January 2023

Okarche High School seniors Kylie Bailey and Jacob Hendrickson were named as December Lioness and Lion honorees.

OHS December Students of the Month were Madi Vogt and Jalie Rother.

Funeral services for Judy Beth Jones of Union City will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13 in the Benson Memorial Chapel in El Reno, with burial following at the Union City Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home, Minco.

Judy died Jan. 9, 2023, at her home. She was born Aug. 29, 1962, in Amarillo, Texas. Judy was raised in the Tulia and Happy, Texas, communities.

She worked in retail management throughout her life. She moved to Oklahoma in 1995.

LAWSUITS

Discover Bank vs. Dustin M. Houston for $2,817.36 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Discover Bank vs. Shaun John for $6,776.41 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Midland Credit Management Inc. vs. Tanya Glass for $3,979.90 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

U.S. Bank N.A. vs. Donna Clark for $6,662.61 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Bouncing back from a loss in its second tournament finale appearance of the season, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team went on the road to defeat Class 5A’s 17th-ranked Del City 51-39.

The win kept El Reno, ranked fourth in the same 5A poll, in the hunt for the Suburban Conference title at 2-1.

The Indians are second in the league standings behind Piedmont (1-0), while Shawnee and Del City are 0-1.

Noble, Carl Albert and Guthrie have yet to start league play.

Scoring in double digits for all four periods, Calumet High School’s girls basketball team uncorked its second highest point total of the season en route to a 65-18 home win over Gracemont.

The win snapped a two-game losing streak as the Chieftains improved to 10-6 on the season. Calumet remained in the thick of the Washita Valley Conference title chase with the 47-point win, which left CHS with a 5-1 record.

Calumet scored no fewer than 13 points in any quarter after opening with a 20-4 blitz over the first eight minutes.

Since joining the Suburban Conference four seasons ago the Del City Eagles have been the thorn in the side of El Reno High School’s boys basketball team, a trend which continued last week.

In a battle of top five teams in Class 5A, the third-ranked Eagles logged their seventh straight win over El Reno, 69-53, to kick start their league slate.

“They are good and that is all there is to it. They played and shot the ball about as good as you can and we didn’t.

“You cannot beat anyone if you don’t play up to your potential.

More than a dozen former grapplers were stunned last week as El Reno High School’s top-ranked wrestling team gave up 40 straight points to Class 3A’s sixth-ranked Comanche en route to a 43-34 loss on Alumni Night.

The setback snapped a four-match win streak and dropped El Reno, ranked No.1 in Class 5A, to 7-2 on the season and 6-2 inside Jenks Simmons Field House.

El Reno jumped out to a commanding 34-3 lead after Terry Guzman (106), Foxx Kurtz (113), Kylar Kurtz (126) and Will Heger (144) earned forfeit wins.

Calumet High School’s boys basketball team cranked up its offensive game plan last week as the Chieftains downed Gracemont 82-33 in a return to Washita Valley Conference action.

Jacob Mayfield’s team cracked the 70-point barrier for the 13th time this season in the 49-point blowout. It’s the 10th time for the Chieftains to score 75 or more points.

Calumet, ranked seventh in Class B, improved to 15-1 on the season with its 13th straight win. The Chieftains remain atop the WVC standings at 6-0.

“Cheyenne people and Arapaho people always find their way home, either in life or in death … they always come home.”

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes held a burial remembrance ceremony to lay to rest the remains of two young females and one male repatriated under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) from the University of Denver.

The ceremony took place Dec. 20.

The El Reno Public Schools Foundation has another scholarship to award after the Matt and Elisha White Scholarship was created.

Dana Gibson, longtime board member of the ERPS Foundation, said the scholarship will be endowed at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation and will provide a minimum of $1,000 per year to the selected student.

White, the former mayor of El Reno and his wife created the scholarship as a way to “give back” to the community.