Pictured are Maple School’s December Citizenship Award winners, front row from left, Liam Langley, pre-kindergarten, Levi Bass, third grade, Charlee Charmasson, first grade, and Kinsley Racca, kindergarten; back row, John Prince, second grade, Ellie Shamblin, sixth grade, Kizer Brewster, eighth grade, Bella Hart, seventh grade, and Rhett Davis, fourth grade. Not pictured: Emma Brothers, fifth grade. (Courtesy photo)
Jumping back into the win column, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team got the first win on its current six-game road swing with a 43-37 victory over the Duncan Demons.
The non-conference win moved El Reno, ranked seventh in Class 5A, to 6-3 on the season heading into this weekend’s Shawnee Invitational.
El Reno outscored the Demons in three of the four periods, leading 10-7 after one frame, 20-12 at the half and 33-24 going into the fourth. Duncan trimmed three points off the deficit behind a 13-10 scoring edge over the final eight minutes.
Fueled by a 15-point scoring edge in the third period, El Reno High School’s boys basketball team snapped a three-game losing streak with a 65-35 win over Duncan.
The non-conference victory lifted the Indians, down several spots in the latest Class 5A poll to 13th, to 5-4 on the season heading into weekend play in the Shawnee Invitational.
“We made a big shot at the end of the second quarter and then came out in the second half and had that big run. We created turnovers that led to some easy baskets,” said El Reno head coach Rodney Haydon.
UNION CITY – Playing the first home game since the death of head coach Robert Duvall, Union City High School’s boys basketball team posted a wire-to-wire win over Gracemont.
The victory lifted the Tigers to 2-5 on the season and 1-2 in the Washita Valley Conference standings. It was the first game of 2021 for Union City due to COVID-19 concerns.
Pictured are Maple School’s November Citizenship Award winners, front row from left, Legend Gatz, pre-kindergarten, Taylor Dill, kindergarten, and Bryson Brandley, first grade; back row, Audrey Eisenhour, third grade, Pierson Brandley, sixth grade, Davin Shamblin, eighth grade, Quinn Charmasson, fourth grade, and Ethan Brooks, fifth grade. Not pictured: Caroline Phillips, second grade, and Lidy Novak, seventh grade. (Courtesy photo)
UNION CITY – In a much-anticipated return to the court, Union City High School’s girls basketball team overwhelmed Gracemont last week to earn its first Washita Valley Conference victory.
The Tigers improved to 3-4 on the season and 1-2 in the WVC standings with a 49-22 win over the Lions.
Gracemont, which had only five players, kept it close in the first period despite a 3-pointer and eight total from Union City guard Taytim Woods. The Tigers led 10-8 going into the second period.
Redlands Community College recently announced students named to the college’s honor rolls for the fall 2020 semester.
Students listed on the President’s Honor Roll have completed 12 or more credit hours and have earned a GPA of not less than 3.8, with no grade less than a B – excluding 0-level courses.
The Vice President’s Honor Roll recognizes students who have completed 12 or more hours of coursework and have earned a GPA of 3.5 to 3.79, with no grade less than a C – excluding 0-level courses.
Matt Grooms and Grace Nesseth admit to being a spontaneous couple, so neither were shocked when Matt came up with the idea of leaving their home in California and never looking back.
“It was around January of last year I was reading the book ‘To Shake the Sleeping Self’ by Jedidiah Jenkins and how he cycled from Oregon to South America. In the book he talked about his parents being one of the first to chronicle their walk across America and I thought that was pretty cool,” said Matt.
He posed the idea of walking across the United States to Grace.
