April 2026

Maple A Honor Roll students are Lilly Bollinger, Kane Smith, Hollis Wedman, Tyler Williams, Madi Basler, Wade Curtis, Jake Wells, Elizabeth Eisenhour, Jimi Davis, Luken Meschberger, Aniyah Chaffin, Carson Smith, Payton Haley, Addison Meschberger and Legend Gatz. 

Also including, Tripp Davis, Riley McKee, Kennedy Prince, Douglas Bland, Fritz Hoffman, Maddox Tartsah, Kynlee Shamblin, Abby Bass, Easton Hughey, Ella Ratliff, Madalynne Whitman, Ayvah Fudge, John Prince, Jack Hunt, Alli Bridges, Lane Hudson, Audrey Eisenhour, Blayke Steinbruck, Halle Hunt and Paylynn Smith.

Maple A-B Honor Roll students are  Kennedy Bonilla, Addison Meschberger, Tinsley Kennedy, Brinlee Bland, Fredrick Tredway, Remi Story, Evalynn Miller, Meah Brown, Tova Young, Abel Overholser, Journey Swigart, Atley Walker, Claire Lorenzen, Blakely McLemore, Maverick Lorenzen, Parker Tinsley, Creelie Hamons and Caleb Blanco.

All-night wake services for Jerrie Zelda Warden-White Buffalo will be held at the Concho Emergency Response Center starting at 7 p.m. Monday, April 6.

Funeral services will be held at the same venue at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 7. Burial will be at the Concho Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Mixing together 14 walks with timely hits, El Reno High School’s baseball team earned its first District 5A-1 sweep of the season with a pair of run-rule shutouts over Southeast.

El Reno defeated the Spartans in a doubleheader 14-0 and 11-0 to move over .500 for the first time this spring at 8-6.

More importantly, the Indians are now 5-3 in the District 5A-1 standings and leapfrogged Midwest City into fourth place.

Following a brutal non-conference schedule, Redlands Community College’s baseball team closed out the month of March on a hot streak with four wins in five outings.

The Cougars are now 13-23 on the season but three of the four wins came in NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 play.

Redlands took the league series over Northern Oklahoma College of Tonkawa by a 3-1 margin after wins of 29-3/24-13 and 20-8. The loss was a 12-6 decision to the Mavericks.

The other win in the four-game run was an 18-8 decision over Southwestern Christian University’s junior varsity.

Working through different lineups for the latter part of the season, El Reno High School’s girls golf team logged two top 15 finishes last week including a top five mark in its own event.

Carl Albert won the 2026 El Reno Girls Invitational, played at Crimson Creek Golf Course, with an 18-hole score of 357, followed by Guthrie with a 370 and the Indians with a season-low effort of 385.

El Reno edged Hobart by two strokes and Heritage Hall by three.

Better weather conditions led to improved times for El Reno High School’s track teams at the Fifth Annual Bridge Creek Invitational.

The El Reno boys took 12th place with four team points but had marked improvements in times. Donovan Mahseet paced the effort with a fourth-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 46.47 seconds, which was close to three seconds faster than his first meet.

Mahseet also ran the 110-meter high hurdles in seventh place with a time of 17.87 seconds.

CALUMET – Wyatt Cox hit a walk-off single to score Kingston Arnold as Calumet High School’s baseball team rallied to defeat Union City 14-4 in a cross-county rivalry meeting of top five teams.

Calumet, ranked No.1 in Class B, rebounded from a loss to Tuttle in the I-40 Classic finals to move to 5-2 on the season. It was the Chieftains second win over a ranked team against one loss.

Lila Winegeart had a career day at the plate for Calumet High School’s slow-pitch softball team, hitting not one but three home runs in three consecutive at bats in the Chieftains 28-17 win over Hammon.

Her first homers of the season and an intentional walk in her fourth trip to the plate resulted in eight runs batted in for Calumet. She had a pair of two-run homers and a three-run blast.

Carol Lynn (Shoemate) Pitts embraced eternal peace on March 29, 2026. Born Feb. 11, 1947, she was the beloved eldest child of William Shoemate and Mary (Legg) Shoemate Jackson.

An honors graduate of El Reno High School in 1965, she went on to earn her bachelor’s degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. She then began her teaching career in Vega, Texas, and later taught in both Dover and El Reno. Eventually Carol worked at Halliburton and then Otis Engineering as a proofreader/editor before she was forced to take medical retirement.