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Calumet High School’s baseball team ran into a tough slate of games in two separate spring break festivals, dropping three games over the break.

The Chieftains, ranked third in Class B, fell to 2-3 on the season after losing a 6-1 game to Class 2A’s 16th-ranked Haskell in the Union City Spring Break Festival.

Calumet then played two games in the Edmond Festival, losing to 5A power Piedmont (8-1) and 6A’s Moore (6-0).

The Chieftains went 14-of-73 (.192) for the three-game set with only two extra base hits, doubles from Hunter Arnold and Carson Cooper.

Both the boys and girls teams were scheduled to play this week in the Noble tourney starting on Thursday.

Taking three out of four games from National Park over the weekend, Redlands Community College’s baseball team moved to within a game of .500 for the season.

The Cougars won the first three games by scores of 4-1, 14-2 and 12-3 before the Nighthawks avoided a sweep with a 12-9 win in the series finale.

Redlands improved to 13-15 on the season with the victories and 5-3 in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings for fourth place.

The Cougars bats had a combined 32-of-116 (.276) effort over the four-game series with seven doubles and four triples.

El Reno High School senior Bre Spann recently signed an NJCAA national letter of intent to play soccer for Redlands Community College.

Calumet High School senior Allie Harris won the 3-point shooting contest at the Class B state tourney.

For her efforts she earned a $1,000 check for science and math supplies.

Jennifer Douglas can now check off one of the postseason honors that has eluded the veteran coach in her seven seasons at the helm of the El Reno High School girls basketball program.

Douglas was named by her peers as Coach of the Year on the 2023 All-Suburban Conference Girls Basketball Teams. The seven member coaches voted on three squads and honorable mention prior to the state tourney.

“I did not expect to get it. I thought Coach Carr (Eric) at Piedmont deserved it because this was his last year and they beat us and won the conference.

Three El Reno High School wrestlers picked up the highest honors of their careers recently during voting by the selection committee for the 2023 Oklahoma Coaches Association’s All-State Wrestling Squads.

Will Heger and Dailey Jennings were elevated to All-State status and will wrestle for the Large West squad in the All-State Games. Those wrestling matches will be held at Tulsa Union High School on July 26 at 7 p.m.

Prior to a few days of rest ahead of the Union City Spring Break Festival, El Reno High School’s baseball team split a home doubleheader at the Hub Reed Complex.

El Reno dropped the U.S. 81 meeting with Chickasha by an 11-3 margin after allowing nine runs in the third inning – helped along by three Indians errors.

El Reno led the game 2-1 at that point despite leaving the bases loaded in the bottom of the first inning.

Rebounding from the loss, El Reno scored three runs in the bottom of the first en route to a 4-0 win over Clinton.

Calumet High School’s baseball team, ranked third in the first Class B rankings of the season, kicked off its spring campaign with wins over Hammon and Cashion.

The Chieftains blanked Hammon 13-0 before posting a 10-7 win over the Wildcats, ranked eighth in Class 2A.

Calumet posted a .391 batting average for the two games, going 18-of-46 with six extra base hits. Kyler Thiessen logged two doubles, followed by one each from Carson Cooper, Dalton Belcher and Kaleb Thiessen.

Caleb Meschberger added a grand slam in the win over Hammon.

Redlands Community College’s golf team kicked off its spring schedule earlier this month with an 11th-place finish at the 2023 Diffee Invitational held at Kickingbird Golf Club in Edmond.

The Cougars were the lone junior college team in the 15-squad field, carding a 36-hole total of 637, which was 69 strokes over par. Redlands was one stroke out of 10th place and nine back of ninth-place finisher Oklahoma Baptist University.

Henderson State (567) won the event by 20 strokes over the University of Arkansas Fort Smith. Southwestern Oklahoma State (589) was third.