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While scoring 20 runs off Murray State, Redlands Community College’s baseball team slipped back into last place in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings after being swept by the Aggies.

Redlands fell 16-8 and 9-4 in the home doubleheader, before losing 7-2 and 13-6 in the two games at Tishomingo. The Cougars dropped to 8-20 in the league standings and 19-33 overall for the spring.

Over the four-game series, Redlands went 35-of-123 from the plate for a .285 average, logging nine doubles, a triple from David Garcia and home runs from Nolan Gagnon and Garcia.

The Calumet Chieftains, ranked 17th in the state, won the Class A, District 19 Championship over the weekend with two wins over Wellston and a third over Waukomis by a combined 48-8 margin.

Calumet was the lone small school in the county to emerge from the district round of the baseball postseason.

See Saturday’s edition for a breakdown of area small schools in the postseason for both baseball and slow-pitch softball.

El Reno High School’s baseball team headed into its final District 5A-1 doubleheader of the season looking to gain some needed momentum for the upcoming playoffs.

The Indians were slated to play Del City after losing a close 4-2 contest to Guthrie last week in a makeup game.

The teams split the series, leaving El Reno with a 6-6 mark in league play and in fifth place, a game back in the loss column to the Bluejays for fourth.

El Reno was coming off an 11-5 loss a day earlier to Elk City after squandering a 5-1 lead.

Severe storms in the panhandle halted El Reno High School’s match last week with Guymon but not before the Indians secured a spot in the upcoming Class 5A girls playoffs.

El Reno was leading 3-1 when the match was called with 33 minutes left in the second half.

“We stood in the locker room for 25 minutes waiting for the weather to clear and it wasn’t. Then their athletic director and the head referee came over and said they were calling the match.

El Reno High School Athletic Director Rodney Haydon and head coach Gabriel Gonzalez confirmed the boys soccer team will return to Guymon Tuesday night to complete District 5A-2 play.

The match was postponed last week due to severe weather, which cut the match short in the second half.

“As of right now we are going. We are going to try and play around 4:30 or 5 p.m. depending on if they can get officials that early or not,” said Gonzalez.

A move to cut down the field at the NJCAA Women’s Golf Championship may leave four-time winner Redlands Community College on the outside looking in.

This season the NJCAA did away with the regional championship round of the postseason and the automatic berth to the national tourney for each winner. In its place were six district championships.

Teams in the 17 regions making up Division I golf under the NJCAA banner were then divided up. RCC was placed into the Southwest District along with teams from Regions 1 and 5.

With its overall score consistently coming in around 400, El Reno High School’s girls golf team is turning its attention toward cutting out needless mistakes ahead of the upcoming Class 5A West Regional Championships.

El Reno will be among the 12 teams bidding for one of the six West passes to the state tournament, which will be held this year at Chickasaw Point in Durant.

The West regional will be played on the South Course at Lake Hefner.

Despite holding the No.1 spot in the 16-team bracket, El Reno High School’s trapshooting squad was thrown a tough pigeon in the second round of the 2022 Oklahoma Scholastic Shooting Sports Program’s State Shoot.

After defeating Sequoyah in its opening match with a team score of 195, El Reno drew perennial powerhouse and eventual state champion Merritt in the second round.

It took nine innings and a shocking loss for El Reno High School’s baseball team to shake off the rust of a four-hour bus ride to Guymon last week as the Indians rallied to split a District 5A-1 doubleheader with the Tigers.

El Reno slipped to fifth in the league standings at 6-5 after losing the first game to Guymon 3-0.

The Indians were tied 3-all after the first inning of the second game, before going on an 8-2 run to secure an 11-5 victory. The split left El Reno with a 14-16 overall record.

The Indians went into the final match of District 5A-2 play tied with Bishop McGuinness for fourth place, both schools at 3-3.

El Reno, which has won three straight, needed a road win against Guymon and an Irish loss to Midwest City to make the postseason.