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After winning the first game of the 2023 Suburban Conference opener at Carl Albert by a narrow 25-22 margin, El Reno High School’s volleyball team dropped three games to fall to the Titans, 3-1.

Carl Albert rallied behind scores of 25-11/27-25/25-12 to drop El Reno to 2-4 on the season.

The team logged 22 kills, led by Jewell Graham with five, followed by Qyra Jones and Trinity Black with four each. Kallie Maifield added three kills, while Emercyn Looper had two kills. Looper and Daily Maples led all setters with seven apiece, while Maifield had two.

The El Reno Tribune’s 2023 Football Preview section contains the following:

2023 El Reno Indians Varsity

The cat is out of the bag

EHS 2023 Schedule

Kicking up turf

The run stops here

Missed opportunities has put El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team behind the eight-ball in the district standings as the Indians losing streak hit three games last week.

El Reno dropped home games to Noble (2-1) and Carl Albert (14-4) to slip to 4-4 on the season. The loss, both in a 24-hour period, left the Indians in fourth place in the District 5A-2 standings with a 1-3 mark.

In the setback to the Bears, El Reno trailed 2-1 going into the bottom of the seventh before Justine Johnson singled.

El Reno Athletic Director Rodney Haydon checks the temperature of the turf at Memorial Stadium prior to last week’s scrimmage.

Record heat has forced several sports to move back starting times into the evenings.

In the first home action of the season, El Reno High School’s volleyball team fell to Santa Fe South in the medal round play at the 2023 EHS Invitational to close the event with a 2-2 record.

El Reno defeated Seminole (25-13/25-19) and avenged a season-opening loss to Tecumseh (26-24/26-24) in pool play, but dropped a three-set match to Guymon (25-15/20-25/6-15).

In the medal-round match, the St. Bernards won by scores of 25-14/25-22. The 2-2 tourney effort left El Reno with a 2-3 overall record.

Fall baseball bragging rights in the rivalry between Calumet and Union City high schools will stay with the Chieftains following a 16-6 win over the Tigers in a battle of ranked teams.

Calumet, which holds the No.3 spot in the Class B poll, moved to 8-0 on the year with the win over the Tigers.

The Chieftains defeated Canute (4-0) a day earlier and were two days removed from a sweep of the Leedey Invitational.

In defending its Leedey crown, Calumet defeated Fargo-Gage/Fort Supply (9-1), Vici (10-0) and the host in the title game 11-1.

Following last year’s 29-7 win over Duncan to secure a fifth straight playoff berth for El Reno High School’s football program, veteran coach Tom Cobble walked across the Memorial Stadium turf and shook Russell Cook’s hand.

“You got hot at the right time,” said Cobble, who was a volunteer coach for the Demons.

For Cook the unspoken message was clear – the Indians now have opponents attention.