El Reno High School’s Cielo Caso Estrada runs into a turn during the final kilometer of the 2022 Class 5A West Regional Cross Country Championship held at Wildhorse Park in Mustang.
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A wild finish for the second straight week resulted in another key win for El Reno High School's football team in the chase for a postseason berth.
El Reno scored the game-winning touchdown with 1:21 left in the fourth period, then turned to its defense for a fourth-down stop to preserve a 32-29 win over Lawton MacArthur.
The victory lifted El Reno to 3-5 on the season, but more importantly, 3-2 in the District 5A-1 standings.
Whether it’s holding a line on defense or opening up holes on offense for others to follow, El Reno High School senior Ryan Sigler is the type of two-way player coaches dream about.
“He is a great kid and is very coachable. He starts both ways and rarely ever comes off the field. He’s very disciplined, a great team leader and always polite. We are glad he is an El Reno Indian,” said head coach Russell Cook.
If there is a silver lining to last week’s 3-0 loss to Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa, it’s the fact that Redlands Community College’s soccer team is becoming competitive with the region’s upper echelon teams.
The Mavericks, ranked No.14 in the nation, defeated Redlands 6-0 less than a month earlier.
The second meeting was a two-goal affair until the final 15 minutes of the second half when a defensive slip by the Cougars allowed NOC to score off a corner kick.
El Reno High School’s season stats took a jump last week in the Indians 20-15 win over Ardmore.
Both Redlands Community College teams were the lone two-year squads entered in the 2022 Oklahoma Baptist University’s Cross Country Invitational and ran away with a pair of fifth-place finishes.
The Redlands women ran the 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) course at Gordon Cooper Technology Center in Shawnee with an overall time of two hours and 3.17 minutes.
The average time per runner was 24:39 as the Cougars closed with 144 points.
So just how big was El Reno High School’s five-point win over Ardmore last week as far as the playoff picture for District 5A-1?
Once thought out of the playoff hunt after a 39-point loss to Elgin to open league play, El Reno has won two of the four games since to climb into a three-way tie for fourth place.
The top four teams in each district earn postseason passes, with El Reno sitting at 2-2 along with Noble and Duncan. The Indians own the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Bears and will host the Demons Oct. 28.
Slower times and a stout field greeted El Reno High School runners at the 2022 Suburban Conference Cross Country Championships.
El Reno was unable to field a full team for either the boys or girls divisions, with only six varsity runners taking to the course at Carl Albert High School in Midwest City.
The Indians did have two runners in the boys and girls junior varsity races.
The varsity boys were led by Matthew Tofpi with a time of 20 minutes and 28.01 seconds over the 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) course, earning him a 31st-place finish.
ARDMORE – The third time really is the charm.
After losing two games earlier this year in the final minute, El Reno High School’s football team came up with a fourth-down stop with 32 seconds left to help preserve a 20-15 win over Ardmore.
With its first road victory of the season, El Reno moved to 2-5 overall and 2-2 in the District 5A-1 standings.
“This was a very close game and we had to win this in order to have any shot at the playoffs. I think we all (defense) took it to heart after a tough third period and we had to bounce back from that.
Even the sidelines reporter, far right, was shocked that Oklahoma State’s Bryson Green was able to make this catch against Texas Tech last week in the Cowboys 41-31 win over the Red Raiders.
