Sports

While certain aspects of the timed events found on the national series has crept into the format of the Smoke on the Water Drag Boat Races, fans can rest assured the event will not forget its roots. “We will always be the fastest to the finish, Outlaw-style racing.

In its first year of existence, the Enid Outlaws (24-2), owned and operated by El Reno’s Jonathan Reed, have reached the Central Conference Championships of the 2021 The Basketball League playoffs.

Our friends with the Oklahoma Youth Hunting Program (OYHP) pair experienced hunters with youth who have never been hunting and their parents for a weekend of deer hunting memories during Oklahoma’s youth deer gun season.

CENTRAL Overholser: July 6. Elevation above normal, water low 80s and clearing. Striped bass slow on crawfish and flukes in the main lake and along shorelines. Channel catfish good on cut bait and worms around points and shorelines. Bluegill good on crickets and worms along shorelines. NORTHEAST

Sydney Haggins started her career as an endurance athlete a long time ago on a beach far, far away. However, the El Reno doctor’s success in the sport of triathlons came to a head last week by qualifying for the 2021 IronMan 70.3 World Championships.

In a special meeting June 28, the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission approved significant changes for wild turkey hunting season date

CENTRAL 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.