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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Six SWOSU Golfers were named to the 2017-18 All-Great American Conference team on Saturday night at the awards banquet that precedes the GAC Championships. The women's side produced five of the six selections including a pair of first-team honorees. Gloria Choi and Elin Wahlin earned First Team All-GAC honors for the Lady Bulldogs, while Chloe Thackeray was placed on the second team, and both Emily Folsom and Jenna Eidem were named honorable mentions. On the men's side, Kason Cook was the lone Bulldog represented as a s...
MAGNOLIA, ARK. – The East Central University men's and women's track & field teams saw a total of seven student-athletes earn All-Great American Conference honors at the 2018 GAC Championship hosted by Southern Arkansas. The men's team saw five All-GAC honors, while the women netted two. 2018 GAC Championships Results Senior Michaela Lombard, junior Larry Filer and sophomore Dilland Gardner all earned two All-GAC honors, while senior Kevin Matthews took home the finale honor. Gardner earned a first-place finish in the discus, with a s...
ADA – The East Central University baseball team picked up two wins in a double-header against Southern Nazarene at Ken Turner Field. The Tigers (5-34, 4-25 GAC) won the first game 8-5 and then earned their first shutout since March 10, 2017 at 4-0. ECU was led by sophomore Cale Ridling, with a .714 average, five hits, two double a triple, two runs and three RBIs. Junior Josh Lincoln added a .677 average, two hits, four runs and two RBIs. The duo led the team who hit a .309 average and allowed just a .232 mark by the Crimson Strom (11-27, 7...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Oklahoma Baptist scored a 5-2 win over Southeastern Oklahoma State to claim its first ever Great American Conference postseason women's tennis championship. "I couldn't be happier for our girls," said Lady Bison Coach Nick Papac. "They played really well down the stretch. That was our goal from the beginning – to get better every day – and I think that's what we're doing. It's pretty cool for our team to get to go to its first NCAA Tournament." The Lady Bison took a 2-1 lead after doubles with Kateryna Shkot and Kim Moosb...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – (Results) Oklahoma Baptist won the program's first Great American Conference Women's Track & Field Championship Saturday at the Mulerider Track and Field Complex. Head Coach Ford Mastin was named GAC Women's Coach of the Year for guiding OBU to the 17thconference championship in program history. The previous 16 championships were won as members of the Sooner Athletic Conference. The Lady Bison scored 213 total points to clinch the championship in their first year of eligibility. Harding finished second with 194 points and S...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – (Results) Oklahoma Baptist finished runner-up Saturday at the Great American Conference Men's Track & Field Championships at the Mulerider Track and Field Complex. OBU finished with 166 points in the first GAC championship the Bison were eligible to score. Southern Arkansas claimed the title with 191.5 points and Harding finished third at 148.5 points. Rogers State (52) placed third, East Central (42) was fifth, Oklahoma Christian (39) finished sixth and Southern Nazarene (11) rounded out the field in seventh. The Bison won t...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. – No. 32 Southeastern opened up with a pair of doubles wins and never looked back en route to its second Great American Conference Tournament Championship on Saturday, downing Harding 5-3 in Bentonville, Ark. The Savage Storm improve to 12-7 overall on the year and will now await word on its regional hopes as they entered the tournament fourth in the Central region, with the top four advancing to the NCAA Tournament. Matias Vargas and Milos Vuckovic picked up an 8-2 win in the three position to put SE on the board, but a l...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Facing a sweep at the hands of Ouachita after dropping game one 5-3 on Saturday, SWOSU Baseball came away with a 7-2 victory over the Tigers in the series finale. The Bulldogs (22-20, 16-12 GAC) close out the regular season next weekend at home against rival Northwestern with a chance to clinch a berth in the Great American Conference Tournament the following week. Game One Ouachita 5, SWOSU 3 Much like Ouachita did all weekend, the Tigers jumped out to an early lead in the first inning after plating three runs. SWOSU w...
SEARCY – The Harding softball team split a Great American Conference doubleheader with Arkansas-Monticello Saturday. The Lady Bisons won the first game 10-0 in five innings and the Blossoms won game two 5-3. After the doubleheader senior Madi Trump was recognized for her contributions to the Harding softball program. Harding moves to 29-21 overall and 21-19 in the GAC. After today's games, Harding sealed its spot in the GAC Tournament held May 2-5 in Bentonville, Arkansas. The Lady Bisons will still be fighting for what seed they will be. Hardi...
Henderson State managed just four hits on Saturday as the Reddies fell 2-1 to Northwestern Oklahoma in the series finale at Clyde Berry Field. The Reddies, 27-16 overall and 20-10 in the Great American Conference, scored its lone run in the first-inning as Caleb Carr led off the game with a single. Joe Myers advanced Carr to second when he reached base on a walk. Zack Gray then lined a single up the middle to force home Carr. The Reddies would proceed to put runners on second and third with one out, but Ranger starting pitcher Baron Phillips...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Ouachita Tiger baseball team split a pair of games with Southwestern Oklahoma State on Saturday afternoon 5-3 and 2-7. Every senior that played for Ouachita (13-33, 8-21 GAC) picked up a hit in the double header split against Southwestern Oklahoma State (22-20, 16-12 GAC). It was just the third time all season that Tigers had won back-to-back games and it was the first Great American Conference series victory since the East Central series back in early March. Game One: OUA 5, SWOSU 3 The Ouachita seniors came out of t...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. The Southern Arkansas men's baseball team picked up a series win over Arkansas Tech after winning the series finale, 11-6, on "Senior Day" behind a powerful offensive performance led by redshirt freshman Cole Boyd's 5 RBIs inside Walker Stadium at Goodheart Field on Saturday. TEAM RECORDS Southern Arkansas Muleriders (28-15, 20-10 GAC) Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys (27-19, 19-12 GAC) PITCHING DECISIONS – GAME 1 W – Jacob Stroder (7-2) L – Zack Kesterson (1-5) S – NONE GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS & HAPPENINGS Arkansas Tech got off to a hot sta...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Squeals and screams erupt as Ibby Rodgers and Zoie Wagner carry their new pigs into a barn on Des Moines' south side. The feeder pigs, each roughly the size of a corgi, are the latest arrivals at the Des Moines Public Schools' teaching farm. Over the next few months, two students from Central Campus' animal science classes will feed and water the pigs — and muck out their stalls — until the animals reach more than 250 pounds. After a brief stop at the county fair, the pigs will be sold to slaughter. It's a process that...
