MUSTANG – El Reno High School’s girls basketball team was handed a wake-up call prior to the upcoming Class 5A playoffs as Mustang defeated the Indians 68-43 to close out the regular season.
The loss to the Class 6A Broncos dropped El Reno to 19-4 on the season.
It was the first meeting between the two schools since the finals of the Shawnee Invitational in 2022 – which Mustang won by 15 points.
Paced by six state qualifiers, El Reno High School’s boys squad took seventh place last week at the Class 5A West Regional Wrestling Championships with 108.5 points.
Chickasha, the host and top-ranked team in 5A, ran away with the title with 286.5 points, followed by Elgin (204), Lawton MacArthur (146.5), Carl Albert (141) and Duncan (134) to round out the top five. Blanchard (125) finished ahead of El Reno in the 18-team field.
With every shot that Carter Roman Nose took in last week’s game with Carl Albert, there were collective gasps rolling out of the mouths of El Reno fans along with the occasional, “There it is.”
And with every shot by the senior that ripped the threads, there were pencils and pens in the hands of the EHS coaches and this journalist jotting down notes and doing quick math.
Yet somehow through all that chaotic madness, Roman Nose never picked up on the fact he was on the brink of making El Reno High School history.
A new automated car wash is expected to be built on South Country Club and residents in newly annexed areas will be allowed to shoot off fireworks, as well as continue with open burning with some stipulations in place.
The El Reno City Council took the action at last week’s regular meeting.
Scott and Rachel Spurger requested 6.11 acres on South Country Club, directly across from Redlands Community College, be rezoned to allow for the car wash and later construction of some office and retail space.
We’ve been going to the high school basketball games because our son, James plays. It has been so much fun! He will be a senior next year, but we might just be hooked and keep going to the games even after he graduates. I love seeing all the kids having fun and the teachers having fun with them!
A crowd gathered to vote in last Saturday afternoon’s Canadian County District 2 Fair Board election.
Incumbent Ken Carpenter of Mustang defeated challenger Jason Cooper of El Reno, 109-37, to win the next three-year term on the nine-member fair board.
A longtime Canadian County auctioneer and realtor, Carpenter earned his fifth term as a District 2 fair board member with a 74.7 percent majority of votes cast.
The Centre Theatre for the Arts will perform the delightful Southern comedy, “The Red Velvet Cake War.”
Under the direction of Johnlee Lookingglass, performances are scheduled for Feb. 21, 22 and 28 and March 1 at 7 p.m. Matinee shows are set for Feb. 23 and March 2 at 2 p.m. All performances are inside the historic Centre Theatre in downtown El Reno.
El Reno Acts of Kindness Day was Feb. 19.
But actually, it should be celebrated every day.
Kindness is easy but it is not always natural. National Random Acts of Kindness Day (Feb. 17) aimed to help make kindness purposeful for one day, with the hope that the acts of kindness continue.
