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Al Harrell of Mustang was winner of a quilt raffled off by the Canadian County Association for Oklahoma Home and Community Education during the Canadian County Free Fair.

Harrell is shown with Donna Jung, Canadian County Family Consumer Sciences Educator.

The quilt was made using the blocks from the 2022 Quilt Block Challenge Contest, and was put together and sewn by Serenity Jennings of El Reno and quilted by Macrae Putnam of El Reno.

Approximately $1,000 was raised with proceeds benefiting the Canadian County OHCE High School Scholarship Fund.

The Ice Cream Freeze-Off was a new contest this year at the Canadian County Free Fair.

Named as champion was Marbi Symes with her butter pecan ice cream.

The trophy was sponsored by Ken Carpenter Auction and Realty.

LAWSUITS

Conn Appliances Inc. vs. Anitra Tsotaddle for $11,711.56 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

City Electric Supply Company vs. Tommy Mannon and R&R Real Estate Group LLC for $30,277.87 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Discover Bank vs. Lijo Johnson for $32,665.34 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Discover Bank vs. Lorna Celeste for $12,407.73 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

In its closest match of the season, El Reno High School’s volleyball team held off a late run by Shawnee to post a 3-2 win over the Wolves in Suburban Conference action.

The Indians won by scores of 23-25/27-25/25-19/18-25/15-11 to improve to 3-4 on the season and 1-1 in the conference standings.

Qyra Jones led the offensive attack with 12 kills as the team finished with 41 total. Trinity Black closed in double digits with 11 kills, followed by Lily Elliott with six and four kills from Jewell Graham.

DEL CITY – A pair of big second-inning offensive explosions propelled El Reno High School’s fast-pitch softball team to back-to-back District 5A-2 victories last week while extending the Indians win streak in the process.

El Reno has won five games in a row for the second time after beating Santa Fe South (13-0) and Del City (16-2) to improve to 9-4 on the season.

The Indians remain fourth in the district standings at 3-3 behind Piedmont, Carl Albert and Noble.

Run production continues to be an issue for both Union City and Calumet High School’s fast-pitch softball teams as both squads earned only one win in eight combined games last week.

Union City slipped to 3-11 on the season with its lone win over four games, a 15-3 decision against Ninnekah.

The Tigers dropped games to Elmore City/Pernell (8-1), Rush Springs (14-1) and Empire (11-1).

The team went 21-of-78 (.269) from the plate with two triples and a double from Morgan Brothers. Victoria Stucks, Lily Russell and Trestan Sutton logged a double each.

Calumet High School continues to make its case to be the top-ranked team in Class B after winning the recent Okarche/Binger-Oney Tournament and sweeping both games of its own festival.

The Chieftains, now 13-0, moved up a spot in the latest poll to No.2 behind Fort Cobb-Broxton (13-3).

Calumet defeated Binger-Oney (19-0) and Class A’s 10th-ranked Okarche (1-0) in tournament play before taking the title with a 3-1 win over Class A’s fifth-ranked Amber-Pocasset.

Redlands Community College women’s soccer team has had a rocky start to the 2023 season with back-to-back losses including a 4-1 setback to Kansas-based Garden City in its home opener.

The Cougars are 0-1 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings after a 4-0 loss to Northern Oklahoma College of Enid.

Amya Lindsay had the lone goal for the Cougars out of five total shots through two matches.

Payton Brickey had three shots, followed by Miya Ingram with two. Jaidya Gonzalez and Bri Spann added a shot each.