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While a tall mountain remains in its path, El Reno High School’s boys soccer team is still climbing toward a playoff berth after a 2-1 victory over rival Carl Albert.

The win was the second straight for El Reno, which improved to 2-3 in the District 5A-2 standings and into fifth place.

The Indians, now 3-7 on the season, need to win their last two league matches against Guthrie (1-4) and Guymon (3-2) to have a shot at the postseason.

Getting an early look at the Lawton Country Club Course, site of the 2022 Class 5A West Regional Championship, El Reno High School’s boys golf team continues to shave strokes off its overall score.

El Reno placed ninth overall in the Regional Review Tournament hosted by Lawton Eisenhower, shooting a 389 tally.

“The weather was much better than previous weeks and we continue to shave strokes as a team. The goal at the halfway point is to start getting into that fourth through sixth spot as a team at tournaments.

El Reno High School’s tennis team found mixed results last week during tournament play, led by a pair of top five finishes in the Western Heights Invitational.

Playing at the Earlywine Tennis Center, El Reno’s top doubles team of Bri Barksdale and Jayna Graham earned fourth. The Indians No.2 doubles team of Kambry Maifield and Alyssa Watson finished second.

Two doubles each from Alexis Archer and Mackinzie DeLong helped Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team reach a season milestone last week with a 16-0 win over Harding Charter Prep.

The Tigers have won five of their last six games to hit the 20-win plateau at 20-10. The other victories were over Crooked Oak (15-2), Cement (18-2), Waukomis (11-3) and Class A’s 12th-ranked Fort Cobb/Broxton (13-12).

The loss in the stretch was a 14-2 decision to Class 4A’s 20th-ranked Hinton.

Coming off a third-place finish in the recent Lookeba-Sickles Invitational, Calumet High School’s baseball team picked up its second straight victory last week with a 12-3 decision over Binger-Oney.

The Chieftains, ranked No.17 this week in the latest Class A poll, moved to 12-3 on the spring with the win over the Bobcats.

Calumet posted a 2-1 tournament mark after a 13-3 win over Class A’s 16th-ranked Shattuck in the third-place game. The other victory was over Elk City’s JV squad (10-9) and the loss was a 4-0 shutout to the host, ranked ninth in Class B.

In its final tune-up before the NJCAA Southwest District Championships, Redlands Community College’s golf team placed fifth last week in the 2022 Susie Maxwell Berning Classic.

Played on the West Course at Lincoln Park in Oklahoma City, Redlands carded a 23-over 614 score for 36 holes. The rounds of 303 and 311 placed the Cougars as the second highest community college entered behind Iowa Western, which tied for third at 604.

Ashlyn Acosta led Redlands with a 148 (73/75) tally which tied her for sixth in the individual medalist chase.

After splitting a four-game series against South Arkansas College in NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 action, Redlands Community College’s baseball team jumped up to Division 1 to take on Rose State College.

The Cougars dropped both games against the Raiders by scores of 18-4 and 14-4 to slip to 17-27 on the spring. Redlands is 6-14 in the Division 2 chase after losing 13-10 and 15-9 to the Stars but rebounding for wins by scores of 11-10 and 21-8.

The Cougars were 50-of-164 (.305) from the plate over the six-game stretch, logging 15 doubles, five triples and seven home runs.

Trimming its team scores down closer to the 400 mark, El Reno High School’s girls golf team posted a pair of top 10 finishes last week. The Indians took ninth place at the Kingfisher Yellowjackets Invitational with a team score of 405.

The effort was paced by duplicate rounds of 99 from Berkley Kidd-Smith and Madison Patswald.

Skylar Ayers was the third lowest round with a 110, followed by Emma Patswald with a 114 and a 118 from Kallie Maifield.

Kenneth Solis spent the fall booting a football long distances at Memorial Stadium but last week he proved he can kick a soccer ball with just as much success.

The sophomore logged his first-ever hat trick as El Reno High School’s boys soccer team kept its playoff hopes alive with a 6-4 win over Midwest City.

“I’ve never had a hat trick before,” said Solis after his three first-half goals.

El Reno snapped a six-match losing streak with the win over the Bombers to improve to 2-7 on the season.

Facing 25-mile-per-hour gusts out of the west, the outcome of last week’s District 5A-2 match between El Reno High School’s girls soccer team and Midwest City came down to which team played the best into the wind.

That advantage favored El Reno as the Indians scored three goals into the wind en route to a 5-0 shutout of the Bombers.

The win was the second straight for El Reno, which climbed to 2-2 in the league standings and into fourth place, one game back in the loss column to Carl Albert, which is set to host Tuesday night.