Union City High School’s baseball team kicked off the spring season with back-to-back shutout wins over Oklahoma Christian Academy and Geary.
The Tigers downed OCA by an 11-0 margin before blanking the Bisons by a 19-0 score.
Union City went 19-of-36 (.528) from the plate over the spread, with eight of those hits being doubles. Dalton Stout and Braydon Armstrong had two each.
For just the sixth time in history, both El Reno High School basketball teams earned their way to the Elite Eight for the 2023 Class 5A Oklahoma State High School Basketball Championships.
“This is just the thing you want. The more people we have going to state, the more people we are going to have in the stands. I’ve always been a firm believer that if one or two programs have success like this it can spread out to other sports,” said El Reno girls coach Jennifer Douglas.
The last time both teams made state was in 2019. Other times were in 2017, 1999, 1996 and 1994.
Work has begun on the installation of a new fiber optic streaming network that will be owned and operated by the city of El Reno. Crews are starting work on El Reno FAST Connect, City Manager Matt Sandidge said.
The FAST acronym refers to fiber and streaming technology, with “more reliable, consistent coverage for streaming throughout the city.” Rates for the unmetered, weather-effective network start at $65 per month.
Cyndi Ice recently led her El Reno High School Earth and Space class on a tour of the new city water plant.
“What an amazing field trip,” Ice said of the tour.
“We were able to tour inside and outside learning about the basic plant flow processes and lab testing.”
The students were the first group to tour the new plant, a state-of-the-art project that has been in the works for several years.
Foreign exchange student Flaminia Starna returned home a little over two months ago.
Flaminia is from Rome, Italy, but misses Oklahoma and her time spent attending El Reno High School.
Starna got here at the beginning of the school year and left in December. She said her stay went by too quickly.
“I feel like my time in El Reno flew by and I can’t believe that I’ll never be able to attend EHS again,” she said.
Starna said she will also miss Friday night basketball and football games.
OKLAHOMA CITY – The full Senate last week approved Senate Bill 7. The measure, by Sen. Blake Cowboy Stephens, R-Tahlequah, would stop Oklahoma from changing the clock twice a year and lock in Daylight Saving Time (DST) year-round.
LAWSUITS
Cornerstone Home Lending vs. Christian M. Green for $126,557.40 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 4, Block 4, Woodrun Addition, Oklahoma City.
MidFirst Bank vs. Blake A. Basse for $116,693.56 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 5, Block 8, Somers Pointe Phase III Addition, Oklahoma City.
James Newman vs. Joaquin Chavira for an amount in excess of $75,000 for alleged injuries and damages.
Being one of a handful of seniors on the El Reno High School boys basketball roster, Diante Palmer figured at some point this season he would be expected to take on some sort of a leadership role.
“I expected to be a leader at some point. I wanted to start right away but that didn’t happen because I was new to the program and I was coming over from football. But I knew a lot of the people on the team and that made it easier to be a verbal leader,” said Palmer.
