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ER girls shoot low round

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El Reno High School’s girls golf team posted its third-straight sub-400 round en route to an eighth-place finish in the 2026 Tecumseh Invitational.

Playing at Firelake Golf Course, El Reno shot a season-low 366 and was the third best Class 5A team behind runner-up Ada (311) and fourth-place Duncan (320).

Norman North won the team title with a 285, while Stillwater (313), Perkins-Tryon (333), Elk City (336) and Tishomingo (344) beat out El Reno.

RCC wins three in a row

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Redlands Community College women’s golf team pulled out a two-stroke win over Barton College to grab the team title at the 2026 Conquistador Classic.

The Cougars, winners of three straight tournaments, carded a 36-hole total of 622 (304-318) at the Mariah Hills Golf Club in Dodge City, Kan. Barton (624) was followed by Garden City (639), Dodge City (659) and Friends University (693) to round out the top five.

Ivanna Gerez won the individual medalist title at the Conquistador Classic in Kansas

Davis comes to El Reno with high praise, strong resume

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After sorting through some 50 resumes from seven different states, Rodney Haydon brought back only one candidate for a second interview to become El Reno High School’s next head coach for boys basketball.

“He was my only second interview and the only one I offered the job to,” said Haydon.

Joshua Davis had two strong interviews with Rodney Haydon

WIlliams passes 400 K mark, Calumet snaps two-game slide

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Union City High School senior Aiden Williams joined an elite group of statewide pitchers to crack the 400-career strikeout list after no-hitting Class B’s sixth-ranked Moss.

The no-hitter, his fourth of the season, came in the finals of the 2026 Moss Pirates Classic. The right-hander went seven full innings, fanning 12 batters and allowing four walks. He threw 109 pitches, 58 of those strikes.

Williams’ win, his seventh of the spring, was preceded with mound victories by Mason Williams and Dylan Delay.

Ludy Griggs and Aiden Williams hold a baseball and the Moss trophy

RCC seeks wins to lock down third in West bid

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With eight games left in NJCAA Region 2, Division II play, Redlands Community College’s baseball team needs victories in order to secure a berth in the postseason tourney.

The Cougars head into a four-game set with West Division leader Murray State with a 17-26 overall record and an 8-8 mark in the West standings, which is currently third.

Redlands lost a non-division game to Rose State (16-6) after splitting a West series with the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain. The wins over the Bucks were by scores of 12-10 and 7-4 and the losses, 15-14 and 11-4.

Brand Wilson follows through on a tag of a NEO base runner

McGuinness sweeps El Reno to retain District 5A-2 leads

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With one shot separating El Reno High School’s boys soccer team and Bishop McGuinness, the outcome came down to which team did the most with those scoring opportunities.

The Irish, with the wind at their backs, broke a scoreless halftime deadlock with two second-half penalty kicks en route to a 3-0 win over El Reno.

The Indians slipped to 6-3 on the season with their fifth straight shutout loss to McGuinness in the past six seasons by a 22-0 margin.

The three-goal difference tied the lowest score over that stretch.

Angel Zarate gets his neck and shoulders squeezed between the arms of two Bishop McGuinness players

El Reno girls soccer plays stout defense

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For more than 73 minutes, including the first 32:22 of the match, El Reno High School’s girls soccer team kept one of the state’s leading scoring teams off the scoreboard.

Unfortunately, Bishop McGuinness, which had 46 season goals coming into the match at Memorial Stadium, added three more in a shutout win over the Indians.

The 3-0 loss dropped El Reno to 3-6 on the season and 1-2 in the District 5A-2 standings. The Indians are tied with Guymon for fifth place but are one game out of third and two out of first.

Grisell Guzman clears the ball away from the Indians goal

Indians drop two in Tipton Classic

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Despite averaging six hits per game, El Reno High School’s baseball team could produce only nine runs over three games in the Midwest City bracket of the 2026 Bill Tipton Classic.

The offensive hurdles led to a 1-2 record, which dropped the Indians to an even .500 for the season at 11-11.

El Reno started off strong with a 7-5 win over Bishop McGuinness in a 10-inning thriller.

The Indians got a double by Garrett March in that frame, followed by four walks, two from Preston Ashford and Damien McKelvey with the bases loaded.

Austin Steffler slides down on his knees to get under the ball to make a catch

Distance runners, hurdlers lead EHS in Chickasha

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El Reno High School’s track teams continue to cut times and increase distances in the third outing of the 2026 season, the Chickasha Invitational.

The girls team was paced by its distance runners as freshman Raquel Seymour and junior Lilly Owen both trimmed over three seconds off times from the last meet in the 800-meter run.

Seymour was sixth with a time of two minutes and 39.26 seconds, while Owen (2:41.96) took ninth.

The pair placed in the top 10 of the 1,600-meter run, with Seymour (6:07.23) taking sixth and Owen (6:15.85) placing 10th.

ER golf teams head opposite directions, post top 10 finishes

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While playing on opposite sides of the state, El Reno High School’s golf teams turned in top 10 performances, including a season-low round for the boys squad.

The Indians took fifth in the Tecumseh Invitational played at the Firelake Golf Course, shooting a 317, five shots better than Class 6A Yukon. Tishomingo (302) won the event, followed by Newcastle (304), Byng (313) and Lone Grove (313).

Elaina Allen chips onto the green
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