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McPHERSON, Kan. – Oklahoma Baptist women's soccer edged out Central Christian 1-0 in the final match of the regular season Thursday night at the CCC Soccer Field. Kerregan Edwards scored the only goal of the match, finally breaking the scoreless tie in the 77th minute to propel the Lady Bison (11-5-1) to their eighth victory on the road this season. OBU dominated for much of the match, limiting the Tigers (11-5-1) to just one shot before halftime and four shots for the match. Emma Beck made two saves on the night as the Lady Bison posted t...
SHAWNEE – Vicente and Alejandro Castillo never got the opportunity to play on the same soccer team. That all changed this year, however, when they both came to OBU this fall. Vicente, a senior, has attended OBU for three years and Alejandro is in his first year. Since his home is in Spain, Vicente said he wasn't sure if he would be able to attend college in the U.S. when he first looked into it. "To get here an international student has to pass the SAT or ACT. In addition they have to pass an English exam." Vicente said. "I passed my SAT but I...
TULSA, Okla. – For the second-straight exhibition contest Southeastern pushed its Division I opponent to the edge, but saw its upset bid fall just short, this time dropping an 82-75 decision at Oral Roberts on Wednesday night in Tulsa, Okla. The Savage Storm will close out its exhibition schedule on Nov. 5 when it faces Texas State at 4:30 p.m. in San Marcos, Texas. SE had a pair of 20 point scorers, led by 23 points from Anton Cook, while Tyler Lonzie added 20. Cook hit 8-of-15 overall with a pair of threes, while Lonzie was 10-of-16 from t...
TULSA, Okla. — Southern Nazarene opened up the 2016-17 basketball season with a 89-50 exhibition loss at Tulsa Thursday night. The Crimson Storm fell behind early, as Tulsa shot 47.8 percent from the field in the first quarter. Tulsa jumped out to a 28-18 lead. SNU shot 25 percent from the field, making five of the 20 shots they took. Callee Mason went 2-5 from the field for five points to lead the Storm in the opening quarter. The SNU defense came alive in the second period, as it held Tulsa to 36.8 percent shooting. Unfortunately, the C...
WEATHERFORD, Okla. — Southern Nazarene ended the 2016 season with a heartbreaking 3-3 tie, decided by penalty kicks (4-2 SWOSU), to Southwestern Oklahoma State in the GAC Championships semifinal Thursday afternoon. The Storm got on the scoreboard first as they benefited from a Bulldog errant pass that resulted in an own goal that gave SNU an early 1-0 lead in the 22nd minute. Southwestern Oklahoma State tied the game up at 1-1 when Ashlyn Collier scored her eighth goal of the season in the 30th minute off of an assist from Sandra Nabweteme. N...
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU Volleyball swept East Central 3-0 on Friday evening in the Pioneer Cellular Event Center 25-21, 25-22, 25-8. The win gives the Bulldogs a season sweep over the Tigers without ever dropping a set, and punches their ticket to the Great American Conference post-season tournament. The Bulldogs took control of set one early on, after back-to-back kills by Jill Green giving SWOSU a 12-7 lead and forcing an ECU timeout. From that point on the Dawgs held firm with their five point lead, fighting off Tiger rallies to tie t...
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU Soccer advanced to the Great American Conference Tournament Championship after outshooting Southern Nazarene 4-2 on penalty kicks Thursday afternoon at the Athletic Complex. Three different Bulldogs scored goals in the first 90 minutes of the match, but after neither team scored in both overtime periods, the game was decided with the dramatic penalty kick scenario. SWOSU never led in the match, falling behind to SNU 1-0, 2-1, and 3-2 throughout the course of the game. But the resilient Bulldogs always responded to t...
TULSA, Okla. (Nov. 2, 2016) – The good news for Oklahoma Christian is NCAA Division I Tulsa probably will be the best basketball team the Eagles will face this season. The better news – John Moon appeared to pick up where he left off last season. Facing a big, tough Tulsa frontline, Moon often was the best player on the court, finishing with 21 points, 14 rebounds and two blocked shots in 27 minutes. But OC often struggled to score without Moon on the floor and fell 72-53 to the Golden Hurricane on Wednesday night at the Reynolds Center. "We...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Behind Hunter Eshnaur's 14thdouble-double of the season, the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns defeated Southern Arkansas, 3-0, on Thursday. Set scores were 25-23, 25-23, 25-18. HOW IT HAPPENED The first set featured 13 ties and seven lead changes, but four of the final five points of the game went to the Golden Suns. Tech (20-10, 10-4 GAC) posted a match-high .481 hitting percentage in the set, committing just two attack errors. Southern Arkansas (9-19, 3-11 GAC) took the early advantage in the second set and maintained a lead t...
