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Extending its current win streak to seven games, Union City High School’s baseball team captured the 2023 Class A, District 18 Championship.

The Tigers, ranked 18th in the state, improved to 20-5 on the season after beating Southwest Covenant (14-0) and sweeping two games from Central High by scores of 13-7 and 5-0.

Union City now advances to the Class A, Region 2 Championships which were slated to start Thursday in Canute.

The Tigers got strong pitching wins from Rocky Carroll, Tyler Norton and Laven Zeier in the district run.

El Reno High School’s baseball team needed, but did not get, just one or two clutch hits in last week’s non-district clash with Class 6A’s Ponca City – which ended in a 2-0 loss to the Wildcats.

The Indians had six base runners in the game and left five of those stranded on base.

Four were in scoring position, with two left stuck at third on two-out strikeouts.

The loss dropped El Reno to 12-18 on the season.

Back-to-back setbacks will leave El Reno High School’s girls soccer team in sixth place in the final District 5A-2 standings following a 6-0 road loss to Carl Albert.

El Reno was slated to wrap up the regular season Tuesday night at Mount St. Mary, a non-district contest, after posting a 2-5 mark in 5A-2 play. The Indians took a 5-7 overall record into the match with the Rockets.

Carl Albert outshot El Reno 14-2, with 12 of those shots by the Titans on frame.

Ximena Salazar and Maddie Rochdi recorded the shots for the Indians.

El Reno High School’s boys soccer team dropped its third straight match last week with a 3-0 setback to Carl Albert to end District 5A-2 action.

The Indians slipped to 3-9 on the season and 1-6 in league play, leaving El Reno in seventh place.

It was the fourth shutout loss for EHS in District 5A-2 play.

El Reno had eight shots in the loss, four of those from Kenneth Solis. Edgar Perez and Maurico Ruiz added two shots each.

Eduardo Flores was in net for the Indians, allowing all three goals but logging eight saves.

El Reno High School tennis player Bri Barksdale reaches out to hit a return shot at the net during a recent doubles match at the Putnam City North Invitational.

El Reno was scheduled to play Piedmont, weather permitting, this week in a dual at Legion Park.

Big timely hits carried El Reno High School’s baseball team to its second straight District 5A-1 sweep as the Indians scored 30 runs en route to victories over Guymon at the Hub Reed Complex.

El Reno took the series opener by an 11-1 margin as Gavin Tinsley’s walk-off single down the third-base line in the bottom of the fifth scored Gabe Compton for the game-winning run.

The Indians then used four walks, three hit batsmen, two triples from Tinsley and a three-run triple by Davin Shamblin to highlight a 10-run first inning en route to a 19-1 win in game two.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Mixing up the lineup for the Putnam City North Tournament produced El Reno High School’s first team title of the 2023 tennis season.

The El Reno girls won the doubles-only event after placing third or higher in all three divisions. With her twin sister out of the lineup due to school conflicts, Melanna Idell teamed up with Zoey Johnson to win the No.2 doubles field with an 8-5 pro set decision over Lawton.

The pair opened with an 8-1 win over Oklahoma Christian School before beating Putnam City North 8-2 in the semifinals.