September 2022

Lewis McCracken, 89, passed away Aug. 29, 2022, in the presence of family members.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sept. 8 at Pentecostal Church, 1108 E. Rogers St.

MUNICIPAL COURT

Taylor Dawn Isbell, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $145.

James Wesley Welch, Oklahoma City, failure to appear warrant, $145.

Timothy Leon McBrayer, Clinton, speeding, $165.

Luis Saul Moreno Reyes, El Reno, speeding, $185.

Chance Bell, Atoka, driving under suspension, $395.

Aaron Lee Ash, El Reno, speeding and inattentive driving resulting in collision, $340.

Jarrod R. Brown, El Reno, failure to appear warrant, $295

LAWSUITS

The road continues to be a hard opponent to overcome for El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team as the Indians went 1-2 in the recent Shawnee Festival.

El Reno slipped to 1-4 in road games and 5-5 on the season after losing to Deer Creek (15-1) and Claremore (4-3).

The victory in Shawnee was a 26-2 trouncing of Del City.

The Claremore loss came close to a win as El Reno left the tying run at third base in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Down by three, Kaydence Pawnee hit a lead-off double and scored on a two-bagger by Ryah Hardy.

El Reno High School’s volleyball team, ranked 16th in Class 5A, ran into several ranked teams en route to a 1-3 record in the recent Weatherford Classic.

The Indians slipped to 6-5 on the season after losing to Class 3A’s 16th-ranked Southwest Covenant School (2-0) and sixth-ranked Corn Bible Academy (2-0) in pool play, followed by a 2-1 loss to Class 5A’s Elgin.

El Reno defeated Clinton in pool play by scores of 25-22/24-12.

El Reno High School’s football team was on the road Friday night at Piedmont in the second of three non-district games.

El Reno’s junior high football squads opened the season last week with the seventh grade losing 22-12 to Elk City and the eighth grade winning 42-22.

After home setbacks to cross-county rival Calumet and Elmore City, Union City High School’s fast-pitch softball team snapped the two-game losing streak with two wins in the Covington-Douglas Festival.

The Tigers beat the host school 3-0 before posting a 12-0 shutout of Cherokee to improve to 11-8 on the season.

Union City went 14-of-57 (.246) from the plate in the three games after the loss to Calumet, getting doubles each from Emily Griggs and Oceanna Schranz.

Griggs (.375) led the team with three hits, a run and four runs batted in.

A nine-game win streak to open the fall season came to a grinding halt as Calumet High School’s baseball team, ranked third in Class B, dropped a 5-4 game in extra innings to Amber-Pocasset.

Ampo, ranked No.8 in Class A, scored the winning run in the top of the ninth inning on a wild pitch.

Calumet logged nine hits in the loss as Carson Cooper went 3-for-4 with a run scored. Kyler Thiessen drove in a run and scored once off two base hits.

Hunter Arnold, Kaleb Thiessen, Caleb Meschberger and Kingston Arnold added a base hit each in the loss.

Redlands Community College freshman Ruby Sifuentes (8) and a University of Arkansas Rich Mountain player look to be in step as each tries to control a bouncing ball during their NJCAA Region 2 match at Memorial Stadium last week.

It was the home opener for the Cougars, who host NEO Sunday at 2 p.m.

Redlands Community College’s cross-country teams kicked off the 2022 season recently with a pair of third-place finishes at the Bucks Invitational hosted by the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain.

The women’s team ran the 5,000-meter course with an overall time of two hours and 13:19 seconds, with the average time per runner being 26:29. Alicen Williams was the top finisher in 10th place with a time of 25:29 after running a mile pace of 8:12.