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Mother Nature may have benched area baseball teams with high winds last week but she struck out a day earlier with cooler temperatures and spritzing rain.

Both Calumet and Union City high schools battled those conditions to earn wins for the state-ranked clubs.

Calumet, ranked fourth in Class B, improved to 8-4 on the year with an 11-5 win over Southwest Covenant School.

The Chieftains went 13-of-32 (.406) from the plate with a double from Dalton Belcher. Hunter Arnold led the assault with a 3-of-4 effort with a run scored and two runs batted in.

Payslie Locke threw a three-inning shutout as Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team defeated Geary 16-0.

The Tigers, ranked sixth in Class 2A, improved to 15-8 on the season.

Locke allowed three base hits but no walks and two strikeouts.

Union City’s bats were 16-of-25 (.640), led by a double from Emily Griggs as the senior went 3-for-3 with three runs batted in and two scored. Haylie McCoy, Ava DeLong, Locke, Mckinzie DeLong and Grace Derosa finished with two hits each.

Oceanna Schranz, Kaitlyn Linson and Skylar Morgan added a hit each.

Clara Peake’s eighth-place medalist effort helped Redlands Community College’s golf team place fourth overall at the 2023 Kyle Blaser Invitational, played at Gaillardia Country Club.

Peake posted rounds of 73-79-80 for a 54-hole total of 232, missing the top five by six strokes. She was 15 strokes off the winning mark of 217 by Oklahoma City University’s Maddi Kamas.

El Reno Carnegie Library has been awarded a grant through the Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant Program. The program, which will enable the library to digitize records, is administered by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

“We’re excited to have been selected to receive this funding,” said Bridget Scheffler, library director.

“With it, we will be able to preserve important pieces of local history and make those items accessible to the public. Without this grant, our project would not have been possible.”

Tucked away in the basement is El Reno High School’s newest entry into the arena of competitive extracurricular activities in Oklahoma – Esports.

While the team is wrapping up its first year of existence, El Reno is already experiencing success usually reserved to more established programs.

Junior Jayden Grauberger has earned a spot in this weekend’s state championships in the Nintendo-based game Super Smash Bros.

“I was not surprised he made it but I think he was surprised he qualified,” said El Reno coach Patrick King.

The buck may have stopped on the desk of President Harry Truman, but the famous slogan plate started in El Reno.

Charley Vogt, who served as city manager in El Reno in the mid-1980s, contacted the Tribune last week after uncovering the information that connects the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution with Truman’s iconic statement.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 4 for El Reno Public Schools Office #3, City of Geary Mayor, City of Geary City Clerk-Treasurer, City of Piedmont Mayor, Geary Public Schools Office #3, Okarche Public Schools Office #3, Riverside Public School Office #3, Town of Okarche Board of Trustees Office #1, Town of Okarche Town Clerk and Town of Union City Proposition.

The El Reno School Board race pits Eric Palmer, 33, against Ron Funck, 74.

Three units from the El Reno Fire Department and two from El Reno FCI battled a house fire last week in the 400 block of South Hadden.

Incident reports state the home sustained $10,000 in damage and $8,000 more in contents.

The El Reno Police Department secured a two-block barrier around the blaze.