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Posting wins in the first and last games, El Reno High School’s softball team emerged from the Shawnee tourney with a 2-2 record but more importantly, an offense hitting its stride.

El Reno improved to 3-6 on the season with wins over Woodward (11-1) and Del City (14-1).

Those were split by losses to Claremore (20-7) and Durant (4-3).

The Indians had 10 players log hits as the squad went 40-of-104 from the plate for a .385 average.

Six of those hits were doubles, two each from Chenoa White and C.C. Medders. Bailey Brothers and Maddie Moss had one each.

El Reno High School’s volleyball team, ranked No.11 in Class 5A, ran into an early-season rough patch with losses in three of five matches last week, including a 2-2 effort in the Community Christian School tourney.

The three setbacks came to ranked teams in Class 5A’s No.3 Carl Albert (2-0), Class 4A’s No.10 Cache (2-0) and Class 3A’s No.2 Community Christian (2-0).

The 2-0 wins were over Blanchard and CCS’ junior varsity in the tourney. The victories left El Reno with an 8-4 overall record.

CACHE – Execution was the main word taken from Friday night's 2021 season opener for El Reno High School's football team.

Cache had it, El Reno struggled to find it.

El Reno suffered a 12-6 loss to the Bulldogs after the Indians were held to under 100 yards of total offense and averaged less than two yards per play.

On the opposite side, Cache put more than 250 yards of offense with a 4.7 yards per snap average.

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El Reno High School’s softball team jumped out to a 2-0 lead over Piedmont last week before giving up 13 unanswered runs in a 13-2 defeat to the Wildcats.

The loss gave Piedmont the regular-season series sweep as the Wildcats retained the top spot in the District 5A-2 standings at 6-0.

Meanwhile, El Reno slipped to fourth in the league at 1-2 behind Guthrie (3-0) and Guymon (2-0).

El Reno is now 1-4 on the season.

Fueled by a top 20 finish by Cole Strong, El Reno High School’s cross country team kicked off the 2021 season at the Sand Plum Invitational hosted by Weatherford.

The El Reno boys placed fifth out of 10 teams with an overall score of 145, edging out Kingfisher (147) by two points and Carnegie (150) by five. Team scores come from the point value attached to the finish of the top five runners from each school. The lowest score wins the meet.

An eight-run second inning ignited a 14-2 home win over Verden last week as Union City High School’s softball team found its way back into the win column.

The Tigers improved to 6-5 on the season with the Verden victory and a 14-1 decision over Oklahoma Christian Academy.

The wins snapped a three-game losing streak for Union City which included losses to Luther (8-1) and Jones (4-3) in the Cashion tourney.

El Reno, ranked 10th in Class 5A and 6-1 on the year, was slated to play at No.3 Carl Albert on Thursday, before entering the Community Christian School tourney over the weekend.

Calumet High School’s baseball team was held to a single win in three recent outings, dropping the Chieftains to 3-4 on the fall season.

Tyler Tignor’s team defeated Lomega 10-1 before suffering losses to Class A’s No.17 Arapaho-Butler (10-0) and Drummond (11-2).

Calumet hit .328 (18-of-61) over the three games but had just two extra base hits, a two-run homer by Jaxon Olive and a double by Caleb Meschberger.

Olive went 4-of-9 (.444) for the set and drove in four runs.

Redlands Community College’s soccer team dropped its 2021 season opener recently, coming out on the short end of a 6-0 road score at the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain.

The Cougars had just three shots in the loss, one each from Marissa Kirkendall, Yalexy Rodriguez and Delia Palmer.

Kalie Winstead was in goal for the Cougars and faced 24 shots on goal by the Bucks, giving up all six goals but logging 18 saves.

Redlands is on the road for its first seven matches and will make its 2021 home debut Sept. 19 against Northern Oklahoma College.