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WEATHERFORD, Okla. – Southeastern had four players in double-figures and drained 17 threes on its way to a 92-77 road victory over Southwestern Oklahoma State on Saturday afternoon in Weatherford, Okla. The win lifts the Savage Storm to 4-1 overall on the season and evens its Great American Conference record at 1-1. Kevin Buckingham turned in a huge performance, finishing with his second-straight double-double while leading all players with 24 points and posted a game-high 11 rebounds. He shot 9-of-13 from the floor, including a pair of t...
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – After a solid start led to a lead after one quarter, Southeastern hit a midgame cold spell and Southwestern Oklahoma State took advantage, handing the Savage Storm a 96-70 loss on Saturday afternoon in Weatherford, Okla. The loss drops the Savage Storm to 2-3 overall on the season and 1-1 in Great American Conference play. The Savage Storm held a 17-14 lead after the first quarter after holding SWOSU to 28.6 percent shooting from the floor, including an 0-for-9 effort from behind the arc. However, the Bulldogs would get t...
BETHANY - The fifth-ranked Southern Nazarene men's basketball team shot 53% from the field and held the East Central Tigers to 32% shooting in the second half as they led by as many as 35 in a dominant 91-66 win over the ECU on Saturday afternoon at the Sawyer Center. Win the win, SNU has now won 21 straight games on their home floor, the second longest streak in SNU men's basketball history. Junior Jhonathan Dunn set a new career-record in 3-point field goals made with seven, good for second all-time in SNU history. Senior Noah Starkey poured...
BETHANY — There's nothing like playing on your home floor after a long road trip, and there's nothing like getting a victory in your first game at home. Southern Nazarene did that on Saturday afternoon as they took down East Central 65-58 for their first win of the season. The Crimson Storm (1-5, 1-1 GAC) put together their best all-around game to date, and it showed in the box score on Saturday. SNU shot just 35 percent from the floor, but poured in 8-of-17 (47.1%) three-pointers on their home floor. They held the Tigers (3-3, 0-2 GAC) to a 32...
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU Women's Basketball used a strong offensive effort in the second half on their way to a 96-70 victory over Southeastern Oklahoma State on Saturday afternoon at the Pioneer Cellular Event Center. Southeastern jumped out of the gate with a 7-0 run, but SWOSU answered with a run of their own, going on a 12-5 run knotting the game at 12-12 at the first media timeout. The Savage Storm came out on top of the back and forth affair with a 17-14 lead at the end of the first quarter of play. The Lady Bulldogs began to take c...
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU Men's Basketball dropped a 92-77 contest to Southeastern Oklahoma State on Saturday afternoon at the Pioneer Cellular Event Center. It was a close contest at the start as the two sides traded baskets in the first half. SWOSU held the advantage half way through the first period of play jumping out to a 29-15 lead over Southeastern. The Savage Storm began to find their rhythm after that going on a 23-8 run to tie things up at 38-38 with five minutes to play in the half. The Bulldogs weathered the Southeastern attack to...
WICHITA, Kan. (Dec. 1, 2018) – The outstanding performances came from all over the basketball court Saturday afternoon for Oklahoma Christian – 32 points from Aubrey Johnson, 25 from Jordan Box and a third straight double-double from Will Lienhard. It seemed like it would be enough – until it wasn't. Newman (Kan.) rallied from a five-point deficit in the final minute of regulation to force overtime and the Jets held off OC in the final seconds for a 100-94 win over the Eagles at Fugate Gymnasium. It was the second straight road game in which...
