Sports

El Reno High School’s volleyball team went into the Class 5A, Region 1 Championships having faced a gauntlet of ranked teams over the final 10 days of the regular season.

Tuning up for the 2022 Suburban Conference Cross Country Championships later this week, El Reno High School took nine runners to the Elk City Invitational – bringing home five medals.

Calumet High School’s baseball team reached the semifinals of the Class B State Championships before losing to Fort Cobb/Broxton. See Saturday’s paper for a recap.

MIDWEST CITY – A repeat trip to the Class 5A State Fast-Pitch Softball State Championships will have to come through the consolation bracket as El Reno High School suffered an 11-1 loss to Carl Albert.

While giving up a noticeable height difference across the net, El Reno High School’s volleyball team rode a series of unforced errors by Del City to a 3-0 win over the Eagles.

Last week’s 41-40 win over Noble came with a season-high 423 yards of total offense which put El Reno High School’s football team over the 1,000-yard mark for the season.  

El Reno’s junior high football teams returned to Memorial Stadium last week after a two-week road swing to split a Suburban Conference doubleheader with Guthrie. The seventh-grade team lost 36-32 despite a 65-yard kickoff return and a 30-yard run, both for touchdowns, by Leo Willis.

Redlands Community College’s golf team has been on a stellar roll after taking second place at the recent Oklahoma Baptist University Fall Invitational. Playing the 5,803-yard Shawnee Country Club Course, Redlands carded a 36-hole total of 636 (313/323) to finish 13 shots back of the host school.

Avenging an earlier one-goal loss to the Bucks, Redlands Community College’s soccer team earned its first road win of the season with a 3-0 shutout of the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain.

El Reno High School’s football team will be facing a few new wrinkles brought on by this week’s District 5A-1 home game against Midwest City – first starting with the day.