El Reno is off to a 7-2 start this spring, but had the week of spring break off.
Keith Hill’s team returns to action Monday at Guymon for a District 5A-1 doubleheader with the Tigers.
El Reno is 4-0 in league play and tied with Carl Albert, Noble and Guthrie for the lead.
Calumet High School’s baseball team is now the team to beat in Class B after the Chieftains took over the top spot in the second state rankings following a 3-0 start.
Cody Thiessen’s team remains unbeaten with a recent road win over Weatherford’s junior varsity (16-0), followed by an 8-2 win over Clinton in last week’s Calumet Festival.
Calumet went 23-of-52 (.442) from the plate for the two-game set, getting a double each from Carson Cooper, Brett Reed, Jackson Burns and Kaleb Thiessen.
Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team split a road doubleheader with Alex last week as the Tigers are struggling to find consistency in the win column.
Chase Johnson’s team defeated Alex 16-12 but dropped a 3-2 decision. The split came on the heels of a 1-3 effort in the Highway 152 Classic as Union City defeated Lawton Eisenhower 11-0.
The Classic losses were to Hydro-Eakly (14-0), Lookeba-Sickles (8-2) and Amber-Pocasset (12-11). The 2-4 record over the past six games leaves Union City with a 5-6 record for the spring.
Redlands Community College’s basketball teams suffered first-round losses in the 2024 NJCAA Region 2 Championships held in Muskogee.
The Redlands men lost to top-seeded Connors State College 107-67 to end the season with an 11-20 overall record. The Cougars dropped 11 of their final 13 games.
Deazhon Perkins was one of two players to close in double digits for the Cougars, scoring 20 points off 9-of-20 shooting. He added eight assists, five rebounds and two steals.
There were many firsts logged into the record books during the El Reno High School girls basketball team’s historic run to the Class 5A state championship.
First-ever undefeated record for EHS girls basketball at 28-0.
First-ever state championship in girls basketball.
First-ever district championship.
Now you can add two more superlative honors to that list as head coach Jennifer Douglas was named the District 5A-1 Coach of the Year and senior post player Pauline Black-Harmon was tabbed as the league’s Player of the Year.
The Hub Reed Complex is usually a main hub for the annual Union City Spring Break Festival, but with El Reno High School on a different break schedule than the host, games at the HRC were trimmed down.
This season El Reno played in just two junior varsity and a pair of varsity outings in the event, which was scaled back due to Union City having its spring break a week earlier than many other districts.
“The field was cut by more than half,” said Union City head coach Ludy Griggs.
Redlands Community College’s baseball team snapped a 10-game losing streak with a 12-6 win over Carl Albert State College to avoid being swept by the Vikings.
The road win was the first of the season for the Cougars in NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 action as RCC improved to 1-8 in the standings and 5-25 overall. Carl Albert took the first two games of the series by scores of 5-3 and 10-2.
Nazhoni Sleeper is a young woman of God.
The senior is also the starting point guard for El Reno High School’s state championship girls basketball team and will have the privilege of playing the sport at the next level at Seminole State College.
However, Sleeper is quick to tell anyone who will listen that without putting God first, the second would have never happened.
El Reno High School held a downtown parade last week to honor its girls basketball team which brought home the program’s first-ever state championship.
It was the first basketball title won by either the boys or girls programs in 71 years.
The 2024 Class 5A state champions also toured ERPS school sites as well as schools in the county such as Maple and Darlington.
The team was accompanied by the EHS cheerleaders and the pep band.
Dominating the time of possession and touches in the middle part of the pitch, El Reno High School’s girls soccer team picked up its second straight win with a 6-2 decision over the Oklahoma City Storm.
El Reno moved to 2-1 on the season with the wire-to-wire victory over the home-schooled program. The win came on the heels of a 6-0 home decision over Guymon to open EHS’ District 5A-2 slate.