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — For the rest of April, the gazebo outside the Sequoyah County Courthouse will serve as a reminder to listen to those who say they have been sexually assaulted. Sequoyah County law enforcement and justice officials and residents met outside the courthouse on April 9 to light up the gazebo in teal in honor of victims and survivors of sexual assault, the Times Record reported . The gazebo was lit in the hope of underlining the importance of believing people who say they have been sexually assaulted, Sequoyah County s...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he doesn't expect Michael Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer and fixer, to "flip" as the government investigates Cohen's business dealings. Trump, in a series of tweets fired off from Florida on the morning of former first lady Barbara Bush's funeral, accused The New York Times and one of its reporters of "going out of their way to destroy Michael Cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will 'flip'" — a term that can mean cooperating with the government in...
HOUSTON (AP) — Barbara Bush was remembered as the "first lady of the Greatest Generation" during a funeral Saturday attended by four former U.S. presidents and hundreds of other people who filled a Houston church with laughter as much as tears, with many recalling her quick wit and devotion to family. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush joked that his mother called her style of raising him and his siblings "'a benevolent dictatorship' — but honestly, it wasn't always benevolent." She was widely admired for her plainspoken style during her husband Geo...
LONDON (AP) — The audience at Royal Albert Hall got a rare treat Saturday — the chance to sing "Happy Birthday" to the longest reigning monarch in British history. Queen Elizabeth II, with her eldest son Prince Charles at her side, waved to the crowd as they celebrated her 92nd birthday in song. Charles got an enthusiastic response when he introduced her as: "Your majesty, mummy." The queen took center stage after a varied pop concert featuring British singers Sting, Tom Jones and Jamie Cullum along with Australian star Kylie Minogue, long a f...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin expressed cautious optimism Saturday over efforts to resolve trade tensions that have rattled financial markets and clouded the global economic outlook. Mnuchin held a string of meetings over the past three days with financial officials from China, Japan and Europe over the punitive tariffs the administration has unveiled in an effort to fulfill President Donald Trump's campaign promise to reduce America's huge trade deficits. In a session with reporters, Mnuchin refused to say how close t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Now it's President Donald Trump's turn to pull off the ultimate charm offensive. Wined and dined on multiple state visits during his tour of Asia last year, Trump is paying it forward and celebrating nearly 250 years of U.S.-French relations by playing host to President Emmanuel Macron at a glitzy White House state dinner on Tuesday. Months in the making, it's the first state visit and first big soiree of the Trump era in Washington. "It sounds like what they're planning will be spectacular," said Jeremy Bernard, who was W...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump says he's considering a posthumous pardon for boxing's first black heavyweight champion more than 100 years after the late Jack Johnson was convicted by all-white jury of accompanying a white woman across state lines. Trump announced Saturday on Twitter that the actor Sylvester Stallone, a friend of his, had called to bring Johnson's story to his attention. "His trials and tribulations were great, his life complex and controversial," Trump wrote from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. "Others h...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Ryan Kelly won a Pulitzer Prize this week for his photo of a car plowing into protesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia - an image he snapped on the final day of his newspaper job before leaving to work at a brewery. The photographer has joined a growing list of journalists who have won the profession's highest honor on their way out the door of a once-thriving newspaper industry now destabilized and seriously weakened by the internet. Kelly, 31, said he was burned out and looking for a better q...
JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel's defense minister said Saturday that Hamas leaders are the "only culprits" in continued bloodshed on the Gaza border, as the European Union and a top United Nations official made new demands to investigate shootings of unarmed Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, including the killing of a 14-year-old boy. Avigdor Lieberman's comments on Twitter came a day after four Palestinians, including the teen, were shot and killed by Israeli army fire from across the border fence, according to Gaza health o...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Amnesty International gave former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick its Ambassador of Conscience Award on Saturday for his kneeling protest of racial injustice that launched a sports movement and might have cost him his job. Onetime San Francisco 49ers teammate Eric Reid presented Kaepernick with the award during a ceremony in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. In his acceptance speech, the award-winner described police killings of African Americans and Latinos in the United States as lawful lynchings. "Racialized o...
BEIRUT (AP) — Chemical weapons inspectors collected samples from Syria's Douma on Saturday, two weeks after a suspected gas attack there followed by retaliatory strikes by Western powers on the Syrian government's chemical facilities. The site visit, confirmed by the Organization of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, would allow the agency to proceed with an independent investigation to determine what chemicals, if any, were used in the April 7 attack that medical workers said killed more than 40 people. Douma was the final target of the g...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Elmore Bolling defied the odds against black men and built several successful businesses during the harsh era of Jim Crow segregation in the South. He had more money than a lot of whites, which his descendants believe was all it took to get him lynched in 1947. He was shot to death by a white neighbor, according to news accounts at the time, and the shooter was never prosecuted. But Bolling's name is now listed among thousands on a new memorial for victims of hate-inspired lynchings that terrorized generations of U.S. b...