JOPLIN, Mo. – Missouri Southern pulled away with a late first-half run and extended the margin in the second half en route to a 70-51 win over the Rogers State women's basketball team on Saturday (Dec. 1) at the Leggett & Platt Athletic Center. With the score tied at 26-26 with 2:30 remaining before halftime after a Desiree Nelson 3-pointer, the host Lions ended the quarter with a 7-0 run to take a 33-26 lead into the break. The spurt was capped by a Morgan Brightwell 3-pointer in the final minute of the half. The Hillcats (3-5) could only g...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – R.J. Glasper turned in a 30-point, eight-assist, six-rebound performance, leading a cast of three Wonder Boys players to reach double figures in scoring, but the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys basketball team (2-4, 0-2 Great American Conference) dropped a heartbreaker to the Henderson State Reddies (5-2, 1-1) on Saturday at Tucker Coliseum, falling 80-79. NEXT UP The Wonder Boys face Eastern New Mexico in a non-conference matchup on Tuesday, Dec. 4 in Plano, Texas. A 3 p.m. tip-off is scheduled. HOW IT HAPPENED The Wonder B...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark.– Ke'Vonshaye Stackhouse turned in an 18-point, four-rebound effort, while Hannah Villines added 13 points, but the Arkansas Tech Golden Sun basketball team (3-3, 1-1 Great American Conference) was unable to outlast Henderson State (5-1, 2-0 GAC), falling 70-62 Saturday afternoon at Tucker Coliseum. NEXT UP Arkansas Tech will return to action on Saturday, December 8, as the Suns travel to Monticello, Ark. to Arkansas-Monticello. A 5:30 p.m. tip-off is scheduled. HOW IT HAPPENED Henderson State got off to a red-hot start, openi...
Weevils advance to ( 3 – 3 ) on the season. OBU falls to ( 4 – 2 ) this year. UAM STATS Austin Hardy - 32 points, 9 rebounds Darnell Wright - 15 points, 12 rebounds Keelin Jackson - 12 points, 9 rebounds FIRST HALF OBU scored 5 points in the first half from the paint to UAM's 0. Austin Hardy led the Weevils in points in the first half with 14. UAM scored 9 points off of turnovers. (21 total) UAM went into the locker room at halftime tied 26-26. SECOND HALF Weevils came out after the half putting up 15 points to OBU's 5 in the first 7 minutes of...
SEARCY – Harding held Southern Arkansas without a field goal for more than 11 minutes of clock time and defeated the Muleriders 78-50 Saturday in Great American Conference action at the Rhodes-Reaves Field House. The win was the fifth straight for Harding (6-1, 2-0), who won for the 11th consecutive time at home. Southern Arkansas (1-5, 0-2) lost for the 17th time in its last 19 games against Harding. Southern Arkansas' Jerica Bell made a jumper with 5:16 left in the second quarter to cut Harding's lead to 36-18. The Lady Bisons held the M...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. — After trailing for nearly the entire second half, Henderson State's Rel Johnson converted a go-ahead And-1 with 10.5 seconds left and the defense came up with a huge stop in the final seconds, as the Reddies defeated Arkansas Tech 80-79 on Saturday afternoon at Tucker Coliseum for their first Great American Conference win of the year. Despite leading 33-29 at the half, the Reddies (5-2, 1-1) trailed for almost the entire second period, as Arkansas Tech (2-4, 0-2) used hot shooting to control the action throughout the h...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. — Henderson State had four players in double figures and withstood a furious rally from Arkansas Tech in the final moments to defeat the Golden Suns 70-62 and pick up its first win in Tucker Coliseum since 2005-06. The Reddies (5-1, 2-0) controlled the game for most of the afternoon and led 57-43 entering the fourth quarter, but Arkansas Tech (3-3, 1-1), who had never led, outscored Henderson 19-7 through nine minutes in the period to trim the lead down to just 64-62 with under a minute to play. With Henderson needing a bucke...
Monticello, Ark- The Ouachita Lady Tigers went on the road to Monticello on Saturday afternoon and outlasted The University of Arkansas at Monticello by a final score of 58-56. This was not only the Lady Tigers first conference victory of the season, but also their first road win on the year moving them to an overall record of 3-4, which keeps them at a .500 win team. As a team The Lady Tigers shot 40.8% from the floor, grabbed a total of 37 rebounds as a team, and had 24 points off of turnovers. For Arkansas-Monticello, they shot a combined...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – For the second consecutive season the Ouachita Baptist football team falls to Ferris State by a final score of 37-14 at Cliff Harris Stadium on Saturday afternoon. No. 4 Ouachita (12-1) went 377 days between losses to No. 2 Ferris State (14-0). In between those losses, the Tigers won a school record 12 games, went undefeated in the regular season for the second time in school history and most importantly won their second consecutive Great American Conference Titles. The Tigers now have four conference championships in the p...
