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Familiar Foes Oklahoma and UCLA Meet Again in the WCWS Semifinals on Monday
OKLAHOMA CITY — Monday, Oklahoma will meet UCLA on the Girls’s Faculty World Sequence for the third straight season.
In 2019, the Bruins topped the Sooners within the championship sequence.
Final 12 months the Sooners exacted revenge, ousting UCLA en path to a Nationwide Championship of their very own.
This time, UCLA should beat Oklahoma in back-to-back video games to oust the match’s high seed and make it again to the championship sequence.
The historical past between the 2 groups isn’t simply restricted to battles in Oklahoma Metropolis, nevertheless.
Earlier this season, Oklahoma (56-2) beat the Bruins (50-9) on the Mark Campbell Traditional in Irvine, CA.
True freshman Jordy Bahl acquired the beginning within the circle for the Sooners, and the OU ace dazzled.
Putting out 14 Bruin hitters, Bahl pitched an entire sport to assist her staff win the early-season tilt 4-1.
Lots can change over the course of a season, because the Sooners at the moment are nearly relying simply on Hope Trautwein within the circle on the WCWS, however Oklahoma’s high three hitters have remained a continuing risk.
UCLA pitchers Megan Faraimo and Holly Azevedo should carry their finest stuff to try to quiet the bats of Jayda Coleman, Jocelyn Alo and Tiare Jennings.
The trio of OU All-People have been electrical to this point within the WCWS, as they’ve mixed to hit 11-of-18, driving in 10 RBIs and drawing 5 walks in two video games.
Alo’s efficiency comes as no shock as she’s a seasoned veteran on softball’s largest stage. However Coleman and Jennings have additionally appeared proper at residence of their second journey to the WCWS.
“Seeing (Coleman and Jennings) simply thrive on this atmosphere is enjoyable to observe,” Alo stated after the Sooners beat Texas on Saturday. “… I do not suppose you will come throughout one other — any form of participant like these two. I am simply excited for the way younger they’re and excited to see the place they will go. Undoubtedly blessed that I acquired one other 12 months with them simply attributable to COVID.
“I simply keep in mind speaking about it with Tiare, like, I can not wait to play with you that one 12 months. Grateful that I acquired two.”
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The Bruins are effectively conscious of the risk Oklahoma poses. However as UCLA tries to dig themselves out of the losers’ bracket, middle fielder Maya Brady stated her staff is simply making an attempt to give attention to themselves.
“Clearly they’re an unbelievable staff throughout,” Brady stated after UCLA beat Florida on Sunday. “however I feel for us one thing that I feel that this staff has actually gone by this 12 months can be adversity, and I feel that it is solely made us stronger, and it is actually made us look inside.
“So our coach talks about it so much. Do not even fear in regards to the opponent. You need to make the opponent examine you, and I feel that is one thing that this staff is admittedly good at is specializing in one another. We have needed to look to one another all 12 months, so clearly we all know it will be a troublesome sport, however we’ll take it one pitch at a time.”
One thing not discovered within the scouting studies would be the relaxation benefit the Sooners have over UCLA.
Oklahoma has solely needed to take the sphere twice in Oklahoma Metropolis, whereas the Bruins have needed to battle for his or her lives after dropping their opener to Texas.
Jennings stated the additional days of relaxation have helped your complete staff keep locked in, and it’s helped OU keep firing on all cylinders on the WCWS.
“(The) time without work positively helps,” Jennings stated on Saturday. “It simply offers us an opportunity to recuperate, take a breath, keep out of the solar, get our pitchers recovered. It is a time to organize.
“I feel the time without work positively has helped us for certain. I actually just like the adjustment to this match.”
The 2 historic applications will as soon as once more take the sphere in Oklahoma Metropolis on Monday at 11 a.m. in a contest broadcast on ESPN.
If the Sooners win, they’ll return to the best-of-three championship sequence, the place they’ll both meet Oklahoma State or Texas.
A Bruin win will power the “if” sport, which can instantly observe the conclusion of Sport 1 between OU and UCLA at 1:30 p.m. on Monday.
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Oklahoma’s chief school officer and Trump administration education secretary hopeful is now demanding that students in the state watch a video of him praying for Donald Trump.
In an email circulated to Oklahoma public school superintendents last week, Ryan Walters ordered them to play the video to “all kids that are enrolled” in their districts as well as to the students’ parents.
Walters wrote that it was “a dangerous time for this country” and that students “rights and freedoms regarding religious liberties are continuously under assault,” the Oklahoman reported.
In the bizarre video, Walters announced a new office in the state called “the Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism.”
“For too long in this country we’ve seen the radical left attack individuals’ religious liberty in our schools. We will not tolerate that in Oklahoma. Your religious Liberties will be protected,” Walters said, before bowing his head in a prayer for Trump.
“I pray for our leaders to make the right decisions. I pray in particular for President Donald Trump and his team as they continue to bring about change to the country,” he said.
When grilled by CNN’s Pam Brown about what gives him the authority to demand schools play the video to their students, Walters accused Brown of pushing a “left-wing narrative” and maintained that Trump “has a clear mandate.”
“He wants prayer back in school. He wants radical leftism out of the classroom. He wants our kids to be patriotic,” he said. “He wants parents back in charge with school choice. We’re enacting upon that agenda here in Oklahoma.”
Several school districts in Oklahoma said they have no intention of showing the video, the Oklahoman reported.
The office of the state’s Republican attorney general, Genter Drummond, also weighed in and said that Walters cannot mandate schools to play the video.
“There is no statutory authority for the state schools superintendent to require all students to watch a specific video,” Phil Bacharach, a spokesman for the state attorney general’s office, told the newspaper.
“Not only is this edict unenforceable, it is contrary to parents’ rights, local control and individual free-exercise rights.”
Walters, who ordered schools to incorporate the Bible into classrooms and backs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s pledge to scrap the federal Department of Education, is thought to currently be in the running to be named Trump’s new education secretary.
In June, he notified all Oklahoma state schools to “immediately” incorporate the Bible into classroom curriculum, drawing immediate outrage and threats of lawsuits.
“Effective immediately, all Oklahoma schools are required to incorporate the Bible, which includes the Ten Commandments, as an instructional support into the curriculum” in grades five through 12, according to the notice from the Republican school superintendent.
“The Bible is one of the most historically significant books and a cornerstone of Western civilization, along with the Ten Commandments,” the notice reads.
At a press conference at the time, Walters said that every school in the state “will have a Bible in the classroom,” and that every teacher “will be teaching from the Bible in the classroom.”
The move, which led to him being sued by more than 30 educators and parents, propeled him into the national spotlight.
Officers said Xavion Paggett went to the BOK near 71st and Sheridan to cash a check, but he pulled out a gun and demanded money.
Monday, November 18th 2024, 9:57 pm
By:
News On 6
TULSA, Okla. –
A man was arrested on Thursday after police say he pointed a gun at a bank teller and demanded cash.
Officers say Xavion Paggett went to the Bank of Oklahoma near 71st and Sheridan earlier in November to cash a check.
Instead, authorities said he pulled out a gun, pointed it at the clerk and demanded money. Investigators say Paggett ran off without the money when another employee showed up.
He’s charged with attempted robbery. His bond was set at $250,000.
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