perry and six points back of Northwest Classen.

El Reno’s top placing was a runner-up effort by No.2 doubles team of Kenzie Holsted and Riley Connor. The pair defeated Tecumseh’s Kylie Thornton and Yanez Moore (6-0/6-1), followed by a three-set win over Elk City (6-4/3-6/10-6).