After a year without caramel popcorn thanks to COVID-19, Ross Seed has brought the Wednesday treat back.
Ross Seed has made a practice of giving away free popcorn to customers with Wednesday designated caramel corn day.
Junior guard Ashlyn Evans-Thompson logged a career milestone which helped El Reno High School punch its ticket back to this week’s Class 5A Girls State Basketball Championship.
Evans-Thompson netted 18 points to surpass the 1,000-point career scoring mark as the Indians defeated ninth-ranked Coweta 58-36 to win the East Area III Championship.
El Reno, ranked fifth in the state, improved to 14-5 on the season. The Indians will play in the state quarterfinals Thursday against No.7 Lawton MacArthur. Tipoff is 4 p.m. at Tulsa Memorial High School.
A questionable split-second call helped end the season for El Reno High School’s boys basketball team, as the Indians fell 63-61 to No.18 Ardmore in the Class 5A West Area 1 Consolation Championship.
El Reno, ranked 16th in the state, dropped to 10-11 on the season – while Ardmore advanced to this week’s state tourney.
The call came in the waning seconds as El Reno’s Ryan Island took a 3-point shot that hit off the front of the rim and then bounced off the backboard and dropped into a scrum of players under the goal.
A quarantine issue at Oklahoma Christian Academy forced El Reno High School’s baseball team to cancel last week’s doubleheader at the Hub Reed Complex.
Instead, the Indians picked up a last-minute road game at Community Christian School, allowing two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning en route to a 5-4 loss to the Royals.
The setback left El Reno with a 1-1 season record heading into the District 5A-2 opener with Santa Fe South.
El Reno High School’s Hunter Yeakey and Daegen Griffin will be in action Friday at 9:30 a.m. as the Indians take on Glenpool in the quarterfinals of the Class 5A Dual State Championships in Enid.
Picking up a second straight road win, El Reno High School’s girls soccer team improved to 2-1 on the season with a 7-0 shutout of U.S. Grant in non-district action.
El Reno held a lopsided edge in overall shots (31-7), shots on goal (26-5) time of possession (45:27-32:41) and 5-2 in corner kicks.
The seven goals came from Caroline Huber, Krystiana Guzman, Alexis Lively, Ruby Vazquez, Ximena Salazar, Piper Graves and Bre Spann. Joey Lierle logged four assists, while Huber, Vazquez and Spann added one each.
Union City kicked off its high school softball and baseball spring seasons recently, with both clubs finding the win column in early action.
The Tigers baseball team is 2-1 following wins over Casady (8-1) and Binger-Oney (12-8), with a 13-10 loss to Fletcher.
Blake Ross leads the team in hits as the Tigers are hitting .281 with 16 total hits. Ross is 4-of-8 with three runs scored and three runs batted in for a .500 average.
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Funeral services for Carroll Forrest Thompson will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 10, 2021, at First Christian Church with Rev. Colton Lott officiating. Burial will follow in the Geary Cemetery under the direction of Turner Funeral Home, Geary.
Mr. Thompson passed away Saturday, March 6, 2021, at his home in El Reno at the age of 86. He was born Feb. 23, 1935, to Carroll Thomas and Thelma Louise (Dean) Thompson south of Geary. Forrest graduated from Geary High School in 1953.
Teaching is a calling for those who pick up the banner for public education and spend years learning and honing their skills in an effort to mold and open the minds of young students in a traditional classroom setting.
But the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has created a new traditional classroom setting. And for El Reno educators, add school closures caused by winter storms and lack of running water.
