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JENKS – Oklahoma Baptist came away with a full slate of wins swimming in the Jenks Invitational Saturday. "All in all, we swam pretty well," said OBU Coach Sam Freas. "I was pleased with our times." Tamlyn Price won the 50 freestyle in 24.32 and the 100 backstroke in 58.37 seconds. Blandine Tantart took the 100 free in 53.84, Jocleyn Martinez won the 200 free in 1:57.20 and the 500 free in 5:17.36. Suzanne Afchain took the 200 backstroke in 2:07.25. Miriam Avila Martinez took the 100 breaststroke in 1:06.82. Leslie White won the 200 b...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Kevin Franceschi scored 23 points and Steven Green added a double-double for Oklahoma Baptist in its 80-71 loss at Henderson State Saturday. Franceschi hit 10 of 20 field goals and made all three free throws while Green collected 16 points and 10 rebounds. Green was 6-of-7 from inside the three-point line. Chandler Rickey overcame two very early fouls and joined Vladimir Nemcok with 13 points apiece. Nemcok hit eight of nine free throw attempts and OBU was 15 of 17 at the free throw line. The Bison, 0-3 overall and 0-2, h...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Oklahoma Baptist dipped to 0-4 with an 89-73 loss at Henderson State Saturday. Tasha Edge had a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds and Cameerah Graves led the team with 19 points and four assists to go with eight rebounds. Lexi Williams tacked on 13 points, including four three-pointers, and Aliyah White added 10. Monae Smith drew her first start of the season and had three steals. OBU plays its first home game of the season Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. against Dallas Christian....
LAKEWOOD, Colo. – Oklahoma Baptist dropped the round-robin finale Friday, 3-0, to host Colorado Christian in the NCCAA Regional Tournament. The Lady Bison await a possible at-large berth to the NCCAA Tournament. Rachel Richie led OBU with seven kills, Kynnedy Myersadded 25 assists and Sierra VeraCruz had three aces. VeraCruz had 17 digs and Shekinah Sharpe tacked on 11. Sophia Couto led the team with three block assists. OBU is 20-14 after the setback....
LAKEWOOD, Colo. – Jennifer Goethe scored on a penalty to complete a come-from-behind Oklahoma Baptist win, 2-1, over Colorado Christian in the championship game of the NCCAA Central Region Tournament. Alyssa Regalado scored her eighth goal of the season in the 35th minute and CCU led 1-0 at halftime. Abigail Hicks drove home a centered pass in the 56th minute to square the score and Goethe added a penalty with 1:14 left in the game, capping a furious final 10 minutes. While the score was still 1-1, Emma Beck recorded three saves in the final 1...
LAKEWOOD, Colo. – Oklahoma Baptist won its first match of the round-robin NCCAA Central Region Volleyball Tournament Thursday, 3-0, over McMurry. OBU won 25-23, 25-23, 25-16. Nicole Fleitman led the Bison offensively with 11 kills, followed by Cadyn Laing with nine and Sophia Couto with eight. Kynnedy Myers had 23 assists and Hayden Blairadded 18 and two aces. Sierra VeraCruz added two aces. Defensively, OBU got four blocks by Couto, 13 digs from VeraCruz and 10 digs from Myers. OBU next plays at 6 p.m. against Southwestern C...
LAKEWOOD, Colo. – Vicente Castillo and Jared Hillscored two goals apiece to send Oklahoma Baptist to the NCCAA Central Region Finals with a 6-0 win over Central Christian Thursday. The Bison meet Southwestern Christian in the finals Friday at 4:30 p.m. Koleson Freeman gave the Bison the only goal they needed in the 18th minute with a header into the lower right corner off an assist from Pablo Garcia. Castillo made it 2-0 with a penalty kick in the 37th minute. OBU added four goals in the second half with Jonathan Martinez scoring in the 67th m...
LAKEWOOD, Colo. – David Estrada beat the Southwestern Christian keeper to put the finishing touches in the shootout period and give Oklahoma Baptist the NCCAA Central Region crown Friday. Luis Romero scored in the third minute to give OBU a 1-0 lead and SCU knotted the game in the 17th minute. Neither team could get the ball in the net for the remaining 63 minutes of regulation and 20 minutes of overtime. SCU scored first in the shootout, but Vicente Castillo tied it and Jared Hill gave OBU a 2-1 lead after an Eagle miss. Alejandro Castillo m...
