Minco sophomore Daigan Miller won gold medals at the recent Class 2A state meet in Catoosa.
She ran a 5:29.84 in the 1,600 meters and a 12:03.35 in the 3,200 meters.
Miller is the daughter of Dale and Deah Miller, granddaughter of Brenda and Allen Miller and niece of El Reno’s Matt Miller.
PIEDMONT – In a near repeat of last year’s postseason run, El Reno High School’s baseball team exited the Class 5A, Region 1 Championships with two losses to Lawton Eisenhower.
El Reno ended its season with a 17-20 record after dropping a 1-0 contest to the Eagles in the elimination round. Lawton Eisenhower held off a late rally by the Indians in the opening round of the regional for a 7-5 win. In the contest, El Reno led 1-0, giving up seven runs in the bottom of the first inning before chipping away at the deficit.
El Reno High School junior Madison Patswald placed 64th overall as an individual medalist last week during the 2022 Class 5A Girls State Golf Championship.
Playing at Chickasaw Pointe Golf Club in Kingston, Patswald carded rounds of 114 and 112 for a 226 total.
Durant won the team title with a 632 tally for 36 holes, followed by Tulsa Bishop Kelley (669) and Carl Albert (683).
The Suburban Conference had two other teams make state as Piedmont (773) was sixth and Guthrie (785) was seventh.
LAWTON – Watching both teams warm up, El Reno High School girls soccer coach Andrea Williams knew there was not a clear-cut favorite in the Indians first-round playoff game with Lawton MacArthur.
“This is a toss-up, we look pretty even,” said Williams.
Turns out she was right.
Making its fifth playoff appearance in eight years under Williams but the first since 2018, El Reno played the higher-seeded Highlanders to a stalemate for 80 minutes of regulation play and 7:09 into the first overtime period.
Then disaster struck.
Shorthanded by a player for the Class 5A West Regional, El Reno High School’s boys golf team fell short of qualifying for the state tournament set to start Monday.
The Indians did advance one golfer to state, being played at the Duncan Golf and Tennis Club, as Bryan Richardson grabbed the fourth individual medalist ticket for those not on a state-bound team.
Switching from guns to bows and arrows, El Reno High School’s archery team placed 12th overall at the 2022 National Archery in Schools Program (NASP) Western Nationals.
Shooting in Salt Lake City, El Reno amassed 3,238 team points and was one of 25 teams in the 26-team high school division to break the 3,000-point barrier.
The competition was close as the difference from 15th place to national champion Sarcoxie High School out of Missouri was 213 points.
What started out as a promising battle with Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa turned sour over the final three games as Redlands Community College’s baseball team lost the series to the Mavericks 3-1.
The Cougars took the opening game by a 7-2 score before dropping the final three outings by tallies of 10-9, 12-6 and 21-11.
Those losses left Redlands with a 9-23 record in NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 play and in ninth place.
One of three ranked teams in the Class A, Region 5 Championships, Calumet High School’s baseball team reached the title round before dropping an 18-2 decision to fifth-ranked Dewar.
The Chieftains, ranked No.17 in the same poll, posted a 2-2 record in the regional round, losing an earlier game to Dewar by a 4-0 tally.
Calumet defeated No.12 Elmore City/Pernell twice by scores of 13-3 and 15-1.
PIEDMONT - El Reno High School’s track team took a small mix of freshmen and upperclassmen runners to compete in the 2022 Suburban Conference Track and Field Championships.
Madeline Taylor and Jasmin Caso were the lone varsity runners for the girls. Taylor ran a 15.62-second, 100-meter dash to place 13th, then posted a 31.81-second effort in the 200 meters to take 12th.
Caso ran the 800 meters with a time of four minutes and four seconds to finish in 13th place.
El Reno High School’s boys golf team tuned up for its run in the upcoming Class 5A West Regional by shooting a 396 team score at the 2022 Guthrie Bluejays Bash.
Playing the North layout at Lake Hefner Golf Course, El Reno had three golfers shoot under 90 for the first time this season. Cooper Park, Dallon Biswell and Bryan Richardson all carded duplicate rounds of 88.
Nick Fox carded a 132, while the Indians fifth team member did not finish due to illness.
