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EDMOND – Freshman Ethan Brooks and the rest of the El Reno High School cross country teams got an early look at the competition for the upcoming regional and state meets.

Running in the Class 5A division of the Edmond Santa Fe Pre-State Meet, Brooks placed fifth overall and was one of two medalists for El Reno.

“He said early on that he was having a bad race. Still pretty good for a bad one,” said El Reno head coach Anthony Klipp.

The other medalist was senior Emmary Elizondo, placing 22nd overall. 

El Reno High School’s volleyball team will play its final five regular-season matches at home after wrapping up a grueling seven-match road swing with a 3-2 loss at Noble.

El Reno won the first (25-22) and third (25-17) games over the Bears but dropped the other three by a combined 13 points, including a 15-7 loss in the fifth set.

It was the second straight five-game loss for El Reno, which fell to 10-14 on the season and 1-6 on the recent road trip. The Indians slipped to 0-4 in the Suburban Conference standings with the Noble loss.

Redlands Community College women’s golf team opened up its fall schedule with a fifth-place effort in the 2024 Oklahoma Women’s Intercollegiate.

Played on the Lawton Country Club Course, Redlands carded a 638 (317-321) tally, which was 16 strokes back of the University of Texas at Dallas (622).

Cameron (593) won the event, followed by Angelo State (611) and Northwestern Oklahoma State (613).

Redlands was scheduled to open a three-match road swing Sunday at the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain.

Making a late push for one of the top two spots in the district standings and hosting rights for the regional round of the playoffs, El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team defeated Noble 10-6 last week.

The Bears, who defeated El Reno six days earlier, entered the game in the second spot in the District 5A-1 standings. The Indians win edged EHS closer to that spot at 7-3 with two games left in the league hunt – road games at Piedmont and Carl Albert.

El Reno is off this week and will open district play at home Sept. 27 against Altus.

El Reno High School freshman Ethan Brooks continued his assault on breaking the 16-minute barrier, running the 5-kilometer course at the 2024 Choctaw Invitational just 33 seconds shy of that feat.

Brooks posted a time of 16 minutes, 33.58 seconds to take first place over Yukon senior Austin Bucher, who posted a time of 16:50. They were the only runners in the field to break the 17-minute mark for the 3.1-mile course.

Road matches continue to be a tough path to the win column for El Reno High School’s volleyball team as the Indians dropped a close 3-2 match to state-ranked Santa Fe South.

El Reno won games two (25-10) and four (25-22) but lost the other three by a combined 17 points – including a 15-11 margin in the fifth-game tiebreaker.

The loss to the St. Bernards, ranked No.16 in Class 5A, left El Reno with a 10-13 overall record.

The Indians were slated to wrap up their current seven-match road swing at Noble, taking a 1-5 record over the stretch into the match with the Bears.

After having a win streak snapped with a tourney loss to cross-county rival Okarche, Calumet High School’s baseball team has strung together three straight victories.

The Chieftains improve to 19-3 on the fall with home wins over Lookeba-Sickles (8-0) and Arapaho-Butler (9-3). Those victories came on the heels of a 2-0 win over the host of the Amber-Pocasset (No.5/A) Invitational.

Calumet went 2-1 in the event, losing to Class A’s third-ranked Okarche (2-1) in the semifinals in extra innings. The Chieftains defeated Binger-Oney (No.18/A) 10-5 to open the tourney.

Union City and Calumet High School’s fast-pitch softball teams have fallen on hard luck in recent games, each posting back-to-back losses.

The Tigers slipped to 15-10 on the season with a cross-county rivalry loss to Okarche (9-4), followed by another home loss to Class A’s 19th-ranked Shattuck by a 12-4 tally.

Union City went 15-of-49 (.306) from the plate for the two games with only two extra base hits, a double and a triple off the bat of Jaidyn Grandstaff, who led all UCHS batters with three hits off a .500 average.