LAKEWOOD, Colo. – Rachel Richie posted 15 kills and Oklahoma Baptist wrapped up a spot in the NCCAA Central Region finals with a 3-0 win over Grace Friday morning. OBU plays Colorado Christian to finish the round-robin portion of the tournament and then plays in the finals Saturday at 11 a.m. OBU downed Grace 25-21, 25-18, 25-18. Richie had 15 kills while swinging a .355 attack percentage. Nicole Fleitman added nine kills and Cadyn Laing contributed eight. Kynnedy Myers had 28 assists and Hayden Blair added 17. Sierra VeraCruz had 28 d...
LAKEWOOD, Colo. – Oklahoma Baptist took its second match of the NCCAA Central Region Volleyball Tournament Thursday, sweeping Southwestern Christian 3-0. The 28-26, 25-17, 25-13 victory means the Lady Bison need just one win in two matches Friday to advance to the championship contest Saturday. The Lady Bison had 12 blocks, led by Sophia Couto with seven block assists. Nicole Fleitman added five. Rachel Richie led the Lady Bison with nine kills and Cadyn Laing adding eight. Kynnedy Myers had three aces and 21 assists while Hayden Blair t...
CLINTON, Miss. - Oklahoma Baptist placed fourth in the National Christian College Athletic Association Men's Cross Country National Championship Meet Saturday. Jacob Janzen captured All-America honors with a ninth-place finish to lead the Bison in 25:54.17. Blaine Whitson was 19th at 26:29.66, followed by DeAngelo Robles in 31st at 27:14.13, Nathan Crowsonin 32nd at 27:21.21 and Grant Alexander finishing off the OBU scoring in 45th at 27:36.56. Tommy Uglean, the team's lone senior, was 67th at 28:17.97 and Hunter Doucette was 106th at...
CLINTON, MISS. – Oklahoma Baptist repeated as NCCAA Women's Cross Country National Championship Meet runner-up Saturday at Choctaw Trails. Dallas Baptist won the team title with a score of 28, followed by OBU at 73 and Cedarville with 94 points in the 14-team championship field. Emily Sechrist and Sydney Lawrence claimed All-America honors. Sechrist placed fourth in 18:09.36 and Lawrence was fifth at 18:21.03. Kandace Standridge took 19th at 19:08.77, Tesa Potter was 20th in 19:13.77 and Megan Allen rounded out the scoring in 28th at 1...
SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist got double-figure scoring from three players and shot 44.4 percent in a 74-71 season opening loss to St. Gregory's Friday. Kevin Franceshi scored 15 points in his OBU debut after sitting out last season with an injury. Chandler Rickeyadded 14 points and blocked three shots. Steven Greenhad a double-double with 13 points and a game-high 12 rebounds. The Bison led almost 36 minutes of the game, but SGU rallied late and made 23 of 29 free throws for the game. OBU now turns its attention to the Great American C...
EMPORIA, Kan. – Oklahoma Baptist got 21 points from Tasha Edge in a 102-50 setback at the hands of fourth-ranked Emporia State Sunday. The Lady Bison led 16-15 after the first quarter. OBU got nine rebounds form freshman Aliyah White, four assists from Cameerah Graves and three blocked shots by freshman Carrington Small. The Lady Bison shot 83.3 percent from the free throw line, led by a 7 for 8 effort by White and a 4-4 evening by Autumn Avina. Now 0-2, the Lady Bison begin Great American Conference action Thursday at Ouachita Baptist. T...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. -- Oklahoma Baptist sophomore Isaiah Mallory became just the second Bison to eclipse 1,000 yards rushing Saturday during a 67-21 loss at Henderson State. Mallory entered the game with 959 yards and went over the four-figure mark in the first quarter on a 12-yard rush. With 58 yards in the game, Mallory has 1017 on the season and is 70 yards shy of Jordan Barnes' school record 1087. Dezmond Stegall threw two touchdown passes – a 52 yarder to Mallory and a 12-yarder to Frankie Edwards in the second quarter and added a 3...
SOMERS, Wisc. – Oklahoma Baptist's Victoria Fonville was selected by CollegeSwimming as the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women's Swimmer of the Week. Fonville, a freshman from Ponte Verde, Florida, won the 50 butterfly in 25.97 seconds and the 50 freestyle in 24 seconds flat at Pepperdine's Malibu Invitational. She also placed second in the 100 free at 52.79 seconds. She also was on the winning 200 free relay team in 1:38.40. The selection was made independently of the RMAC, which selects its Swimmers and Divers of the Week on W...
SHAWNEE – Bison quarterback Dezmond Stegall threw three touchdown passes, ran for another and Isaiah Mallory rushed for 182 yards, but the Bison fell 55-42 to Northwestern Oklahoma State Saturday at Crain Family Stadium at the Hurt Memorial Athletic Complex. Stegall passed to Stephan Turner for a five-yard scoring pass in the first quarter, set up by 52-yard run by Mallory. Stegall and Josh Pettijohn connected for a 36-yard scoring pass, with Pettijohn making a big inside move against the grain to spring free. OBU added a 60-yard i...
