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Union City wins tourney; Calumet misses upset bid

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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.

Calumet logs hits; UCHS win streak out

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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.

New highway rivalry

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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.

Dorian Plumley eludes a Cache tackler

El Reno wins OT thriller over Cache, 42-35

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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.

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Spikers sweep Eagles

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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.

Savannah Robinson and Bailey Denwalt team up for a double block attempt

El Reno sports new helmet logos for 2020 season

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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.

Main side of helmet

ER chains Bernards in twinbill

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El Reno High School’s softball team jumped back into the win column last week with a doubleheader sweep of Santa Fe South in District 5A-1 play at the Adams Park North complex.

The Indians improved to 5-4 on the season with victories of 17-1 and 18-1 over the St. Bernards. The sweep lifted El Reno to 4-1 in the league standings and into third place behind Lawton Eisenhower (5-0) and Carl Albert (2-0).

Raley Hartley throws toward the plate

Indians open XC season

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El Reno High School’s cross country team kicked off the 2020 season recently at the Weatherford Sand Plum Invitational.

In the girls division, running the mile course at Radar Park, Alexis Lively took 78th place with a time of eight minutes and 22 seconds. Kaylee Pawnee crossed the finish line in 84th place with a time of 10:39.

The boys division ran the two-mile course, with Jacob Long leading the charge for El Reno with a 41st-place effort in a time of 12:37. Wyatt Mehan posted a time of 14:27 to take 72nd, while Matthew Chaffee was two spots back with a time of 14:31.

Union City snaps skid with win streak; OHS downs Calumet

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Snapping a four-game losing streak, Union City High School’s softball team has quietly put together a four-game winning streak to edge past .500 for the season.

The Tigers are 6-5 on the fall season after winning two games in the Geary Festival over Dover’s JV (8-5) and the host team by an 8-6 tally. Union City then defeated Carnegie (16-6) and Dover (13-1).

Makinzie DeLong led the Tigers offense over the four-game set with eight hits including two doubles and a pair of triples. Makenna DeLong hit five doubles to highlight her seven hits over the same span.

Extra base hits lift Tigers; Calumet drops two games

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Fueled by six doubles and a triple, Union City High School’s baseball team defeated Verden last week 12-4 to improve to 5-2 on the fall season. The win came off the heels of a 9-1 decision over Dover.

The Tigers had only 13 hits for the two-game set, but eight of those were extra-base swings. Tyler Ross, Brayden Dennings, Lane Casey, Braydon Armstrong, Dalton Stout and Tyler Norton all recorded doubles over the two games, while Shane McNeil and Armstrong each added triples.

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