April 2024

Guthrie loaded the bases in four of the first six innings, twice in two of those frames, resulting in 10 runs as the Bluejays completed a district sweep of El Reno High School’s baseball team.

The Bluejays 10-3 win over El Reno at the Hub Reed Complex came on the heels of a 5-3 win in Guthrie.

The sweep left El Reno with a 16-15 overall record, while keeping the Indians locked in the fourth position in the final District 5A-1 standings with an 8-6 mark.

With three players shooting under 100, El Reno High School secured a spot in the 12-team team field for the 2024 Class 5A State Golf Championships set to begin Monday in Muskogee.

Playing in the Class 5A West Regional at Prairie West in Weatherford, El Reno carded a 390 team score, which was fourth out of 13 teams. The top six teams earn a state pass.

Bishop McGuinness won the regional with a 337, followed by Duncan (357) and Altus (384). Guthrie (398) and Lawton MacArthur (408) grabbed state passes behind the Indians.

Shooting one of its lowest rounds in close to a decade, El Reno High School’s boys golf team won the 2024 Lawton Eisenhower Match Play Shootout by 14 strokes.

Playing the Lawton Country Club Course, El Reno carded a season-low 308 to win over Cache (322). Lawton MacArthur (352) was a distant third.

El Reno junior Jackson Albrecht tied for the individual medalist title with Cache’s Karter Seals, both with a round of 72.

Freshman Jacen Bear had the second lowest round for EHS with a 73, which was third overall.

El Reno High School’s tennis team defeated Del City last week at the Legion Park courts by a 6-1 score.

Senior Bri Barksdale strides into a forehand return shot in her No.1 doubles match with partner Jayna Graham.

Jim Rinehart just misses chasing down a return shot in his No.2 singles match. Both players won their matches.

Canadian County’s three slow-pitch softball teams made an early exit from their respective playoff runs despite two squads reaching the championship games at the district level.

Okarche High School, ranked 14th in Class 2A, ended its season with a 13-5 loss to Seiling, which won the title series 2-1 over the Warriors.

The Wildcats won the first game 4-2 before OHS evened the series with a 5-4 win.

To reach the title series, Okarche defeated Indianola (4-0). The team ended its season with a 16-16 record after the losses to Seiling.

Calumet High School’s baseball team started its journey back to the Class B State Championships with a one-day sweep of two squads to capture the District 1 Championship.

In less than a five-hour period, Calumet defeated Carney twice (15-0/12-0) and split those shutouts with a 15-0 decision over Geary. The Chieftains, who slipped a spot to No.2 in the final regular-season rankings, took a 17-3 overall record into the Region 2 Championships.

The winner of each of Class B’s eight regionals advances to state.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Beef Council invites you to celebrate the Oklahoma onion burger – a unique burger that combines the flavor of beef and caramelized onions.

The Oklahoma Onion Burger Trail features 22 restaurants that offer delicious, authentic Oklahoma onion burgers.

You can sign up for a digital pass that you access from a mobile phone, or you can download a paper pass to keep track of your visits. Go to oklabeef.org/burgertrail to sign up.

The trail will be open through Aug. 30, 2024.

El Reno will again celebrate holding the record for the world’s largest onion burger at the 36th Annual Fried Onion Burger Day Festival on May 4.

The day-long affair runs from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and continues a tradition that brings an estimated 25,000 people downtown.

The event is free and open to the public.

Although grilling and eating an 850-pound onion burger is the festival’s main draw, there will be lots to see in the six-block area.

The Burger Day Festival is a tribute to the fried onion hamburger, cooked daily in El Reno since the early 1900s.

It’s the burger that has helped make the community a destination for food lovers and those trekking along historic Route 66.

It’s not uncommon to hear languages such as French or German being spoken in El Reno’s three main “burger joints,” Johnnie’s, Robert’s or Sid’s.