SHAWNEE (Oct. 13, 2016) – Members of the Oklahoma Baptist baseball team will receive their NCCAA championship rings Saturday during a ceremony at halftime of the OBU-Northwestern Oklahoma State football game. The football game, which kicks off at 2 p.m., also is observing breast cancer awareness. Pink Heals will be in attendance with their pink fire truck and pink patrol cars. Fans are encouraged to wear pink. It will be a full day for baseball, which hosts its Alumni Event Saturday morning. Coach Bobby Cox welcomes back the 1996 World S...
RUSSELVILLE, Ark. (Oct. 12, 2016)– Oklahoma Baptist sophomore Emily Sechrist earned her fourth Great American Conference Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week honor Wednesday. Sechrist won the overall title and led her team to a repeat championship in their home event, the Oklahoma Baptist University Invitational. Sechrist, a sophomore from Hillsboro, Kansas, beat out 137 other runners in a time of 18:18.81 with an average mile of 5:54 in the 5k race. Sechrist has won the award after all four of OBU's races this season....
SHAWNEE -- Oklahoma Baptist repeated as OBU Invitational women's champion Saturday with a 1-2 finish at Gordon Cooper Technology Center. Emily Sechrist won the five-kilometer race in 18:18.81, just ahead of teammate Sydney Lawrence in 18:21.15. Kandace Standridge placed fifth at 18:51.88, Daisy VanMeter was 13th at 19:13.56 and Megan Allenrounded out the scoring in 27th at 19:29. Victoria Joslin was 29th at 19:34 and Tesa Potter was 38th at 19:53.41. The Lady Bison won with a score of 48, followed by Midwestern State at 93 and Central Region...
SHAWNEE – Racked by injury, Oklahoma Baptist finished fourth in the OBU Cross Country Invitational men's race Saturday at Gordon Cooper Technology Center. Grant Alexander was unable to finish due to injury and OBU was already without Hunter Doucette for the meet. Jacob Janzen was third to lead the Bison, finishing the eight kilometers in 25:38.28. DeAngelo Robleswas 18th at 26:32.27 and Blaine Whitson was 21st in 26:46.88. Nathan Crowson (42nd) finished in 27:48.60 and Tommy Uglean was the final scorer in 44th at 27:58.66. The Bison finished w...
LEWISVILLE, Texas (posted Sept. 28, 2016) – Oklahoma Baptist returns to the pool Friday in the North Texas Relays against some tough competition. In addition to UNT, the Bison and Lady Bison expect to encounter Southern Methodist, TCU and Houston. "If we win some relays, I'll be happy," said OBU Coach Sam Freas. "Some of our kids are starting to come on, but we've got a long way to go. It will be interesting to see how they do against people, who, in the past, have been faster. To do well in Division II, we have to step up." OBU is coming o...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (posted Sept. 28, 2016) – Oklahoma Baptist's Emily Sechrist captured her third Great American Conference award of the season, named as GAC Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week Wednesday. Sechrist led her team to a No. 2 finish at the Oklahoma State Cowboy Jamboree. The Hillsboro, Kansas sophomore finished 8th out of 170 runners in a time of 19:03.3. Sechrist's average mile in this 5k race was 6:08....
STILLWATER– Oklahoma Baptist, running its first eight-kilometer course of the season, placed sixth Saturday at the Oklahoma State Cowboy Jamboree. The Bison finished with 180 points in the 21-team field, won by Butler with 70 points. Jacob Janzen placed 11th to lead OBU, finishing in 27:22. DeAngelo Robles was 24th at 27:59, Blaine Whitson took 28th at 28:00, Grant Alexander's 28:46 was 59th and Nathan Crowson rounded out the scoring at 63rd in 28:58. Tommy Uglean finished in 30:26 and Hunter Doucette finished the course in 32:50. "I was p...
STILLWATER– Oklahoma Baptist's season-long win streak ended Saturday at the Oklahoma State Cowboy Jamboree, but the Lady Bison had the best finish among four-year schools in the College Women's race. The Lady Bison placed second in the 20-team race. El Paso Community College won with 56 points, followed by OBU at 85, Oklahoma City at 87, Oklahoma Christian at 116, Allen County at 197, Southwestern Oklahoma State at 201, Lubbock Christian at 227, Cowley County at 240, Colby at 246 and Central Oklahoma rounding out the top 10 at 248. Emily S...
