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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.