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OKLAHOMA CITY - El Reno High School opened its summer baseball season with a one-run loss last week after the Oklahoma City Broncos rallied for a 6-5 win over the Indians.

El Reno High School’s girls basketball team, the state runner-up in Class 5A, began work for the 2022-23 season with summer league play in Mustang.  

More than 40 young basketball players took part in El Reno High School’s girls basketball skills camp last week at Jenks Simmons Field House. Players were taught individual skills as well as team concepts.

MUSTANG – For 84 days, El Reno High School girls basketball coach Jennifer Douglas stewed over a four-point loss to McAlester in the Class 5A state championship game. Sharing in that pain were two of her star guards, Ashlyn Evans-Thompson and Tetona Blackowl.

Tyler Tignor’s final game as a head coach, at least for now, was a memorable one for sure.

El Reno High School kicked off the summer baseball season last week with two games against the Oklahoma City Broncos. The Indians dropped both games to the home-school team in the wooden bat division of the Red Dirt League. See Wednesday’s edition for a wrap-up of the openers.

Last week’s A Small Town Weekend event brought competitions for cars with both big and small wheels.

CENTRAL Arcadia: Elevation is 1 ft. above normal and falling, water temperature 72°F and stained. Saugeye fair on crankbaits around points. Channel and blue catfish good on cut bait and worms around riprap and shallows.

Unlike a year ago when Shanon Eichholz rallied over the final stage to win his division of the Route 66 Triathlon Festival, the El Reno native defended his title over the weekend with everyone else chasing him.

El Reno’s Ashlyn Evans-Thompson dives for a loose ball in the first half of the Oklahoma Girls Basketball Coaches Association’s (OGBCA) Large School All-State Game over the weekend in Mustang.