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WOODWARD – In spite of a solid performance from Whitney Randall with 20 points, Alva fell to Woodward 50-43 Tuesday night. Though the Lady Boomers were off to a big start with a 10-0 run early in the first to get a nine-point lead over Alva, Randall took control of the pace scoring 11 points of Alva's 16 in that first quarter. The Ladybugs trailed by just two points going into the second quarter, 16-18. Going on a 12-4 run in the second quarter, Alva built an eight-point lead over Woodward. T...
The Alva High School library was filled with classmates of senior Ethan Harzman Wednesday afternoon to cheer him on in signing a letter of intent to attend Northwestern Oklahoma State University and play football for the Rangers. Harzman was a very effective multi-position player for the Goldbugs during his high school career. Coach Taylor Schwerdtfeger said, "This is really exciting for Ethan. It's also exciting for Alva to have kids go on and continue their football career and attend college....
ALVA, Okla. – The feel of winter may still be felt all around northwest Oklahoma, but opening day for Northwestern Oklahoma State's baseball team is upon us. All head coach Sam Carel could say about his feelings towards this weekend's first four games for his team is that he is ready for new beginnings and the start of a season. The Rangers are coming off of a 14-35 record last season and have made adjustments to both the coaching staff as well as the roster in an effort to join the conference's elite. “We've got a lot of guys that we need to...
ALVA, Okla. – Six games in three days may seem like a heavy workload for the opening weekend of a season, but for Northwestern Oklahoma State's softball team it is exactly what head coach Charlie Zeilman was hoping for. After a long off-season and a completely over hauled roster, the evaluating and measuring of where his team is at will start immediately at the Lady Chap Invitational this weekend in Lubbock, Texas. Zeilman's team posted an overall record of 11-41, including going 9-33 in conference games. After an off-season that included r...
MONTICELLO, Ark. – Northwestern Oklahoma State's women's basketball team was unable to complete a late-game comeback on the road against Arkansas-Monticello. The 74-66 defeat brings the Lady Rangers record to 6-14, 5-9 in the GAC. Junior Kalea King led the way once again for the black-and-red, totaling 16 points in large part due to an 8-for-9 performance from the free point line. She also nearly reached double-double numbers with nine rebounds. Seniors Jonae Isaac and Ashley Pride continued their solid play with 13 points apiece. The Lady R...
ARKADELPHIA, ARK. – For the second time in the 2016-17 season the battle of the Tigers in women's basketball ended being forced into overtime. This time the wrong Tigers came out on top as the East Central University women's basketball team fell to Ouachita Baptist, 69-73. The Tigers (6-12, 5-9 GAC) were led by junior Alexa Adair, who tallied 23 points and added three assists. Sophomore Tia Williams also had a strong night with a career high 16 points and season-best five rebounds. The first half was a defense battle with both teams s...
SEARCY, ARK. – Oklahoma Baptist for 16 points from Katy Custer and double-figure scoring from two other players in a 72-55 loss at Harding Thursday. Custer score four three-pointers in six tries. Autumn Avina added 12 points and Cameerah Graves added 11 in her first start since returning from injury. Avina and Graves had four assists each with Graves collecting four steals. Tasha Edge led the Lady Bison with 10 rebounds. OBU finishes its final trip to Arkansas Saturday with 1 p.m. game at Arkansas Tech....
SHAWNEE – Tennis coaches of the Great American Conference believe Oklahoma Baptist might be down this season. After going undefeated through their debut in the GAC last season, the Lady Bison graduated No. 1 player Anatasia Baranova and are red-shirting last year's No. 2 Kateryna Shkot. As a result, OBU is slotted third in the women's GAC preseason coaches' poll while the men, who did not win a GAC match last season, are picked last in the men's poll. The Lady Bison return Olivia Charvat, Madeleine Boepple, Alex Bowers and Caroline Abbe, who a...
DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern rallied to erase a double-digit third-quarter deficit and exploded to outscore Henderson State 23-8 in the final frame to pull away with an 81-65 win on Thursday night in Arkadelphia, Ark. The win lifts the Savage Storm to 11-7 overall and 9-5 in Great American Conference play heading into a Saturday matchup with Ouachita Baptist at 1 p.m. The SE offense shot 50.0 percent from the floor on the night, including a highly efficient 58.1 percent in the second half. They were led by Katie Webb who turned in 18 points t...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The Lady Bulldogs defeated Southern Arkansas 79-68 to earn the first Great American Conference regular-season sweep of the season. SWOSU utilized a great defensive third quarter holding the Muleriders to just nine points to build a 14-point lead heading into the last quarter that proved to be enough. SWOSU and Southern Arkansas came out of the gates hot as both teams shot greater than 50% from the field in the first quarter in a high scoring first 10 minutes. At the end of one, the Lady Dawgs led 28-25 after both Hayden P...
WICHITA, Kan. – A hot first quarter by Newman combined with a slow start by Rogers State led to a 67-59 loss for the Hillcat women Thursday evening inside Fugate Gymnasium. After a sluggish first quarter the Hillcats turned it on to start the second half with back-to-back layups by Natasha Kindred and a 3-pointer by Nikola Nedoroscikova for a 7-0 run to cut into the Jets lead. Nedoroscikova added another four points to kick start six unanswered points for RSU as Darian Jackson made a layup over two defenders to pull the Hillcats deficit u...
CLAREMORE, Okla. –Junior outfielder Bradley Degnan set a school record with eight RBI in a dominating 17-0 victory over Randall on Thursday (Feb. 2) in the first game of a three-game at the Diamond Sports Complex. Degnan, a junior from Woodside, Calif., totaled two home runs; including a grand slam homer in the sixth inning to break the school record with eight RBI. The previous record of seven RBI was held by Zach Hamby and Colton West. For the game, Degnan was 3-for-5 hitting with the eight RBI and three runs scored. The Hillcats started t...
CLAREMORE, Okla. – The Rogers State baseball team scored eight runs in the fourth inning to roll to an 11-0 victory over Bacone College on Wednesday (Feb. 1) in the season opener at the Diamond Sports Complex. Eight of the 11 runs came in a hot-hitting fourth inning. The navy and red totaled six hits with four of them producing runs in the inning. In his second at bat in an RSU uniform, Bradley Degnan hit a solo shot to right field for a 1-0 edge to start the fourth inning. After the leadoff homer, the Cats loaded the bases with back-to-back s...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – D'Rae Tullock came off the bench to score 16 points, while Kelsey McClure (16 points), Anissa Pounds (14 points), and Danielle Frachiseur (10 points) all hit double figures as the No. 23 Arkansas Tech Golden Suns basketball team (15-3, 11-3 Great American Conference) took a 74-62 win over Southern Nazarene (9-8, 6-7 GAC) on Thursday night at Tucker Coliseum. NEXT UP Arkansas Tech continues its home stand on Saturday, Feb. 4, facing Oklahoma Baptist in a 1 p.m. matchup. HOW IT HAPPENED The two teams traded leads over the o...
SEARCY – Sophomore Caroline Hogue starred for Harding at both ends of the floor Thursday, leading Harding to a 72-55 victory over Oklahoma Baptist in Great American Conference action at the Rhodes-Reaves Field House. Hogue scored a career-high 24 points on the offensive end, grabbed 10 rebounds and tied a school record with nine blocked shots on the defensive end. Harding maintained its two-game lead over Arkansas Tech in the GAC standings with the victory. The Lady Bisons improved to 16-3 overall and 13-1 in conference games. Harding has w...
ARKADELPHIA, AR - Hailey Estes had 19 points and 8 rebounds but Southeastern Oklahoma used a big run in the second half to defeat Henderson State 81-65 on Thursday night in the Duke Wells Center. The Reddies got off to a good start behind 12 first quarter points from Estes and finished the first period up 26-20. The Savage Storm used three 3-pointers to cut into the lead in the second, but HSU maintained their advantage into the break, taking a 41-37 lead at the half. Henderson came out of the locker room and extended their four point lead out...
