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Skylar Ayers fired a career-low round last week as El Reno High School’s girls golf team placed fifth in the Tecumseh Invitational, despite having one player down with sickness and another finishing her round feeling ill.

Ayers, a junior, carded an 86 on the Firelake Golf Course in Shawnee as El Reno logged a team score of 390. Ayers was seventh overall in the individual medalist race.

Durant won the tourney with a 338, followed by Perkins-Tryon (358), Ada (365) and Sulphur (384) ahead of the Indians.

El Reno High School’s tennis teams took part in the Henryetta Invitational over two separate days, with both squads competing tough on the consolation side of the brackets.

The El Reno boys took sixth place in all divisions as No.1 singles player Jacob Guerrero went 1-2 with losses to the host (6-0/6-1) and McAlester (6-0/6-0).

His win was a straight sets decision over Pryor’s Zander Newmann.

Jim Rinehart went 1-2 at No.2 singles with losses to Henryetta (6-1/6-0) and McAlester (6-4/3-6/10-8).

He defeated Okmulgee’s Nylem Gentry in two sets (6-1/7-5).

UNION CITY – Mother Nature was the hardest batter to strike out as Calumet and Union City’s slow-pitch softball teams closed out the regular season with the second installment of Canadian County bedlam rivalry. Swirling winds played havoc with pitchers from both schools which combined for 20 walks in a 16-5 win by Union City to split the series. Calumet won the first installment 10-4 six days earlier.

Calumet High School’s baseball team, the top ranked team in Class B, will take an eight-game win streak into the postseason after winning the Roff Invitational.

The Chieftains move to 14-3 on the spring with the title, beating Allen (8-0), Class B’s sixth-ranked Roff (4-1) and Class 4A’s Ada in the championship.

The win over the Cougars came in extra innings as Calumet scored four runs in the eighth, sparked by a Kaleb Thiessen double, a single by Kyler Thiessen, a Dalton Belcher sacrifice and an RBI-single from Brendon Voss.

Connie Chambless wears her faith on her T-shirt.

It says so right on the front: “Faith makes all things possible.” - Luke 1:37

But from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday, her faith is on display inside the Love for the Children Center at 400 W. London. That’s where Chambless helps young mothers and their children make it through another month, providing everything from formula and diapers for the infants to clothes, shoes, books and stuffed animals for the older kids.

For April’s observance of Child Abuse Awareness Month, Canadian County’s child advocacy center is looking to the community for support as more youth victims come for help.

The Child Abuse Response Team (C.A.R.T.) provides a trauma-informed, child-friendly environment for child victims of abuse and neglect and those who have witnessed domestic violence.