El Reno’s junior high football teams took on rival Guthrie last week at Memorial Stadium.

The seventh-grade team dropped a 26-8 game to the Bluejays, while the eighth-grade team gave up an early punt return for a touchdown and went on to a 44-0 loss.

After going various directions following graduation, five El Reno High School shooting sports alums are once again breaking clay pigeons together under the same team banner.

Sisters Emma and Madison Patswald along with Aaron Broyles, Zac Johnson and Tucker Colby are now wearing orange and black as part of Oklahoma State University’s Shotgun Competition Team.

Memorial services for Betty Ruth Eaglenest will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26 at Faith Family Church with Rev. Paul Roach officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.

Betty died Oct. 20, 2024, at her home in El Reno. She was born May 30, 1950, in Watonga to Orville and Nada Ruth Palmer Coffey. She was the purchasing director for Mercy Hospital and a member of Faith Family Church where she taught Sunday school for 32 years. Betty volunteered at Blessing Baskets and the Salvation Army and was a school mentor.

El Reno Public Schools Superintendent Matt Goucher believes the best way to educate students in the district is to have them in front of a teacher inside a classroom setting.

“If we are fighting really hard to educate our community on the importance of getting their kids to school and on time to learn as much as they can, then the same thing goes for us.

“We need our employees here to teach, take care of and make sure our students are safe,” said Goucher.

And he’s willing to pay a little extra to make sure the district keeps up its end of the equation.