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It was a mixed bag of results over a 24-hour period for El Reno High School’s boys golf team last week, driven mostly by a shift in playing conditions.

In near perfect playing conditions, the Indians carded a 337 team score to place third in the 2023 Weatherford Boys Invitational.

El Reno was 24 strokes off the winning pace set by Woodward, but only 16 back of Elk City for second.

El Reno beat out Clinton (340), Thomas/Fay-Custer (341) and Weatherford (349) to round out the top six.

Following a big rally for a run-ruled pool victory over Weatherford, El Reno High School’s baseball team dropped a close 6-5 game to Class A’s 14th-ranked Laverne in cross-bracket play in the 2024 Kingfisher Invitational.

El Reno served as one of the two host sites for the event, posting a 2-2 record to exit the event with a 13-5 overall record. The Indians rallied from a six-run deficit with a 21-run blitz over three innings to defeat Weatherford 21-9 and logged an 11-1 win over Clinton.

The other loss was a close 4-3 game against Putnam City West.

In the only scheduled home action of the season, El Reno High School’s tennis teams were competitive but dropped a varsity/junior varsity outing to Harding Charter by an 11-1 score at the Legion Park courts.

The El Reno girls lost by a 6-0 margin but won 24 games and had one match go to a third-set tiebreaker. Bri Barksdale and Jayna Graham lost 7-5/4-6/8-10 to the team of Lemus and Oubre at No.1 doubles.

El Reno’s Carnegie Library got a boost in helping to digitize historic records with a grant from the Oklahoma Historical Society.

The El Reno library received $15,155 for a project that will help fund the digitization of items focusing on urban development, local government and local events during territorial and early statehood. Items will be digitized and placed on The Gateway to Oklahoma History, an online repository of Oklahoma history. The funds are part of the Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant Program.

This Canada goose seems to be walking off the distance for a birdie putt for Redlands Community College sophomore Clara Peake (background) on the 18th green at Crimson Creek Golf Course last week.

The waterfowl walked around the green and watched golfers come and go through the hole for more than an hour.

See related coverage on the Women’s Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships here.
 

A Canadian Valley Technology Center board member withstood a challenge to retain his Board of Education post. Incumbent Dean Riddell of Yukon on Tuesday won CV Tech’s Zone 1 board election by a 62.67 percent majority.

Some 4,983 votes were cast in 102 precincts across the multi-county Canadian Valley school district, with Riddell besting challenger Cotton Ruzicka of Yukon by a 3,123-1,860 vote.

Two units from the El Reno Fire Department and a third from El Reno FCI responded to this house fire in the 400 block of South Barker Avenue Wednesday morning.

According to the ERPD incident report, the structure received $80,000 damage and loss of contents was estimated at $20,000.

BlueSTEM AgriLearning Center’s 2024 Agriscience Symposium will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 18 in the Austin Family Conference Center at Redlands Community College, 1300 S. Country Club Road.

BlueSTEM students representing five school districts will display their agriscience research project posters.

Calumet High School: Aspen Burns, Kylista Burton and Mikah Mayo.