El Reno High School’s football program held its first day of padded preseason drills in near 100-degree temperatures Friday at Memorial Stadium.
The Indians will host Elk City Friday night in their only preseason scrimmage with junior high teams starting at 5 p.m., with the varsity to follow around 6:30 p.m.
El Reno had an extra week of preseason workouts before opening up the 2023 season on Tuesday at Tecumseh.
El Reno will host its annual tournament on Saturday inside Jenks Simmons Field House.
Calumet High School’s baseball team made quick work of Arapaho-Butler’s pitching staff in its 2023 season opener, cranking out 13 hits en route to a 20-0 run-rule victory.
The Chieftains went 13-of-25 (.520) from the plate with six doubles and a home run. Calumet took advantage of 11 walks against three strikeouts. Logging doubles for CHS were Kaleb and Kyler Thiessen, Derrick Krantzman, Kingston Arnold, Hunter Navanick and Carson Cooper. Brendon Voss recorded a homer for one of his two base hits.
Walking opposing batters took its toll on both Union City and Calumet High School’s fast-pitch softball teams during early-season tournament action.
Union City dropped to 1-4 on the season after losses to Cache (13-3), Fort Cobb/Broxton (15-0), Alex (6-5) and Riverside Indian School (17-0) in the Verden Festival.
Lily Russell and Skylar Morgan threw a total of 12 combined innings over the four-game slate, walking 39 batters against 10 strikeouts. The pair allowed 51 runs off 22 hits.
El Reno High School junior Heath Shelton watches EHS defensive coordinator Michael Pruitt launch a drone to take video of an offensive session.
El Reno kicked off football practice last week and school will open for the 2023-24 term on Thursday.
YUKON – El Reno High School coach Jason Little has been preaching execution on the little things in the game of softball and how critical they become in any ballgame.
However, when you’re opening up the season against a perennial Class 6A powerhouse such as Yukon, the lack of execution usually ends up in a snowball effect resulting in a loss.
That’s just what happened last week when El Reno kicked off its 2023 campaign with a 10-2 setback to the Millers.
What was slated as a road game to open up the 2023 fall season turned into an 8-0 home win for Union City High School’s baseball team over Wellston.
The game was shifted back to Cecil Simmons Field after morning rains made Wellston’s field unplayable.
Union City broke open a scoreless game in the third with four runs, followed by two-run bursts in the fourth and fifth innings to enact the run-rule.
The Tigers had 10 base hits in the win, led by Korbin Cook’s 2-for-3 effort with a triple and a home run. He drove in two runs and scored twice.
Several players with local ties were selected to play in the 2023 USSSA Oklahoma All-State Softball Games. The event was played at the Firelake Softball Complex in Shawnee.
Presley Bilderback represented the West Yellow 14-and-under team which took runner-up honors.
Bilderback, an eighth-grader, currently plays for El Reno Junior High’s softball team.
Bilderback’s effort earned her a spot on Team Oklahoma, which will play in the USSSA National All-State Games in Florida in December.
Riding a 10-hit effort at the plate, Union City High School’s fast-pitch softball team opened up the 2023 season with a 17-7 road win over Velma-Alma.
The Tigers went 10-of-21 (.476) from the plate with three doubles from Kamryn Cook.
She went 4-for-4 on the day with five runs batted in and two scored. Payslie Armstrong went 3-of-4 with three ribbies.
Trestan Sutton, Skylar Morgan and Keely Riley added a base hit each. Lily Russell drew three walks resulting in a trio of runs scored and two more RBIs.
To say Rhett Kouba is having a good summer throwing the baseball would be a major understatement.
The El Reno High School graduate is having a stellar season on the hill for the Corpus Christi Hooks, the Double A affiliate of the Houston Astros. He was recently named the Texas League’s Pitcher of the Month for July.
The Texas League, established in 1902, is a two-division gathering of Double A teams from Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. The Hooks play in the South Division (all Texas teams) along with Amarillo, Frisco, Midland and San Antonio.
