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Never get a rat for a pet. He will steal your cheese. Well, I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving day celebration. We will have our gathering Saturday. I hope it all turned out okay. When I talked to Cleo about the menu, she said we were having chili for dinner. When I asked what happened to the turkey, she told me the family consensus was I am the biggest turkey around, and it would be cannibalistic for me to eat turkey. They're just lucky I am not in charge of Christmas presents! Brian and...
One thing did not change on Tuesday, Nov. 8 – our unsustainable and exploding nearly $20 trillion national debt. While America was focused on an unconventional presidential election season, the federal debt increased $587 billion in fiscal year 2016 alone. Last year, our federal government spent $223 billion, or 6 percent of all discretionary spending, just on debt interest payments. On our current track, we will spend more on debt interest than we do on our national defense within a few years. The results of this month’s election made it res...
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – Not being able to get a bucket to fall in the first seven minutes sealed the fate of the East Central University women's basketball team in their 54-76 loss to Angelo State, in the final day of the St. Mary's Thanksgiving Classic. The Tigers (1-5, 0-2 GAC) were led by junior Aalyiah Blakley, who tallied a season-best 15 points and eight rebounds. The Ada, Okla., native shot .500 (5-of-10) from the floor and 4-of-7 from three-point range. Senior Whitney Stotler added nine points, five boards and a block. ECU had a very s...
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – The East Central University women's basketball team dropped a 37-54 decision to St. Mary's, in the first day of the St. Mary's Thanksgiving Classic. The Tigers (1-4, 0-2 GAC) were led by junior Devon Branch, who tallied 13 points and six rebounds. Senior Jalyn Jackson garnered 11 rebounds and four points, while senior Whitney Stotler netted 10 points, five boards, four assists, two steals and two blocks. The teams traded runs and baskets in the first six minutes of the game, but in the final minutes of the opening q...
SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist made key adjustments in the second half and hung on for a 73-71 win over Rogers State Saturday in the Noble Complex. OBU trailed 37-36 at the half and Coach Casi Baysemphasized rebounding and defense for the second half. "In the first half we didn't block out well and we didn't guard the three-pointers very well," Bays said. "We made the adjustment and came out in the second half and held them to two three-pointers and we got more rebounds." A shot at a third three-pointer of the half by RSU was well-contested and o...
KINGSVILLE, Texas – Southeastern opened play in the TAMUK Thanksgiving Classic with a dominant 79-62 win over Texas-Permian Basin on Friday evening in Kingsville, Texas. The win is the second in-a-row and moves SE to 3-3 overall on the season heading into a Saturday matchup at 7:30 p.m. with host Texas A&M-Kingsville. The Savage Storm hit 12 threes in the contest and went 21-of-25 at the free throw line to pull ahead and stay ahead. Anton Cook poured in a game-high 26 points with four threes and a 12-of-16 effort at the free throw line. K...
CANYON, Texas — Southern Nazarene had two players record double-doubles, but it wasn't enough as Southern Nazarene fell 82-81 in overtime to West Texas A&M Saturday afternoon. Southern Nazarene had five players score in double-figures. C.J. White finished with 14 points and a career high 13 rebounds and Noah Starkey finished with a team high 16 points and added 12 rebounds for the Crimson Storm (2-4, 1-1 GAC). Jhonathan Dunnfinished the game with 14 points and four rebounds. LB Willis tallied 10 points, five rebounds and five assists. Micah S...
BETHANY, Okla. — Southern Nazarene used hot 3-point shooting to get their second straight win of the season with a 89-80 victory over Midwestern State Saturday afternoon. Callee Mason, Adrienne Berry, Rachel Dorneman, and Kandyce Freeman all scored in double figures, combining for 65 points and 26 rebounds for the Crimson Storm (2-2, 0-2 GAC). Mason tied her career high in scoring with 26 points, she also added a career high nine rebounds, and two assists. She went 7-for-11 from the field and 6-for-10 from beyond the arc. She was also 6...
