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Guymon’s seventh-inning stretch ended up plucking two road wins off the victory tree from El Reno High School’s softball team last week in District 5A-2 action.

The two one-run setbacks at Guymon, 3-2 and 4-3, extended El Reno’s current losing streak to three straight games as the Indians slipped to 3-9 on the season.

Kylee Webb’s team is now sixth in the 5A-2 standings at 1-5, while the Tigers jumped to third.

El Reno took a 2-1 lead into the bottom of the seventh inning in game one before Guymon hit a walk-off double with two runners on base.

Delayed a week due to COVID-19 issues, El Reno High School’s volleyball team kicked off the home portion of its 2021 schedule with a 3-0 win over U.S. 81 rival Chickasha last week.

The 25-17/25-13/25-15 win lifted the Class 5A’s 10th-ranked Indians to 9-5 on the season.

El Reno trailed only twice in the match in games one and two, but never more than three points. The Indians rallied from those deficits at the serving line, closing with a 94.5 percent effort (69-of-73) with 14 aces.

The Indians had to forfeit their second straight game this week with Weatherford due to COVID-19 exposure and quarantine stemming from the game with Cache.
 

Union City High School’s softball team snapped a three-game slide last week with a 15-5 road win over Carnegie.

The 10-run victory came on the heels of losses to Verden (12-6) and Class A’s top-ranked Binger-Oney (12-2) as the unranked Tigers improved to 11-8 on the season.

Makinzie DeLong had four hits in the win over Carnegie, including a pair of two-baggers, while driving in three runs and scoring two more.

Jordan Schmidt, Makenna DeLong, Kylie McCoy and Kaitlyn Linson all doubled in the 17-hit UCHS attack.

Doubles from Hayden Anderson, Wyatt Dean and Jaxon Olive sparked a 10-hit performance at the plate as Calumet High School’s baseball team snapped a two-game losing streak with an 11-1 win over Earlsboro.

Calumet, coming off losses to Sentinel (12-7) and Class B’s 11th-ranked Lookeba-Sickles (13-7) in the Panthers Labor Day Festival, improved to 5-7 on the fall season.

Redlands Community College’s soccer team uncorked a season-high 21 shots but managed only one goal in a 3-1 road loss in Arkansas to National Park College.

The setback left RCC with an 0-4 record for the season and in the NJCAA Region 2 standings.

Redlands’ goal came in the first half on an unassisted shot by Yalexy Rodriguez, who logged a team-high 10 shots in the loss.

Delia Palmar recorded five shots, followed by Marissa Kirkendall with two shots.

Jordan Evans, Yesenia Rodriguez, Stephany Soto and Ariana Whitfield added a shot each.

The arrival of college football means it’s time to dust off the decoys for Oklahoma’s early teal and resident Canada goose hunting seasons.

Both opportunities will kick off Saturday, Sept. 11.

Blue-winged and green-winged teal are early migrants through Oklahoma as they fly southward on their journey to wintering grounds in Mexico and Central and South America.

They migrate quickly and don’t stay in Oklahoma very long. Teal are small, fast fliers and usually are seen in flocks of six to 15 birds.

NORTHEAST

Eucha: September 5.
Elevation normal, water 70s and clear.
Largemouth bass good on jerk baits and plastic baits along the river mouth, rocks and shorelines. Channel catfish fair on cut bait and live bait below the dam, docks and shorelines. Crappie fair on jigs and minnows around brush structure and shorelines.

Take away a horrific start and El Reno High School’s softball team outplayed and outscored Guthrie in the first game of a key District 5A-2 matchup at the Ashbrook North complex.

However, the Indians could not overcome the 13 runs given up to the Bluejays in the first three frames, leading to an 18-8 setback.

The loss dropped El Reno to 3-7 on the season and kept the Indians in the fifth-place spot in the league standings at 1-3. Guthrie improved to 8-1 in 5A-2 action and maintained its hold on the No.2 position.

The Indians, ranked 10th in Class 5A, were on the road against Duncan last week, dropping a 3-0 decision to the Demons, who are ranked 15th in the same poll.

EHS was slated to be home on Tuesday to play Chickasha.