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HAWNEE – The OBU men's basketball team opened the 2019-20 season with a 71-64 exhibition victory over Oklahoma City University Thursday night at the Noble Complex. Redshirt senior point guard Rashad Lewis led the way for the Bison with 16 points, to go along with three assists and a pair of steals, while junior transfer Jaquan Simms chipped in 11 points and three steals in the winning cause. OBU dominated the glass, outrebounding the Stars 42-23, led by senior forward Dishon Lowery with seven boards, followed by junior Harrison Stoddart and s...
SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist sophomore Saleem Fadel was named the Great American Conference Men's Field Athlete of the Week, the conference office announced Tuesday. Fadel, a native of Doha, Qatar, won the hammer throw at the OBU Invitational last weekend. His throw of 195' 6.5" (59.60 meters) met the NCAA Division II provisional qualifying mark and was the eighth-best throw in the country. He is the first Bison athlete to win the GAC award in 2018....
SHAWNEE – Jinny Parra set a new Oklahoma Baptist record for career wins with his 36th victory Saturday afternoon as the Bison split a pair of games with Southwestern Oklahoma State. OBU won the first Great American Conference game 6-5 before dropping the final meeting of the series 5-6 at Bison Field at Ford Park. Parra, a senior from Jacagua Medio, Dominican Republic, broke a program record that was established in 1989. He passed Darrin Fowler and David Hocking, who each own a 35-13 career record. "I'm happy for Jinny. If the record was g...
PALM DESERT, Calif. – After the first round of play Thursday at the Augustana Spring Fling, Oklahoma Baptist is seventh in a stacked field at the Classic Club. Five teams ranked in the Golfstat top-35 rankings comprise the nine-team field, including Indianapolis, the reigning NCAA Division II national champion. OBU finished with a 330 team total, and is 10 strokes behind host-school Augustana. Freshman Michelle Carr paced the Lady Bison with a five-over 77, and is tied for eighth place. Carr finished with three birdies on the round, i...
Box Score SHAWNEE – (Box Score) Oklahoma Baptist fell in the program's inaugural Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference game 19-1 to No. 18 Regis Saturday afternoon at the OBU Lacrosse Complex. Regis jumped out to an early 8-0 lead, but Allison Ingrim put the Lady Bison on the board. Ingrim intercepted a pass near midfield and weaved her way into the eight meter arc, finding the back of the net. The Rangers extended an 11-1 halftime lead in the second period, limiting OBU to just six shots for the game. Regis remains undefeated on the season, i...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Oklahoma Baptist senior Zak Rowton is the 2016-17 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Diver of the Year, the conference office announced this week. The Bison and Lady Bison placed a total of 20 athletes on the swimming and diving all-conference teams. OBU women featured nine swimmers earning first and second team All-RMAC honors in 16 different events. Bison men had eight competitors make the list in 22 total events. Juliana Cifuentes and Victoria Fonville earned all-conference status in six events each, and Tammy P...
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. – Oklahoma Baptist won its third consecutive match with a 9-0 win over former Sooner Athletic Conference rival John Brown Saturday. Matias Le Fort, Gianluca Galdi and Babji Atturu marched through the lower half of singles unscathed with 6-0, 6-0 wins, as did Luis Romero at No. 2. Lucas Castelo-Branco and Thomas Ackerknecht scored wins, giving up just two games each along the way. Romero and Ackerknecht won 8-4 at No. 1 doubles, while Galdi and Branco at No. 2 and Atturu and Ian Sims at No. 3 both scored comfortable 8-1 w...
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. – Oklahoma Baptist powered past former Sooner Athletic Conference rival John Brown in 9-0 fashion Saturday. OBU sat out top singles player Rouxanne Janse van Rensburg, moved its players up a slot and went virtually untested. Alex Morales, Alex Bowers and Megan Bowlin went through Nos. 4-6 singles with straight set shutouts while Olivia Charvat and Kim Moosbacher gave up one game each and Madeleine Boepple allowed two games. Boepple and Moosbacher also pitched a shutout in doubles. Bowers and Morales won 8-1 and Bowlin and K...
