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El Reno High School’s boys soccer team stayed in the hunt for a spot in the Class 5A playoffs by making a first-half goal stand up with solid defense in a 1-0 victory over Western Heights.

The Indians snapped a three-match losing streak with the win over the Jets and improved to 4-6 overall. El Reno moved to 1-3 in the District 5A-2 standings and alone in seventh place.

“They played well. We missed a few chances to score some more,” said El Reno head coach Joe Patton.

El Reno High School’s girls golf team, ranked third in Class 5A, continued a recent string of top 10 finishes by taking fourth at the 2025 Tecumseh Invitational.

El Reno carded a 346 and was the highest 5A team ahead of Ada, Durant and Shawnee.

Stillwater (297) and Norman North (312) out of Class 6A were first and second, respectively, while Class 4A’s second-ranked Perkins-Tryon was third with a 338.

In just his second tournament of the spring, El Reno High School junior Baylor Pearson grabbed All-Suburban Conference honors with a fifth-place individual effort at the 2025 Suburban Conference Boys Golf Championship.

The conference race was blended inside the 2025 Carl Albert Invitational in which El Reno placed 15th as a team with a 350.

The Indians were fourth among league schools behind the Titans (321), Guthrie (331) and Noble (340).

Six errors and nine walks kept Calumet High School’s baseball team from sweeping its regular-season series with Class A power Okarche as the Warriors garnered a split with an 11-0 road win.

Calumet, ranked No.2 in Class B, slipped to 8-6-1 overall. The Chieftains did win three of their last five games, losing to Class 5A power Duncan (11-10) and Okarche.

The wins were over Washington (1-0) and Duncan JV (20-15) in the DHS tourney and a 16-1 run-rule of Lomega.

After posting a 17-3 blowout of Class 5A’s Western Heights, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team dropped back-to-back games including a shutout to cross-county rival Okarche.

The Warriors, ranked 17th in Class 3A, defeated Union City 8-0 before the Tigers fell to Amber-Pocasset (13-11) to slip to 9-18 on the season.

El Reno High School’s girls basketball team celebrated repeating as Class 5A state champions with a school-wide assembly and a parade through downtown El Reno last week.

El Reno High School head coach Jennifer Douglas keeps adding new entries to her list of accomplishments after being named assistant coach for the Large West squad for the 2025 Oklahoma Coaches Association’s All-State Girls Basketball Teams.

She will assist Cache’s Bo Thompson in the game to be played July 29 at Tulsa Memorial High School. Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m.

It's Douglas’ second elite postseason coaching assignment after guiding the Large West team in the Oklahoma Girls Basketball Coaches Association game several years ago.

MIDWEST CITY – Five games in four days, including a district twinbill against its archrival, finally took a toll on the pitching staff for El Reno High School’s baseball team.

Playing in the Midwest City bracket of the 2025 Bill Tipton Classic, El Reno rolled out the lower half of its rotation in a 9-1 setback to Elgin in the final game of pool play.

El Reno went 2-1 for the event after beating Midwest City (6-3) and Bishop McGuinness (8-7). The effort left the Indians with a 12-5-2 record for the season.

El Reno High School soccer player Jose Apracio helps stretch the hamstring of a Guthrie opponent during a recent match at Memorial Stadium.

The Guthrie player had fallen to the ground before a timeout was called and Apracio helped with his injury until trainers could reach the two players and take over.

The eight-hour round-trip bus ride to the Oklahoma panhandle resulted in a split of District 5A-2 matches for El Reno High School’s soccer teams.

The El Reno girls stayed tied with Bishop McGuinness for the league lead with a 2-1 overtime victory over the Tigers. It was the first extra period win for the Indians in three tries this season. El Reno is now 5-4 on the season and 3-0 in the 5A-2 standings.

The match was scoreless at the break before Guymon scored on a shot that was stopped by keeper Samantha Curtis but just past the goal line early in the second half.