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A mad dash to the finish had several teams, including Redlands Community College, make up strokes on the leaders at the 2023 NJCAA Division 1 Women’s Golf Championships.

However, in the end it was the Cougars who got bumped out of sixth place, a position RCC had maintained over the middle rounds of the 72-hole event held at Buffalo Dunes Golf Course in Garden City, Kan.

Redlands started the final round in sixth place and trailed Texas-based McLennan Community College by six strokes. The Cougars made up four of those shots with a final round of 315.

After a year hiatus, Redlands Community College’s baseball team is back in the postseason despite dropping its regular-season finale to Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa.

The Cougars will be the eighth seed to the 2023 NJCAA Plains District Championship set to start Thursday in Enid at David Allen Ballpark. The event also serves as the Division 2, Region 2 Championship.

The two tournaments were combined after the NJCAA redistricted and added Region 16, which is made up of four Missouri programs as well as Hesston College out of Kansas.

The wind rolling over the Buffalo Dune Golf Course took its toll on scores during the second round of the 2023 NJCAA Division 1 Women’s National Golf Championships.

Scores on the Garden City, Kan., course were higher than the opening day marks, with only six of the 15 teams improving team totals from day one. Redlands Community College was one of the nine teams shooting a higher day two score.

“The wind blew a constant 25 miles per hour all day which made it more of a challenge. We played the last hole 6-over as a team which was disappointing.

PIEDMONT - Lawton has become the new thorn in the side of El Reno High School baseball after eliminating the Indians from the Class 5A playoffs for a third straight season.

Playing in the Region 1 Championship, Lawton MacArthur defeated El Reno twice by a total of four runs to end the Indians season.

The last two seasons it was Lawton Eisenhower to do the same.

Between the losses, El Reno ended Santa Fe South’s season for a second straight year by way of a 17-0 shutout. The 1-2 run in regionals left the Indians with a 15-21 overall record.

Calumet High School suffered an unexpected quarterfinal loss last week in the Class B Oklahoma State High School Baseball Championships, which were delayed two days due to wet weather.

The Chieftains, ranked fourth in the state, end their spring season with a 19-8 record following a 9-4 loss to fifth-ranked Moss.

Calumet fell behind 9-1 after five and a half innings before mounting a rally. The Chieftains scored three runs in the third inning after getting a single from Derrick Krantzman, a double from Kingston Arnold and an RBI-single from Kaleb Thiessen.

El Reno High School, making its first team appearance since 2018, slipped to 10th place over the final 18 holes at the 2023 Class 5A Girls Oklahoma State High School Golf Championships.

The Indians were tied with Elgin for ninth place after the first 18 holes with a team score of 417. While El Reno was able to trim nine shots off that score during day two of the championships at Dornick Hill Golf Club in Ardmore, the Owls would improve by 17 shots to bump EHS to 10th place.

El Reno closed with an 825 total for 36 holes, while Elgin carded an 817.

The lack of clutch hits with runners in scoring position came back to haunt El Reno High School’s baseball team in a 10-5 non-district loss to Noble in the regular-season finale for both schools.

El Reno, by dropping its second straight non-district home game, will take a 14-19 overall record into the Class 5A West Region 1 Championships, which started Thursday in Piedmont.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Union City’s historical run to the Class 2A Oklahoma State High School Slow-Pitch Softball Championships came to an end in the quarterfinals with a 17-5 loss to fourth-ranked Cyril.

The Tigers, ranked sixth in the state, end their season with a 26-15 record.

“I was really proud of them. We could have given up but the bottom half of our order kept the game going and allowed our seniors to get up to bat again.

El Reno High School’s wrestling program held a national letter of intent signing day recently as from left, Will Heger, Kylar Kurtz and Dailey Jennings signed with college programs.

Heger and Jennings will wrestle at the University of Central Oklahoma, while Kurtz will follow in his father, Kevin’s footsteps and wrestle at Harvard College.

Looking on is head coach Tyrone Lewis.

El Reno’s Remy Whitney recently placed twice in the USA Wrestling Women’s Nationals.

She was fourth in the 14-and-under division at 85 pounds and then took fifth in the 15-and-under division at 39 kilograms.

With those finishes, she earned a tryout spot for the Pan American Games later this year.