With lightning and rain bearing down on the Hub Reed Baseball Complex, Mother Nature made the final out in the El Reno bracket of the 2026 Kingfisher Festival.

Play was suspended with El Reno leading Altus 1-0 in the bottom of the fifth inning. The Indians had the bases loaded following a walk by Preston Ashford, a sacrifice bunt by Matthew Velarde, an error off an Austin Steffler pop-up and a fielder’s choice bunt by Coy Atkins.

Play was to resume after a 30-minute delay, but the Bulldogs opted to take the loss and head home.

The start of District 5A-2 play for El Reno High School’s soccer teams did not go as planned as both teams dropped road matches to archrival Carl Albert.

The El Reno girls fell to 2-5 on the season with a 7-0 setback to the Titans. It was the third straight shutout loss for the Indians and the fourth in the last five matches.

Carl Albert is now 4-1 in the last five meetings with El Reno dating back to 2022 by a staggering 19-2 scoring margin. Three of those meetings were shutout losses for the Indians.

More than 1,800 students from five states converged on El Reno Tuesday for the annual Agriculture Field Day competition. The event, now approaching its second decade, is hosted by Redlands Community College.

High school and even some elementary students from Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas and Missouri competed in a variety of agriculture areas including a new category, Agriculture Communications.

El Reno provided an array of locations for the competitions, with events held at Lake El Reno as well as the RCC Royse Ranch, the RCC Darlington campus and the main RCC campus.

Next weekend is going to be a big shopping weekend in El Reno!

The biggest weekend of the year for hot buys on flowers and more at the Ross Seed Co. annual Plant Days Sale, Thursday through Saturday, April 9-11. It’s a great time to get your yard looking beautiful for spring and summer.

They have great buys on flowers, potting soil and so much more.

I love it when they are setting up for Plant Days, it looks like a gorgeous field of flowers in the Ross Seed parking lot.