Sports

Sixty-four snaps and it’s go time.

That’s the number of live action plays El Reno High School’s football team took last week in its lone preseason scrimmage against Elk City at Memorial Stadium.

“I was pleased with the kids and felt like they played hard. It’s really a glorified practice but we felt like we were in decent shape and the people out there played hard to play tough. We still have to work out some kinks,” said El Reno head coach Russell Cook.

Ashanti Lewis logged her first hat trick of the season as Redlands Community College women’s soccer team kicked off the 2025 season with a 5-0 shutout of Pratt Community College.

The Cougars scored the first goal at the 27:11 mark of the first half when Lewis made a sliding kick after getting caught up in traffic. It was the team’s fifth shot of the half.

Lewis scored an unassisted goal before Jordan Willeford made it a 3-0 score. Lewis then completed the hat trick with a goal off an assist by Aracely Marinez.

One bad inning kept El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team out of the win column in its District 5A-2 opener last week against Guthrie.

The Bluejays scored seven runs in the fifth inning en route to an 11-6 victory over El Reno.

The loss dropped the Indians to 2-7 on the season.

El Reno was its own worst enemy in the frame as Guthrie had just three hits but was aided by four errors by the Indians defense and a hit batsman.

In the other six innings, EHS outscored Guthrie 6-4.

The teams combined for 14 errors, eight of those by El Reno.

Though it wasn’t pretty according to head coach Bri Michalicka, El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team snapped a three-game losing streak last week with a 7-6 win over Putnam City North in extra innings.

The win pushed El Reno to 2-6 overall. The game with the Panthers was the fifth against a Class 6A team to open the season, with the Indians now at 1-5 in those games.

El Reno High School’s volleyball team suffered its second straight loss with a 3-1 road setback to Tecumseh.

The Indians won the third game 28-26 but lost the others by scores of 25-14/25-22 and 25-16.

The setback dropped El Reno to 5-3 on the season.

El Reno served at 97.5 percent, 10 percentage points higher than the Savages, but had only five aces compared to 19 for Tecumseh.

Radley Miller led with two aces, while Daily Maples, Jaida Richardson and Brantlie Charmasson had one ace each.

Union City High School’s fast-pitch softball team is one of the hottest teams of late in the win column and at the plate.

The Tigers grabbed the No.17 spot in the first Class A poll of the season by winning eight of their last 10 games to move to 8-3 overall.

Union City was runner-up in the Olustee-Eldorado tournament with a 6-1 record, beating Granfield (18-1), Fletcher (13-3), Burns Flat-Dill City (13-0), Lawton (10-3), Apache (10-6) and Sayre (8-1).

Union City lost 10-1 to Mangum in the finals.

Union City High School’s baseball team battled through a rough seven-game slate over three days to take the runner-up hardware in the recent Fletcher Wooden Bat Tournament.

The Tigers posted a 6-1 record to improve to 7-3 for the fall season. The wins were over Santa Fe South (11-1), Fletcher (6-1), Sterling (4-3/6-3), Navajo (5-0) and Big Pasture (22-1). 

The loss was to Fletcher by a 3-2 margin.

Nineteen of the team’s 55 hits for the tourney went for extra bases, led by a triple from Trysdan Huffines.