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While the score was not the best of the season, El Reno High School’s girls golf team got the end result it was seeking – a spot in the 2025 Class 5A Girls State Golf Championships.

Playing in the 5A regional at Oak Hills Golf and Country Club in Ada, El Reno carded a 383 to place fourth and punched a ticket to state.

The top six teams in the two regionals move on to the championship to be played May 5-6 at Lincoln Park in Oklahoma City.

El Reno High School’s boys golf team now knows the score range it will need to shoot in order to make state following a seventh-place finish at the 2025 Class 5A Boys Preview.

The Indians, ranked 16th in the state, carded a 330 on the Meadowlake Golf Course layout in Enid, site of the upcoming 36-hole regional tournament.

Tulsa Bishop Kelley won the event with a 296, followed by two Carl Albert squads (300/310).

Classen SAS (311), Guthrie (314) and Newcastle (318) finished ahead of El Reno.

CALUMET – Twelve hits over two games was enough offense to carry Calumet High School’s baseball team to its fifth straight spring district title and a step closer to the state tourney.

Calumet, ranked second in the state, won the Class B, District 2 Championship by sweeping the Waynoka Railroaders by scores of 9-0 and 12-0 to improve to 13-7-1 on the season.

OKARCHE – Ava Meier hit a walk-off double to score Harper White as Okarche High School’s slow-pitch softball team completed a sweep of the Canadian County small schools with a 5-4 win over Calumet.

Okarche, ranked No.17 in Class 3A, moved to 13-8 on the year, while Calumet slipped to 8-10.

The Chieftains tied the game in the top of the seventh when Randy Upchego doubled and scored on a groundout by Jacks Bates.

Redlands Community College’s baseball team went into a four-game series with Murray State with a chance of making the field for the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 Championships.

The Cougars are 26-24 on the season and 5-15 in the regional standings after splitting a series with Carl Albert and beating Western Oklahoma (21-11). Redlands’ wins over the Vikings were by scores of 14-10 and 9-7 and the losses were 6-3 and 5-2.

Redlands went 57-of-164 (.348) from the plate with 11 doubles.

Despite two home runs from junior Mason Fulton, El Reno High School’s baseball team was unable to break free from a recent losing streak following a 15-5 home setback to Weatherford.

El Reno falls to 12-8-2 overall with its fourth straight loss.

With Davin Shamblin on board with a single, Fulton hit his second home run of the season with a blast over the wall in left center field in the bottom of the first.

Gavin Tinsley and Dawson Davidson followed with walks before Blake Bailey doubled off the wall to drive in a run and tie the score at 3-all.

Winning the District 5A-2 Championship got a little tougher for El Reno High School’s girls soccer team following last week’s 7-2 loss to Bishop McGuinness.

The road setback snapped a four-match win streak for El Reno and dropped the Indians from a first-place tie with the Irish to alone in third place with a 4-1 record.

McGuinness leads the league at 5-0, followed by Carl Albert at 5-1 and the Indians, who take a 6-5 overall record into home matches this week with Del City and the Titans.

Haven Fleenor and Conley Knapp scored the goals for El Reno.

El Reno High School’s boys soccer team dropped into a tie for sixth place in the District 5A-2 standings with a 5-0 road loss to league-leader Bishop McGuinness.

The Indians, who were outshot 49-0 by the Irish, slipped to 4-7 on the season and 1-4 in the league standings.

El Reno is tied with Western Heights but owns the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Jets.

El Reno goalkeeper Aldo De la Torre faced all 49 shots, with 28 on target. He allowed the five goals but logged 14 saves, one of those a penalty kick.

Freshman Radley Miller placed fourth as an individual medalist to pace El Reno High School’s girls golf team to a third-place finish at the 2025 Carl Albert Invitational.

Class 5A’s top-ranked Carl Albert won the team title with a 324, while No. 7 Lawton MacArthur carded a 357 and third-ranked El Reno a 358. Bixby (369) and Oklahoma Christian School (370) rounded out the top five.

The event also served as the 2025 Suburban Conference Championships, with the Titans grabbing the team title and El Reno as runner-up. Guthrie (375) placed third.

Wind and tricky greens on the south course at Earlywine took its toll on El Reno High School’s boys golf team, which placed 10th at the 2025 Tuttle Tigers Invitational.

El Reno carded a 350 - the third best score among Class 5A teams entered - but left the Indians 54 strokes behind winner Crossings Christian (296) and 24 shots out of the top five.

Baylor Pearson led the team for a second straight tourney with an 82 to place the junior in a tie for 22nd in the individual medalist chase.

Jacen Bear shot an 83, which left him in a tie for 26th.