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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.

After more than 30 years near the Canadian County Courthouse in El Reno, the county’s child advocacy center is moving to Yukon.

The Child Abuse Response Team (C.A.R.T.) will relocate in coming months to what is now the Canadian County Health Department’s Yukon office on East Vandament. The CCHD this spring will open a newly remodeled site on State Highway 66 just west of Evans Road.

“We will be moving with some other agencies to the former Canadian County Health Department in Yukon,” C.A.R.T. House Executive Director Joanne Riley said.