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El Reno High School’s Hunter Yeakey and Daegen Griffin will be in action Friday at 9:30 a.m. as the Indians take on Glenpool in the quarterfinals of the Class 5A Dual State Championships in Enid.

Picking up a second straight road win, El Reno High School’s girls soccer team improved to 2-1 on the season with a 7-0 shutout of U.S. Grant in non-district action.

El Reno held a lopsided edge in overall shots (31-7), shots on goal (26-5) time of possession (45:27-32:41) and 5-2 in corner kicks.

The seven goals came from Caroline Huber, Krystiana Guzman, Alexis Lively, Ruby Vazquez, Ximena Salazar, Piper Graves and Bre Spann. Joey Lierle logged four assists, while Huber, Vazquez and Spann added one each.

Union City kicked off its high school softball and baseball spring seasons recently, with both clubs finding the win column in early action.

The Tigers baseball team is 2-1 following wins over Casady (8-1) and Binger-Oney (12-8), with a 13-10 loss to Fletcher.

Blake Ross leads the team in hits as the Tigers are hitting .281 with 16 total hits. Ross is 4-of-8 with three runs scored and three runs batted in for a .500 average.

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Teaching is a calling for those who pick up the banner for public education and spend years learning and honing their skills in an effort to mold and open the minds of young students in a traditional classroom setting.

But the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has created a new traditional classroom setting. And for El Reno educators, add school closures caused by winter storms and lack of running water.

El Reno will put off Burger Day for one more year, but the first Saturday in May won’t be without plenty of fun as a new festival will be launched before moving to July in 2022.

Shana Ford, Main Street director, said the inaugural Route 66 Family Fun Fest and Cornhole Tournament will replace the annual Fried Onion Burger Day Festival, normally held the first Saturday in May.

But only for this year.

El Reno Public Schools released Teacher of the Year honorees for each of its seven educational sites for the 2020-21 school year.

El Reno High School
Chris Burdine

Burdine teaches high school Algebra 2, Algebra 3 and Pre-Calculus. This is his fourth year teaching, all in El Reno.

Burdine was in the construction industry for 20 years before going back to school to obtain a teaching degree.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Legislation to address the issue of unsolved cases of missing and murdered Native American people has been approved unanimously by the full Senate. Sen. Paul Rosino, R-Oklahoma City, is the principal author of Senate Bill 172, known as Ida’s Law.

The measure is named for 29-year-old Ida Beard from El Reno. A citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, she went missing in 2015 and has never been found.

LaRenda Morgan, Beard’s cousin, helped craft the legislation.