April 2025

Front row, Asher Brooksher, Eli Kerford and Ryker Penwright; back row, Mason Black, Cash Linn, TK Wells, Alexander Berry, Dante Paukei and Coach William Wells. Not pictured is Coach Tevyn Mack.

Freshman Ethan Brooks won his first varsity race on the hardtop last week as El Reno High School’s track teams posted top 10 finishes at the 2025 Route 66 Classic in Chandler.

Brooks accounted for 16 of the 38 points for the boys, who placed seventh overall out of 24 teams.

He won the 1,600-meter run with a time of four minutes and 42.05 seconds, earning 10 points, and beating Metro Christian’s Owen Schwerdtfeger by over eight seconds.

The other six points came off a third-place effort in the 800-meter run in 2:02.34.

Senior Conley Knapp scored a hat trick in the first 20 minutes en route to a career-high five goals as El Reno High School’s girls soccer team scored a 10-0 mercy-rule victory over Western Heights.

With its fifth shutout of the season, El Reno moved to 6-4 on the season and 4-0 in the District 5A-2 standings. The Indians were tied with Bishop McGuinness both in record and tiebreaker points.

The match was stopped in the 28th minute of the second half when Knapp took a pass from Haven Fleenor and kicked in a left-footed goal, her fifth of the night, off 10 attempts.

El Reno High School’s boys soccer team stayed in the hunt for a spot in the Class 5A playoffs by making a first-half goal stand up with solid defense in a 1-0 victory over Western Heights.

The Indians snapped a three-match losing streak with the win over the Jets and improved to 4-6 overall. El Reno moved to 1-3 in the District 5A-2 standings and alone in seventh place.

“They played well. We missed a few chances to score some more,” said El Reno head coach Joe Patton.

El Reno High School’s girls golf team, ranked third in Class 5A, continued a recent string of top 10 finishes by taking fourth at the 2025 Tecumseh Invitational.

El Reno carded a 346 and was the highest 5A team ahead of Ada, Durant and Shawnee.

Stillwater (297) and Norman North (312) out of Class 6A were first and second, respectively, while Class 4A’s second-ranked Perkins-Tryon was third with a 338.

In just his second tournament of the spring, El Reno High School junior Baylor Pearson grabbed All-Suburban Conference honors with a fifth-place individual effort at the 2025 Suburban Conference Boys Golf Championship.

The conference race was blended inside the 2025 Carl Albert Invitational in which El Reno placed 15th as a team with a 350.

The Indians were fourth among league schools behind the Titans (321), Guthrie (331) and Noble (340).

Six errors and nine walks kept Calumet High School’s baseball team from sweeping its regular-season series with Class A power Okarche as the Warriors garnered a split with an 11-0 road win.

Calumet, ranked No.2 in Class B, slipped to 8-6-1 overall. The Chieftains did win three of their last five games, losing to Class 5A power Duncan (11-10) and Okarche.

The wins were over Washington (1-0) and Duncan JV (20-15) in the DHS tourney and a 16-1 run-rule of Lomega.

After posting a 17-3 blowout of Class 5A’s Western Heights, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team dropped back-to-back games including a shutout to cross-county rival Okarche.

The Warriors, ranked 17th in Class 3A, defeated Union City 8-0 before the Tigers fell to Amber-Pocasset (13-11) to slip to 9-18 on the season.

Laurance Clyde Randall went to his heavenly home on Tuesday, April 15, 2025.

He was born Oct. 9, 1935, on a farm southwest of Okarche to Newton and Nellie Randall. Laurance graduated from El Reno High School in 1953. He then attended Draughons School of Business. 

He enlisted in the Oklahoma Air National Guard in March 1954. He retired after 39 years of service as Lieutenant Colonel.

Creating a winning culture takes time, dedication, and everyone from the administration down to the student walking the hallways taking pride in their school and the product it turns out.

“Everyone has to be pulling on the rope in the same direction and we have that here in El Reno.

“If you don’t have an administration, a school board, principals, teachers, coaches and students all wanting the same thing, you will never have that culture,” said El Reno Athletic Director Rodney Haydon.