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – The Southern Arkansas baseball team opened their 2017 season with a 5-4 win over Missouri Western State in the first game of the Air Hogs DII Classic at the Ballpark in Grand Prairie on Thursday. With the win, first-year head coachJustin Pettigrew also notched his first career win. RECORDS Missouri Western Griffons (0-1) Southern Arkansas Muleriders (1-0) HOW IT HAPPENED · The Muleriders were the first to get on the scoreboard on a RBI groundout by Josey Langston in the bottom of the second inning. Langston's RBI pl...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma lawmaker who admitted asking his legislative assistant to send him topless photos and accompany him to a strip club should be expelled from office, a special House committee recommended Thursday following a monthlong investigation. The chairman of the panel said he believes a two-thirds majority of the 101-member House will vote to expel Republican Rep. Dan Kirby of Tulsa if he doesn't resign. It would be the first time in Oklahoma history that the House votes to expel one of its members. "Contrary to the s...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is requesting a major disaster declaration from the federal government for an ice storm that hit the state last month. Fallin's office announced Thursday that Oklahoma is seeking the declaration for 10 counties impacted by the Jan. 13-16 storm. The storm caused widespread power outages in northwest Oklahoma and led to at least four deaths and 65 injuries. The governor's office estimated the storm also caused more than $22 million in infrastructure damage, debris and response costs. If approved, t...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Shortening criminal penalties for nonviolent drug offenders, offering parole to older inmates and allowing some prisoners a chance to expunge their records would help whittle Oklahoma's chronically overcrowded prison system and save the state almost $2 billion, a criminal justice task force found Thursday. The recommendations issued in the 39-page Oklahoma Justice Reform Task Force report come as corrections officials face the prospect of either building two more prisons and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to o...
STIGLER, Okla. (AP) — Crews are battling two wildfires in rural eastern Oklahoma that have burned more than 10 square miles combined. Oklahoma Forestry Services fire management chief Mark Goeller said the first fire in Haskell County was about 50 percent contained as of Thursday afternoon, but might continue to burn for another two days. Goeller said no homes or other structures were immediately threatened. A second fire was burning about 5 miles northwest of Wilburton in Latimer County, but Goeller said officials haven't determined how much o...
ALEX, Okla. (AP) — A U.S. veteran of the Korean War will be buried in Alex more than 66 years after his death. Corporal Melvin "Mutt" Hill's remains will be transported to Alex on Feb. 4, the Express-Star (http://bit.ly/2k4lmxk ) reported. Thressa Bland and Linda Southerland searched for Hill, their cousin, after their father Douglas Lancaster, who submitted his DNA, passed away in 2009. "It's been a long time coming," Linda said. "We did this for our dad, because he wanted this done." For years Bland and Southerland helped researched their g...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma will soon join a growing list of states that collect sales taxes on purchases made through online retail giant Amazon, Gov. Mary Fallin announced Thursday, touting the agreement as a "big accomplishment" for the financially strapped state. Fallin said Seattle-based Amazon will begin voluntarily collecting state and local sales taxes on March 1 and will remit them starting in April. Local governments that are heavily dependent on sales tax revenue should begin receiving the collections in May, Fallin said. "That w...
It didn't start out that way, but a new documentary tying various threads among far-right extremists and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh serves as a history lesson and, indirectly, as a warning that something so horrible could happen again. "Oklahoma City," directed by Barak Goodman, airs Tuesday night in PBS' "American Experience" series (9 p.m. EST) after its premiere last month at the Sundance Film Festival. Producer Mark Samels developed it as a means to "excavate" the story behind the bombing, Goodman said. "This was hatched a couple...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and legislative leaders are outlining some of their top priorities for the legislative session at a forum hosted by The Associated Press. Fallin and leaders from the House and Senate are expected to speak Thursday at the AP's annual forum at the state Capitol. The Republican governor is expected to preview some of the priorities from her State of the State address that she will deliver to lawmakers on Monday, the first day of the 2017 session. Fallin has discussed the need to bring in more r...
