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El Reno had its district 5A-2 series with Guymon canceled twice last week due to rain and wet field conditions. The Indians, 3-4 on the season, were slated to play this weekend in the Washita Valley Classic in Chickasha. Keith Hill’s team will then host Guymon on Monday at the Hub Reed Complex for a varsity only doubleheader. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.

El Reno will then host Southeast in a varsity twinbill on Tuesday starting at 4:30 p.m. The Indians are 2-0 in district play and ranked fourth among the eight teams behind Carl Albert, Piedmont and Guthrie.

El Reno’s Ximena Salazar dribbles down the field during a recent home match. Both El Reno teams were in the Northwest Classen Invitational this weekend at Taft Stadium
in Oklahoma City.

It was a slow offensive start for both Calumet and Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball teams as the pair returned from spring break with shutout losses.

Union City, ranked 20th in Class A, fell to 7-7 on the season with a 15-0 loss to Binger-Oney, the top-ranked team in the same poll. The Tigers were held to one hit - a third-inning single from Kylie McCoy.

She was erased a batter later on a fielder’s choice single from Haylie McCoy.

Playing its third series in a week, Redlands Community College’s baseball team headed north to Kansas to split a series with NJCAA Division 1 Hutchinson Community College.

The teams combined for 55 runs as the Blue Dragons won the opener 24-6. Redlands took game two 15-10.

The split came on the heels of the Cougars home sweep of Dakota College of Bottineau, based out of North Dakota, by scores of 3-1 and 9-0.

Redlands Community College’s basketball teams continue a rough stretch through the latter stages of the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference schedule, winning one of four games against Northeastern Oklahoma A&M over a 48-hour period.

Jay Niehues’ women's team snapped a three-game slide with a 57-45 home win over the Golden Norsemen, but lost the return game in Miami by a 70-56 count.

The split left the Cougars with a 9-6 overall record and a 6-6 mark in the OCAC standings, lifting the team up one spot to fifth.

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After a year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Union City High School’s Spring Break Baseball Festival got back on the diamond last week with five host sites holding games – four of those inside Canadian County.

In-county sites El Reno, Union City, Calumet and Okarche hosted games. The fifth site was Minco as teams from across the state converged to play a combined 40 games over two days.

There were 11 ranked teams from the state’s two smallest classes entered in the field.

Five of its seven qualifiers placed in the top 10 as El Reno High School recently won the Class 5A team title at the 2021 Oklahoma Football Coaches Association’s State Powerlifting Championship.

El Reno logged 88 total points from its seven lifters to beat out Ardmore by 35 points for the title. Lawton Eisenhower was third with 35 points. The Indians had the third highest overall point total behind 4A winner Miami (118) and 3A state champion Sulphur (105).

There were 45 districts in the Large School division comprised of Classes 3A-6A.

Redlands Community College’s baseball team snapped a four-game losing streak last week with a 15-12 win over Rose State College to split a doubleheader with the Raiders.

The Cougars improved to 3-11 on the season after dropping the series opener 9-4. That loss came on the heels of setbacks to Cowley County by scores of 10-0 and 10-6.

The win over Rose State was fueled by a nine-run effort over the third through fifth innings, six of those runs coming in the fifth. Holden Tate and Duke Crossley doubled in runs, while Tylor Richey and Patrick Hunter had an RBI-single each.

Redlands Community College’s basketball teams are struggling through three-game losing streaks which have dropped both squads down in the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference standings.

The RCC men lost a close 66-56 game to Seminole State College last week on the heels of setbacks to Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa (73-64) and Eastern Oklahoma (98-84).

The Cougars are now 8-8 on the season and 2-8 and ranked eighth in the OCAC standings.