Getting an early look at the other course on tap to host a playoff event, El Reno High School’s golf teams posted a pair of top 10 finishes at the Class 5A Regional Preview.
Playing at the Oak Hills Country Club Course in Ada, which will host one of two regional tourneys later this month, the El Reno boys took sixth place with a round of 355 after posting no nine-hole score in the 50s for any of its five golfers.
Redlands Community College’s baseball team tuned up for a key weekend series in NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 play by dropping an 11-5 non-conference home game to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College.
The loss to the Golden Norsemen, who play out of NJCAA Region 2, Division 1, left the Cougars with a 15-26 overall record.
Redlands was coming off a split with Northern Oklahoma College of Enid, losing to the Jets at home (11-1/17-5) but sweeping the road set by scores of 15-8 and 8-5.
After getting bumped from the top spot in the Class B rankings for the first time this spring, Calumet High School’s baseball team responded with wins over two ranked opponents within 24 hours.
Calumet moved to 8-4 on the season with an 18-6 blowout of Vici, ranked No.11 in Class B, and a 9-4 win over Class A-1’s third-ranked Arapaho Butler.
The Chieftains went 3-2 over their last five outings, all against ranked opponents, beating Colbert (4-2) and losing to Cashion (10-5) and Class A’s top-ranked Okarche (8-5).
El Reno High School’s trapshooting team narrowly missed a ninth trip to state in its 10th season of competing in the Oklahoma Scholastic Shooting Sports Program.
Competing in the North Regional Championships, one of two in the state, El Reno tied with Medford for ninth place with a team score of 182. The top eight squads earn state passes, with the cutoff being Pond Creek-Hunter with 186 points.
Shuffling lineups to cover missing players, El Reno High School’s tennis teams earned two top five finishes at the 2026 Elgin Owl Western Open, held at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center.
Jacob Richey, playing No.2 singles, was the highest placer in fourth following a 6-2/6-1 setback to Elgin’s Van Jameson in the third-place match. He defeated Woodward’s Cooper Gregory (6-2/4-6/10-6) in the quarterfinals but fell to Kingfisher’s J.P. Charqueno (6-2/6-1) to play for the bronze.
With lightning and rain bearing down on the Hub Reed Baseball Complex, Mother Nature made the final out in the El Reno bracket of the 2026 Kingfisher Festival.
Play was suspended with El Reno leading Altus 1-0 in the bottom of the fifth inning. The Indians had the bases loaded following a walk by Preston Ashford, a sacrifice bunt by Matthew Velarde, an error off an Austin Steffler pop-up and a fielder’s choice bunt by Coy Atkins.
Play was to resume after a 30-minute delay, but the Bulldogs opted to take the loss and head home.
The start of District 5A-2 play for El Reno High School’s soccer teams did not go as planned as both teams dropped road matches to archrival Carl Albert.
The El Reno girls fell to 2-5 on the season with a 7-0 setback to the Titans. It was the third straight shutout loss for the Indians and the fourth in the last five matches.
Carl Albert is now 4-1 in the last five meetings with El Reno dating back to 2022 by a staggering 19-2 scoring margin. Three of those meetings were shutout losses for the Indians.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Mixing together 14 walks with timely hits, El Reno High School’s baseball team earned its first District 5A-1 sweep of the season with a pair of run-rule shutouts over Southeast.
El Reno defeated the Spartans in a doubleheader 14-0 and 11-0 to move over .500 for the first time this spring at 8-6.
More importantly, the Indians are now 5-3 in the District 5A-1 standings and leapfrogged Midwest City into fourth place.
Following a brutal non-conference schedule, Redlands Community College’s baseball team closed out the month of March on a hot streak with four wins in five outings.
The Cougars are now 13-23 on the season but three of the four wins came in NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 play.
Redlands took the league series over Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa by a 3-1 margin after wins of 29-3/24-13 and 20-8. The loss was a 12-6 decision to the Mavericks.
The other win in the four-game run was an 18-8 decision over Southwestern Christian University’s junior varsity.
Working through different lineups for the latter part of the season, El Reno High School’s girls golf team logged two top 15 finishes last week including a top five mark in its own event.
Carl Albert won the 2026 El Reno Girls Invitational, played at Crimson Creek Golf Course, with an 18-hole score of 357, followed by Guthrie with a 370 and the Indians with a season-low effort of 385.
El Reno edged Hobart by two strokes and Heritage Hall by three.
