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Pictured are Riverside February Students of the Month, front row from left, Asher Wiggins, Braxton Camp, Kyndall Thompson, Daelan WhiteHorse, TreaVion Hemrick, Skie Brinker, Banx Ellison, Lexi Matias and Leolia Duncan; back row, Liam LeGrand, Adlee Vega, Paulina Calzada, Colten Price, Greyson Imoe, Kynlee Long, Lyric Lehman, Sage Tosh, Ridley Jefrey and Leon Reynolds. Not pictured: Crew Wooten, Jeremiah Robinson, Legend Hatton, David Whitlow, Maddax Lehman, Alexi Evans, Jasmine Gonzalez, Natalie Ramos, Rhome Alexander and Aden Sam.

Starting out with back-to-back wins, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team is battling a two-game losing steak after setbacks to Hinton and Binger-Oney.

The Tigers dropped a 25-17 shootout to the Comets before losing 11-3 to Binger-Oney. Union City (2-2) defeated Cement (14-2) and Wayne (13-1) to kick off the spring season.

Through four games the Tigers have scored 47 runs off a .496 batting average after going 56-of-113 at the plate. The team has six doubles and one home run from Emily Griggs.

Union City High School’s baseball team kicked off the spring season with back-to-back shutout wins over Oklahoma Christian Academy and Geary.

The Tigers downed OCA by an 11-0 margin before blanking the Bisons by a 19-0 score.

Union City went 19-of-36 (.528) from the plate over the spread, with eight of those hits being doubles. Dalton Stout and Braydon Armstrong had two each.

For just the sixth time in history, both El Reno High School basketball teams earned their way to the Elite Eight for the 2023 Class 5A Oklahoma State High School Basketball Championships.

“This is just the thing you want. The more people we have going to state, the more people we are going to have in the stands. I’ve always been a firm believer that if one or two programs have success like this it can spread out to other sports,” said El Reno girls coach Jennifer Douglas.

The last time both teams made state was in 2019. Other times were in 2017, 1999, 1996 and 1994.

Work has begun on the installation of a new fiber optic streaming network that will be owned and operated by the city of El Reno. Crews are starting work on El Reno FAST Connect, City Manager Matt Sandidge said.

The FAST acronym refers to fiber and streaming technology, with “more reliable, consistent coverage for streaming throughout the city.” Rates for the unmetered, weather-effective network start at $65 per month.

Cyndi Ice recently led her El Reno High School Earth and Space class on a tour of the new city water plant.

“What an amazing field trip,” Ice said of the tour.

“We were able to tour inside and outside learning about the basic plant flow processes and lab testing.”

The students were the first group to tour the new plant, a state-of-the-art project that has been in the works for several years.

Foreign exchange student Flaminia Starna returned home a little over two months ago.

Flaminia is from Rome, Italy, but misses Oklahoma and her time spent attending El Reno High School.

Starna got here at the beginning of the school year and left in December. She said her stay went by too quickly.

“I feel like my time in El Reno flew by and I can’t believe that I’ll never be able to attend EHS again,” she said.

Starna said she will also miss Friday night basketball and football games.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The full Senate last week approved Senate Bill 7. The measure, by Sen. Blake Cowboy Stephens, R-Tahlequah, would stop Oklahoma from changing the clock twice a year and lock in Daylight Saving Time (DST) year-round.