ARKADELPHIA, Arkansas - The University of Arkansas at Monticello volleyball team fell to Great American Conference opponent Ouachita Baptist University Thursday evening on the road in a four-set match. Final game scores from the match were 25-23, 23-25, 25-22, and 25-15 in favor of the Tigers. Arkansas-Monticello (11-15, 7-7 GAC) fought back in this match-up after dropping set number one to Ouachita Baptist (20-6, 10-4 GAC), won set two over the Tigers 25-23, after scoring three straight points to claim the set. OBU however went on to defeat...
SHAWNEE, Okla. – Harding netted two second-half goals and defeated Ouachita Baptist 2-0 on Friday to advance to the championship game of the 2016 Great American Conference Tournament. The victory is the first postseason win for a Harding program that started in 2000. Harding (13-6-0) will meet the winner of the Oklahoma Baptist-Southern Nazarene in the title game, Sunday at 2 p.m. Ouachita (10-8-0) won both meetings with Harding during the regular season and did not allow a goal in either game, but Bison sophomore Jeremy Nwonumahended the d...
SEARCY - The Harding volleyball team moved into a tie for first place in the Great American Conference after a 3-0 (25-20, 25-21, 25-20) win over Henderson State on Thursday at the Rhodes-Reaves Field House. RECORDS Harding improves to 20-6 overall and 11-3 in the GAC. Henderson State falls to 12-14 overall and 7-7 in the GAC. SET ONE HIGHLIGHTS Trailing 19-13 in the first set, Harding went on a 12-1 run to win the set 25-20. During the run, the Lady Bisons had five kills and two blocks. Harding had 13 kills and hit .270 in the set. SET TWO...
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – The Harding women's soccer team held on to a 1-0 victory over Ouachita in the opening round of the Great American Conference Tournament. The Lady Bisons advance to the GAC Tournament Championship game and will play the winner of Southwestern Oklahoma/Southern Nazarene game on Saturday at 11 a.m. It was the second-straight year and the third overall, Harding has advanced to the GAC Tournament game. The Lady Bisons defeated Southwestern Oklahoma last season in the title game 5-3 in Searcy. RECORDS No. 3 seed Harding i...
Freshman Adrianna Hartmann and sophomore Sharon Tukuaoga both had nine kills and freshman Haley Higginsdished out 34 assists, but the Henderson State volleyball team fell 3-0 (20-25, 21-25, 20-25) to Harding on Thursday night in Searcy, Arkansas. The first set started off promisingly for the Reddies, as they jumped out to a quick 7-1 lead. However, with Henderson up 19-13 the Lady Bisons went on a back-breaking 12-1 run to snatch momentum and the first game away from the Reddies, 25-20. Game two was all Harding at the start, as they opened on...
For the ninth straight year Henderson State will face Arkansas State in exhibition play with the Reddies traveling to Jonesboro, Ark. Saturday for a 1:30 p.m. tipoff at the Convocation Center. Henderson returns 10 players including three starters from last year's team that finished 8-19. The 10 returning players made up for 71 percent of the scoring and 70 percent of total rebounds. Leading the way for the Reddies is Kevin Kozan who is just 64 points shy of 1000 career points. "We challenged Kevin to improve on his leadership and work ethic...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. - The Ouachita Tigers' volleyball team defeated the University of Arkansas at Monticello Blossoms by a final of 3-1 (25-23, 23-25, 25-22, 25-15). Ouachita's Caitlin Cantrell finished with a team-high 15 kills and Kori Bullard added 11 kills and seven blocks. Setter Stormi Leonard finished with 42 assists and 12 digs, her 13th double-double of the season. Libero Ashley Wake registered 30 digs in the win. The victory marks the first 20-win season for head coach Danny Prescott. Ouachita and Arkansas-Monticello went back and...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. –The Ouachita Tigers' women's soccer team fell to Harding in the semifinals of the Great American Conference tournament by a final score of 1-0. Harding's Carley Stevens scored the game's only goal in 12th minute. The Tigers finish the season with a record of 8-8-2. The game's first and only goal came in the 12th minute off of a Harding corner. The ball was swung in and Carley Stevens headed the ball into the back of the net. Ouachita had four shots on goal in the game, but were unable to convert. Offensively, Ouachita had s...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. –The women's soccer team is heading to the Great American Conference tournament this week led by six seniors who will be fighting to play another game in their gold uniforms. One of those seniors is Fort Worth native Tessa Woodcock. Woodcock, the reigning Great American Conference Defensive Player of the Week, plays central defense for the Tigers and has scored four goals this season, while adding one assist. Woodcock began playing soccer at the young age of three, but she got serious about the sport in third grade. "I m...
