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A nagging rash of injuries has forced Redlands Community College women’s soccer team to cancel a planned home match this week against region front-runner Seminole State College.

“We were only going to have nine players available so we had to cancel,” said Redlands head coach Beau Richmond.

Richmond hopes to get several players back off the injury list before Friday’s road trip to Rose State College and Sunday’s home match with Connors State College.

MIDWEST CITY – After breaking down pre-game film on defending champion Carl Albert, El Reno High School head coach Russell Cook had a one-sentence response to sum up the Titans.

“One of the best teams I’ve ever seen,” said Cook.

Facing the top-ranked team in Class 5A in person did little to change his mind.

Carl Albert scored on eight of nine possessions and added a touchdown from its special teams and defense en route to a 70-0 win over the Indians in District 5A-2 play.

El Reno High School’s freshman volleyball team recently won the 2024 Suburban Junior High Conference Tournament.

The team went 10-1 for the season.

Building momentum toward the upcoming postseason, El Reno High School’s volleyball team won its second Suburban Conference outing of the season with a 3-0 home decision over the Guthrie Bluejays.

The 25-21/25-15/25-18 victory moved El Reno to 12-16 for the season and 2-3 in the seven-team Suburban Conference standings with a home match with Del City remaining.

El Reno led the Bluejays in most key statistics but posted 15 fewer unforced errors.

The Indians served at 89 percent on the night and led in ace serves by a 10-8 margin.

CALUMET – The top-ranked team in the polls blasted its way back into the Class B Fall State Baseball Championships as Calumet High School won the Region 1 Championship with a staggering batting average.

The Chieftains hit .525 with 10 extra base hits in wins over Vici (24-6) and ninth-ranked Caney (14-0) to punch its third straight trip to the fall classic and fourth in school history.

Redlands returns home this week to face Seminole State College after closing out a four-match road swing with losses to Eastern Oklahoma (1-0) and Northern Oklahoma of Enid (3-0).

Unforced errors continue to plague El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team as the Indians wrapped up their home schedule with back-to-back losses to finish up the home portion of their 2024 schedule.

The Indians dropped an 8-1 game to Weatherford, losing the season series to the Eagles, before having a rally cut short in an 8-6 loss to Bridge Creek.

El Reno slipped to 13-12 on the season with the setbacks and will hit the road for the last two games before opening the Class 5A playoffs.

With more than 400 yards of offense last week, El Reno surpased 1,000 yards for the season.

Antawan Grayson (30) moved up to the third leading rusher behind Lathen Pruitt (25) and Elijah Fisher (6).

Xavier Elledge (55) is second in tackles.

It was a personal best day at two different meets for El Reno High School’s cross country team, including what is believed to be a school-record showing by Ethan Brooks.

Running in the prestigious 35th Chile Pepper Cross Country Festival in Fayetteville, Ark., Brooks ran the course at Agri Park in 16 minutes, 26 seconds to set what is thought to be the fastest 5-kilometer (3.1 mile) time in El Reno school history.

Brooks was one of 83 freshmen in the field of 731 runners for the multi-day Boys “El Caliente” Division.

Serving off large chunks of points in all three games, El Reno High School’s volleyball team snapped a five-match losing streak with a 3-0 victory over Hennessey.

The 25-8/25-14/25-14 win lifted El Reno to 11-16 on the season.

“We needed this win,” said El Reno head coach Kristen Koehler.

In game one, Mary Gonzalez served up 10 straight points, followed by Emercyn Looper with nine and Brantlie Charmasson with four points.

The trend carried over into game two as Looper had a string of eight points and Charmasson with four.