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Facing the second of three matches against the upper echelon of the NJCAA Region 2 standings, Redlands Community College women’s soccer team was handed another shutout loss by Seminole State. The Trojans dropped Redlands to 1-6 on the season and 1-5 in the standings with a 7-0 win, which was the program’s 100th.

Redlands was limited to two shots, one each from El Reno natives Carlie Golden and Payton Brickey.

Kaitlynn Runnels was in net for the Cougars, allowing all seven goals against 17 saves.

RCC will host NEO Sunday at 2 p.m.

El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team will look to get back into the win column after dropping its seventh straight game with a shutout loss at Piedmont.

The 6-0 defeat gave the Wildcats the regular-season sweep of El Reno, which slipped to 10-11 on the season. The Indians are nine games into a 13-game road swing, sporting a 2-7 record.

The loss dropped El Reno to 4-4 in the District 5A-2 standings for fifth place. The Indians remain a half game back of both Noble (4-3) and Guymon (5-4) for third place.

Playing its sixth straight road match, El Reno High School’s volleyball team suffered a 3-0 defeat to state-ranked Lawton MacArthur in non-conference action.

The 25-15/25-12/25-13 setback to the Highlanders, ranked seventh in Class 5A, was the second of the season. It was the seventh straight loss for El Reno, which slipped to 3-11 overall.

Kallie Maifield and Trinity Black led the team in kills with three each, while Qyra Jones posted two kills. Mary Gonzalez, Anessa Woods, Jewell Graham and Lily Elliott added one kill each.

Canadian Valley Technology Center’s $75 million bond issue was narrowly defeated in Tuesday’s special election.

CV Tech sought voter support to fund construction of a stand-alone public safety training center and other upgrades at Canadian Valley’s El Reno campus along with modernization and safety improvements at its Chickasha campus.

Some 102 precincts were open Sept. 12 in polling places across eight counties for CV Tech’s bond election, with votes cast in six of those counties.

Vicki Proctor spent 23 years serving for free on the El Reno Municipal Planning Commission.

On Tuesday, Mayor Steve Jensen read a proclamation thanking Proctor for her service, but also pointed out she’s been involved in efforts to improve El Reno for much longer.

Proctor stepped down from the role as chairman of the MPC. The body serves as a filter for the city council, listening to rezoning and code change requests before sending a recommendation to the elected council.

The El Reno Arts Council is gearing up for a busy and colorful couple of months.

From now through November, the council’s second annual town-wide Scarecrow Awards will be under way.

El Reno businesses and residents are encouraged to create their own unique scarecrow to put on display for the community to see. Arts Council information said the goal is to “see styled-up scarecrows on every corner and porch.”

The Arts Council will be selling “simple scarecrow frames” for $10 for those who need a little help getting started.

A few weeks ago, former University of Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer called the Tribune office wanting the phone number for El Reno’s Joe Garcia.

Switzer and Garcia have known one another since the 1970-80s. Garcia used to patrol the Sooner sidelines, snapping photos for the Tribune as well as providing photos to OU players and coaches.

Switzer wanted to invite Garcia to a 50th anniversary celebration of his OU coaching career that was being held at a restaurant in Norman.