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El Reno’s Remy Whitney recently placed twice in the USA Wrestling Women’s Nationals.

She was fourth in the 14-and-under division at 85 pounds and then took fifth in the 15-and-under division at 39 kilograms.

With those finishes, she earned a tryout spot for the Pan American Games later this year.

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Girls have rough day at regional

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Navigating through what head coach Jennifer Myers called a “rough day,” El Reno High School’s girls tennis team failed to advance any players to the 2023 Class 5A Girls Tennis Championships.

Playing in the Class 5A West Regional in Duncan, El Reno logged two seventh-place finishes from its doubles teams, while singles players took eighth.

Dalanda Robb hits a two-handed backhand return shot

Linksters miss state berths

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Despite posting two of its better rounds of the season, El Reno High School’s boys golf squad missed out on team and individual passes to the 2023 Class 5A Boys State Golf Championships.

Playing in the 5A West Regional on the Augusta Course at Cedar Valley Golf Club in Guthrie, El Reno fell short of the final team pass by 74 strokes, which went to Noble with a 36-hole total of 666.

Duncan (582), Piedmont (614), Carl Albert (629), Bishop McGuinness (637) and Altus (639) were the other five schools to make state.

El Reno High School’s boys golf team wrapped up the 2023 season

Rallies work against UC Tigers in A-2 Regional Championship

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A pair of rallies went against Union City High School’s baseball team as the 18th-ranked Tigers dropped back-to-back games in the Class A, Region 2 Championships at Canute.

Union City jumped out to a 7-1 lead of 15th-ranked Hydro-Eakly in the first game, before watching the Bobcats string together an eight-run rally to take the contest by a 9-7 score.

The Tigers fell behind 7-1 to Hominy in an elimination game before mounting a late rally of their own to cut that deficit to two runs. However, the Tigers had their season end with a 7-5 setback to fall to 20-7 overall.

Dalton Stout tags the back of a Southwest Covenant base runner

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Stennett HR helps RCC avoid sweep by Pioneers

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Marshyl Stennett’s three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning allowed Redlands Community College’s baseball team to avoid being swept by Western Oklahoma State College in a key regional series.

The Pioneers, currently third in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings, won three games of the series by scores of 3-2, 9-0 and 10-2.

Stennett’s homer carried the Cougars to a 9-8 victory in game three of the series which was played in Altus due to wet conditions at RCC’s Don Brown Field.

Lutts: Public Safety Center idea sprouted at breakfast

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If Canadian Valley Technology Center builds a Public Safety Training Center, the idea originated at an El Reno Now breakfast.

That’s what CV Tech Superintendent Dr. Gayla Lutts said at last week’s gathering of El Reno Now. Lutts and Jena Marr, interim president at Redlands Community College, provided updates on what’s happening at their respective schools.

El Reno Now is a quarterly event hosted by Mayor Steve Jensen and El Reno School Superintendent Matt Goucher.

Steve Jensen gives The Lord’s Harvest director Nikki Pruitt a hug

Sandidge gives update on various retail expansions, Internet service

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City Manager Matt Sandidge drew laughter when he told last week’s El Reno Now audience that all was right with El Reno now that “Sonic has opened.”

Sandidge said the new restaurant on Sunset Drive was a welcome addition. The store had to be torn down and rebuilt after a motorist ran through the drive-in.

Sandidge also pointed to the major changes at Country Club Square Shopping Center.

“Who can remember what that shopping center looked like 10 years ago,” he asked. “It was a vacant Walmart and not much else.”