Losing games to weather is not the perfect scenario for teams entering the latter stages of their season.
However, the rain this past week which forced the cancellation of at least one game for El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team has given the Indians some much-needed rest.
“We’ve had some good practices so it didn’t hurt us, especially after four games over the weekend in which we didn’t play very well.
El Reno High School’s volleyball team continues to play opponents tough but is struggling to turn the efforts into marks in the win column.
The Indians slipped to 3-10 on the season after dropping four matches in the recent Noble Invitational, winning one game off the host school en route to a 2-1 defeat.
The other losses were to Lawton MacArthur, ranked seventh in Class 5A, by scores of 25-15/25-14, and fourth-ranked Claremore 25-16/25-13. El Reno dropped a 25-12/25-18 match to Amber-Pocasset.
Redlands Community College women’s soccer team began the first of a three-game set against opponents holding the top four positions in the latest NJCAA Region 2 standings with a 6-0 setback to Murray State College.
The Aggies are second in the league and the loss to MSC dropped Redlands to 1-5 on the season and 1-4 in the Region 2 standings – which is seventh.
The Cougars were held to two shots in the loss, one each from Carlie Golden and Jaidyn Gonzalez.
Morgan Brothers belted out two extra base hits and drove in four runs as Union City High School’s fast-pitch softball team snapped a six-game losing streak with a 20-10 win over cross-county rival Calumet.
The win lifted the Tigers to 5-12 on the season.
Brothers logged a double and a triple and scored three times in the win after reaching base two more times via walks. Union City had eight hits in the win including a double from Kamryn Cook.
Lily Russell, Trestan Sutton, Skylar Morgan, Payslie Locke and Juliana Pappe added a single each.
It took a trip to Edmond and a turf stadium for Union City High School’s baseball team to beat the rain and get back into the win column with a 15-5 decision over Oklahoma Christian Academy.
Playing at Oklahoma Christian University’s Dobson Field, Union City took advantage of 13 walks and multiple hits from Rocky Carroll and Korbin Cook to improve to 13-8 on the season.
The Tigers dropped out of the top 20 in the latest Class A poll for the second time in three weeks, falling to 22nd despite winning two of its last three games.
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Ellsworth: Sept 9.
Elevation is 2 ft. below normal (stable), water temperature 91°F and murky.
Crappie fair on jigs and minnows around brush structure and docks. Blue catfish and channel catfish slow on chicken liver, cut bait, punch bait and shad around main lake and points.
Sometimes in a David vs. Goliath confrontation, the big guy gets the upper hand.
Weatherford quarterback Stone Chism, a 6-2, 217-pound junior, scored on a 4-yard run with 29.5 seconds left as the Eagles rallied in the fourth period to defeat El Reno High School’s football team 28-26.
The loss, an eerie flashback to the 2022 meeting in which the Eagles scored the game-winning touchdown with 22 seconds left in a one-point decision, dropped El Reno to 1-2 for the season.
El Reno High School’s softball team ran into a buzz saw over the weekend as the Indians dropped four games in the Bixby Invitational, three of those against Class 6A opponents.
The losses were to Broken Arrow (5-1), Muskogee (11-3) and Bixby (12-4), followed by an 8-0 shutout at the hands of Perry. The losses came on the heels of a close 7-6 setback to Guthrie in a non-tournament game.
El Reno has now dropped its last six games to fall to 10-10 overall heading back into District 5A-2 play this week against Carl Albert and Piedmont.
El Reno lost three matches over the weekend in the Noble Invitational.
See Saturday’s edition for a complete roundup from the event as well as EHS’ recent road loss at Elgin.
Amya Lindsay scored a hat trick and then some last week as Redlands Community College snapped a four-match losing streak to start the season with a 5-1 win over Connors State College.
The win lifted the Cougars to 1-4 overall and 1-3 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings and into seventh place.
Lindsay, a sophomore, scored the first four goals for Redlands in the first half. She closed the match with a team-leading nine shots. Alisha Leonard scored on her only shot of the night as RCC took a 5-0 halftime lead.