WARRENSBURG, Mo. – Central Missouri hit 20 three-point shots in their 90-55 victory over SWOSU Men's Basketball on Saturday afternoon giving the Dawgs their fifth-consecutive loss to start the season. The Bulldogs jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the early going, but UCM answered with a 10-0 run to establish themselves. After SWOSU hit a three to get back within two, the Mules again went on a giant 18-0 run to break away from the Dawgs. Down by as many as 30 in the first half, SWOSU went into halftime trailing 46-22. The second half saw offensive i...
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – Tyra Aska scored a season high 29 points as the Lady Bulldogs erased a 12-point late-third quarter deficit to beat Northeastern State 84-78 on Saturday afternoon. SWOSU was outscored in each quarter of the first half, but went on to outscore NSU 58-41 in the final two quarters to get the win. After scoring the opening bucket in the game, SWOSU trailed the remainder of the half falling down by as many as 11 right before heading into the locker room. The Lady Bulldogs didn't retake the lead until Katie Percival knocked down a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (Nov. 26, 2016) – For the second straight game, Oklahoma Christian guard Addy Clift proved almost unstoppable, but it wasn't quite enough for the Lady Eagles against Texas Woman's on Saturday afternoon. Clift, a sophomore from Kiowa, matched her career high (set on Tuesday at Arkansas Tech) with 27 points, but Kara Mitchell's layup with 6.1 seconds proved to be the difference for Texas Woman's as the Pioneers rallied from a 13-point deficit to beat OC 80-78 in the Eagles' Nest. Texas Woman's (5-1), ranked fifth in the South C...
EDMOND, Okla. – Rogers State men's basketball returned to the win column while giving host Central Oklahoma its first loss of the season with an 86-81 victory over Central Oklahoma inside Hamilton Field House Saturday evening. RSU opened the second half with a 20-8 run in the first seven minutes of play to build a 60-45 lead, the largest of the game for the Hillcats. JD Tisdale led the run with 11 of his 20 points coming in the seven minute stretch that started with a 3-pointer from the left wing and included an alley-oop slam off a Baron S...
SHAWNEE, Okla. – The Rogers State women's basketball team cut a nine-point deficit to one point in the final minutes, but a buzzer-beating 3-pointer didn't fall to allow host Oklahoma Baptist to escape with a 73-71 win over the Hillcats on Saturday (Nov. 26) at the Noble Complex. Junior Heather Roberts had a chance to get the win at the end, but her 3-pointer didn't fall at the buzzer. The Hillcats trailed by nine, 70-61 with just over four minutes remaining, however, the navy and red cut the deficit to only one at 72-71 with a 10-2 run. S...
ST. LOUIS - Cheyenne North scored a game-high 17 points, while Kelsey McClure (14 points), Danielle Frachiseur (12 points), and Anissa Pounds (10 points) all reached double figures as the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns basketball team (4-1) rolled to a 63-54 win over the University of Missouri-St. Louis (3-2) on Saturday at the Mark Twain Building. NEXT UP The Golden Suns travel to Shawnee, Okla., resuming Great American Conference play on Thursday, Dec. 1 against Oklahoma Baptist. Tip-off is set for 5:30 p.m. HOW IT HAPPENED Arkansas Tech had a...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – A buzzer-beating three-pointer from Justin Graham gave Arkansas Tech a 103-100 win over Graceland in overtime on Saturday. Graham and Montrell Williams each scored 14 points in the victory, while Trevin Woods led the Wonder Boys with 15 points. HOW IT HAPPENED Arkansas Tech (3-0, 2-0 GAC) struggled from the floor in the first half, shooting just 36.8 percent. Graceland took a 48-39 advantage into halftime with a field-goal percentage of 59.4 percent. The Yellowjackets controlled the paint through the first 20 minutes of the...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — The University of Arkansas at Monticello men's basketball team played its final of three exhibition games of the 2016-17 season on Friday night in a 97-82 loss to the University of Missouri-Kansas City inside Municipal Auditorium. Arkansas-Monticello (3-0, 2-0 GAC) despite scoring first in this contest against the Kangaroos of UMKC (4-2, 0-0 WAC) played from behind nearly the entire opening half with Missouri-Kansas City holding a slim lead over the Weevils throughout the half. The Roos generated small runs over the c...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Harding junior Tristan Parsley kicked a 47-yard game-tying field goal with 6 seconds left in regulation and booted a 35-yard game winner in overtime to lift the fifth-ranked Bisons over the No. 4-ranked Sioux Falls Cougars on Saturday in the second round of the NCAA Division II Playoffs. Harding improved to 13-0 and will take on Division II's top-ranked team, Northwest Missouri State, next Saturday in Maryville, Missouri, in the national quarterfinals. Sioux Falls, who was also playing in the second round of the Division I...
