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El Reno High School’s boys and girls tennis teams kicked off the 2021 season last week. Both teams visited the Oklahoma City Tennis Center on different days to take part in the Putnam City North Invitationals.

Between those outings, the EHS squads played host to the Piedmont Wildcats for a dual at the Legion Park courts, with the visitors winning the outing over the Indians.

Termed young squads by head coach Jennifer Myers, El Reno will be back in action Monday in Shawnee for the 2021 Suburban Conference championships.

Paced by Caroline Huber’s first hat trick of the season, El Reno High School’s girls soccer team rebounded from back-to-back tournament losses to defeat Southeast 5-1 last week at Memorial Stadium.

El Reno improved to 5-3 on the season and 1-0 in District 5A-1 action. The Indians are third in the district under the new ranking system behind Bishop McGuinness and Noble.

The Indians dominated Southeast in three key statistics, leading in total shots (35-4), on-goal shots (21-3) and corner kicks (7-0). The Spartans did hold a 41:31-37:12 edge in time of possession.

Breaking into the state rankings for the first time this season, Calumet High School’s baseball team has won four of its last five games including a runner-up finish in the recent Vici Invitational.

The Chieftains, ranked 19th in Class A, improved to 7-3 on the season after shutting out New Life Christian Academy.

Calumet defeated Fargo (12-2) and Seiling (9-0) in the tourney before losing to Vici 12-4 in the finals. The Indians are ranked 10th in the same poll.

Calumet batted .385 as a team for the four games, logging 30 hits, with 22 walks and 16 strikeouts.

After being shut out in the first game back from spring break, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team has reeled off five straight victories to break into the double-digit win total for the season.

The Tigers, ranked 20th in Class A, improved to 12-7 on the season with wins over Ninnekah (10-9), Calumet (10-8), Verden (14-8), Fort Cobb-Broxton (11-10) and Watonga (10-3).

Union City hit .441 as a team for the five-game stretch, logging 64 hits, 21 of those going for extra bases. The Tigers had 44 walks and seven strikeouts.

El Reno High School kicked off the 2021 track season recently by competing in the 2021 Bethany Invitational, with eight runners earning places in the 58th annual event.

El Reno’s boys were led by distance runner Jacob Long, who placed 17th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 12 minutes and 21.51 seconds. He also ran the mile (5:39.38) to place 28th.

Matthew Chaffee took 23rd in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:33.69, followed by Wyatt Mehan (2:35.50) in 25th place.

El Reno High School’s Christian Diaz battles for control of a bouncing ball in front of the Southeast goal during last week’s District 5A-1 match at Memorial Stadium. The Indians lost 4-0 to the Spartans for their fourth straight shutout loss. EHS is now 1-7 on the year and 0-1 in district play.

OKLAHOMA CITY - Woodward slipped three goals past Kinley Golden and one by Krystiana Guzman as the Boomers edged out El Reno High School’s girls soccer team 4-3 in a shootout for third place in the 2021 Northwest Classen Invitational.

The Boomers win on penalty kicks gave Woodward the match by a 5-4 score as El Reno slipped to 4-2 on the season. The Indians went 1-2 in the tourney, held at Taft Stadium, beating the host team 3-0 before losing in the semifinals to Edmond Memorial, 5-1.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Tough defense from three straight opponents kept El Reno High School’s boys soccer team off the scoreboard and out of the win column in the 2021 Northwest Classen Invitational.

El Reno dropped matches to the host Knights (3-0), Yukon (2-0) and Woodward (1-0) to slip to 1-6 on the season heading into this week’s District 5A-1 opener with Southeast.

In the setbacks to the Millers and Woodward, El Reno had only seven total shots. Edgar Garcia, Angel Martinez and Cohlton Fertig had two shots each and Christian Diaz added one shot.

Putting up eight runs in the fourth inning, El Reno High School’s baseball team completed the 2021 Washita Valley Invitational with an 8-4 win over Fletcher in bracket play.

The win over Class A’s 11th-ranked Wildcats gave El Reno a 2-2 record for the event. The Indians defeated Lawton 7-6 with two runs in the top of the eighth inning.

The losses were to Bridge Creek (6-5) and Class A’s second-ranked Fort Cobb-Broxton (8-0).

The split of the four-game set left El Reno with a 5-6 season record.

With only one player on the roster having any varsity experience, El Reno High School’s girls golf team has been going through some early-season growing pains.

“I’m proud of the girls for keeping with it and having a good attitude, especially for not having practice for two weeks. We’re going to keep getting better and that is our motto,” said head coach Sarah Brower.

El Reno opened the season at the Weatherford Invitational, placing eighth out of 12 teams with a team score of 472. Shane Castrop and Madi Patswald tied for the team’s low score with duplicate 116s.