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Baptist STUNT wrapped up a perfect 3-0 weekend Saturday, defeating NCAA Division I opponent Texas Tech 17-7. Friday, the Lady Bison took down the University of Texas 18-8 and edged out fourth-ranked University of Central Oklahoma 17-15. Competition both days was played at the Westmoore High School Competitive Gym, the host site for seven teams this weekend. Friday's contest opened with a win over Texas, the third Division I team OBU has faced in the first four games to start the season. Oklahoma Baptist outscored the L...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Oklahoma Baptist rallied late to tie the game, but Southern Arkansas exploded for a six-run eighth inning for a 13-7 win Saturday to complete a series sweep. OBU scored runs in the first and second innings on an RBI double by Zane Gelphman and an RBI single by Austin Whittaker. Gelphman swatted a two-run home run to in the fifth the close the gap to 5-4. The Muleriders went ahead 7-4 but the Bison scored two in the seventh on an RBI double by Joe Moran and a run-scoring error off the bat of Bob English to make it 7-6 in the s...
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. – (Day One Results) Oklahoma Baptist golfers finished under par in six of their opening 10 rounds at the TMU Spring Invitational Monday, vaulting them to second place with one round to play. Nine golfers were still on the course at the conclusion of play Monday, and are set to wrap up their rounds prior to the start of play Tuesday. The Bison totaled 552 (281, 271), and are eight-under par as a team following the first 36 holes of play at the par-70 Robinson Ranch Golf Club. After a solid first round finish at one-over p...
TULSA – Oklahoma Baptist surprised NCAA Division I Oral Roberts Saturday, scoring a 4-3 win in men's tennis. OBU scored a win at No. 2 doubles by Luis Romero and Thomas Ackerknecht, 6-4, but under NCAA Division I rules, ORU carried a 1-0 lead after doubles by winning two of three matches. Lucas Castelo Branco and Romero scored straight set wins at Nos. 2 and 3 doubles and Kevin Adrusch won in three sets at No. 1 to set up a showdown at No. 6 singles. Gianluca Galdi claimed a tough 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 win at that slot to give OBU the upset. Now 2-3 o...
SHAWNEE – Chandler Rickey, who scored his 1000thcareer points on Thursday, recorded the first 40-point game of OBU's NCAA era and the 23rd such game in school history with his 42-point effort Saturday. The Bison lost the game to Southern Arkansas, 96-88. Rickey is the 14th player to reach that 40-point mark. It was the first 40-point game since Aaron Abram in 2014. He finished the game with 17 field goals on 22 attempts and 10 rebounds. He was 6 of 8 from the free throw line and hit two three-pointers. Steven Green scored 17 points in his f...
SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist ended its women's basketball season with a 74-71 loss to Southern Arkansas Saturday. Tasha Edge scored 21 points and pulled down 13 rebounds to close out her junior campaign. Cameerah Graves added 12 points and Autumn Avina scored 10. Lexi Williams led the team with four assists and Monae Smith contributed two steals. Katy Custer had nine rebounds. OBU was 17 of 19 at the free throw line. It was the last college game for Graves, Morgan Davenport and Kathryn Sild, all of whom started the game. OBU ends the season at 9...
SHAWNEE – Henderson State claimed a 7-6 win over Oklahoma Baptist Saturday to take the series 2-1. OBU tied the score, 1-1 in the first, on an RBI double by Zane Gelphman. The Reddies took a 4-1 lead but OBU cut it to 4-2 in the fourth on a home run by Gelphman. The Bison trailed 7-2 but OBU cut into that HSU lead with an RBI grounder by Kyle Abblitt and an RBI single by Juan Gonzalez in the seventh. OBU cut the deficit to the final margin with two runs in the eighth on a two-run double by Dustyn Cook. The Bison had eight hits, including two b...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Oklahoma Baptist dropped both ends of a Great American Conference softball doubleheader at Henderson State Saturday, 5-3 and 8-0. OBU scored runs in each of the last three innings of the opener on an RBI single by Sam Barry in the fifth, Madison Vaughan's third home run of the season in the sixth and an RBI single by Bry Flanagan in the seventh. Cheyenne Demaree singled in the fourth inning to thwart a no-hitter in the second game. Pitching losses were charged to Haylee Zimmerman and McKenzie Jones. OBU had eight hits, i...
SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist got a career-best 32 points from Katy Custer and cruised to an 87-75 win over Arkansas-Monticello Thursday in the Noble Complex. Custer was 9 of 15 from the field and hit 4 of 5 three-point attempts. She also canned 10 of 11 free throw tries. "Katy is just really hard to stop," said OBU Coach Casi Bays. "If she gets the ball inside she can finish and she can step outside and knock down the three. Any coach would be fortunate to have a player with that versatility." The Lady Bison also picked up 16 points from C...