Henderson State ran into a hot shooting Arkansas-Fort Smith team as the Reddies lost 83-74 in women's basketball action Saturday in Fort Smith, Ark. Five Reddies scored in double-figures led by Haleigh Henson and Torrie Thompson scoring 15 points each. Blu Jones scored 12 points with Pink Jones scoring 11 and Bree Bossier 10. Henderson, 2-4 on the year, led 36-28 at the half but the Lions were nearly perfect in the second-half outscoring the Reddies 55 to 38. UAFS hit 13-of-14 shots in the third quarter to outscore the Reddies 34 to 19. The...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Ouachita Tigers' men's basketball team defeated Texas A&M University-Kingsville 83-80 Friday night in Kingsville, Texas after holding off a furious comeback by the home team. Justin McClearyand Carven Holcombe each scored 20 points each while Lakee Westbrook finished with 19. Ouachita outrebounded the Javelinas 45-27. The Tigers opened the game with a 10-4 lead. Carven Holcombe led Ouachita on both ends of the court scoring six points and getting three steals in the first three minute of play. Back-to-back threes from t...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The Southern Arkansas men's basketball team left little doubt in their home game against Williams Baptist College on Saturday as the Muleriders led wire-to-wire en route to a 41-point victory, 79-38. RECORDS Williams Baptist Eagles (3-5) Southern Arkansas Muleriders (4-2) HOW IT HAPPENED Snyder Cenecharles scored the game's first five points as SAU grabbed a quick 5-0 lead over the Eagles. Minutes later, SAU held a 9-3 lead, but a 6-0 run by the Eagles knotted the game at 9-all with 14:22 left in the first half. That tie s...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Bill Snyder was doused in ice water as the final seconds ticked off the clock on his 200th career win, then carried off the field by his celebrating Kansas State players after their final home game. Then, Snyder promptly brought everyone back to reality. "You know, I probably don't sound in a pretty good mood," he said, "but I'm responsive to how we played and we played rather ugly today. I don't feel good about that, I assure you." Alex Barnes ran for 103 yards and a touchdown, Winston Dimel had two scores on the g...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A year of gun violence has put Oklahoma's second-largest city one killing away from setting a record for the number of homicides in a year — with five weeks still remaining in 2016. Midway through the Thanksgiving weekend, Tulsa had already logged 71 homicides this year, tying a record set in 2009. Unlike seven years ago, when a spike in gang activity was to blame for a majority of the killings, officers say the only unifying thread linking the crimes in 2016 is the involvement of firearms. "I think it's concerning, the num...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Some lawmakers have expressed concern over Gov. Sam Brownback's plan to wait until January to fix the state's $349 million budget deficit. The three governors who preceded Brownback used their executive authority to make cuts before the Legislature convened when the state faced financial difficulties. And until this year, Brownback had done the same multiple times, The Wichita Eagle reported (http://j.mp/2fzC6KE). But the Republican's decision to wait this year has rankled lawmakers of both parties, who say that will e...
LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) — Justin Souza says he didn't even know the big beast was there — that is, not until he saw a cloud of warm breath rising from a seemingly anonymous mound of earth. The 29-year-old Livingston man was on an elk hunt early on Nov. 17 when the moment many Montana hunters dread became reality. Souza said he was following a game trail in the mountains surrounding Emigrant when he came upon a sleeping grizzly bear nestled in the dirt in the middle of the trail, all but concealed by foggy conditions and the animal's muddy bro...
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — As in hunting, success in the new card game Gut Pile is a matter of preparation and getting lucky breaks. Players score points by assembling the elements for a perfect hunt while avoiding their opponent's attack cards like hypothermia, beaver fever and the always-dangerous People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals card. It's a Fairbanks-designed product with national ambitions. Sportsman's Warehouse sells the game at its 35 Pacific Northwest stores, and the game has one multinational advertiser, RAM Trucks. The f...
