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Arcadia: June 27.
Elevation above average, water 72 and stained.
Blue and channel catfish excellent on cut bait, live shad and stinkbait around channels, coves, dam and points. Crappie slow on hair jigs and jigs around brush structure, dam and docks.
El Reno High School’s volleyball program was greeted with its largest turnout for a youth skills camp as 71 campers took part in three days worth of fundamentals training as well as team-building games and competitions.
The camp was held in two sessions and was broken up by experience level.
El Reno High School’s baseball program held its first youth skills camp since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The camp brought 80 players from El Reno, Okarche, Calumet and other towns to the Hub Reed Complex for three days of fundamentals.
While teams they have faced during summer league action may have been fine-tuning their lineups for the upcoming 2021-22 basketball season, El Reno High School coach Rodney Haydon has been evaluating a new crop of players.
“It’s a completely new team for us and we have been trying to get as much court time to start evaluating the kids and see who plays well together and see who plays well in what positions,” said Haydon.
After scoring just two runs in the first two games earlier this summer with Heritage Hall, El Reno High School’s baseball team put up 10 runs against the Chargers but lost 9-4 and tied 6-all.
Catcher Gabe Compton reaches up to snag a throw to the plate as a runner slides in.
(Tribune photographer/Glen Miller)
El Reno had 56 campers attend the three-day EHS Basketball Camp. It was one of several youth clinics restarted this summer after the ease of COVID-19 restrictions.
See upcoming editions for photos from baseball and volleyball camps.
Following six straight road games to kick off the season, El Reno High School’s summer baseball team jumped back into Red Dirt League action last week, splitting home games with Putnam City West and tying Destiny Christian.
The Indians are now 5-5 overall and 3-5 in the RDL Wooden Bat Division after beating the Patriots 6-1 in the series opener before dropping the nightcap 13-12. El Reno tied Destiny Christian 2-2 before losing the second game by a 12-4 score.
El Reno High School graduate Ryan Island, seated center, signed a national letter of intent recently to play basketball for Haskell Indian Nations University located in Lawrence, Kan.
He is the second player off El Reno’s program to sign with a college team in the sport.
El Reno High School’s Dailey Jennings earned All-American status earlier this month wrestling for Team Oklahoma at the 2021 USA Wrestling 16-and-under National Duals.
Formerly known as the Cadet National Duals, the event was held in Westfield, Ind.
Jennings earned the national honor in Greco-Roman for the Oklahoma Outlaws Blue Squad, which won Pool C with a 49-27 win over Team Idaho. The squad would be the national runner-up after losing a 48-26 Gold-Silver Championship match to Team Minnesota.
After a year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, El Reno began hosting youth summer sports camps.
The EHS girls basketball program was first up with 56 campers, both boys and girls, taking part in a three-day camp.