SHAWNEE – The Lady Bison tennis team of Oklahoma Baptist scored a 5-4 win over No. 17 Cameron in their home opener Tuesday at the OBU Tennis Courts. Rouxanne Janse van Rensburg had no trouble with No. 21 Paula Gutierrez, scoring a 6-0, 6-3 win. Olivia Charvat pushed No. 32 Zhenia Shviadok to three sets before falling at No. 2 singles. Kim Moosbacher and Alex Bowers pulled together a pair of straight-set wins with Bowers clinching the match with her victory. Janse van Rensburg and Moosbacher also won at No. 1 doubles with Charvat and M...
SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist dropped a hard-fought match to 16th-ranked Cameron, 5-4, Tuesday. The Bison came up just short on a pair of three-set singles matches and a 9-7 doubles match. "We're right there," said OBU Coach Peter McCorkle about his team's ability to compete with the top teams in NCAA Division II. Kevin Andrusch, Matias Le Fort and Gianluca Galdi won in straight sets in singles. Lucas Castelo Branco and Galdi pushed 17th-ranked Felipe Oyarzun and Mateo Velasco in No. 1 doubles before falling, 8-5. Luis Romero and Thomas A...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Drury scored a 7-2 win over Oklahoma Baptist Friday night, but OBU pulled off a couple of singles wins. Kevin Andrusch got his first college victory at No. 2 singles with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Sebastien Amato. Matias Le Fort earned a hard-fought victory over Paul Porcher in No. 4 singles, 1-6, 6-3, 10-5. The Bison stay in Springfield Saturday to take on Lindenwood....
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Oklahoma Baptist absorbed its first loss of the season, a 7-2 setback at No. 20 Drury Friday. Rouxanne Janse van Rensburg collected her second singles win, 5-7, 6-3, 13-11, over Larrisa Karl at No. 1 singles. Olivia Charvat also picked up a three-set win, 6-7, 6-0, 10-5. Kim Moosbacher just missed a pair of wins, losing in three sets at No. 3 singles and 9-8 in No. 1 doubles with Janse van Rensburg. The team plays again at 1 p.m. in Springfield against Lindenwood....
SHAWNEE – Chandler Rickey established a Great American Conference season record and Oklahoma Baptist blasted past Northwestern with a 47-point second-half flurry to claim a 70-67 win over the Rangers Saturday in the Noble Complex. Rickey blocked three shots for 65 on the season, eclipsing the former record of 64 set by Charles Mells of Arkansas Tech and Michael Morris of Ouachita Baptist in 2012-13. "We're just riding a wave now of positive energy right now," said OBU head coach Quinn Wooldridge. "What Chandler gives us is a guy that can p...
SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist used a 24-8 first quarter and held off Northwestern Oklahoma State from there for a 77-71 win Saturday in the Noble Complex. Tasha Edge and Katy Custer both turned in double-doubles with Edge getting 17 points and 10 rebounds while Custer got 16 and 10. OBU scored the first eight points, including three-pointers by Tasha Edge and Monae Smith and took off to a 20-2 lead. The Rangers were able to trim the lead to 39-29 by halftime and tied the game at 67-67 with 3:17 to play in the fourth quarter. OBU fell behind for t...
WEATHERFORD – Oklahoma Baptist won their 2017 road finale, whipping Southwestern Oklahoma State, 95-82, Thursday. The Bison posted their most points in a Great American Conference game in its two seasons. OBU hot 53 percent from the field, knocked down 13 three-pointers and mde 26 of 32 free throws (81 percent). Kevin Franceschi scored a game-best 29 points, including four three-pointers and nine free throws in 10 attempts. Vladimir Nemcok added 20 points, six of those coming on three-pointers while falling away from the basket. Chandler R...
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Baptist split two games at Oklahoma Christian Saturday, losing the opener 7-6 before taking the series finale 10-4. In the OBU win, OBU jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second when Dustyn Cook got an RBI single and then scored as part of an attempted double steal. OC tied the game in the fourth, but the Bison took a 3-2 lead in the fifth on an RBI single by Brett Berghammer. After the Eagles took a 4-3 lead, the OBU grabbed the lead for good with a four-run sixth, including an RBI single by Zane Gelphman, who later s...
