August 2020

El Reno High School’s football team will be wearing a new helmet logo design for the 2020 season. One side of the helmet will have a logo of the state of Oklahoma with the locking ER design. A star can be found where the city falls on the state map.

El Reno High School’s softball team jumped back into the win column last week with a doubleheader sweep of Santa Fe South in District 5A-1 play at the Adams Park North complex. The Indians improved to 5-4 on the season with victories of 17-1 and 18-1 over the St. Bernards.

El Reno High School’s cross country team kicked off the 2020 season recently at the Weatherford Sand Plum Invitational. In the girls division, running the mile course at Radar Park, Alexis Lively took 78th place with a time of eight minutes and 22 seconds.

Snapping a four-game losing streak, Union City High School’s softball team has quietly put together a four-game winning streak to edge past .500 for the season.

Fueled by six doubles and a triple, Union City High School’s baseball team defeated Verden last week 12-4 to improve to 5-2 on the fall season. The win came off the heels of a 9-1 decision over Dover. The Tigers had only 13 hits for the two-game set, but eight of those were extra-base swings.

Over his nine years as a head coach, there have been defensive schemes which have frustrated El Reno skipper Chuck Atchison when he has tried to call specific plays against them.

When Chuck Atchison got the job as El Reno High School’s football coach following the 2016 season, he said one of the keys to his offensive playbook was having a quarterback in the system for multiple years. Wish granted.

Late August in Oklahoma is the time of year that fans, coaches and players eagerly await as the start of a new football season creeps closer and closer.