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Redlands Community College women’s soccer team allowed a trio of goals within a 10-minute period of the second half as Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College rallied for a 3-1 win over the Cougars.

The loss was the fourth in a row for Redlands, which slipped to 1-8 overall.

The Cougars dropped to 1-7 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings, which is eighth.

Redlands took a 1-0 lead into the half after getting a goal from Avery Turner off an assist from Payton Brickey. However, the Cougars did not score over the final 60 minutes of the match.

Elgin did not dominate El Reno High School’s football team like a 54-21 final score might indicate.

In fact, only 40 yards separated the two schools in total offensive output.

So what was the biggest factor in the Owls 33-point win over El Reno in the District 5A-1 opener for both schools?

Bad luck on the part of the Indians.

More specifically, bad luck on four separate instances which played a direct factor in points being put on the scoreboard for both teams.

El Reno High School’s football team will play back-to-back road games in District 5A-1 play beginning with a road trip to Noble Friday night.

The Bears (1-3) are fourth in the district following a 28-27 overtime win over Ardmore. El Reno is tied with the Tigers, Altus and Duncan for fifth, but by tiebreaker points, stands in sixth place.

El Reno leads Noble 16-7 in the all-time series as the teams have met yearly since 2018, with the Indians holding a 3-2 lead in those five games.

Senior Raley Hartley belted out three extra base hits as El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team closed out a 14-game road slate with an 8-5 win over Clinton.

El Reno went 6-8 over the road trip, which started Aug. 29, following a 10-3 loss to Carl Albert the day before to close out District 5A-2 action.

The Indians finished third in the standings with a 7-5 record behind the Titans and Piedmont.

The Indians won four of the final five games of the road slate, three of those wins coming in district play to make the jump from fifth to third.

Putting games and eventually matches into the win column continues to elude El Reno High School’s volleyball team after a close 3-1 loss to Noble last week.

The 23-25/19-25/25-16/22-25 setback dropped El Reno to 3-13 on the season. The Indians are now 1-2 in the Suburban Conference standings with their ninth straight loss.

El Reno had opportunities to win the first two games but blew a 9-2 lead in the opening game.

The Indians then held a 23-21 lead before allowing four straight points by the Bears, three of those on errors.

The longest road trip of the season for El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team produced its biggest doubleheader sweep as the Indians ventured into the Oklahoma panhandle for the first time since 2021.

The eight-plus-hour round trip to Guymon netted a 12-3 and a 13-5 win over the Tigers that catapulted El Reno from fifth into third place in the District 5A-2 standings with a 7-4 record.

El Reno leap-frogged both Guymon and Noble for the third spot with the sweep.

El Reno High School’s volleyball team is still seeking its first win for the month of September after Santa Fe South, ranked 12th in Class 5A, rallied for a 3-1 win over the Indians.

The St. Bernards took the first game inside Jenks Simmons Field House, 25-22, after watching El Reno rally from a seven-point deficit to make it a two-point game.

El Reno would win a see-saw second game by a 25-22 margin to even the match at 1-all. Santa Fe South, which defeated the Indians earlier in the year at the EHS Invitational, took the final two games by scores of 25-11 and 25-15.

Heading into district play, El Reno High School’s football numbers for the season on both sides of the football are better than a year ago at this point.

Both El Reno High School’s cross-country teams continue to show marked improvements in both times and overall finishes two meets into the 2023 season.

The El Reno girls placed ninth overall in the recent Mike Driskell Turkey Creek Invitational, hosted by Hennessey, with an overall score of 212 points.

The teams had an overall time of one hour and 28.37 minutes, which broke down to an average time of 17:43 per runner.

Emmary Elizondo led the team with a time of 14:51 for the two-mile course at Turkey Creek Golf Course, to place 23rd overall.

Dalton Belcher belted out a pair of doubles and drove in four runs as Calumet High School’s baseball team closed out the fall regular season with a 14-1 win over Sentinel.

The win sends the Chieftains, ranked second in the state in Class B, into the postseason on a nine-game win streak. Calumet improved to 22-2 on the season and was set to host Dover and Carney in the District 2 Championships.

Belcher’s effort was part of a 14-of-27 (.518) showing at the plate for Calumet. Kingston Arnold logged three base hits, while Hunter Arnold and Kaleb Thiessen added a double each.