A day after the boys took third, El Reno High School’s girls golf team matched that finish on the same course with a third-place effort in the 2026 Suburban Conference Girls Championship.
El Reno carded a season-low 354 on the John Conrad Course in Midwest City after its five players had only one nine-hole score in the 50s. Carl Albert won the conference tittle with a 332 and Guthrie (346) edged out EHS by eight shots for second.
El Reno placed eighth in its home tourney, the first of three in six days.
In an odd set of brackets that included pool play and round-robin matches, El Reno High School’s tennis teams both took fifth place at the 2026 Suburban Conference Championships.
In girls action, Serenity Billings was sixth at No.1 singles after losing a close 6-3/6-4 match to Shawnee’s Judah Douglas for fifth.
The No.1 doubles team of Emma Resendiz and Cali Mayo dropped two matches, while the No.2 doubles pair of April Casanova and Melany Mendoza went 1-1 after beating Del City 3-6/6-4/10-6.
With one of their best outings of the season, El Reno High School’s track teams posted 16 top 10 efforts at the 2026 Elk City Classic, resulting in a pair of seventh-place team finishes.
The girls took seventh with a team-high 42 points, led by distance runners Lilly Owen and Raquel Seymour. In the 800-meter run, Owen earned fourth place with a time of two minutes and 42.67 seconds, while Seymour was fifth at 2:44.71.
They flipped finishes in the 1,600 meters, with Seymour (6:13.88) taking third and Owen (6:21.38) fifth place.
The City of El Reno gave the owner of the house at 619 W. Clarke Street another month to show progress is being made before possibly moving forward with demolition.
The owner, Asky Chiles said he misunderstood what was involved concerning an inspection he agreed to with a city crew and for that reason refused to allow them inside the house.
The home was condemned in January and scheduled for demolition.
But Chiles has pleaded for the past couple of months for more time to make improvements.
The city council agreed, based on certain conditions.
El Reno officials are singing the praises of the Animal Control Officers who recently earned one of the highest scores for the department’s ability to adopt out animals.
Police Chief Ken Brown said the ACO crew earned a score of 92 for their ability to find new homes for pets, as well as a willingness to take in unwanted animals and strays.
Brown made the comments at Tuesday night’s city council meeting. He said the national organization, Best Friends, rates animal shelters in a number of categories.
The Bookmobile hosted by Wesley in ACTSion, the mission team at Wesley United Methodist Church, started a new chapter with a bright teal van that will continue giving thousands of books to El Reno children.
In late 2019, mission co-chair Amy Neathery said she was watching the news and saw a report of a neighboring town introducing a new bookmobile.
An El Reno juvenile found himself spending time at the Children’s Justice Center after he allegedly took a family member’s vehicle without permission and then proceeded to elude police.
Police Chief Ken Brown said the juvenile lost control of the vehicle, wrecking it along I-40 near Radio Road.
The incident happened in the early evening of April 10.
After wrecking the vehicle, the juvenile reportedly ran into a drainage ditch trying to hide.
