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El Reno High School’s boys soccer team could finish in a tie for the fourth spot in the District 5A-2 standings, but the squad will not be going to the playoffs.

The Indians dropped a 2-1 match to Western Heights before closing the regular season with a 3-0 shutout of Guthrie.

The split left El Reno with an 8-5 record on the year and a 3-4 mark in the league standings.

El Reno is currently tied for fifth with Western Heights. Carl Albert, which has a match left with Guthrie, is fourth at 3-3 but holds the tiebreaker edge over both EHS and the Jets.

El Reno High School’s tennis team had one of its strongest showings of the season last week at the 2026 Elgin Owl Classic.

The boys fielded a full squad for the first time this year and took fifth in the team standings with 12 points, highlighted by its singles players who were both consolation champs.

Sergio Rosas, playing the No.1 bracket, lost to Weatherford’s Carson Bonner (7-5/6-1) but rebounded to defeat Kingfisher’s Wyatt Long (6-0/6-2) and Southeast’s Miguel Garcia (6-0/6-1).

El Reno High School catcher Austin Steffler said it best when describing senior right-hander Jonathan Shelley’s first varsity start of the season.

“Jonathan’s fast ball is moving,” said Steffler.

Shelley, who missed two-thirds of the season with a hamstring injury, pitched five innings of three-hit baseball as the Indians snapped a six-game losing streak with a 9-1 run-rule of Putnam City.

Shelley allowed one run and a walk, while fanning six batters. He retired the first eight batters in order, allowed the free pass, then retired four of the next five batters faced.

Closing out the regular season, El Reno High School’s boys golf team put up a pair of top 15 finishes including a fifth-place effort in the Marlow Invitational.

El Reno carded a 319 on the Generations Golf Course, led by a three-birdie infused round of 73 (37-36) by Baylor Pearson, which placed him fifth in the medalist race.

Jacen Bear closed in 10th with a round of 78 (41-37), while Charles Woolworth’s 80 (44-36) netted him 17th. Kamden Haydon shot an 88 (49-39) to take 41st and Hollis Gore with a 91 (46-45) placed 48th.

Though playing to a one-run game after three innings and logging 12 base hits, El Reno High School’s baseball team was outscored 11-1 over the final four innings of a 17-6 to the Guthrie Bluejays.

The 11-run loss at the Hub Reed Complex, coupled with a 17-1 road setback to the Bluejays, left El Reno with an 11-15 record for the spring and a 5-8 mark in the District 5A-1 standings.

Though it has a home makeup game with Noble April 29, El Reno will finish fifth in the standings and will be on the road for the playoffs.

Trimming 29 strokes from its first crack at Duncan’s Golf and Tennis Club Course, El Reno High School’s girls golf team earned its way back to state for a fourth straight year.

Playing in the Class 5A Regional, one of two in the state, El Reno shot a 380 tally to take fifth place out of 11 teams entered. The top six squads advance to the Class 5A Oklahoma Girls State Golf Championships, being held at Shangri-La Resort on May 4-5.

A pair of heads-up plays in the second half catapulted El Reno High School’s girls soccer team back into the playoff picture following a 2-0 victory over Guymon on senior night.

El Reno snapped a two-match slide with the shutout of the Tigers and moved to 4-7 on the season.

The Indians are currently 2-3 in the District 5A-2 standings, which is fifth, but can move to fourth with road wins over Western Heights and Guthrie.

The top four teams in each district make the playoffs.

Vicente Saldana Barbosa netted one of three breakaway scoring attempts in the first half to spark El Reno High School’s boys soccer team to a wire-to-wire 2-1 victory over Guymon.

It’s El Reno’s first win over the Tigers since 2022 and keeps the Indians in the hunt for one of four playoff spots from District 5A-2.

Joe Patton’s team is now 7-4 on the season and 2-3 in the district standings for fifth place. El Reno, with two matches left, is a game back of Carl Albert for fourth and a game and a half out in a tie for second with Classen SAS and Guymon.

Redlands Community College women’s golf team punched its ticket to nationals by retaining the NJCAA Central Region Women’s Golf Championship for a second straight year.

The Cougars, playing at Woodlands Hills Golf Course in Nacogdoches, Texas, carded a 36-hole total of 641 (320-321) to beat out Texans Blinn (646) and Tyler (679) junior colleges to win the title.

Seminole State College (696) and Illinois-based John A Logan College (750) rounded out the top five.

Home course knowledge did not favor the Indians last week during the 2026 El Reno High School Boys Invitational held at Crimson Creek Golf Course.

El Reno took eighth place with a 366 total, with only one golfer breaking 90. Piedmont won the event with a 326, followed by Comanche (327), Plainview (331), Okarche (339), Byng (342) and Guthrie and Southwest Covenant tied for sixth at 363.

Charles Woolworth paced the Indians with seven pars en route to a round of 86 (41-45) to place 19th in the individual medalist chase.