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El Reno High School’s boys powerlifting team qualified seven for the Class 5A state meet after winning the Northwest Oklahoma Regional Championship with 190 points.

El Reno was hosting three state meets at Jenks Simmons Field House, including both the Large School and Small School divisions.

Bradley Chavers won regional gold in the 123-pound class after increasing his weight totals by 20 pounds. His total weight of 875 pounds featured a 340-pound dead lift and a 320-pound squat.

Redlands Community College women’s and men’s basketball teams swept home games last week from Western Oklahoma State College to gain a split in recent Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference action.

The women defeated the Pioneers 48-37 to remain in second place in the OCAC standings with a 3-2 mark after a recent 65-49 loss to Murray State College.

The Cougars improved to 6-2 on the season with the split.

Kristen Murcer scored a team-high 20 points for the two games to go along with 10 rebounds and five assists.

Despite logging 13 extra base hits, Redlands Community College’s baseball team managed just one win over a four-game road set with Seward County College.

The Cougars defeated the Saints 7-6 in game two as Jace Acheson got the win in relief. He pitched 1 1/3 hitless innings, striking out two and walking one.

Redlands dropped the other games by scores of 6-2, 10-4 and 17-7 to slip to 2-8 on the season.

Skyler Fenton led the Cougars offense for the series with six hits, two of those doubles, leading to four runs batted in and scoring once.

Junior guard Ashlyn Evans-Thompson logged a career milestone which helped El Reno High School punch its ticket back to this week’s Class 5A Girls State Basketball Championship.

Evans-Thompson netted 18 points to surpass the 1,000-point career scoring mark as the Indians defeated ninth-ranked Coweta 58-36 to win the East Area III Championship.

El Reno, ranked fifth in the state, improved to 14-5 on the season. The Indians will play in the state quarterfinals Thursday against No.7 Lawton MacArthur. Tipoff is 4 p.m. at Tulsa Memorial High School.

A questionable split-second call helped end the season for El Reno High School’s boys basketball team, as the Indians fell 63-61 to No.18 Ardmore in the Class 5A West Area 1 Consolation Championship.

El Reno, ranked 16th in the state, dropped to 10-11 on the season – while Ardmore advanced to this week’s state tourney.

The call came in the waning seconds as El Reno’s Ryan Island took a 3-point shot that hit off the front of the rim and then bounced off the backboard and dropped into a scrum of players under the goal.

A quarantine issue at Oklahoma Christian Academy forced El Reno High School’s baseball team to cancel last week’s doubleheader at the Hub Reed Complex.

Instead, the Indians picked up a last-minute road game at Community Christian School, allowing two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning en route to a 5-4 loss to the Royals.

The setback left El Reno with a 1-1 season record heading into the District 5A-2 opener with Santa Fe South.

El Reno High School’s Hunter Yeakey and Daegen Griffin will be in action Friday at 9:30 a.m. as the Indians take on Glenpool in the quarterfinals of the Class 5A Dual State Championships in Enid.

Picking up a second straight road win, El Reno High School’s girls soccer team improved to 2-1 on the season with a 7-0 shutout of U.S. Grant in non-district action.

El Reno held a lopsided edge in overall shots (31-7), shots on goal (26-5) time of possession (45:27-32:41) and 5-2 in corner kicks.

The seven goals came from Caroline Huber, Krystiana Guzman, Alexis Lively, Ruby Vazquez, Ximena Salazar, Piper Graves and Bre Spann. Joey Lierle logged four assists, while Huber, Vazquez and Spann added one each.

Union City kicked off its high school softball and baseball spring seasons recently, with both clubs finding the win column in early action.

The Tigers baseball team is 2-1 following wins over Casady (8-1) and Binger-Oney (12-8), with a 13-10 loss to Fletcher.

Blake Ross leads the team in hits as the Tigers are hitting .281 with 16 total hits. Ross is 4-of-8 with three runs scored and three runs batted in for a .500 average.

Nine days short of a full year away from the ballpark, El Reno High School’s baseball team returned to the diamond to open the 2021 spring season last week with a 6-2 win over Rush Springs.

“That’s a long time when you put it that way. It was nice to be able to play again. Life is better with baseball than without it,” said El Reno head coach Keith Hill.