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While El Reno’s offense was cutting loose at the plate on senior night, Indians right-hander Raley Hartley kept McLoud’s bats handcuffed with her second straight home shutout in a 10-0 win last week.

The victory was the sixth in a row for El Reno, now over .500 for the season at 15-14.

Hartley threw four innings, allowing two hits and striking out one. She had a .697 strike percentage after 23 of her 33 pitches found the zone. Hartley got help from the defense as center fielder Maddie Moss chased down two fly balls for outs.

El Reno High School’s volleyball team stepped closer to another 20-win season last week with a 3-0 victory over Weatherford.

The 25-12/25-12/25-18 decision lifted the Indians, ranked 11th in Class 5A, to 18-11 on the season.

El Reno served at 93 percent against the Eagles with 12 aces, 11 of those from Bailey Denwalt and one by Madison Patswald.

At the net, the offense closed with a .206 hitting percentage with 33 kills against 12 errors. Avery Peffer had a team-high 14 kills, Denwalt with nine and Emma Patswald with four.

An unassisted goal by Marissa Kirkendall with 2:07 left in overtime snapped a 15-match on-field losing streak for Redlands Community College’s soccer team, defeating Murray State College 3-2.

Redlands improved to 2-4 on the season and in the NJCAA Region 2 standings with the win. The last on-field win for the Cougars was over the same Murray State team back in April during the COVID-19 delayed 2020 season.

The other win this season for Redlands was a forfeit by Seminole State College.

Union City High School’s softball team reached the title round of the Class A, District 12 Championships recently before having its season end with back-to-back losses to ninth-ranked Cyril.

The Tigers defeated Waurika 11-3 before dropping the games to the Pirates by scores of 6-0 and 9-0 . Those losses left Union City with a 15-13 overall record.

The team went 22-of-83 (.265) from the plate, getting a double from Kylie McCoy, a triple from Makenna DeLong and a home run by Makinzie DeLong.

Rebounding from a first-round loss to fifth-ranked Dale, Calumet High School’s baseball team reached the finals of the Class A, District 4 Championships before bowing out to the Pirates.

The Chieftains 10-0 and 12-2 losses to Dale were split by a 13-3 win over Okarche. Calumet closed the fall season with an 8-11 overall record.

Over the three games the team went 14-of-60 from the plate (.283) with a double each from Wyatt Dean, Jaxon Olive and Gavin Tinsley.

Olive was the team’s leading hitter, going 5-of-8 (.625) with two runs scored and a run batted in.

Canadian County Health Department will host a vaccination event at the new Canadian County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, Sept. 29 from 9 a.m. to noon.

“We are not sure what the volume will be because there are so many other providers out there, but we wanted to make this as convenient as possible,” said Health Department spokesperson Maggie Jackson.

All three vaccines will be available for first and second doses. Pfizer will be available for third doses for immuno-compromised and boosters for high risk and people over 65.

An El Reno band, Sever Me, will open for Matt Ferrell when he brings his comedy show to El Reno. The show is set for 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2 at the Centre Theatre, said Kristin Richardson with the El Reno Community Theatre.

Ferrell extended the invite to the local band after serving as one of the judges in the recent Battle of the Bands.

Sever Me placed third in the contest also put on by the ERCT.

A native of southwest Oklahoma, Ferrell was a rodeo cowboy and owned a garage door company before tackling comedy on a full-time basis.

El Reno High School will be holding its annual All Sports Homecoming Festivities this Friday starting with a parade in downtown El Reno.

The Pride of El Reno Marching Band will lead the parade from the high school starting at 1:30 p.m.

The parade route will make a circle pattern through the downtown area and feature class floats and other entries.

El Reno High School Class of 1956 will have a float in the parade.

The queen and king crowning ceremony will start prior to the game with Lawton MacArthur at 6:20 p.m.