Sports

In an odd set of brackets that included pool play and round-robin matches, El Reno High School’s tennis teams both took fifth place at the 2026 Suburban Conference Championships.

In girls action, Serenity Billings was sixth at No.1 singles after losing a close 6-3/6-4 match to Shawnee’s Judah Douglas for fifth.

The No.1 doubles team of Emma Resendiz and Cali Mayo dropped two matches, while the No.2 doubles pair of April Casanova and Melany Mendoza went 1-1 after beating Del City 3-6/6-4/10-6.

With one of their best outings of the season, El Reno High School’s track teams posted 16 top 10 efforts at the 2026 Elk City Classic, resulting in a pair of seventh-place team finishes.

The girls took seventh with a team-high 42 points, led by distance runners Lilly Owen and Raquel Seymour. In the 800-meter run, Owen earned fourth place with a time of two minutes and 42.67 seconds, while Seymour was fifth at 2:44.71.

They flipped finishes in the 1,600 meters, with Seymour (6:13.88) taking third and Owen (6:21.38) fifth place.

MIDWEST CITY – After its top five golfers gave up 33 strokes to par over the opening five holes of the 2026 Carl Albert Invitational, El Reno High School’s boys golf team settled down to post a 12th-place finish in a stacked field.

The event also served as the 2026 Suburban Conference Boys Championship as six of the teams were in the field.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.