El Reno High School’s Lily Owen ran a personal best time to pace all El Reno High School runners at the 2025 Edmond Santa Fe Wolf Pack Run – one of the largest mid-season races.

Owen posted a time of 23 minutes and 10 seconds to place 40th overall.

She was one of 20 runners to cover the 5-kilometer (3.1- mile) course in the 23-minute range.

She surpassed her previous best 5K time of the season by a minute and 38 seconds and missed the top 35 by 10 seconds.

Six extra base hits over a three-game stretch helped push Okarche High School’s fast-pitch softball team into the playoffs on a two-game win streak.

The Warriors defeated Okeene (9-1) and Thomas/Fay-Custer (9-1) but fell to Garner (5-2) to close the regular season with a 17-13 overall record.

Callie Cramer posted two singles, a double, a triple and a home run.

Bella Hufnagel doubled and Lawson Geheb slugged two homers.

Cramer’s five hits led the team, while Kate Baustert and Chesney Black had three hits each.

Union City High School’s baseball team earned its highest ranking of the season last week, moving up to the No.8 spot in the latest Class A poll of the regular season.

The Tigers, now 18-10 overall, won three of four games to close out the regular season with the loss coming to Binger-Oney (2-1), the No.13 team in the same poll.

The wins were over Paden (7-0), Hydro-Eakly (8-4) and Sentinel (9-1).

Union City batted .256 (20-of-78) for the four-game stretch with a home run by Carson Biffle.

Billy Bob Sanders, 58, of Mustang, went home to be with the Lord on Sept. 18, 2025.

Born in Union City, Oklahoma, on Feb. 11, 1967, to Jackie D. and Donna Kay Sanders, Bill was raised in Union City. He helped alongside his dad on the family farm, where he learned the values of hard work and a quiet strength he carried throughout his life.