UNDEFEATED CHAMPIONS! — The Hugo-based Reckless Ballers basketball squad has recently returned from Tavares, Fla., where they went undefeated to reign as Tournament Champions in the Florida Big House. Prior to that tournament win, they went undefeated to be crowned Champions of the Mt. Pleasant Tournament with a five-game smash of the competition. Pictured above are: (Front, l-r) Jalyn Johnson, Jakya Johnson, Genesis Smith. (Back, l-r) Coach Jieriel Johnson, Haidyn Campbell, Hadlin Campbell, Jozie Holder, Belle Hookom and Coach Jordan Smith. Coach Johnson expressed his appreciation to a number of area individuals for their financial support that made the trip to Florida possible. (Photo Contributed)

Seward, Alaska high school student and competitive swimmer Lydia Jacoby has heard many jokes about swimming in America’s northern-most state. Tuesday, she shocked the Olympic and sports world by pulling off a stunning gold medal 100-meter breaststroke win, upsetting defending American champion Lilly King.

BOSWELL — Boswell’s business footprint is growing and expanding, bringing not only new business to the community, but increasing local sales tax as well. One of the most recent new businesses in Boswell is HOG, House of Guns, opened and owned by the John Kerr family.

Buff Parker Field was covered with future Buffalo football players Saturday morning, as first-year head football coach Krystopher Gross and his assistants put nearly 40 football campers through a series of drills.

Hugo Lake Submitted by: Andrew Potter Lake Elevation: Normal Water Temp and Clarity: 83 and murky Catfish, Blue, Catfish, Channel, Catfish, Flathead. Action: Good Baits: Chicken Liver, Cut Bait, Dough bait, Live Bait, Punch bait, Shad, Stinkbait, Sunfish Locations: Below the dam, Channels, Creek channels, Main lake, River Channel, Shorelines Crappie, Black, Crappie, White Action: Good Baits: Jigs, Minnows Locations: Below the dam, Brush structure, Channels, Creek channels, Main lake, River Channel, Standing timber.

HUGO — A celebration luncheon to honor longtime friend and family member Bob Steele was held at Roma’s Restaurant in Hugo, Okla., Tuesday, June 22, to remember his 86th birthday. Rich Stephens of Tulsa organized the luncheon to coincide with honoring a local couple for their lifetime of work preserving Oklahoma’s Heritage Horses — the Spanish Mustang.

2021 Record 35 wins 11 losses as a 12U Major World Series Record 5 wins 0 losses, scoring 69 runs and only allowing 10 runs World Series Event – June 16-19 in Gulf Shores, Ala. Names of Players in picture at right: Kneeling left – Cy Ammons Standing L-R Kenten Ladd Koal Branton – Coach JE Ellis Shade Cody DJ Alberda Drake Howard Holdan Robinson Nick Cody – Coach Tryan Teague Kobe Tabor Kneeling Right – Kane Branton Max Duncan – not pictured Charlie Duncan - Coach not pictured.

The Reds 2021 Hugo Babe Ruth League Peewee Champions. Front row (l to r): Da’Travion’tae Guess, Mason Moore, Cole Flanagan and Hunter Roper.

Coach Gross: “We have taken kids to skill camps, o line camps, the Southeastern Showcase, and had a lift-a-thon fundraiser last Friday. “We will be doing a ‘Buffaloe Camp’ on July 10.

Born into a family that embraced aviation, Shawn Francis has continued to advance his aviation experiences and has recently acquired the sales franchise for the Aviat Husky aircraft in Oklahoma and Arkansas.