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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.

Redlands Community College’s golf team will be headed back to Florida for the 2022 NJCAA Women’s Golf Championship after picking up one of five at-large bids.

The Cougars, ranked eighth in the nation, finished third in the Southwest District Championship in Fort Worth, an event which featured three top 10 teams.

Western Texas Community College, fourth nationally, won the district title.

Members of El Reno High School's baseball team stand along the first-base line for the national anthem before the start of the Indians district game last week at Del City.

The flag bearers were from Del City’s Air Force ROTC program.

El Reno High School senior Carlie Golden, seated second from right, signed a national letter of intent to play soccer for Redlands Community College.

Golden is the second player from the EHS girls team to sign to play at the next level.

Key plays in the field and at the plate helped El Reno High School’s baseball team win back-to-back one-run games over Del City last week to close out District 5A-1 action.

With the sweep, the Indians third in league play, El Reno finished in fifth place with an 8-6 record. But that finish could improve a spot depending on the outcome of a Guthrie/Bishop McGuinness makeup game.

El Reno, now 16-18 on the spring, won the first game of the series at the Hub Reed Complex by a 3-2 score.

Despite shooting one of its lowest scores of the season, El Reno High School’s girls golf team missed qualifying for the Class 5A Girls State Golf Championship.

Playing in the 5A West Regional on the South Course at Lake Hefner, El Reno carded a team score of 407. The effort fell 31 strokes short of the final team spot for state, which went to Guthrie with a 376.

“The team scores to make it to state were a lot better than they were last season,” said El Reno head coach Cameron Wilkins.

Calumet High School’s baseball team, ranked 17th in the state, drew the second seed for the Class A, Region 5 Championships but will have to get past fifth-ranked and host Dewar to make state.

The Chieftains, now 21-3 on the year, defeated Mountain View-Gotebo 19-1 in a tuneup game. Calumet takes an 11-game win streak into regionals after snatching the District 19 Championship with two victories over Wellston (12-0/18-3) and a third over Waukomis (18-5).

Tyler Tignor’s team was set to face Elmore City/Pernell in the first round of regionals.

A pair of losses to 10th-ranked Hydro-Early spelled the end of the season for Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team in the Class A, District 12 Championship.

The Tigers, 24-15 on the spring, defeated Waukomis by scores of 11-1 and 13-3 between setbacks to the Bobcats by tallies of 12-1 and 15-2.

Over the four-game set, Union City was 35-of-107 (.327) from the plate with three doubles and a triple by Mackenzie DeLong.

Alexis Archer, Emily Griggs and DeLong had a two-bagger each.

El Reno High School’s boys soccer team won the battle on the field against Guymon last week but ended up losing the war to get into the postseason to the Tigers.

The Indians made the eight-hour round-trip trek to the panhandle for a makeup match which was called off four days earlier due to severe weather. El Reno returned home with a 1-0 victory, its fourth in a row, but finished in a three-way tie for the final two playoff spots.

Southeast won the District 5A-2 title with a 7-0 record and Piedmont was the runner-up at 6-1.