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ER spikers serve up 3-0 home win over Hennessey

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Serving off large chunks of points in all three games, El Reno High School’s volleyball team snapped a five-match losing streak with a 3-0 victory over Hennessey.

The 25-8/25-14/25-14 win lifted El Reno to 11-16 on the season.

“We needed this win,” said El Reno head coach Kristen Koehler.

In game one, Mary Gonzalez served up 10 straight points, followed by Emercyn Looper with nine and Brantlie Charmasson with four points.

The trend carried over into game two as Looper had a string of eight points and Charmasson with four.

Trinity Black (25) strikes a kill attempt

No.1 Calumet a round closer to state; Tigers stunned

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Calumet High School’s baseball team, which has held the top spot in the Class B poll the entire season, is now two victories away from a repeat trip to the OSSAA Fall State Baseball Championships.

The Chieftains, now 24-4-1 following a 5-5 tie with Amber Poscasset (No.5 in Class A) in a tuneup game last week, will host the Class B, Region 1 Championships.

State-ranked Sentinel (No.8) and Caney (No.9) are in the regional along with Vici. The winner advances to state as Calumet is seeking its third straight trip to the fall classic and fourth in school history.

Kingston Arnold turns to make a pickoff throw

Union City advances to regional; Calumet bats cold in district bids

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Fueled by an offensive explosion, unranked Union City High School’s fast-pitch softball team took a step closer to its first-ever trip to state by winning the Class A, District 32 title.

The Tigers moved to 19-12 on the season with a win over Drumright (4-3) in extra innings and sweeping two games from Davenport (5-4/17-1) to win the district.

Union City was slated to play in the Class A, Region 5 Championship with the winner headed to state.

Morgan Brothers eyes a pickoff throw as a runner slides into second base

Redlands soccer drops first two matches of road swing

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Redlands Community College women’s soccer team dropped the first two matches of a four-game road swing in NJCAA Region 2 action.

The losses came to Murray State College (8-1) and the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain (8-1) as Redlands slipped to 1-8-1 on the season and 1-5 in the region standings.

Ashanti Lewis led the Cougars for the two matches with five shots on goal and one assist.

Jordan Wentworth logged three shots and two goals, one off an assist by Elizabeth Bolton.

Flips, rolls and military might shown at air show

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Passengers in high altitude commercial airliners as well as thousands of ground spectators had a clear view of the 2024 El Reno Air Show and Community Day.

Blue skies and cooler temperatures greeted spectators to the fifth annual event – held under the direction of David Schultz Air Shows - which is celebrating its 30th year. The founder served as Air Boss for the performance.

“We had a great crowd. We won’t know the numbers for a couple of weeks to see how many people attended, but the weather was perfect except for it being a bit windy.

Jeff Shetterly puts his T-6 Texan into a vertical climb

Super Heroes unite

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El Reno High School held its 2024 Homecoming Parade last week through downtown El Reno with Super Heroes as the theme.

There were class floats, queen and king candidates and class reunion entries.

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