Sports

While an injury cut short his senior year, El Reno High School’s Jay Gililland had already caught the eye of several college scouts and recently signed to play college basketball with East Central University in Ada.  

Surrounded by teammates and coaches, Calumet High School senior Kaleb Melvin, seated, signed a national letter of intent to play baseball next year for Murray State College in Tishomingo. Calumet head coach Tyler Tignor said Melvin is getting a full ride scholarship from the Aggies.

While finding some success in game scores, El Reno High School’s two entries in the Class 5A West Region III Championships fell short of winning the matches needed to make state.

It was a tough end to the season for two El Reno High School golfers as Dallon Biswell and Bryan Richardson competed in the marathon Class 5A Boys State Golf Championships. Playing the Meadowbrook Country Club Course in Tulsa, the two placed low in the final individual medalist standings.

Closing out the COVID-19 delayed 2020 season, Redlands Community College’s soccer team failed to qualify for the NJCAA Region 2 postseason tournament. The Cougars closed out the year on an 11-match losing streak after dropping a 5-1 home match to the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain.

Redlands Community College’s baseball team hit four home runs in the final game of the regular season to avoid a sweep at the hands of Northern Oklahoma College of Enid with a 22-8 victory.

Charles Martin and three other men were wing foiling on the water thanks to a strong north wind. The men use surfboards that are equipped with a foil on the bottom that allows, with the help of the wing-type sail, to rise out of the water.

OKLAHOMA CITY – El Reno’s first girls doubles team to make the final tournament of the season in more than five years fell into the tough side of the bracket at the 2021 Oklahoma High School Girls State Tennis Championship.

NOBLE – While El Reno High School did not emerge the winner of the Class 5A, West Region 1 Baseball Championship, it will go down as one of the more memorable postseasons for the Indians. El Reno posted a 1-2 record, beating Southeast 16-0, to close the season with a 15-20 record.

Nerves may have played a part in the outcome for El Reno High School’s two entries in the 2021 Class 5A Girls State Golf Championship. Junior Shayne Castrop and sophomore Berkley Smith were making their first-ever appearance at state, playing the Chickasaw Point Golf Club Course in Kingston.