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Ashanti Lewis logged her first hat trick of the season as Redlands Community College women’s soccer team kicked off the 2025 season with a 5-0 shutout of Pratt Community College.

The Cougars scored the first goal at the 27:11 mark of the first half when Lewis made a sliding kick after getting caught up in traffic. It was the team’s fifth shot of the half.

Lewis scored an unassisted goal before Jordan Willeford made it a 3-0 score. Lewis then completed the hat trick with a goal off an assist by Aracely Marinez.

One bad inning kept El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team out of the win column in its District 5A-2 opener last week against Guthrie.

The Bluejays scored seven runs in the fifth inning en route to an 11-6 victory over El Reno.

The loss dropped the Indians to 2-7 on the season.

El Reno was its own worst enemy in the frame as Guthrie had just three hits but was aided by four errors by the Indians defense and a hit batsman.

In the other six innings, EHS outscored Guthrie 6-4.

The teams combined for 14 errors, eight of those by El Reno.

Though it wasn’t pretty according to head coach Bri Michalicka, El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team snapped a three-game losing streak last week with a 7-6 win over Putnam City North in extra innings.

The win pushed El Reno to 2-6 overall. The game with the Panthers was the fifth against a Class 6A team to open the season, with the Indians now at 1-5 in those games.

El Reno High School’s volleyball team suffered its second straight loss with a 3-1 road setback to Tecumseh.

The Indians won the third game 28-26 but lost the others by scores of 25-14/25-22 and 25-16.

The setback dropped El Reno to 5-3 on the season.

El Reno served at 97.5 percent, 10 percentage points higher than the Savages, but had only five aces compared to 19 for Tecumseh.

Radley Miller led with two aces, while Daily Maples, Jaida Richardson and Brantlie Charmasson had one ace each.

Union City High School’s fast-pitch softball team is one of the hottest teams of late in the win column and at the plate.

The Tigers grabbed the No.17 spot in the first Class A poll of the season by winning eight of their last 10 games to move to 8-3 overall.

Union City was runner-up in the Olustee-Eldorado tournament with a 6-1 record, beating Granfield (18-1), Fletcher (13-3), Burns Flat-Dill City (13-0), Lawton (10-3), Apache (10-6) and Sayre (8-1).

Union City lost 10-1 to Mangum in the finals.

Union City High School’s baseball team battled through a rough seven-game slate over three days to take the runner-up hardware in the recent Fletcher Wooden Bat Tournament.

The Tigers posted a 6-1 record to improve to 7-3 for the fall season. The wins were over Santa Fe South (11-1), Fletcher (6-1), Sterling (4-3/6-3), Navajo (5-0) and Big Pasture (22-1). 

The loss was to Fletcher by a 3-2 margin.

Nineteen of the team’s 55 hits for the tourney went for extra bases, led by a triple from Trysdan Huffines.

While it will be heavily scripted, fans and opposing teams wanting to get an early glimpse of El Reno High School’s football team will have their one and only chance Friday night.

El Reno will hold its only preseason scrimmage at Memorial Stadium against Elk City.

Junior high teams will play at 5:30 p.m. Varsity squads will follow around 6:30 p.m.

Price for admission will be either towels or a bottle of laundry soap to be used by the football program this season.

OKLAHOMA CITY - When 12 teams pulled out of the El Reno tournament in favor of the famed Hall of Fame Fast Pitch Softball Festival, Indians head coach Bri Michalicka was forced to cancel her event and follow.

What her team found waiting was a tough Class 6A-dominated pool and a 1-3 record.

“There were some good quality 6A teams there but we did not execute well.

“We did not play up to our level,” said Michalicka.

El Reno defeated Lawton MacArthur (11-0) but dropped games to 6A squads Edmond Memorial (10-5), Stillwater (10-1) and Yukon’s junior varsity (5-4).

In one of its best finishes in recent years, El Reno High School’s volleyball team placed second in its own tournament following a 25-16/26-24 loss to Duncan in the Gold Bracket finals.

The loss snapped a four-match win streak for El Reno after a non-tourney win over Capitol Hill (3-0) and pool play wins over Guymon (2-0), Guthrie (2-1) and Chickasha (2-0).

El Reno is now 4-2 on the season.

The team recorded 45 aces over the five-match run, led by Radley Miller with 14 aces, 11 from Brantlie Charmasson, 10 by Deyana Cookston and six by Jaida Richardson.

Yukon outscored El Reno High School’s softball team 8-2 over the final two and a half innings as the Millers broke a 5-all tie and pulled out a 13-7 victory over the Indians.

The loss dropped El Reno to 0-2 on the season following a 9-1 road setback a day earlier to Enid.

El Reno tied the game with the Millers with a five-run effort in the fifth inning. Key hits in the comeback were a two-run double by Kyla Killingsworth and a follow-up two-bagger by Taylor Acosta, which plated a run.