April 2024

With all five bags breaking 90, El Reno High School’s boys golf team logged its lowest round of the season en route to a ninth-place finish at the 2024 Class 5A West Regional Preview.

The event was played at the John Conrad Municipal Golf Course in Midwest City, which will host the regional May 1. The preview also served as the 2024 Suburban Conference Championships.

Carl Albert won the event with a team score of 300, two shots better than Heritage Hall. Bishop McGuinness (317), Ada (317) and Choctaw (318) rounded out the top five.

Skylar Ayers fired a career-low round last week as El Reno High School’s girls golf team placed fifth in the Tecumseh Invitational, despite having one player down with sickness and another finishing her round feeling ill.

Ayers, a junior, carded an 86 on the Firelake Golf Course in Shawnee as El Reno logged a team score of 390. Ayers was seventh overall in the individual medalist race.

Durant won the tourney with a 338, followed by Perkins-Tryon (358), Ada (365) and Sulphur (384) ahead of the Indians.

El Reno High School’s tennis teams took part in the Henryetta Invitational over two separate days, with both squads competing tough on the consolation side of the brackets.

The El Reno boys took sixth place in all divisions as No.1 singles player Jacob Guerrero went 1-2 with losses to the host (6-0/6-1) and McAlester (6-0/6-0).

His win was a straight sets decision over Pryor’s Zander Newmann.

Jim Rinehart went 1-2 at No.2 singles with losses to Henryetta (6-1/6-0) and McAlester (6-4/3-6/10-8).

He defeated Okmulgee’s Nylem Gentry in two sets (6-1/7-5).

UNION CITY – Mother Nature was the hardest batter to strike out as Calumet and Union City’s slow-pitch softball teams closed out the regular season with the second installment of Canadian County bedlam rivalry. Swirling winds played havoc with pitchers from both schools which combined for 20 walks in a 16-5 win by Union City to split the series. Calumet won the first installment 10-4 six days earlier.

Calumet High School’s baseball team, the top ranked team in Class B, will take an eight-game win streak into the postseason after winning the Roff Invitational.

The Chieftains move to 14-3 on the spring with the title, beating Allen (8-0), Class B’s sixth-ranked Roff (4-1) and Class 4A’s Ada in the championship.

The win over the Cougars came in extra innings as Calumet scored four runs in the eighth, sparked by a Kaleb Thiessen double, a single by Kyler Thiessen, a Dalton Belcher sacrifice and an RBI-single from Brendon Voss.

Redlands Community College’s baseball team wrapped a pair of wins around a 15-2 loss to Northern Oklahoma College of Enid to sweep the series from the Jets.

The Cougars wins were by scores of 13-3 and 8-6 to improve to 5-15 in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings for 11th place.

El Reno police are asking the public for help in finding a man who allegedly fired a gun several times Monday night.

Assistant Police Chief Kirk Dickerson said officers were sent to 1106 Industrial Blvd. at about 9:49 p.m., in reference to a man reportedly firing a gun in the area. Police said reports indicated a white male had fired the gun three times. Police received 911 calls from residents in the area.

The man was described as being a white male with curly brown hair, possibly in a bun. He has a facial tattoo and was wearing a pair of colorful shorts.

Connie Chambless wears her faith on her T-shirt.

It says so right on the front: “Faith makes all things possible.” - Luke 1:37

But from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday, her faith is on display inside the Love for the Children Center at 400 W. London. That’s where Chambless helps young mothers and their children make it through another month, providing everything from formula and diapers for the infants to clothes, shoes, books and stuffed animals for the older kids.

For April’s observance of Child Abuse Awareness Month, Canadian County’s child advocacy center is looking to the community for support as more youth victims come for help.

The Child Abuse Response Team (C.A.R.T.) provides a trauma-informed, child-friendly environment for child victims of abuse and neglect and those who have witnessed domestic violence.

More children than ever are coming to the C.A.R.T. House in El Reno, near the Canadian County Courthouse.

An El Reno man was killed Friday night in a three-vehicle traffic collision on Interstate 40 in Yukon.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol investigated the fatal crash, which occurred about 7:03 p.m. April 12 on eastbound I-40 at Czech Hall Road in eastern Canadian County.

El Reno’s Creed Felton, 24, was pronounced dead at the scene due to an injury suffered in the collision.

A 2017 Mitsubishi Lancer driven by El Reno’s Arron Whiteman, 27, was stopped on the outside shoulder due to a collision in the roadway, according to an OHP report.