Redlands Community College’s soccer team is battling through a five-match losing streak after dropping the first two dates of its current road swing.
The Cougars slipped to 1-6 in the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference standings with losses to Rose State College (7-0) and the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain (3-1).
Those losses came on the heels of a 4-1 setback to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M at Memorial Stadium.
Despite having five more minutes of possession time, El Reno High School’s girls soccer team had its four-match winning streak halted last week with a 6-0 loss to Bishop McGuinness.
The match was for the outright lead in the District 5A-1 title chase as El Reno slipped to 4-1 in the standings and into sole possession of second place with two matches remaining.
The Indians are now 8-4 on the season and were slated to play a makeup road match with Guthrie before closing out district play against Guymon.
El Reno High School’s boys soccer team’s hopes to make the postseason will rest with its final match of the District 5A-1 slate against Guymon.
The Indians dropped a 4-0 road match to Bishop McGuinness last week, lowering the Indians league record to 3-3. Guymon comes into Memorial Stadium with the same mark as the pair are tied for the fourth and final playoff spot from the district.
El Reno fell to 4-9 on the season with the loss to the Irish.
Cold weather forced El Reno to postpone its duel with Kingfisher. The Indians will now host the Yellowjackets on Monday at the Legion Park courts.
Both Calumet and Union City High School’s baseball teams will head into the district round of the Class A playoffs with momentum at their backs after recent wins.
Calumet, ranked 16th in the state, will host the District 16 playoffs after improving to 14-4 on the season with an 11-5 tune-up win over Oklahoma Bible Academy.
The Chieftains welcome in both Binger-Oney and Oklahoma Christian Academy for the district-level playoffs.
In the first school-sponsored Junior-Senior Prom since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, El Reno High School students flocked to the Festivities Event Center to walk the red carpet for the grand march. Called “The Masquerade Ball,” students turned out in colorful dresses and tuxedos for the event.
Vehicles such as classic cars, muscle cars, sports cars, farm trucks, a monster truck and stretch limousines lined up three wide for more than a block waiting to drop off students for the walk.
El Reno has a film commission in place.
Last week the city council named the 10-person board to help guide, grow and foster the film industry here.
El Reno has hosted a number of movie productions over the past year, most finding their way to the Lifetime and Hallmark television channels.
Oklahoma has an attractive rebate program tied to the movie and music industry, and while California was shut down because of COVID-19, Oklahoma was open for moving-making.
Downtown El Reno development drew attention during last week’s city council meeting.
Council agreed to rezone property on South Rock Island from Combined Residential (R2) to Convenience Commercial (CC).
The request for the rezoning was made by David Jensen. The proposal was approved 4-1 with council member Steve Jensen voting to abstain, which counts as a no vote.
The property is .45 acres. It rests on the east side of Rock Island, just across the road from the campus of Etta Dale Junior High.
