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One day after sweeping Capitol Hill in district play, El Reno High School’s softball team split two games in the 2021 Dale Festival against a pair of ranked teams.

El Reno improved to 9-14 on the season after beating Class B’s ninth-ranked Kremlin-Hillsdale (4-0) in the first game of the festival before falling 12-0 to Class A’s sixth-ranked Shattuck.

For the two festival games, El Reno went 10-of-38 from the plate for a .263 team batting average. C.C. Medders (.400), Chenoa White (.400) and Kira Taber (.333) led the team with two hits each.

El Reno High School’s cross country team had a male-only look over the weekend with no female runners taking part in the Eighth Annual Mike Driskill Turkey Creek Classic.

The boys team, running the 5-kilometer (3.1-mile course) at Turkey Creek Golf Course in Hennessey, posted a seventh-place finish with an average time of 21 minutes and five seconds and an overall time of 1:45:25.

Jacob Long led El Reno with a time of 19:35 to place 15th overall. Cole Strong was close behind in 19th place with a time of 20:02.

The Indians had the weekend off but were slated to host Santa Fe South Charter School in a nonconference match Tuesday night at Jenks Simmons Field House.

Etta Dale Junior High’s seventh-grade football team improved to 3-0 on the season last week with a 44-30 win over Del City.

The Indians are now 2-0 in Suburban Conference action after a recent 44-12 win over Noble. The other victory was a 34-16 decision over Elk City.

Kaleb Blackwolf gave El Reno an early lead in the win over the Eagles, returning the opening kickoff for a touchdown. He scored several in the game, including one in the fourth period to cap off the Indians scoring.

Anton Grayson scored a touchdown and had several 2-point conversion runs.

Just a day after earning its first Suburban Conference win of the season, El Reno High School’s volleyball team went on the road to drop a 3-0 match to Class 5A’s top-ranked Lawton MacArthur.

The 25-17/25-15-25-13 loss, coupled with a 3-1 come-from-behind win over Shawnee (23-25/25-14/25-21/25-22), leaves El Reno with a 12-8 record on the year.

The Indians slipped a spot to 11th in the latest Class 5A poll and are 1-1 in the Suburban Conference standings.

El Reno High School’s softball team dropped its third doubleheader series in District 5A-2 play last week as the Guthrie Bluejays completed a sweep of the Indians with a narrow 5-3 win.

The loss to the Bluejays comes on the heels of an 11-10 win over third-place Noble as El Reno moved to 2-6 in the 5A-2 standings and 6-13 on the season. The Indians are currently at sixth place in the district.

In the loss to Guthrie, El Reno logged seven hits, with Chenoa White going 3-for-3. Kira Taber, Bailey Brothers, Maddie Moss and Julie Holdcraft added singles.

Bouncing back from a three-run home loss to Class A’s 20th-ranked Ninnekah, Union City High School’s softball team ripped off two lopsided wins over Calumet and Geary.

The Tigers lost 10-7 to the Owls before sweeping the season series with Calumet by a 19-1 score. Union City then defeated Geary 19-0 to improve to 13-9 on the season.

Cody Schmidt’s team went 25-of-56 (.446) from the plate for the three-game set, getting two doubles each from Makinzie and Makenna DeLong. Alexis Archer and Oceanna Schranz added one double each.

After giving up two runs in the top of the first inning, Union City High School’s baseball team went on a 7-1 run to rally past Geronimo for a 7-3 victory.

The Tigers were slated to play Ninnekah, but the Owls were in quarantine for COVID-19 issues. The win over Geronimo lifted Union City to 10-6 on the season heading into its own wooden bat tournament this weekend.

Union City went 7-of-26 from the plate (.269) in the win with Corbin McKinney going 3-for-3 with a pair of runs scored. J.D. Riley was 2-for-3 with a pair of runs batted in.

Redlands Community College’s cross country team traveled to Lawton recently to compete in the 2021 Cameron University Aggie Duals, with the men’s team placing sixth overall.

The Cougars posted an overall time of 2 hours, 33 minutes and 58 seconds over the 8,000-meter course, for an average time of 30:47.56.

Braden Swearingen had the fastest time for Redlands at 29:35 to place 35th overall.

He was followed by teammates Kyle Zielinski (29:40) in 36th place and Liam Johnson (29:46) in 37th place.

El Reno High School’s softball team had another strong outing at the plate in the 2021 Bixby Invitational over the weekend, but struggled against several Class 6A schools to put runs on the scoreboard.

The Indians slipped to 5-12 on the season after posting a 2-3 record in the event. El Reno defeated Muldrow, the District 4A-8 leader, 10-3.

Kylee Webb’s team defeated Tulsa Union 14-13. The Redskins are the fourth-ranked team in Class 6A-4.