Dropping its team score for a second straight outing, El Reno finished second to archrival Carl Albert at the 2025 El Reno Girls Golf Invitational hosted at Crimson Creek Golf Course.
The Titans, ranked second in Class 5A in the OSSAA rankings and seventh statewide, carded a 338 to win by 15 strokes over El Reno.
The Indians, ranked third in 5A and 18th overall, shot their best round in more than four years with a 353.
El Reno High School’s boys golf team now has a barometer of where it needs to go by season’s end to be in the running for a state ticket, opening up its 2025 schedule with a 13th-place effort in the Southern Oklahoma Invitational.
Playing at the Duncan Golf Club, El Reno carded a 371 to finish as the seventh best Class 5A team in the field.
Class 3A’s Plainview won the event with a 308. Marlow (314), Velma-Alma (315), Duncan (328) and Elgin (328) rounded out the top five.
Design plans and a project budget are close to being finalized with construction due to start later this fall on Canadian County’s new courthouse complex.
Commissioners met March 31 with representatives of Lingo Construction and MA+ Architecture, approving a scope of work for the project to proceed.
Also participating were members of the Canadian County New Courthouse Building Committee.
I love dogs, I always have. I know a lot of people don’t understand it and that’s OK. To each their own.
So when my editor/brother asked me if I wanted to go cover a story about dogs at the high school, I of course said yes!
The El Reno High School Leadership Class, which is led by teacher Jacqueline Smith, has been working on an ongoing fundraiser this year to help raise money and items for the El Reno Animal Shelter.
