Okarche junior high students Brenna Crider and Jaici Easton were recognized at the annual Delta Kappa Gamma conference held recently in Oklahoma City.

The girls submitted essays to the DKG’s annual essay contest, and after placing first in the countywide contest, continued to the state level, each placing first at her grade level.

Brenna and Jaici received certificates of achievement and a monetary award.

Their teachers are Traci Fuller and Lyndal Westmoreland.

Honor rolls at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford and Sayre have been announced for the 2021 spring semester.

An undergraduate student earning all A’s in 12 or more hours during a semester qualifies for the President’s Honor Roll. Recognition on the Dean’s Honor Roll includes completion of 12 semester hours of undergraduate work with a grade point average of 3.5 or higher with no grade lower than a C.

In an effort to get more competitive against upper-tier opponents, El Reno High School girls basketball coach Jennifer Douglas has opted to put her players up against some of the best teams in the state this summer.

So far the move has paid off.

In its first summer outing, El Reno posted a 5-3 record in the Mustang Lady Broncos Summer League against a predominant Class 6A schedule.

It wasn’t long after he first picked up a glove and started throwing a baseball around that Rhett Kouba dreamed of one day playing on the biggest stage in college baseball – the NCAA College World Series.

Now the El Reno native is two games away from becoming what is believed to be the first EHS graduate to ever play in the CWS.

“It’s been a dream of mine since I was a little kid. We would watch the games on television and I can recall seeing so many great games and all the great players that made it there. Being this close to making it myself is unreal,” said Kouba.