RUSTON, La. – The Southern Arkansas men's basketball continued to prepare for the upcoming season on Thursday night as the Muleriders took on Louisiana Tech in an exhibition game inside the Thomas Assembly Center. The NCAA Division I-affiliated Bulldogs beat SAU by a score of 86-69. HOW IT HAPPENED Louisiana Tech opened scoring in the game with a three-pointer by Omar Sherman and the Bulldogs would lead the remainder of the game. The Muleriders hung tough with the Bulldogs however trailing by single digits for much of the first half. The B...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Despite dropping Thursday night's match in straight sets (23-25,23-25,18-25), Southern Arkansas kept Arkansas Tech on the ropes as the Golden Suns rallied from a pair of late set deficits to pick up the Great American Conference win inside the W.T. Watson Center. Records Southern Arkansas (9-19, 3-11 GAC) Arkansas Tech (20-10, 10-4 GAC) HOW IT HAPPENED The Lady Muleriders battled with ATU all evening and eventually took a 14-13 lead in the opening set and would keep the lead until the Golden Suns rallied down 22-21 to take t...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy long ago embraced the modern era of fast-paced offenses, the kind that prefer to go no-huddle, keep defenses off balance and rip off more than 80 plays per game. In fact, those offenses are so pervasive that preparing to face them is the status quo. And that makes getting ready for Kansas State a unique challenge. When the No. 22 Cowboys visit the Wildcats on Saturday for a game crucial to their Big 12 title hopes, they will have to deal with a plodding, lurching offense that bleeds just ab...
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Baker Mayfield threw four more touchdown passes for the streaking Oklahoma Sooners. Mayfield completed 25 of 34 passes for 328 yards and 12th-ranked Oklahoma held off Iowa State 34-24 on Thursday night for its sixth straight victory. Dede Westbrook caught seven passes for 131 yards and a score for the Sooners (7-2, 6-0 Big 12). They beat the Cyclones (1-8, 0-6) for the 18th time in a row and the 74th time in 81 meetings. Mayfield threw TD passes to Westbrook and Dimitri Flowers in the final 4:16 of the first half, extending h...
PAWNEE, Okla. (AP) — Oil and natural gas regulators in Oklahoma are ordering the operators of 70 disposal wells to either shut them down or reduce disposal volumes after a 4.5 magnitude earthquake shook northern Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission said Thursday the new guidelines affect 38 disposal wells within 15 miles of the quake's epicenter that are under its jurisdiction and another 32 wells under the sole jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Agency. The earthquake was recorded Tuesday night in the Pawnee area, where a r...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has approved a $1.01 million settlement with a natural gas utility in connection to a January house explosion. Authorities said a faulty weld in a plastic natural gas pipeline led to the Jan. 2 explosion in an Oklahoma City neighborhood. One person suffered burns and two people were treated for breathing problems. The settlement with Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. was approved Thursday. The utility agreed to the settlement but didn't admit to guilt, according to the Journal Record (...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Prosecutors filed felony charges against Oklahoma's top public education official Thursday, saying she raised money illegally while challenging the incumbent superintendent in the 2014 Republican primary and coordinated attack ads against her in violation of state law. Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said Republican Superintendent Joy Hofmeister and others plotted for more than a year. Two political consultants, a former union leader and the former head of a schools group were also charged. Prosecutors s...
