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The Second Annual Canadian Valley Chapter of Quail Forever Fundraising Banquet will be held at the Mustang Community Center on Friday, June 25.

The event starts at 5:30 p.m. featuring guest speaker Lacey Swope, meteorologist for an Oklahoma City television station.

There will be a catered dinner, live auction, raffles and multiple gun drawings, with proceeds to benefit local efforts for bettering wildlife habitat with a special focus on the pastime of quail and quail hunting.

OKLAHOMA CITY – With a large number of new players on the varsity roster this summer, El Reno head coach Keith Hill went looking for extra games to get added playing time.

Hill was able to pick up two games outside of Red Dirt League play last week against Capitol Hill, with El Reno defeating the Red Wolves 11-0 and 5-0.

El Reno improved to 3-3 on the summer season with the sweep. The Indians are still 1-3 in Red Dirt League play.

In an effort to get more competitive against upper-tier opponents, El Reno High School girls basketball coach Jennifer Douglas has opted to put her players up against some of the best teams in the state this summer.

So far the move has paid off.

In its first summer outing, El Reno posted a 5-3 record in the Mustang Lady Broncos Summer League against a predominant Class 6A schedule.

It wasn’t long after he first picked up a glove and started throwing a baseball around that Rhett Kouba dreamed of one day playing on the biggest stage in college baseball – the NCAA College World Series.

Now the El Reno native is two games away from becoming what is believed to be the first EHS graduate to ever play in the CWS.

“It’s been a dream of mine since I was a little kid. We would watch the games on television and I can recall seeing so many great games and all the great players that made it there. Being this close to making it myself is unreal,” said Kouba.

In an ironic twist of fate, El Reno High School graduate Jaylin Reveles ended up playing what could be her final high school game wearing the same colored jersey as she will in college.

Reveles was named to the Large West team for the recent Oklahoma Girls Basketball Coaches Association All-State Games. It’s tradition that the West wears red jerseys with white lettering and the East squad wears blue with white wording.

El Reno’s junior high baseball team kicked off its summer season recently with a 0-3-1 record.

The Indians are playing in the metal bat division of the Red Dirt League, losing twice to Norman, a varsity game to Norman North and tying with Bethany 5-5.

El Reno High School’s baseball team kicked off play last week in the wooden bat division of the Red Dirt Summer League.

The Indians lost two games to Heritage Hall (11-0/10-2) before splitting with Shawnee. El Reno beat the Wolves 7-5 and lost the nightcap 4-0.

Having ran three Boston Marathons and most recently a half-marathon in Tulsa, Shannon Eichholz knows how to run long distances and do them quickly.

The El Reno native put those experiences to good use over the weekend to rally for the gold medal in the Men’s Olympic-Distance Duathlon at the 2021 Route 66 Multisport Festival.

“Running is more natural for me and just coming off a half marathon (the Golden Driller) in April, I still had good conditioning to help me,” said Eichholz.

El Reno will field a junior high team in the metal bat division of the summer baseball league and a high school varsity team in the wooden bat division.

While it was not “overly physical” according to head coach Chuck Atchison, El Reno High School’s football program wrapped up spring drills with an intra-squad scrimmage.

“We got all our days in. We had a lot of young players that got a lot of reps in and we got what we wanted to get done accomplished. The practices were not overly physical, but that’s OK,” said Atchison.

The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association allows member districts to hold spring contact football drills for 10 days following the conclusion of all state tournaments for spring sports.