PIEDMONT – Facing a clock-milking Piedmont squad, El Reno High School's football team needed to convert its offensive possessions into points and get off the field on defense.
The Indians did neither Friday night with any consistency.
El Reno dropped a 31-7 contest at F&M Bank Stadium to the Wildcats, slipping to 1-1 on the season in the first of back to back road games to close out non-district play.
Though splitting the first two matches of a three-date home stand, El Reno High School’s volleyball team continues to build on one of its best seasons under head coach Kristen Koehler.
El Reno, ranked fourth in Class 5A, defeated Tecumseh in straight sets by scores of 26-24/25-15/25-9.
The Savages were the No.15 team in Class 4A.
The win came on the heels of a five-set loss to Carl Albert, ranked third in 5A, in which EHS squandered a 2-0 lead.
The split left the Indians with a 14-3 overall record going into the Duncan match.
El Reno High School’s cross country team recently took part in the 2020 Watonga Invitational for the second meet of the season.
In the high school boys division, El Reno was led by Wyatt Mehan posting a 73rd-place finish with a time of 17 minutes and six seconds over the 4,000-meter course – or 2.48 miles.
Matthew Chaffee crossed the finish line with a time of 17:30 to take 87th place, followed by Cole Strong (97th) with a time of 17:56. The fourth runner for the Indians was Justin Anderson (152nd) with a 26:55 effort.
El Reno High School’s softball team had games with Carl Albert and Guthrie canceled by rain last week. The game with the Titans will be made up Sept. 24 in Midwest City.
The Indians still remain a solid hitting team with a combined .366 team batting average. El Reno has logged 136 hits including two triples, 10 home runs and 20 doubles.
Brayden Dennings threw a one-hit shutout as Union City High School’s baseball team won the 2020 Mulhall-Orlando Invitational with a three-game sweep.
The shutout came in a 10-0 decision over Glencoe in the finals, on the heels of victories over Cimarron (15-3) and Shidler (6-1). The Tigers are 8-2 on the season.
Dennings threw four complete innings, allowing the hit and two walks against four strikeouts.
Fueled by 26 hits over a two-game span, Calumet High School’s softball team moved to 8-5 on the season with wins over Dover and Fargo.
Calumet defeated the Longhorns 11-4 before logging a 4-3 win over Fargo, which sports players from Gage and Fort Supply.
The Chieftains posted 20 hits in the win over Dover and hit for the cycle. McKinley Stilley had two doubles, followed by one each from Tina Ortiz, Abby Nitzel and Presley Stilley.
Allie Harris had a triple and Nitzel added a home run.
With Chickasha bowing out of one of the oldest rivalries in the state, El Reno High School’s non-district football schedule will look a little different in 2020 – except for one mainstay.
El Reno hits the road for the first time Friday night for a short hop up Northwest Expressway to play Piedmont. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.
“The guys there have got a good program and they have got a lot of kids. We went up there last year and beat them and then they beat us in the playoffs so it’s become a rivalry and that’s a good thing.
What looked to be a blowout at the start of the third period turned out to be an overtime thriller as El Reno High School’s football team defeated Class 4A's Cache 42-35 to kick off the 2020 season.
El Reno junior Kade Mayo picked off a pass from Bulldogs’ quarterback Hunter Glenn on Cache's first play of overtime to seal the win for the Indians.
Fresh off a win in the Cache tournament, El Reno High School’s volleyball team celebrated its first state ranking of the 2020 season last week with a 3-0 win over Hennessey.
El Reno, which debuted in the Class 5A rankings at No.4 - the highest ever ranking under head coach Kristen Koehler - ousted the Eagles inside the Jenks Simmons Annex by scores of 25-11/25-6/25-9.
El Reno High School’s football team will be wearing a new helmet logo design for the 2020 season.
One side of the helmet will have a logo of the state of Oklahoma with the locking ER design. A star can be found where the city falls on the state map. The other side of the helmet will have the player’s number.
