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Northwestern Oklahoma State took on the Aggies of Oklahoma Panhandle State University in a non-conference mid-week battle. The Rangers came away with the victory in walk off fashion 6-5. The Rangers called on freshman left-hander Tyler Havener to the start the game. He pitched 3.2 innings allowing five runs on four hits. Coach Sam Carel called on Collin Fouts to relieve Havener in the top of the fourth. Fouts threw five scoreless innings allowing no runs and no hits. Mathew Bickford came in to close the game for Northwestern and earned the win...
The Northwestern Oklahoma State baseball team will defend their home field against arch-rival Southwestern Oklahoma State in the final series of the season. The Rangers will enter the series fresh off the completion of a season-series sweep of Oklahoma Panhandle State on Tuesday evening. The Rangers defeated the Aggies by way of a walk-off wild pitch in the bottom of the 10th inning. Mathematically eliminated from the Great American Conference post-season tournament, a series victory over the Bulldogs would serve as a building block for Head...
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Both Northwestern Oklahoma State men's and women's golf teams completed their final round in the 2017 Great American Conference Championships hosted by Hot Springs Country Club in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on Tuesday afternoon. The women's team continued to rise up the leaderboards with their second-lowest team total of the year with a team score of 324. The team's stellar finish moved them up to a tie for fifth place with a three-day total of 995 (338-333-324). The fifth place finish marks the best the team has finished in the...
FORT HAYS, Kan. – Southeastern's women continued their run of success with a second place finish at the Fort Hays State Rodeo, while the men turned in a 10th place finish and remain 260 points out of second place in the regional standings. The women remain atop the central plains region standings with a hefty 740 point lead with one rodeo remaining in the regular season schedule, while the men are still chasing a team qualifier spot and are 260 points behind second place. The Savage Storm women returned three in the goat tying event, led by S...
DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern bounced back from a 3-0 loss to Washburn in game one to close out the 2017 home schedule with a commanding 11-2 win on Wednesday afternoon at The Ballpark in Durant. The split moves the Savage Storm to 15-26-1 heading into the final series of the regular season, a three-game set at East Central. In the finale Travis Spinney, Luke Thomas and Jake Perez each knocked out a pair of hits, while Hunter Harrison, Brett Akins and Micah Simmer added one apiece. Thomas and Akins each collected three RBI in the game. Mike W...
CLAREMORE, Okla. (April 27, 2017) – With the Heartland Conference regular-season softball championship now only a longshot possibility for Oklahoma Christian, the Lady Eagles' goal this week is to put themselves in the best position for the upcoming conference tournament. They took a good first step toward that end Thursday night at the Diamond Sports Complex, using a four-run second inning and strong pitching by Madison Hagood to win 7-2 over Rogers State. OC (30-20, 12-7 Heartland) moved into sole possession of third place in the league s...
CLAREMORE, Okla. – The Rogers State softball team fell, 7-2, to Oklahoma Christian to start a three-game league series at the Diamond Sports Complex. The Eagles used four runs in the second inning to pull away for the 7-2 victory. With the bases loaded in the second, OC scored two runs on a single to right field. The lead increased to 3-0 with a single up the middle to score one more run. The Eagles added the final run of the inning on a fielder's choice for the 4-0 advantage. In the fifth inning OC plated one run with a sac fly to right for a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Republican state senator who is being investigated for possible misuse of campaign funds has resigned from the Oklahoma Senate. State Sen. Kyle Loveless submitted a two-sentence letter of resignation Thursday, saying he had made "mistakes." Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater confirmed Thursday a criminal investigation is ongoing over the potential embezzlement of campaign funds. No charges have been filed. A telephone message left with Loveless was not immediately returned. Loveless was elected in 2012 to t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma has hit a record high with more than 62,000 offenders in the state's department of corrections system. Oklahoma Department of Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh says the prison system is operating at 109 percent of capacity. "It has taken just four months for an additional 1,000 people to be included in our numbers of incarcerated, supervised and county jail backup," Allbaugh said. Nearly 34,000 offenders are on parole, probation, in a community supervision program or on GPS monitoring, The Oklahoman (...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Four years ago, Oklahoma's oil patch was booming, unemployment was falling and state lawmakers were debating what to do with $200 million in surplus revenue. Republicans who control state government successfully pushed to reduce the state's top income tax rate, slash the oil and gas production tax rate from 7 percent to 2 percent and give more tax incentives to industry. But the boom ended and the money dried up. Now the once-unwavering confidence in the wisdom of lower taxes has given way to a growing panic over how to p...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Environmental tests on an Oklahoma creek have led to the discovery of a saltwater spill into the main source of freshwater for Tallgrass Prairie Preserve. The Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2oQconk ) reports that an Environmental Protection Agency inspector working on Bird Creek was shown a broken drainage pipe on a hillside which led to finding the saltwater spill into Sand Creek on Tuesday. Tallgrass Preserve Director Bob Hamilton says pumper trucks are taking water out of a pond below the broken pipe and some ditches have b...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the murder conviction and life prison sentence of a Tulsa woman in the beating death of a man in Tulsa, however the court did overturn the woman's kidnapping conviction in the case. The court's ruling on Thursday rejected appeals by 32-year-old Angel Marie Proctor of insufficient and improperly admitted evidence, improper jury instructions and prosecutorial misconduct. The court did find that Proctor was improperly convicted of both murder while committing a kidnapping a...
GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma prosecutor has filed formal notice that the state will seek the death penalty for a man charged in the killing of a deputy sheriff. District Attorney Laura Austin Thomas filed the bill of particulars Thursday stating 45-year-old Nathan Aaron LeForce should be put to death if he's convicted of a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of Logan County Deputy David Wade. LeForce remains jailed and court documents don't list an attorney to speak for him. The document notes that Wade was a law officer, t...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Senate's majority leader is suggesting that the state impose an extra fee on utility bills to provide new dollars for public schools. Overland Park Republican Jim Denning said Thursday that he's drafting a proposal to charge residential customers $3 a month on each of their water, electric and natural gas bills. He said he would seek a $10-per-month charge for businesses. Denning doesn't know yet how much money the plan would raise. He outlined his idea as the House and Senate budget committees had preliminary d...
