Redlands Community College’s golf team opened up the spring season recently with a fourth-place finish in the Diffee Invitational held at Kickingbird Golf Course in Edmond.
The Cougars had a 36-hole total of 625 after rounds of 314-311. The University of Central Oklahoma won with a 610 total, followed by Rogers State (613) and Southwestern Oklahoma State (618).
Several El Reno bowlers won scholarship money recently by placing in the 2021 Oklahoma Youth State Championships, held at Heritage Lanes in Oklahoma City.
Zak Billings, Collin Vickers, Mallory Watkins and Brianna Vickers joined forces to win the Mixed B Handicap title. The team had a combined score of 2,790.
Gena Studley and Kyston Haines bowled a score of 1,395 to take first place in the Mixed Doubles B Handicap.
Billings and Watkins placed third in the same division with a score of 1,337.
Calumet High School’s baseball team opened up the spring season by winning two games in its own festival.
The Chieftains, 2-1, were slated to be one of the five host teams for the 2021 Union City Spring Break Festival, which was set to get under way Thursday.
Calumet defeated Laverne (7-2) and Shattuck (9-3) in the festival but dropped a 5-2 game to Seiling. The Chieftains hit .288 for the series, logging 18 runs off 19 hits.
Following a 1-3 start, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team has found a recent groove by winning six of its last nine games to improve to 7-6 on the season.
Two of the wins came during a three-game stint in the Ringwood Festival. The Tigers, ranked 20th in Class 2A, beat 6A’s 16th-ranked Enid (9-8) and Hennessey (15-5) but lost 14-2 to Morrison, ranked second in Class 3A.
TULSA – Moving out of the first round of the state tournament for just the second time in school history, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team had its run to the Class 5A title game stopped in the semifinals.
Top-ranked Sapulpa, which went on to win the state championship, hit five 3-pointers to start the game and fended off a handful of comeback attempts by El Reno to hand the fifth-ranked Indians a season-ending 73-55 loss.
El Reno High School added another state title to its trophy case as the Indians won the Oklahoma Football Coaches Association’s Class 5A State Powerlifting Championship last week at the meet held at Jenks Simmons Field House. El Reno was hosting the event for a third time after it was canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s event was spread out over both gyms at the field house for safety protocols. See Saturday’s edition for a breakdown of the meet.
El Reno High School’s winter wrestling season came to a close last week as the Indians dropped a narrow 39-27 match to fifth-ranked Coweta in the quarterfinals of the 2021 Class 5A Dual State Championships.
The Indians, ranked sixth in the state, slipped to 8-2 on the year with their second straight trip to dual state.
El Reno won six weights, starting with Niko Gonzalez’s 7-4 victory over Colby Eighinger at 106 pounds. Will Heger (120) pinned Brock Hickman in 1:21, followed by Cole Mitchell’s (132) 3:41 pin of Brian Ballard.
After leaving three runners stranded in scoring position and spotting Santa Fe South two runs, El Reno High School’s baseball team went on a 6-1 scoring streak to defeat the St. Bernards.
The 6-3 victory at the Hub Reed Complex gave El Reno a District 5A-2 sweep of Santa Fe South after winning the road opener 2-0. The Indians improved to 3-1 on the season and 2-0 in the district.
Taking advantage of a swirling wind at their backs, El Reno High School’s girls soccer team scored two second-half goals to defeat Kingfisher 3-0 last week in the 2021 home opener.
El Reno improved to 3-1 on the season.
The Indians led 1-0 at the break after Caroline Huber scored an unassisted goal in the 27th minute of the first half.
El Reno went up 2-0 in the 12th minute of the second half when Bri Vickers took a crossing pass from Taylor Decker and found the bottom left side of the net.
El Reno High School’s boys soccer team ended a three-match losing streak on the pitch last week, defeating Kingfisher 2-0 in the 2021 home opener. The Indians improved to 1-3 on the season.
El Reno outshot the Yellowjackets 15-4 and held an 8-3 edge in shots on goal. The Indians also led in possession touches (65-35) and corner kicks (4-0).
El Reno’s goals came in the first half as Vincent Benedix scored in the 23rd minute off assists by Collin Vickers. Three minutes later, Vickers made it a 2-0 match with an unassisted goal.