Searcy, Ark. – The SAU Men's Basketball team had their six-game win streak snapped at the hands of Harding in a 75-74 thriller which saw a slow first half and a less-than-stellar performance from the free throw line make the difference in this contest. The Muleriders fell behind 40-30 at the half, and were propelled back into the game by an early second half 11-0 scoring run that saw the Muleriders come back within a single point. A subsequent 9-0 run midway through the second quarter had the Muleriders back in the lead 54-53. An 8-0 run to end...
Searcy, Ark. – The SAU Women's Basketball team dropped their road conference opener today in Searcy against Harding, who sit atop the GAC standings following the conclusion of the first weekend of conference play. The Muleriders were ultimately undone by a second quarter that saw the Bisons outscore the Muleriders 28-5, including a 9-0 scoring run and a 10-0 scoring run by the Bisons. Redshirt sophomore Brette Wacha led all scorers on the night, scoring 18 points on 6-9 shooting from the floor, including 4-6 from behind the arc and making b...
EXARKANA, Ark. – A furious second half rally that saw Southern Arkansas outscore Missouri Western 25-10 in the final two quarters was not enough to erase a 20-0 halftime deficit as the Griffons, representatives of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, held off the Muleriders in a 35-20 win at the Sixth-Annual Agent Barry Live United Bowl from Texarkana, Arkansas' Razorback Stadium on a rather warm Saturday afternoon. The Muleriders (8-4) struggled to maintain drives in the opening half of play as the team relied on a handful of...
PRAGUE, Oklahoma (AP) — Three oil companies have reached a settlement with plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit over damaging earthquakes in central Oklahoma. The companies — Spess Oil Co., Equal Energy US Inc. and Fairfield Oil and Gas Corp. — have not admitted to any liability but have agreed to put $925,000 into a settlement fund. The lawsuit argues that saltwater disposal well operations led to 2011 earthquakes near the Oklahoma town of Prague. Attorneys say the fund is subject to court approval and a January hearing is scheduled to consi...
STILLWATER, Oklahoma (AP) — Oklahoma officials say a convicted murderer serving a life sentence has escaped from a county jail by posing as another prisoner whom he "closely resembled." The Oklahoma Department of Corrections reports that 34-year-old Patrick M. Walker escaped Thursday night from the Payne County jail. Corrections department spokesman Matt Elliott said Saturday that Walker appears to have conspired with someone outside the jail who posted bond for the inmate Walker impersonated. The corrections department says Walker may be g...
SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Police say a man has been arrested on charges in a Salina shooting death, the city's first homicide this year. Television station KWCH reports that 25-year-old Mika Lee Thille was booked Friday afternoon into the Salina County Jail on charges of murder, burglary and robbery. Thille and a 24-year-old woman were taken in for questioning Friday afternoon, hours after police found the body of 30-year-old Justin Willingham in a home after someone reported gunshots. Willingham had been shot to death. ___ Information from: K...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police have arrested two men suspected of killing an 88-year-old man found dead inside a Wichita home this week. The Wichita Eagle reports that police were called to the home Thursday night for a welfare check and found Floyd Gilbert gravely injured. Police have not described the nature of Gilbert's injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police on Friday arrested 36-year-old Austin Stewart and 54-year-old Landon Onek, both of Wichita, on suspicion of felony murder. Both are being held in the Sedgwick County Jail. C...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A group of Washburn University students have launched a startup that aims to combat hunger and change how Americans think about food by creating a protein powder made out of crickets. Six students formed the startup Agrotech Enterprises, which recently won the Washburn Entrepreneur Pitch Competition for their cricket protein powder business idea, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported . Crickets are an excellent prospect for the company because of their nutritional value, said Jonathan Barnell, a senior who directs the group's...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The Manhattan-Ogden school board plans to move to 100 percent wind energy for 20 years, beginning in 2021. The Manhattan Mercury reports Westar Energy offered several public entities a 20-year fixed rate to join the Soldier Creek Wind Farm project. The school board voted Wednesday to accept the offer. Kansas State University and Manhattan city government earlier agreed to draw 50 percent of their electricity from the wind farm in Nemaha County. Westar projects the school district will save $43,800 per year. The d...
