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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.

Redlands Community College’s baseball team suffered its first two losses in NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 action last week, dropping home games to Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa.

The 14-11 and 8-3 setbacks dropped the Cougars to 6-14 on the season and last in the league standings at 0-2.

Redlands batted .281 for the twinbill, belting out 18 hits leading to 14 runs.

The team had 15 walks but struck out 20 times,

Redlands Community College’s Ty’reek Johnson shoots a fast-break layup in the Cougars 81-71 loss to Northern Oklahoma College of Enid last week. The setback dropped RCC to 8-12 on the season and 2-12 in Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference play. The Cougars are now eighth in the league.

Aided by the first league title under head coach Jennifer Douglas, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team was awarded seven positions on the 2021-All-Suburban Conference Team.

Surprisingly, though, Douglas was not named the league’s Coach of the Year despite taking El Reno to the state semifinals for the second time in three seasons with a 15-6 record and a No.5 ranking in the final Class 5A poll. That honor went to Carl Albert’s Kyle Richey.

El Reno High School’s boys basketball team overcame a lot of unknowns during Rodney Haydon’s first season back on the bench, playing to within a basket of a trip back to the state tourney.

For the efforts, El Reno had five players pick up postseason honors during voting for the 2021 All-Suburban Conference Team including double awards for seniors Ryan Island and Darius Moore.