Game of life: John Saucier won 28 SCCA championships

*LaNese Pierson Craft was a golfer at Stillwater High School and then Northeast High. She played at Oklahoma State, where she was also a majorette in the band. Pierson Craft taught elementary physical education for several years in the Harrah School District. After retirement, the school district named the Claire Reynolds Elementary gymnasium in Pierson Craft's honor. She died recently at age 75.

*George Hanges played baseball for Central High School in Oklahoma City. He spent one season, 1945, playing minor league baseball for the Olean (N.Y.) Oilers, a Class D minor league affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Hanges worked for Nelson Industrial Paint Contracters after baseball, though he continued his love for the sport as a fan. He was a resident of The Villages, Fla., when he died two weeks before his 87th birthday.

*Horseman Don Kniss raised showed paints for many years. He raced thoroughbreds and quarter horses in Oklahoma and New Mexico. Attended Oklahoma State on scholastic and basketball scholarships. Former president of the American Paint Horse Association and a member of the American Quarter Horse Association. The Oklahoma City resident and Amber native died at age 76.

*Wanda Jean Keel played basketball and softball in high school and then coached both as an adult. The Lebanon, OK, native earned a physical education degree at the University of Central Oklahoma, then took a coaching job at a tribal school in Albuquerque, N.M. After returning to Oklahoma, Keel participated in Softball Players Oklahoma Reunion Time (S.P.O.R.T.), an organization that raised money for charities. The Edmond resident was 78 at the time of death.