Sports

A walk-off double by Hunter Arnold earned Calumet High School’s baseball team its fifth straight win as the Chieftains rallied for an 8-7 decision over Class A’s 14th-ranked Hydro-Eakly.

Despite a 19-hit attack, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team wound up on the short end of a 22-14 offensive slugfest with Class A’s 18th-ranked Fort Cobb/Broxton. The Tigers, ranked sixth in Class 2A, slipped to 15-9 on the year with the loss. The two teams combined for 39 base hits.

Redlands Community College’s baseball team climbed into fifth place in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings after winning a four-game series from the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain. The Cougars won three of the games by scores of 10-1, 4-2 and 9-5.

While playing 80 minutes, the outcome of El Reno High School’s girls soccer team’s match with rival Piedmont was settled in a little over eight minutes.

In what could be the final meeting between the Canadian County rivals, El Reno High School’s boys soccer team was unable to take full advantage of its scoring opportunities. Piedmont did.

Sophomore right-hander Gavin Tinsley struck out Putnam City North’s Daymien Martinez swinging with a 2-2 fastball as El Reno High School’s baseball team held off the Class 6A Panthers for an 8-7 road victory.

El Reno High School’s tennis teams kicked off the spring with mixed results at the 2023 Putnam City North Invitational held at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center.

Playing the only time this season in the same tourney, El Reno High School’s golf teams posted a pair of top five finishes at the 2023 John Marshall Invitational, played at the Cedar Valley Golf Club in Guthrie.

Mother Nature may have benched area baseball teams with high winds last week but she struck out a day earlier with cooler temperatures and spritzing rain. Both Calumet and Union City high schools battled those conditions to earn wins for the state-ranked clubs.

Payslie Locke threw a three-inning shutout as Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team defeated Geary 16-0. The Tigers, ranked sixth in Class 2A, improved to 15-8 on the season. Locke allowed three base hits but no walks and two strikeouts.