Several El Reno bowlers won scholarship money recently by placing in the 2021 Oklahoma Youth State Championships, held at Heritage Lanes in Oklahoma City.

Zak Billings, Collin Vickers, Mallory Watkins and Brianna Vickers joined forces to win the Mixed B Handicap title. The team had a combined score of 2,790.

Gena Studley and Kyston Haines bowled a score of 1,395 to take first place in the Mixed Doubles B Handicap.

Billings and Watkins placed third in the same division with a score of 1,337.

Calumet High School’s baseball team opened up the spring season by winning two games in its own festival.

The Chieftains, 2-1, were slated to be one of the five host teams for the 2021 Union City Spring Break Festival, which was set to get under way Thursday.

Calumet defeated Laverne (7-2) and Shattuck (9-3) in the festival but dropped a 5-2 game to Seiling. The Chieftains hit .288 for the series, logging 18 runs off 19 hits.

Following a 1-3 start, Union City High School’s slow-pitch softball team has found a recent groove by winning six of its last nine games to improve to 7-6 on the season.

Two of the wins came during a three-game stint in the Ringwood Festival. The Tigers, ranked 20th in Class 2A, beat 6A’s 16th-ranked Enid (9-8) and Hennessey (15-5) but lost 14-2 to Morrison, ranked second in Class 3A.

Graveside memorial services for Joe Carl Ray were held Thursday at the Evergreen Cemetery in Minco under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home.

Joe passed away Feb. 5, 2021, at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Oklahoma City. He was born Dec. 19, 1935, in Okemah. Joe graduated from Del City High School in 1955. He moved to Minco from Oklahoma City in 1968. Joe served in the U.S. Army. He worked as a supervisor for ATT until his retirement in 1989. He was a member of Canaan Baptist Church.