Thomas Mauchahty-Ware III, 38, of Anadarko, passed away Friday, April 23, 2021. He was born April 28, 1983, to Thomas Mauchahty-Ware II and Jocelyn Lanell LittleChief at Lawton Indian Hospital.
Thomas grew up on Ware Road and attended Broxton Elementary in his younger years. His family later moved to Anadarko where he would eventually graduate from Anadarko High School in 2001.
Funeral services for Johnny Wayland LeBleu will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, May 3 in the Benson Memorial Chapel with Deacon Lloyd Menz officiating. Burial will be in the El Reno Cemetery. Visitation will be at Huber-Benson Funeral Home on Saturday, May 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Johnny died April 26, 2021, at his home in El Reno. He was born Aug. 27, 1953, in Watonga. He was a general foreman for CASS Services and was a member of the Catholic church.
Funeral services for Anna Marie Hatfield were held Friday in the Benson Memorial Chapel with Rev. Waylan Upchego officiating Burial followed at the Concho Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.
Anna died April 23, 2021, at Integris Hospice House in Oklahoma City. She was born June 23, 1958, in Clinton and graduated from Hydro High School in 1977. She worked at Western Electric in Oklahoma City for 15 years before substitute teaching at Western Heights Public Schools.
El Reno High School’s tennis team closed out its dual season last week by hosting Kingfisher at the Legion Park courts, getting mixed results in both singles and doubles action.
Xiven Wallin played No.1 singles for the EHS boys and lost both of his matches in pro sets by scores of 3-8 and 2-8. Jacob Guerrero dropped both of his No.2 singles matches by scores of 0-8/3-8.
The two then teamed up for doubles, losing 0-8.
For the second time in four days, Mother Nature threw a curve ball at El Reno High School’s baseball team as a steady rain forced a stoppage in play during the Indians District 5A-2 series with Guthrie.
With the score tied at 3-all, El Reno’s Grady Lesperance drew a lead-off walk in the bottom of the fourth inning before play was halted. El Reno head coach Keith Hill said the game will not be restarted since the outcome will not affect the final district outcome.
El Reno High School’s boys soccer team played through the rain recently to defeat Guymon 2-1 in its final match of the regular season.
El Reno will now travel to Oklahoma City to play Santa Fe South in the first round of the Class 5A playoffs, set for Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team fell one win shy of advancing to the regional round, losing 7-2 to Fort Cobb-Broxton in the title game of the Class 2A, District 7 Championship.
The Tigers went 3-2 in the postseason to close out the season with a 21-14 record.
“Our girls put it all on the line. I’m sad the season ended but we left it all on the field,” said head coach Cody Schmidt.
While notching a thrilling win in the postseason, Calumet High School’s slow-pitch softball team had the daunting task of beating top-ranked Binger-Oney twice in order to advance.
The Bobcats had other plans.
Binger-Oney tagged Calumet’s defense for 32 runs en route to 15-0 and 17-1 wins to claim the Class 2A, District 1 Championship.
The Chieftains season ends with a 5-12 record, with Calumet earning a 6-5 playoff win over Sentinel.
Sarah Nitzel hit a walk-off triple in the bottom of the seventh inning to score Jazmine Mayo – on with a single.
Riverside Public Schools recently took part in the 2021 Oklahoma Rural Elementary Schools State Track meet at North Rock Creek in Shawnee.
Eight Riverside athletes competed in various events, bringing home three medals. Zaida Kraft took the silver in the 800-meter run with a time of two minutes and 48.46 seconds, while placing fourth in the mile with a time of 6:22.99.
Riverside’s 4x200 relay squad comprised of Brylee DuPris, Drew Kraft, Zaida Kraft and Nataly Arellano took third place with a time of 2:13.13.
Offense played center stage for both teams recently as Redlands Community College’s baseball team split a four-game series against National Parks College based out of Hot Springs, Ark.
The teams combined for 105 runs, with Redlands winning the first two games of the series by scores of 6-1 and 10-9.
The Nighthawks rallied to win both games on day two by scores of 21-12 and 28-18.
The split left Redlands with a 12-21 record for the spring and a 5-15 mark and eighth place in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings.
