El Reno High School’s Raley Wicker-Hartley placed fourth last week at the 2023 Oklahoma Girls Powerlifting Coaches Association’s State Championships.
The junior was one of four EHS lifters to make state as the team racked up 17 points en route to a 14th-place finish out of 36 squads in the Large School Division.
Two goals in the final 23 minutes spoiled the home opener for El Reno High School’s girls soccer team as Woodward handed the Indians their first defeat of the season, 2-0.
El Reno slipped to 1-1 on the year after a 3-1 road win over Western Heights last week.
“I thought we looked good against Western Heights and the first half of the Woodward game. I just think we got out-worked a bit the second half against Woodward.
“We had plenty of opportunities to score and just couldn’t quite capitalize on them.
Woodward scored a goal in the first five minutes and rolled to a 5-1 win over El Reno High School’s boys soccer team as the Indians continue to search for their first win of 2023.
El Reno is 0-2 on the season after a 1-0 setback at Western Heights.
In the loss to the Boomers, El Reno scored a goal by senior Angel Martinez off an assist from Reyes Covarrubias.
Goalkeeper Aldo DeLaTorre logged four saves in the loss.
The Banner Bomber 4-H Club has been busy planting and growing herbs.
Erin Jinkens is the 4-H leader.
Pictured are Riverside February Students of the Month, front row from left, Asher Wiggins, Braxton Camp, Kyndall Thompson, Daelan WhiteHorse, TreaVion Hemrick, Skie Brinker, Banx Ellison, Lexi Matias and Leolia Duncan; back row, Liam LeGrand, Adlee Vega, Paulina Calzada, Colten Price, Greyson Imoe, Kynlee Long, Lyric Lehman, Sage Tosh, Ridley Jefrey and Leon Reynolds. Not pictured: Crew Wooten, Jeremiah Robinson, Legend Hatton, David Whitlow, Maddax Lehman, Alexi Evans, Jasmine Gonzalez, Natalie Ramos, Rhome Alexander and Aden Sam.
Starting out with back-to-back wins, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team is battling a two-game losing steak after setbacks to Hinton and Binger-Oney.
The Tigers dropped a 25-17 shootout to the Comets before losing 11-3 to Binger-Oney. Union City (2-2) defeated Cement (14-2) and Wayne (13-1) to kick off the spring season.
Through four games the Tigers have scored 47 runs off a .496 batting average after going 56-of-113 at the plate. The team has six doubles and one home run from Emily Griggs.
Union City High School’s baseball team kicked off the spring season with back-to-back shutout wins over Oklahoma Christian Academy and Geary.
The Tigers downed OCA by an 11-0 margin before blanking the Bisons by a 19-0 score.
Union City went 19-of-36 (.528) from the plate over the spread, with eight of those hits being doubles. Dalton Stout and Braydon Armstrong had two each.
For just the sixth time in history, both El Reno High School basketball teams earned their way to the Elite Eight for the 2023 Class 5A Oklahoma State High School Basketball Championships.
“This is just the thing you want. The more people we have going to state, the more people we are going to have in the stands. I’ve always been a firm believer that if one or two programs have success like this it can spread out to other sports,” said El Reno girls coach Jennifer Douglas.
The last time both teams made state was in 2019. Other times were in 2017, 1999, 1996 and 1994.
Work has begun on the installation of a new fiber optic streaming network that will be owned and operated by the city of El Reno. Crews are starting work on El Reno FAST Connect, City Manager Matt Sandidge said.
The FAST acronym refers to fiber and streaming technology, with “more reliable, consistent coverage for streaming throughout the city.” Rates for the unmetered, weather-effective network start at $65 per month.
Cyndi Ice recently led her El Reno High School Earth and Space class on a tour of the new city water plant.
“What an amazing field trip,” Ice said of the tour.
“We were able to tour inside and outside learning about the basic plant flow processes and lab testing.”
The students were the first group to tour the new plant, a state-of-the-art project that has been in the works for several years.
