After scoring just two runs in the first two games earlier this summer with Heritage Hall, El Reno High School’s baseball team put up 10 runs against the Chargers but lost 9-4 and tied 6-all.
Catcher Gabe Compton reaches up to snag a throw to the plate as a runner slides in.
(Tribune photographer/Glen Miller)
El Reno had 56 campers attend the three-day EHS Basketball Camp. It was one of several youth clinics restarted this summer after the ease of COVID-19 restrictions.
See upcoming editions for photos from baseball and volleyball camps.
Following six straight road games to kick off the season, El Reno High School’s summer baseball team jumped back into Red Dirt League action last week, splitting home games with Putnam City West and tying Destiny Christian.
The Indians are now 5-5 overall and 3-5 in the RDL Wooden Bat Division after beating the Patriots 6-1 in the series opener before dropping the nightcap 13-12. El Reno tied Destiny Christian 2-2 before losing the second game by a 12-4 score.
El Reno High School graduate Ryan Island, seated center, signed a national letter of intent recently to play basketball for Haskell Indian Nations University located in Lawrence, Kan.
He is the second player off El Reno’s program to sign with a college team in the sport.
El Reno High School’s Dailey Jennings earned All-American status earlier this month wrestling for Team Oklahoma at the 2021 USA Wrestling 16-and-under National Duals.
Formerly known as the Cadet National Duals, the event was held in Westfield, Ind.
Jennings earned the national honor in Greco-Roman for the Oklahoma Outlaws Blue Squad, which won Pool C with a 49-27 win over Team Idaho. The squad would be the national runner-up after losing a 48-26 Gold-Silver Championship match to Team Minnesota.
After a year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, El Reno began hosting youth summer sports camps.
The EHS girls basketball program was first up with 56 campers, both boys and girls, taking part in a three-day camp.
The Second Annual Canadian Valley Chapter of Quail Forever Fundraising Banquet will be held at the Mustang Community Center on Friday, June 25.
The event starts at 5:30 p.m. featuring guest speaker Lacey Swope, meteorologist for an Oklahoma City television station.
There will be a catered dinner, live auction, raffles and multiple gun drawings, with proceeds to benefit local efforts for bettering wildlife habitat with a special focus on the pastime of quail and quail hunting.
OKLAHOMA CITY – With a large number of new players on the varsity roster this summer, El Reno head coach Keith Hill went looking for extra games to get added playing time.
Hill was able to pick up two games outside of Red Dirt League play last week against Capitol Hill, with El Reno defeating the Red Wolves 11-0 and 5-0.
El Reno improved to 3-3 on the summer season with the sweep. The Indians are still 1-3 in Red Dirt League play.
In an effort to get more competitive against upper-tier opponents, El Reno High School girls basketball coach Jennifer Douglas has opted to put her players up against some of the best teams in the state this summer.
So far the move has paid off.
In its first summer outing, El Reno posted a 5-3 record in the Mustang Lady Broncos Summer League against a predominant Class 6A schedule.
It wasn’t long after he first picked up a glove and started throwing a baseball around that Rhett Kouba dreamed of one day playing on the biggest stage in college baseball – the NCAA College World Series.
Now the El Reno native is two games away from becoming what is believed to be the first EHS graduate to ever play in the CWS.
“It’s been a dream of mine since I was a little kid. We would watch the games on television and I can recall seeing so many great games and all the great players that made it there. Being this close to making it myself is unreal,” said Kouba.
