Eight Okarche High School speech students brought home the Class 3A sweepstakes trophy from the Crescent High School Invitational Speech Tournament.
Senior Kenzie Beard placed first in poetry and fourth in original oratory. Senior Marley Hill took second in dramatic interp and original oratory.
Parents would have an undisputed right to access their child’s school library records under legislation approved by the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
“I’m asking members to support me on this, to vote and stand with parents and say, ‘We’ve got your back. We believe that you are the responsible party for your child and that it is important that you have access to your children’s records and that you know that we support you,’” said state Rep. Sherrie Conley, a Newcastle Republican who is a former teacher and administrator.
MUNICIPAL COURT
Alvaro Stevan Monarez, Oklahoma City, failure to yield, $195.
Alfred K. McKay, Oklahoma City, driving without valid driver’s license, $252.
Tiara Ronja Ford, El Reno, speeding, $165.
Dustin Gene Basford, Spencer, expired tag, $130.
Amy Ann Goodwin, Okarche, driving under revocation, $395.
Ingeborg Maria Van Oss, El Reno, speeding, $165.
Antonio Verdell Hawthorne, Oklahoma City, failure to appear warrant, $295.
Cheyenne M. Yeakey, Yukon, failure to appear warrant, $295.
Logging the fifth highest point total among the 63 schools making up the three classes of the Large School Division, El Reno High School defended its Class 5A title at the 2022 Oklahoma Football Coaches Association’s State Powerlifting Championships.
Played inside Jenks Simmons Field House and Annex, El Reno amassed 58 points to secure the 5A team title by 24 points over McAlester.
Lawton Ike was third with 28 points, followed by Noble (18), Durant (14), Pryor (10), Ardmore (9), Guthrie (6), Woodward (2) and scoreless Lawton MacArthur.
El Reno High School’s baseball team was slated to be back on the diamond for the 2022 Union City Spring Break Festival looking to snap a two-game losing streak.
The Indians slipped to 3-2 on the season and 0-2 in District 5A-1 play with a 7-6 loss to Bishop McGuinness at the Hub Reed Complex.
Much like the road game with the Irish, El Reno jumped out to an early 6-1 lead after two innings but struggled to put runs on the board over the final five innings.
Riding a 12-run third inning, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team brought home third-place honors from the 2022 Waukomis Invitational with an 18-17 win over Class 4A’s 14th-ranked Fairview.
Union City went 4-2 in the tourney to lift its season record to 10-5. The Tigers defeated Cimarron (13-8), Cherokee (24-3) and Waukomis (13-7) ahead of the revenge win over Fairview. The Yellowjackets won 24-19 earlier in the event.
Woodland, ranked 19th in Class 2A, defeated Union City 16-5.
Calumet High School’s baseball team kicked off the spring season with a pair of wins in its own festival, defeating Class A’s 15th-ranked Shattuck 12-2 and Geary 12-0.
The Chieftains are ranked 20th in the latest Class A poll.
Calumet went 16-of-32 from the plate for the two games for a .500 team batting average. The Chieftains got doubles from Wyatt Dean, Derrick Krantzman and Jaxon Olive.
Olive went 4-for-4 from the plate to lead the offense, scoring five times and logging a run batted in.
Following a split with Carl Albert State College, Redlands Community College’s baseball team is hovering around the .500 mark for the season heading into a busy spring break slate.
The Cougars defeated the Vikings in the middle games of the four-game series by scores of 9-5 and 9-6, but dropped the bookend meetings by scores of 5-2 and a 21-15 shootout.
The split left the Cougars with a 2-2 record in the NJCAA Region 2, Division 2 standings and 10-12 on the season.
