El Reno High School junior Carter Roman Nose was recently presented the trophy ball and poster honoring his milestone of surpassing 1,000 career points.
Pictured from left are his father, Perry, mom, Stephanie, brother, Evan and EHS head coach Rodney Haydon.
El Reno High School’s powerlifting teams have found mixed results during the first meets of the 2024 season.
The boys varsity squad placed three in the Little Axe Invitational, led by a gold-medal effort of 810 pounds from Jeremiah Ortiz in the 123-pound bracket. He posted a 335-pound deadlift, followed by a 300-pound squat and a 175-pound bench press.
Tucker McDaniel (145) took silver with a total weight of 860 pounds. His best efforts were a 350-pound deadlift and a 340-pound squat.
Jacob Mayfield admits that keeping a zero in the loss column was not a preseason goal of his Calumet High School boys basketball team when the season started in November.
“Sure, we wanted to win every game we played, but going undefeated was not a goal,” said Mayfield.
Yet that’s just what happened after his Class B’s top-ranked Chieftains completed the regular season with a 63-34 win over Binger-Oney in the championship game of the Washita Valley Shootout.
Calumet High School’s girls basketball team will charge into the postseason on a high note after snapping a seven-game losing streak with a 41-35 win over Gracemont in the Washita Valley Shootout.
The win lifted the Chieftains to 2-20 on the season. Calumet will now play Mulhall-Orlando in the semifinals of the Class B, Area 2, District 4 Championships.
After having its 13-game win streak snapped by a four-point loss to Class 2A’s fourth-ranked Hennessey, Okarche High School’s boys basketball team rebounded with back-to-back wins.
The Warriors, ranked fourth in Class A, rallied from the 64-60 loss to the Eagles to beat Class 2A’s 12th-ranked Fairview (76-40) and Cashion (82-45) to close out the regular season with a 20-4 record.
The Warriors are hosting the Class A, Area 1, District 2 Championships and drew a bye into the title game against the winner of the Wellston/Ringwood semifinal.
Country music fans in the area will have a rare treat to step back in time when the Twitty & Lynn Show plays at the Centre Theatre in downtown El Reno. The show is set for 7 p.m. March 7 and tickets are available at elrenoentertainment.com.
Organizers of the show say there’s a moment at the very beginning of the Twitty & Lynn show that affords country music fans the chance to look back in time.
El Reno High School cheerleaders (from left) Ainslee Bailey, Serenity Schnider and Bella Hart accented their Pink Out shirts with pink sunglasses as did the rest of the EHS cheer squad.
The EHS basketball programs held the special night last week during home games with Elgin to show support for breast cancer awareness.
T-shirts were sold to raise funds for the wife of EHS girls wrestling coach Chad Whitney, who is battling cancer.
Canadian County’s steady growth is evident in a remarkable increase in property values since early last decade.
In 2023, Canadian County’s net valuation totaled $2,128,291,555 - that’s $2.1 billion.
This figure represents 12 percent of the total market value of all taxable property in Canadian County (Oklahoma is a fractional assessment state).
When Assessor Matt Wehmuller took office in 2011, the net valuation for Canadian County was $890,767,541 ($890 million).
