April 2023

Graveside services for Karen Fay Morgan of Minco were held Thursday at the Evergreen Cemetery in Minco, under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home. Karen died April 1, 2023, at her home. She was born Aug. 21, 1948, in Chickasha. She was raised in Minco and graduated from Minco High School.

LAWSUITS Thasha Bravo vs. Blake Raney for an amount in excess of $75,000 for injuries and damages alleged to have occurred during an automobile accident. Discover Bank vs. Melissa Jayne Shelton for $12,680.46 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

The term “Murderers Row” is forever linked to the New York Yankees, but El Reno High School’s baseball team completed its own version of the phrase last week with back-to-back losses to Carl Albert.

Tying its season-low round of the season, El Reno High School’s boys golf team finished in the middle of the pack at its own 2023 EHS Invitational hosted at Crimson Creek Golf Course. El Reno carded a team score of 381 to place eighth in the 16-team field.

Getting a feel for the course in which it will play the Class 5A West Regional Championship later this month, El Reno High School’s girls golf team posted another top five finish.

Southeast scored a put-back goal with 6.6 seconds left in double overtime as the Spartans defeated El Reno High School’s girls soccer team 1-0 in a match marred by penalties.

Several lapses in defense by El Reno High School’s boys soccer team over the final eight minutes of the first half allowed Southeast to break open a close match en route to a 10-0 shutout win over the Indians.

A walk-off double by Hunter Arnold earned Calumet High School’s baseball team its fifth straight win as the Chieftains rallied for an 8-7 decision over Class A’s 14th-ranked Hydro-Eakly.

Despite a 19-hit attack, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team wound up on the short end of a 22-14 offensive slugfest with Class A’s 18th-ranked Fort Cobb/Broxton. The Tigers, ranked sixth in Class 2A, slipped to 15-9 on the year with the loss. The two teams combined for 39 base hits.

Redlands Community College’s baseball team climbed into fifth place in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings after winning a four-game series from the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain. The Cougars won three of the games by scores of 10-1, 4-2 and 9-5.