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Consistent play at the halfway point has put Redlands Community College in position to make a run for a top five finish during the 2022 NJCAA Women’s National Golf Championships.

Playing the par-72, 5,941-yard Mayfair Country Club course in Sanford, Fla., Redlands was sitting in eighth place after 36 holes with a team total of 661.

The Cougars, after posting rounds of 330/331, are six strokes behind Eastern Florida State (655) for seventh and eight shots behind Dodge City Community College (653) for sixth.

El Reno High School’s 2022 track season came to an end at the Class 5A West Regional held at Putnam City, with no thinclads advancing to the state meet.

The Indians had no field event entries for either boys or girls and the runners were primarily in the shorter distances.

Maria Moreno was 11th in the preliminary heats of the 100-meter dash with a time of 14.09 seconds, followed by Gracie Wieland (14.64) in 14th and Madeline Taylor (15.57) in 16th.

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.