CALUMET – As expected, the annual fall baseball Bedlam Battle between Canadian County’s two smallest schools came down to the final out in the seventh inning.
Calumet took a two-run lead into the top of the seventh against rival Union City, only to watch the Tigers get a lead-off single from Dalton Stout. That brought UCHS’ leading hitter Braydon Armstrong to the plate.
In what head coach Cody Schmidt called a “heck of a weird fast-pitch game,” Union City High School’s softball team closed out the regular season last week with a 20-17 loss to Fletcher.
The Tigers went 1-3 over their last three games, defeating Bray-Doyle (9-8) but losing to Cashion (11-1) to take a 14-11 overall mark into the postseason.
In the loss to Fletcher, the teams combined for 31 hits but left 15 runners stranded on base – 10 of those by Union City. The teams had a combined five errors.
An Amber Alert issued Wednesday morning worked the way the system was intended after a suspect in a child abduction case was arrested at a Canadian County convenience store.
Major Adam Flowers with the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office said a citizen reported seeing a vehicle that matched the description of the one in the Amber Alert. The vehicle was seen outside a store at Czech Hall and 15th Street, Flowers said. The call came in about 8:30 a.m.
In a different genre from previous films shot in El Reno, principal photography began last week on a family action-adventure movie titled “Quest for Tom Sawyer's Gold.”
“It’s a story set in modern times and it’s basically an ex-adventurer who is a mom to a teenage boy. The boy comes across some clues in the family’s attic that relates to their past and the connection to Tom Sawyer,” said Zeus Zamani, the film's producer.
