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Despite having five more minutes of possession time, El Reno High School’s girls soccer team had its four-match winning streak halted last week with a 6-0 loss to Bishop McGuinness.

The match was for the outright lead in the District 5A-1 title chase as El Reno slipped to 4-1 in the standings and into sole possession of second place with two matches remaining.

The Indians are now 8-4 on the season and were slated to play a makeup road match with Guthrie before closing out district play against Guymon.

El Reno High School’s boys soccer team’s hopes to make the postseason will rest with its final match of the District 5A-1 slate against Guymon.

The Indians dropped a 4-0 road match to Bishop McGuinness last week, lowering the Indians league record to 3-3. Guymon comes into Memorial Stadium with the same mark as the pair are tied for the fourth and final playoff spot from the district.

El Reno fell to 4-9 on the season with the loss to the Irish.

Cold weather forced El Reno to postpone its duel with Kingfisher. The Indians will now host the Yellowjackets on Monday at the Legion Park courts.

Both Calumet and Union City High School’s baseball teams will head into the district round of the Class A playoffs with momentum at their backs after recent wins.

Calumet, ranked 16th in the state, will host the District 16 playoffs after improving to 14-4 on the season with an 11-5 tune-up win over Oklahoma Bible Academy.

The Chieftains welcome in both Binger-Oney and Oklahoma Christian Academy for the district-level playoffs.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Despite temperatures nearly 20 degrees below normal and wet playing conditions, El Reno High School’s girls golf team surpassed its season-low total for a second straight tournament.

Playing in the Putnam City North Invitational on the east layout at Lincoln Park Golf Course, El Reno carded a 426 effort, which was 17 strokes better than its previous best at the 2021 Suburban Conference Championship.

A week’s layoff did little to hurt the momentum of El Reno High School’s girls soccer team as the Indians remain unbeaten in league play with an 8-0 road victory over Del City.

El Reno went into Monday’s match with fellow unbeaten Bishop McGuinness with a 4-0 mark in District 5A-1 play. The Indians are tied with the Irish for the league lead and are 8-3 on the season.

Once thought to be out of postseason contention, El Reno High School’s boys soccer team has played itself back into the talk for the 2021 Class 5A playoffs.

El Reno defeated Del City last week 2-1 for its first back-to back-victories of the season. The Indians improved to 4-8 overall but more importantly, 3-2 in the District 5A-1 standings.

The top four teams make the playoffs and El Reno is now tied with Guymon for fourth place. The Tigers play at El Reno Friday night.

Much like the girls a few days earlier, El Reno High School’s two boys tennis players ran into stout competition at the 2021 Guthrie Invitational.

Xiven Wallin, playing No.1 singles, dropped straight set losses to Classen’s Mason Fair and Piedmont’s Bradley Carr. After a third-round bye, he fell 6-1/6-0 to Tulsa Edison’s Jackson Colliam in the 13th-place match.

El Reno High School’s baseball team went on the road over the weekend to play Chickasha in the U.S. 81 rivalry series.

The Chicks came away with an 8-0 win over EHS as the Indians suffered their second shutout loss in the past three games to slip to 12-13 on the season.

The Indians were slated to play a doubleheader on Monday at the Hub Reed Complex against District 5A-1 leader Carl Albert. El Reno is tied for third in the district with Guthrie at 8-2.

Josh Harrel picked up his second win in his last three starts over the weekend to help Redlands Community College’s baseball team avoid a sweep against Carl Albert State College.

The Vikings took the first three games of the series by scores of 14-7/13-3/6-4 but could not crack the scoreboard against Harrel in a 10-0 win by the Cougars.

Redlands improved to 10-27 on the season and 3-13 in Division 2 of the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference standings.