April 2025

Juniors Lily Hayes and Madison Rochdi each scored a hat trick to lead El Reno High School’s girls soccer team to a 7-0 shutout of Guthrie to remain tied with Carl Albert for the District 5A-2 lead.

El Reno improved to 4-4 on the season and 2-0 in the league standings with its second straight shutout and fourth on the season.

Hayes scored two of her three goals in the first half. Rochdi and Conley Knapp added one each as El Reno led 4-0 at the break.

Despite winning the shot count in the second half, El Reno High School’s boys soccer team struggled to find the net in a 2-0 loss to Guthrie in District 5A-2 play.

The loss dropped El Reno to 3-5 on the season and 0-2 in the district standings, tied with Western Heights for seventh.

El Reno trailed 1-0 at the half after Guthrie scored with 7:40 left after getting one of 14 shots past EHS keeper Aldo De La Torre, who had eight saves in the first half.

Class 5A’s third-ranked El Reno High School’s girls golf team posted back-to-back runner-up finishes last week within a 24-hour period.

El Reno placed second at the 2025 Elk City Invitational with a season-low 343 tally, finishing 10 strokes back of Clinton, the top-ranked team in Class 4A.

Freshman Radley Miller led the way for El Reno with her season-low round of 77, placing third in the individual medalist race.

Lily Elliott carded an 82 to close in ninth place, followed by Skylar Ayers in 17th place with a round of 91.

Carson Cooper logged Calumet High School’s lone base hits in a 4-0 loss to top-ranked Fort Cobb-Broxton as the Chieftains had a two-game win streak snapped in the shutout loss.

Calumet, ranked second in the same Class B poll, slipped to 6-4-1 with its second loss this spring to the Mustangs. The Chieftains were coming off wins over Class A-I’s eighth-ranked Okarche (5-1) and Blackwell (15-3).

The Chieftains went 20-of-66 (.303) from the plate for the three games with only two extra base hits on doubles by Kyler Thiessen and Kingston Arnold.

All three Canadian County slow-pitch softball teams ended losing streaks last week as Okarche High School defeated Class A’s 10th-ranked Covington-Douglas 5-4.

Okarche moved to 8-5 on the season and snapped a four-game slide that included losses to Hinton (5-0), Shattuck (14-0) and Apache (16-0) in the Highway 152 Classic.

In that classic, the Warriors got two hits from Chesney Black and one each from Kayla Kremeier, Katie Parham, Callie Cramer, Belle Beam and Harper White.

Tigers win three

The team and individual titles from the Women’s Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship will remain with Redlands Community College’s golf team for a fourth straight season.

Playing at Firelake Golf Course in Shawnee, Redlands shot a 36-hole total of 601 that included a season-low effort of 296. The Cougars shot a 305 in the afternoon round to win by 48 shots over Murray State College (649). Seminole State College was third at 706.

Mayor Steve Jensen read a proclamation honoring the El Reno High School Lady Indians basketball team for back-to-back state championships.

The Lady Indians won the Class 5A championship this past season, making them El Reno’s first-ever back-to-back state title holders, the proclamation declared.

Services for Marjorie JoAnn Sarrett of Minco will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 11 at First Baptist Church in Minco, with burial following at the Evergreen Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home.

Marjorie died April 7, 2025, in Minco. She was born Feb. 11, 1933, in Dibble and graduated from Dibble High School in 1950. She moved to Minco in 1964 from Moore. 

Okarche High School March Students of the Month are Hunter Mueggenborg, Ally Baustert, Asher Schieber, Arron Osborn, Canon Rother and Jag Mueggenborg.

Okarche High School March Lion and Lioness honorees are juniors Jett Mueggenborg and Kate Baustert.