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The Redlands Community College Academic Team has been a top contender at the National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT), and this year the team sent three squads to compete in Chicago.

The A team secured a fifth-place finish among the nation’s top 24 community college teams in the two-day competition.

Team member Riley Ray of El Reno finished in a tie for second individual overall, which is the highest finish in the history of the Redlands program.

El Reno Mayor Steve Jensen presents an envelope with $580 to Nikki Pruitt of The Lord’s Harvest. The presentation came at the conclusion of last week’s El Reno Now breakfast.

Pruitt joked with Jensen that he needed to volunteer again for the dunk tank sponsored by The Lord’s Harvest at the upcoming Burger Day Festival.

Jensen volunteered last year and after the experience, called the dunk tank “a young man's game.”

He then added, “But you never know, I might be up there again.”

Third-grade students from Holy Trinity Catholic School in Okarche converged on The Lord’s Harvest last week.

The youngsters helped Nikki Pruitt and her volunteers prepare for the senior food distribution.

Holy Trinity students make several trips a year to help with the El Reno food ministry created and operated by Pruitt.

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority (OSIDA) unveiled a new name and brand for its flagship property in Burns Flat: Infinity One Oklahoma Spaceport.

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El Reno High School’s boys soccer team took the fight to Classen SAS, currently the second-place team in District 5A-2, leading in most statistical categories except one – the scoreboard.

The Comets scored a goal in overtime to break a 1-all tie at the end of regulation, leaving Memorial Stadium with a 2-1 victory over the Indians.

El Reno slipped to 6-4 on the season and 1-3 in the 5A-2 standings. Like the girls, the Indians will have to win their final three matches to stay in the postseason talk.

El Reno High School’s girls soccer team was the victim of a bad break and questionable call in a 2-1 loss to Classen SAS, one that put the Indians’ backs to the wall as far as making the postseason.

El Reno slipped to 3-6 on the season with its second straight loss. The Indians are now 1-3 in the District 5A-2 standings and need to win the final three matches to stay in the playoff picture.

Sophomore Damein McKelvey drew a one-out walk in the bottom of the seventh inning but was left stranded at first as El Reno High School’s baseball team dropped a close 2-1 non-district game to Clinton.

The home loss pushed El Reno’s current losing streak to four as the Indians slipped to 11-13 on the year.

Clinton broke a 1-all tie in the top half of the seventh with a pair of two-out runs on the third and fourth hits of the game for the Red Tornado.