Calumet High School’s pitching staff showed a little vulnerability against some Class 4A hitters over the weekend in the 2024 I-40 Classic as the Chieftains posted a 2-2 record. The top-ranked team in Class B moved to 7-3 on the spring with the split, beating Weatherford (11-3) and Clinton (10-0).
The losses came to Tuttle (7-5) and Elk City (9-4) after Calumet squandered a 4-1 lead.
Calumet and Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball teams found themselves on opposite ends of the win-loss spectrum at the close of play for March.
The Chieftains snapped a seven-game losing streak with a victory over Geary (5-4) and backed it up with wins over Corn Bible Academy (20-3) and Cement (10-0).
The three-game win streak moved Calumet to 4-7 for the spring.
Calumet went 28-of-55 (.509) from the plate over the three-game span, getting three doubles from Tina Ortiz. Mattie Beaver, Paige Miller, Lily Winegeart and Payton Barnes added one double each.
El Reno High School pitchers Gavin Tinsley and Davin Shamblin dominated Guymon from the mound last week as the Indians remain unbeaten in District 5A-1 with a home sweep of the Tigers.
The games were moved from Guymon to the Hub Reed Complex due to winter weather in the panhandle.
El Reno took the first game of the series 10-0 and backed it up with a 6-1 win for its third league sweep. El Reno is now 6-0 in the league standings and tied for first with Carl Albert, Guthrie and Noble.
The Indians have won four of their last five games to move to 9-2 on the year.
Paced by three of its top five bags shooting under 100, El Reno High School’s boys golf team placed eighth out of 22 teams at the 2024 Sand Springs Invitational.
The Indians carded a 366 on the Canyons at Black Jack Ridge, a 6,133-yard, par-71 course. Broken Arrow won the event with a 309, followed by Owasso (318), Poteau (325), Broken Arrow JV (334), Sand Springs (334), Enid (335) and Casady (342) ahead of El Reno.
The Indians bested Muskogee by three strokes and Regent Prep and Ponca City by four shots.
El Reno High School’s soccer teams dropped down a classification last week to face Chickasha as the two schools renewed the U.S. 81 Battle on the pitch.
The Fighting Chicks got the upper hand as the girls snapped El Reno’s two-match win streak with a 5-0 shutout.
The non-district loss dropped the Indians to 2-2 on the season.
The El Reno boys suffered their third straight loss, a 6-1 decision, to slip to 2-4 on the season.
The Indians goal was by Josh Gonzalez on his lone shot of the match.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Union City High School’s baseball team warmed up from the frigid temperatures at Dolese Park and a 4-2 deficit to score 13 unanswered runs to defeat Southwest Covenant 15-4.
Seven of those runs came in the third inning as the Tigers improved to 9-1 on the season with their seventh straight win.
Union City went 6-of-16 (.375) from the plate and took advantage of eight walks in the rally. Carson Biffle led the offense with a 2-for-3 effort with a pair of doubles leading to three scores and three runs batted in. Brycen Bilyea added a double and two ribbies.
Battling cold weather and another field of four-year programs, Redlands Community College women’s golf team placed 13th last week at the 2024 Hardscrabble Invitational.
Played on the par-70 Hardscrabble Country Club in Fort Smith, Ark., Redlands carded a 65-over, 345 team score for the 18-hole event. It was shorted from 36 holes to a one-day event due to weather.
For a team that was considered to be in a rebuilding phase, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team turned out to be a force to be taken seriously during District 5A-1 play.
The Indians went 9-5 in league play for fourth place, but three of those five losses were against Class 5A state semifinalists Carl Albert and Crossings Christian.
Those five losses were by a combined 51 points, with three of those games being single-digit setbacks.
Both EHS teams will be on the road at Chickasha and Noble for the Rose Rock Invitational.
El Reno is off to a 7-2 start this spring, but had the week of spring break off.
Keith Hill’s team returns to action Monday at Guymon for a District 5A-1 doubleheader with the Tigers.
El Reno is 4-0 in league play and tied with Carl Albert, Noble and Guthrie for the lead.
