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Trimming its team scores down closer to the 400 mark, El Reno High School’s girls golf team posted a pair of top 10 finishes last week. The Indians took ninth place at the Kingfisher Yellowjackets Invitational with a team score of 405.

The effort was paced by duplicate rounds of 99 from Berkley Kidd-Smith and Madison Patswald.

Skylar Ayers was the third lowest round with a 110, followed by Emma Patswald with a 114 and a 118 from Kallie Maifield.

A longtime El Reno city official is prodding Canadian County commissioners to release part of its federal stimulus aid award to benefit cities and towns.

El Reno Mayor Matt White implored commissioners April 4 to act on American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding requests totaling $13.25 million submitted by seven local government entities for water projects.

“We’re getting concerned, we sent a request to you all back in October,” White told the commissioners.

Kenneth Solis spent the fall booting a football long distances at Memorial Stadium but last week he proved he can kick a soccer ball with just as much success.

The sophomore logged his first-ever hat trick as El Reno High School’s boys soccer team kept its playoff hopes alive with a 6-4 win over Midwest City.

“I’ve never had a hat trick before,” said Solis after his three first-half goals.

El Reno snapped a six-match losing streak with the win over the Bombers to improve to 2-7 on the season.

Canadian County elected officials recently toured the Rogers County Courthouse near Tulsa as they consider building a new courthouse complex.

Commissioners are expected to review a proposal for a multi-level courthouse/administration building. Estimated construction cost has not been determined.

“We need to engage an architect to help us project that cost,” said Commissioner Dave Anderson. “I know that the Rogers County Courthouse would cost around $30 million in today’s construction climate.

Facing 25-mile-per-hour gusts out of the west, the outcome of last week’s District 5A-2 match between El Reno High School’s girls soccer team and Midwest City came down to which team played the best into the wind.

That advantage favored El Reno as the Indians scored three goals into the wind en route to a 5-0 shutout of the Bombers.

The win was the second straight for El Reno, which climbed to 2-2 in the league standings and into fourth place, one game back in the loss column to Carl Albert, which is set to host Tuesday night.

El Reno High School’s baseball team snapped an eight-game losing streak by posting a 2-2 record in the 2022 Bill Tipton Classic – co-hosted by Carl Albert and Midwest City.

The Indians improved to 10-13 on the spring by sandwiching wins over Santa Fe South (11-4) and Lawton Eisenhower (15-10) around losses to Weatherford (9-1) and Midwest City (13-2).

El Reno went 21-of-76 from the plate over the four games for a .276 batting average, posting six doubles and a three-run home run from Dacus Cooper in the win over Lawton Ike.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

Garrison Andrew Kingery, 28; Alexis Brooke Busby, 23.

Antone LaJuan Prince, 42; Jacquelyn Shunta Gordon, 37.

Douglas Henry Cook, 53; Laurie Ann Brown, 52.

Mason Allen Smith, 26; Kailee Nicole Graves, 22.

Noah Cameron Webster, 24; Makenna Kamryn Burge, 22.

Wayne Preston Foster Jr., 50; Michelle Lucille Sermersheim, 43.

Clinton Harold Jenkins, 29; Watona Lee Swift, 33.

Oron E. Harper Jr., 74; Creta Schuneman, 74.

Joshua Eugene Hines, 26; Alyssa Paige Ramirez, 28.

Losing both its battles with a strong south wind and Kingfisher, El Reno High School’s tennis teams dropped to 1-2 on the dual season with a 5-2 loss to the Yellowjackets.

El Reno posted a 2-2 record on the girls side, losing both singles matches. Kambry Maifield fell 2-6/0-6 to Sydney Watkins at No.1 singles and Yui Kasahara lost to Kami Hamilton at No.2 singles 3-6/0-6.