OKLAHOMA CITY – Scoring just two goals in the 2022 Northwest Classen Invitational, El Reno High School’s boys soccer team finds itself battling a three-game losing skid heading back into district play.
El Reno slipped to 1-4 on the season after losing to the host team 10-0, before falling to Choctaw (1-0) and Yukon (3-2).
The goals in the loss to the Millers were posted by Angel Martinez and Edgar Perez.
After a quick start in the 2022 Washita Valley Classic, El Reno High School’s baseball team suffered back-to-back losses against a pair of small-school powerhouses to finish the event with a .500 record.
El Reno defeated Dibble (9-1) and Guymon (10-2) before falling 3-2 to Class B’s second-ranked Fort Cobb-Broxton 3-2. The other loss was an 8-2 setback to Comanche, the Indians second of the season to the Class 3A program.
The 2-2 mark left El Reno with an 8-5 season record.
Etta Dale Junior High’s baseball team won the Bethany Invitational over the weekend, winning the championship game by a 10-0 score behind a no-hitter from pitcher Deacon Tillery.
El Reno High School’s tennis teams kicked off the 2022 season with a home duel loss to Harding Prep, winning just one of seven matches.
The No.3 doubles team of Melanna and Allynda Idell, twin sisters, scored a 7-5/0-6/6-3 win over the Harding pair of Lyla Oubre and Evelyn Stirling. El Reno’s girls team went 1-4 in the duel.
Kambry Maifield and Mary Almanza, playing No.1 doubles, fell 6-1/6-0 to the Harding team of Tracy Nguyen and Lily Boevers. El Reno’s No.2 doubles team of Zoey Johnson and Alyssa Weston fell to Piper Sehraman and Tory Nguyen by scores of 6-4/6-2.
Turning in what head coach Cameron Wilkens calls a starting point, El Reno High School’s girls golf team teed it up in the first tournament of the season last week.
El Reno placed near the top 10 in the team race at the 2022 Weatherford Invitational with a round of 471.
“I think that score reflects every girl shooting about 10 strokes more than what they have been shooting.
“This is a starting point,” said Wilkens.
A cold front that moved over the Prairie West Golf Course between nines played havoc with El Reno High School golfers as well as the rest of the field at the 2022 Weatherford Invitational.
“The greens were very fast and a cold front came in during the turn which added several strokes onto everyone’s scores. We did OK for our first tournament of the year but we have a lot of work to do on things such as our short game and our putting.
After averaging six hits in each of the first two games of the Vici Invitational, Calumet High School’s baseball team was stymied to a single hit in the championship game.
Caleb Meschberger logged a single in a 7-0 loss to Vici, the No.9 team in Class A. The Chieftains did get two free passes by Hunter Arnold, but struck out seven times. The loss dropped Calumet to 5-2 on the season.
Calumet reached the title game with wins over Fargo-Gage/Fort Supply (2-1) and Class A’s 19th-ranked Mooreland (6-3).
El Reno High School baseball player Kolt Glenn wraps up tight in a blanket while watching Wednesday’s District 5A-1 game against Guthrie at the Hub Reed Complex. School athletic trainer Alex Bray sits bundled up as well as a stiff north wind dropped game-time temperatures into the high 30s.
The outcome of El Reno High School girls basketball team’s season seems to uphold Aristotle’s famous teachings that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
However, those parts that made up a 24-5 squad and carried the Indians to their second state championship game in four years were pretty darn good and were recently honored with eight spots on the 2022 All-Suburban Conference Team.
For a team with one senior returning starter and slotted to finish in the middle of the conference race in the preseason, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team turned a lot of heads during the 2021-22 season.
El Reno exited the playoffs in the area round but closed the year with a 14-12 record.
The Indians were ranked 12th in the state, seventh on the West side, but played to a 5-1 record in league play and a second-place finish to eventual state runner-up Del City.
