October 2025

A hard-hitting Enid squad, a 28-game winner out of Class 6A, scored eight runs in the fifth inning to enact a 21-8 run-rule victory over El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team.

The loss, which gave the season series to the Pacers, came on the heels of El Reno’s 7-3 road win over Clinton a day earlier.

The split left the Indians with a 13-14 season record.

Enid bats tagged El Reno pitchers Zoey Pawnee and Taylor Acosta for 21 runs off 17 hits and five walks over five innings. The pair had just one strikeout.

Despite winning two straight and four of its last five matches, El Reno High School’s volleyball team slipped a spot in the latest Class 5A poll as the postseason looms near.

El Reno, now 17-11 on the season, dropped to 13th in the polls with a 17-11 overall record.

The Indians defeated Santa Fe South (3-1) at home before taking to the road for a 3-0 win over Hennessey by scores of 25-14/25-11 and 25-2.

Calumet High School’s baseball team tuned up for the regional round of the Class B playoffs by defeating No.10 Amber-Pocasset (2A) 7-3 last week to extend its current win streak to four games.

The Chieftains, ranked second in the state, rolled to the District 1 championship with a pair of 10-0 shutouts over Lomega and a 13-5 win over Sentinel.

Calumet logged 30 hits for the four-game run off a .345 average. Nine of those hits went for extra bases including triples from Kingston Arnold and Wyatt Cox.

Union City and Okarche High School’s fast-pitch softball teams took a step closer to making the Class A state tournament by winning district titles, but both state-ranked clubs will be on the road for regional play.

Union City, ranked No.14 in the state, won the District 15 title with a sweep of Strother (11-0/10-2).

The Tigers dropped a 6-4 game to Class B’s 14th-ranked Davenport in a tuneup game to take a 23-9 record into the regional round.

Holding just a three-shot lead going into the final round of the 2025 Aggie Fall Invitational, Redlands Community College women’s golf team carded the best round of the event and final day to run away with the team title.

The Cougars carded a 312 on the Lake Murray Golf Course - 15 shots better than any other team to close with a 54-hole total of 965.

Redlands beat Murray State College’s varsity by 20 strokes and the Aggies JV team by 47 shots.

North Central Texas College was third at 48 shots behind RCC.

Redlands Community College women’s soccer team is off to its best start in recent years at 5-4-1 for the season after splitting matches in NJCAA Region 2 action.

The Cougars defeated Eastern Oklahoma State College (5-0) at home before falling on the road to Murray State (3-2), the region’s third-place team. The split left Redlands with a 3-4 record in league play for sixth place.

Ashanti Lewis scored all five goals in the win over Eastern to set a new program record.

Zoe Howell and Madysin Kellum scored in the loss to Murray State.

Craig McVay admits he “bought into” the idea that using technology and other “scientific” based models to educate young children was better than first making sure they could read and write.

He now knows that was a mistake. He’s on a mission to correct it. 

As he announced his candidacy for state school superintendent this week, McVay said if he’s elected, Oklahoma will return to the basics, especially when it comes to early childhood education. 

It will be “A, B, C’s and 1, 2, 3’s,” McVay said.