Sports

While both are ranked in the Class A polls, Calumet and Union City High School baseball teams trended in opposite directions last week. Calumet, ranked 19th in the state at the time, won three straight home games including an 8-0 shutout of Southwest Covenant School.

Redlands Community College goalie Kennedy Hendren grimaces as she collides with a Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa player after sliding in to block a shot during the first half of last week’s season opener.

Pulling out a 59-58 win over Western Oklahoma State College over the weekend, Redlands Community College women’s basketball team will take a four-game win streak into the NJCAA Region 2 Championships.

Redlands Community College men’s basketball team was scheduled to take the court Monday night for a spot in the NJCAA Region 2 against Arkansas Baptist in Little Rock. The winner will be the eighth seed for the tourney, which starts Wednesday in Enid.

Despite six homers and a combined team batting average over .300, Redlands Community College’s baseball team took just one of four games recently against the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain.

Facing the two bottom schools in the latest District 5A-2 standings, El Reno High School’s baseball team used timely hits and a slew of free passes to sweep home doubleheaders from both Guymon and Southeast.

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.

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.

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.

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.