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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.

NORMAN – Putting up yet another fourth-period rally, El Reno made Sapulpa work for every point over the final eight minutes before falling 58-44 in the semifinals of the 2023 Class 5A Girls Oklahoma State High School Basketball Championships.

“I’m so proud of the girls. We put up our five goals for the season on the board and we met every single one of those goals. We wanted to make it to state and we reached the semifinals.

“Sapulpa is a good team and they ended up winning the title,” said Douglas.

El Reno High School’s girls basketball team played in the Class 5A state semifinals last week at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman.

Despite two noon games, the team had good support in the stands and courtside.

El Reno split games over the weekend with a 4-0 win over Clinton and an 11-3 loss to Chickasha. See Saturday’s edition for a wrap-up.

El Reno will be back in action Thursday hosting games in the annual Union City Spring Break Festival.

Latin Everheart continued El Reno High School’s string of individual titles in the Large School Division at the 2023 Oklahoma Powerlifting Coaches Association’s State Championships held at Jenks Simmons Field House.

Everheart was one of two medalists for the Indians this season, winning the 123-pound weight class, while Malachi Nicholson took fifth place at 181 pounds.

El Reno, which sent four lifters to state, was third as a team in the Class 5A bracket with 79 points. The Indians finished behind Grove (79) and McAlester (59) and edged out Del City by a point.

NORMAN – Two words were stressed in huddle before the start of the fourth period of El Reno’s quarterfinal game at the 2023 Class 5A Girls Oklahoma State High School Basketball Championships.

“Energy and effort. We just needed to bring more energy,” said El Reno junior post player Pauline Black-Harmon.

El Reno did just that and more, using a 16-5 run to open the period en route to a 61-51 come-from-behind win over Tahlequah. The Indians avenged their 2017 quarterfinal loss to the Tigers and advanced to the semifinals for the third straight year to play Sapulpa.

NORMAN – A series of turnovers to start the first and third periods proved too big of a hurdle for El Reno to overcome in the quarterfinals of the 2023 Class 5A Boys Oklahoma State High School Basketball Championships.

Holland Hall, the No.2 seed from the East, scored 16 points off 10 El Reno miscues in the two periods en route to a 51-36 victory.

Two bad innings turned out to be the stumbling blocks for El Reno High School’s baseball team in its first District 5A-1 doubleheader of the season. Bishop McGuinness scored nine of its 11 runs for the series in those two frames as the Irish swept the doubleheader behind scores of 4-1 and 7-2. El Reno slips to 1-2 for the season and 0-2 in the district standings.

El Reno High School’s Raley Wicker-Hartley placed fourth last week at the 2023 Oklahoma Girls Powerlifting Coaches Association’s State Championships.

The junior was one of four EHS lifters to make state as the team racked up 17 points en route to a 14th-place finish out of 36 squads in the Large School Division.