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Since opening the season with a home win, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team has posted a 5-3 record over the eight games since shutting out Dover.

The Tigers are 6-3 for the spring.

During the eight-game stretch, Union City logged wins over Geary (12-0), Alex (18-5), Fletcher (12-4), Hinton (16-3) and Fort Cobb-Broxton (7-0).

The losses were to Wayne (12-1), Newcastle (11-1) and Binger-Oney (14-1).

Union City’s offense over the eight games has been led by MacKinzie DeLong with five doubles, a home run and 16 hits total.

Union City High School’s baseball team snapped a two-game losing streak to open the 2022 spring season by beating Lomega 10-4 behind a four-hit pitching effort.

Tigers pitchers Aden Ellington and Tyler Norton threw three innings each, combining for a line of 11 strikeouts, five walks, four runs and four hits allowed. The pair had a .477 strike percentage as 62 of their 130 pitches found the zone.

Union City’s offense recorded six hits as Dalton Stout and Laven Ziere had two hits each. Ellington and Blake Ross added a single each.

NORMAN – A third-period blitz on both ends of the floor propelled El Reno High School into the semifinals of the Class 5A Girls State Basketball Championships for just the third time in school history Thursday.

El Reno, one of two Suburban Conference Schools to make the Elite Eight, defeated Grove 50-26 in the quarterfinals at Norman North to improve to 23-4 on the season.

The Indians were slated to play Sapulpa in the semifinals and now are the lone league team remaining in the championship hunt after Carl Albert's 49-37 quarterfinals loss to Tulsa Will Rogers.

MOORE – Senior Ashlyn Evans-Thompson uncorked a career-high 41 points as El Reno High School’s girls basketball team punched its ticket to this week’s Class 5A State Championships with a 60-47 win over Midwest City.

The victory over the Bombers came in the 5A West Area 1 championship game and extended El Reno’s current win streak to six games. The Indians, now 22-4 on the year, play Thursday in the state quarterfinals at Norman North against Grove. Tipoff is set for 3:30 p.m.

EDMOND – For the second straight year, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team was bumped from the postseason with a loss to sixth-seeded Ardmore.

The Tigers outscored El Reno, the seventh seed, 12-3 in overtime en route to a 77-68 victory in the Class 5A West, Area 1 consolation semifinals.

The loss ended the Indians season with a 14-12 mark.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The showdown between the top two teams turned into a runaway for No.1 Hydro-Eakly as the Bobcats defeated Okarche 63-41 in the semifinals of the Class A Girls State Championships.

Okarche’s season ends with a 26-4 record after the Warriors were held to single-digit scoring over the first two periods and trailed 38-13 at the break.

In a repeat of its semifinal win, Okarche’s offense came alive in the second half to outscore the Bobcats 29-25 to close the game shooting 58 percent (10-of-17) from 2-point range.

El Reno High Schoolvs baseball team kicked off its home schedule last week by sweeping Oklahoma Christian Academy to move to 3-0 on the spring season.

The Indians won the first game of the doubleheader 6-4 before taking the nightcap by a 10-9 margin, featuring three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Trailing 9-7 going into the bottom of the eighth, Brayden Fulton doubled in Davin Shamblin (double) before scoring himself along with pinch runner Daylan Pruitt off a single by freshman Hernan Blanco.

With seventh-ranked Piedmont determined to limit El Reno High School’s guard play in the Class 5A Girls West Region 4 Championship, the Indians were forced to look elsewhere for points in the clutch.

And head coach Jennifer Douglas knew just where to look – in the paint.

Sisters Pauline and Janae Black-Harmon combined for eight of the team’s 14 points in the fourth period of El Reno’s 50-41 win over the Wildcats. The victory secured the Indians their fourth regional title since 2017 and the second in a row.

A third-period scoring drought proved costly for El Reno High School’s boys basketball team in a rematch with Suburban Conference rival Carl Albert in the Class 5A West Region 4 Championship.

The Indians went the final 3:43 of the third period without a point to spearhead the second-seeded Titans 49-30 revenge win over El Reno.

The loss was the first of the postseason for seventh-seeded El Reno, which slipped to 14-11 on the year. The Indians now advance to the Class 5A West Area I consolation semifinals needing back-to-back wins to earn a trip to state.

After jumping out to an early 5-0 lead, El Reno High School’s baseball team uncorked a six-run fifth inning to help secure an 11-1 road win over Rush Springs in the 2022 spring opener.

El Reno never trailed, scoring four runs in the first inning and one in the second.

Rush Springs’ lone run came in the bottom of the third.

Gabe Compton started on the hill for the Indians and got the win, allowing the one run off three hits over 3 2/3 innings.

The right-hander struck out six and walked two batters.