Better weather conditions led to improved times for El Reno High School’s track teams at the Fifth Annual Bridge Creek Invitational.

The El Reno boys took 12th place with four team points but had marked improvements in times. Donovan Mahseet paced the effort with a fourth-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 46.47 seconds, which was close to three seconds faster than his first meet.

Mahseet also ran the 110-meter high hurdles in seventh place with a time of 17.87 seconds.

CALUMET – Wyatt Cox hit a walk-off single to score Kingston Arnold as Calumet High School’s baseball team rallied to defeat Union City 14-4 in a cross-county rivalry meeting of top five teams.

Calumet, ranked No.1 in Class B, rebounded from a loss to Tuttle in the I-40 Classic finals to move to 5-2 on the season. It was the Chieftains second win over a ranked team against one loss.

Lila Winegeart had a career day at the plate for Calumet High School’s slow-pitch softball team, hitting not one but three home runs in three consecutive at bats in the Chieftains 28-17 win over Hammon.

Her first homers of the season and an intentional walk in her fourth trip to the plate resulted in eight runs batted in for Calumet. She had a pair of two-run homers and a three-run blast.

Carol Lynn (Shoemate) Pitts embraced eternal peace on March 29, 2026. Born Feb. 11, 1947, she was the beloved eldest child of William Shoemate and Mary (Legg) Shoemate Jackson.

An honors graduate of El Reno High School in 1965, she went on to earn her bachelor’s degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. She then began her teaching career in Vega, Texas, and later taught in both Dover and El Reno. Eventually Carol worked at Halliburton and then Otis Engineering as a proofreader/editor before she was forced to take medical retirement.