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After squaring its match with Tecumseh at a game-all, El Reno High School’s volleyball team dropped back-to-back games to the Savages to open the 2024 campaign with a 3-1 loss.

Tecumseh won a close 25-22 opening game before El Reno rallied from three points down to pull out a 26-24 win in game two. The Savages secured the win by taking the final two games 25-18 and 25-19.

El Reno served at 93 percent for the match with 14 aces, while logging 74 digs. The effort, however, was hampered by 55 errors.

Bri Michalicka’s tenure as El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball coach hit a rough patch along Interstate 40 last week as the Indians opened the 2024 season with a 12-0 loss to Weatherford.

El Reno was held to two hits in the shutout loss as the team went 2-of-11 from the plate with no walks and five strikeouts.

Both hits came in the top of the second inning as Micah Woods singled and went to third on a one-out double by Kyla Killingsworth. Both were left stranded on back-to-back strikeouts. El Reno did not have another base runner.

Maizlynn Steenbergen recently won the Lake Hefner golf tournament championship for the girls 12- to 14-year-old age group.

She has won the event three years in a row.

It was the first time for Steenbergen to play 18 holes each day of the event, posting rounds of 92 and 96 to secure the title.

Steenbergen will be a seventh-grader this year at Banner School.

UNION CITY – Rookie head coach Terra Funk got her first career win last week as Union City High School’s fast-pitch softball team ran through its lineup two and a half times in the bottom of the first inning.

The result of those 21 batters was 16 runs, 14 hits and five walks as the Tigers defeated Velma-Alma 19-0.

The win lifted Union City to 1-1 on the season following a 5-0 loss to Binger-Oney.

Union City went 19-of-21 from the plate (.905) with six walks. Morgan Brothers led the way with a 3-for-3 effort with three runs scored and two more driven in.

UNION CITY – Facing two-time state champion Fort Cobb-Broxton to kick off its 2024 fall season, Union City High School’s baseball team hung with the Mustangs for two innings.

Then the floodgates opened.

The Mustangs, who won the fall (2023) and spring (2024) state titles, scored 10 runs over the final five innings to post a 13-5 win over the Tigers.

Union City trailed 3-1 after two frames but did not score again until a four-run fifth inning. The Tigers put up all five runs on a 7-of-29 (.241) effort from the plate.

The transient suspected of killing an El Reno man during a multi-state crime spree will face the charge in Sequoyah County, where he also is charged in the deaths of two more people near Gans.

Stacy Lee Drake is suspected of killing an El Reno man in June. 

El Reno Police Chief Ken Brown said Drake, 50, of Birmingham, Ala., is the main suspect in the death of Phillip Emerson, 56, who lived at 204 N. Macomb. That case is filed now in Sequoyah County, authorities reported.

Art Peters has spent 18 years tracking down the history in and around Hinton. That effort helped earn the 1976 El Reno High School graduate a Heartland Regional Emmy for his role in an OETA documentary.

Peters is the curator at the Hinton Historical Museum. He’s been in that position for 21 years.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Not all of Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett’s friends really understand his role in state government.

Hiett said they assume he is a county commissioner, putting down gravel and building county roads.

However, Hiett sits on a three-person board that regulates a range of industries including transportation, oil and gas, towing and public utilities.