Funeral services for Juanita Rose Handke of Minco were held Friday at First Baptist Church of Minco, with burial following in the Evergreen Cemetery. Services were under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home.
Juanita passed away April 12, 2021, at her home. She was born Feb. 24, 1936, in Pocasset.
Graveside services for Miguel Angel “Miguelito” Miller were held Thursday in the Kingfisher Cemetery with Pastor David Lee of the Watonga Indian Baptist Church officiating. Services were under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.
Miguelito was stillborn on April 9, 2021, at Integris Southwest Medical Center in Oklahoma City.
El Reno High School’s boys soccer team stormed back into the win column last week, downing Guthrie with its highest single-match scoring total of the season. The Indians 4-1 win lifted El Reno to 3-8 on the season and 2-2 in the District 5A-1 standings.
El Reno dominated the winless Bluejays in total shots (34-6), shots on goal (17-4) and possessions (70-30), while both teams had one corner kick each.
Edgar Garcia had the hat trick for El Reno, scoring three goals off his team-leading 16 shots.
While El Reno High School seems to have dodged most of the COVID-19 troubles this spring, the same cannot be said for the Indians opponents.
The day before both El Reno soccer teams were set to travel to Guthrie, the Bluejays girls squad was placed on a 10-day quarantine due to exposure to the coronavirus.
According to El Reno head coach Andrea Williams, the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association is making Guthrie take a “no contest” declaration on the three matches it will miss due to the quarantine.
Two El Reno High School seniors have signed national letters of intent to play college sports.
Jaylin Reveles signed to play basketball at Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Mo.
Wyatt Compton signed to wrestle for Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Ark.
El Reno was back on the track recently with thinclads competing in two meets within a 24-hour period, including the tough Carl Albert Invitational.
Before the trip to Midwest City, El Reno took part in the Bridge Creek Invitational, with the girls getting a silver-medal finish from thrower Ochien Gross. She popped off a shot-put toss of 30 feet, 10.5 inches.
On the track, Gracie Wieland had the best finish in the 200-meter dash in 25th place, crossing the line in 31.09 seconds. Aleilah Big Eagle Hill (34.66) was 43rd and Kylie Randall (35.87) earned 44th.
It was a full house at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center last week as El Reno High School’s girls tennis team took on stacked brackets in the 2021 Guthrie Invitational.
El Reno’s four entries in the event all placed out of the top 10, but all earned at least one victory in four matches each.
Despite hitting two home runs in the seventh inning to tie the score, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team dropped an 11-10 game to Okarche last week.
The loss snapped a four-game win streak for the Tigers which included victories over Verden (11-2), Carnegie (14-6) and Harding Charter (20-1). Union City is now 16-10 on the year.
The Tigers got a two-run homer from Kylie McCoy to close to within a run of Okarche, then tied the score on a solo home run by Alexis Archer. Union City had three homers in the game, the other from MacKinzie DeLong.
Extending its current win streak to three games, Calumet High’s baseball team defeated Hinton 11-3 last week.
The win was the sixth out of the last seven games for the Chieftains, ranked No.16 in Class A, who improved to 13-4 on the season.
Calumet scored six runs in the first inning off three hit batsmen, two walks and a pair of singles from Kaleb Melvin. Caleb Meschberger and Hunter Navanick added a base hit each.
Redlands Community College’s Ashley Monterrosa watches her shot sail toward the goal in a recent home match with Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa. The Cougars dropped two matches last week to Seminole State (6-0) and Northeastern Oklahoma A&M (4-1).
