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Better weather conditions led to improved times for El Reno High School’s track teams at the Fifth Annual Bridge Creek Invitational.

The El Reno boys took 12th place with four team points but had marked improvements in times. Donovan Mahseet paced the effort with a fourth-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 46.47 seconds, which was close to three seconds faster than his first meet.

Mahseet also ran the 110-meter high hurdles in seventh place with a time of 17.87 seconds.

CALUMET – Wyatt Cox hit a walk-off single to score Kingston Arnold as Calumet High School’s baseball team rallied to defeat Union City 14-4 in a cross-county rivalry meeting of top five teams.

Calumet, ranked No.1 in Class B, rebounded from a loss to Tuttle in the I-40 Classic finals to move to 5-2 on the season. It was the Chieftains second win over a ranked team against one loss.

Lila Winegeart had a career day at the plate for Calumet High School’s slow-pitch softball team, hitting not one but three home runs in three consecutive at bats in the Chieftains 28-17 win over Hammon.

Her first homers of the season and an intentional walk in her fourth trip to the plate resulted in eight runs batted in for Calumet. She had a pair of two-run homers and a three-run blast.

El Reno High School baseball player Garrett Moss pulls on the hose while waving a spray of water on the infield at the Hub Reed Baseball Complex following a recent home game.

The Indians won two out of three games over the weekend in the Putnam City tournament to get back to even ground on the season.

Closing out halves haunted El Reno High School’s girls soccer team in back-to-back losses at the 2026 COPA El Reno tournament.

El Reno took fourth and slipped to 2-4 on the season with setbacks to Putnam City (2-0) in the third-place match and an upset loss to Pathways (1-0) in the semifinals.

The Indians snapped a two-match losing streak in the first round with a win over Capitol Hill (4-0).

In the loss to the Pirates, El Reno allowed a goal in the final five minutes of the first half, then a second off a penalty kick with 29 seconds left in the match.

El Reno High School’s boys soccer team is off to its best start in recent seasons after going 2-1 in the COPA El Reno tourney en route to a third-place finish.

Improving to 5-1 on the year, El Reno defeated Guymon (2-0) in the third-place match following a close loss to Yukon (2-1) in the semifinals, which stopped a four-game win streak.

The Indians opened the event with a win over Pathways (3-0). El Reno now has four shutout victories in six matches.

In the win over Pathways, Tristan Chandler scored a goal off one of his team-high five shots.

After having a four-game win streak snapped, El Reno High School’s baseball team rebounded to post one of its biggest victories of the season, closing the 2026 Bryson Cael Festival with a winning record.

El Reno defeated Class 2A-2’s seventh-ranked Oklahoma Christian Academy 12-0 to go 2-1 in the event. The Indians lost to Bethany (14-4) but bested host team Putnam City (5-4).

El Reno is now 6-6 on the season following an 0-4 start.

A gusting south wind played havoc with El Reno High School’s tennis team in its second and last home dual of the season, a shutout loss to Harding Charter Prep at the Legion Park courts.

El Reno slipped to 0-2 in duels with a 7-0 loss to the Eagles despite winning 47 of the 89 games played but winning just one set.

The girls lost 4-0 after falling on the short end of a 54-26 score in games won and lost. In No.1 singles play, Serenity Billings lost to Meera Assaiah (6-3/6-3), while No.2 singles player MaeKenna Wyrick fell in three sets to Regina Ramos (2-6/6-0/7-10).

Rain, gusting winds and cold temperatures greeted El Reno High School’s track team in its kickoff to the 2026 season at the Southmoore Sabercats Relays.

The El Reno girls took fifth place in the team standings with 18 points, highlighted by a gold-medal effort in the 300-meter hurdles by junior Khadija Ba in a time of 57.31 seconds.

She was 1.31 seconds faster than Newcastle’s Riley Ann Wilmouth and three seconds quicker than third place.

Senior Mason Fulton scored the game-winning run on a dropped ball as El Reno High School’s baseball team completed a two-game sweep of Santa Fe South to move back to even ground in district play.

El Reno took the series opener on the road by a 12-2 score, then capped off the sweep with an 11-1 decision at the Hub Reed Complex.

The Indians have won three straight games to move to 4-5 on the year.