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Union to receive $3M upgrade Meacham will close for several weeks, spokesman says SARAH MARTIN The Oklahoma Daily
Renovations to the Oklahoma Memorial Union and Meacham Auditorium will begin this summer and continue through upcoming semesters, a university spokesman said. The renovations will cost up to $3 million, according to the OU Board
of Regents’ March agenda. The bond money is going to several projects, but the most visible improvements at the union will be to Meacham Auditorium, university spokesman Chris Shilling said. The auditorium will be closed at some point for renovations, possibly lasting several weeks, Shilling said. “Meacham Auditorium is used 361 times a year, so there are significant improvements that need to be made,” Shilling said.
Changes to the auditorium will include replacing the seats and carpet as well as adding a high-definition projector and new sound equipment, Shilling said. Some equipment has been in the union since the 1950s and will be updated with the bond funds as well, Shilling said. Less visible renovations will be replacements to the air-
Key renovations Changes to Meacham Auditorium will include: » Replacing the seats and carpet » Adding a high-definition projector » Adding new sound equipment — Source: Chris Shilling, university spokesman
More than 800 people fill South Oval on Saturday to participate in Relay for Life
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EVE OF NATIONS CELEBRATES DIVERSITY
OU’s 11th annual Relay for Life didn’t reach its $100,000 goal but still bolstered the funds of a national cancer research charity with help from students, faculty and staff Saturday night through Sunday evening. Roughly 800 OU students, faculty and staff raised $80,000 for the American Cancer Society by raising money and walking laps around the South Oval, said Casey Morgan, Relay for Life cochairwoman and OU graduate accounting student. Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society’s largest fundraiser, said Elizabeth Auld, Relay For Life event co-chairwoman and education graduate student. Last year, Relay for Life raised $84,100, according to Morgan. The event symbolizes the life of cancer patients and survivors, Auld said. “A lot of people have either personally known someone or have heard of someone who has had cancer,” Auld said. “This is our way of bringing cancer awareness to the OU campus.” Students and staff could form teams up until the day of the event. During the 12-hour event, at least one person from each team walked the track to symbolize the fight against cancer, said Brittany Condit, Relay for Life co-chairwoman and exercise sciences senior. The track was lit with luminaries — small bags with lights in them — to honor someone fighting cancer, or in memory of a person who fought cancer,
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Vietnamese Students Association performs a traditional fan dance at the 41st Eve of Nations on Friday at Lloyd Noble Center. The Eve of Nations is Oklahoma’s biggest cultural event which provides registered international student organizations the chance to showcase their culture. SEE RELAY PAGE 2
OU alumna takes Law application deadline extended professor to court Some applicants miss college’s early deadline, admissions, director says
Former student says poor living conditions led to altercation, court date RJ YOUNG The Oklahoma Daily
OU alumna Charlina Frazier wanted to support herself and her 5-year-old son by living in a house she could afford. When Frazier met landlord and OU engineering professor Sam Lee, she thought she was on her way to achieving this goal. However, she and Lee met again one month later in court. Frazier signed a seven-month lease with Lee for a house at 929 Branchwood Drive from March 3 to Sept. 30. She paid Lee a security deposit and rent for March. Frazier, a Norman KinderCare teacher, said she was excited that she and her son would have their own home, but after moving in Frazier found the interior of the house in bad condition. “There was a lot of damage to the walls from bad plumbing, leaking water, severe mold, water damage in the ceiling, dirty and moldy Sam Lee carpets, signs of mice and roaches, mold-filled and broken refrigerator and dishwasher, the list goes on and on,” Frazier said. “All in all, the house was uninhabitable the way it was until those things were all repaired.” But the house had a roof and was going to be the first home Frazier would pay for — so she made a deal with Lee. During the next three weeks, Frazier would repair the house’s failings if Lee would agree to reimburse the costs, Frazier said. Frazier said she made those repairs and kept in contact with
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The OU College of Law has reopened the application period for its fall 2011 juris doctorate program until Tuesday. C o l l e g e o f L aw A d m i s s i o n s Director Susan Wilson said she received several emails from students who were unaware the application deadline had passed. Although Wilson would not give the exact number of emails, she said after discussing the matter with OU College of Law Dean Joseph Harroz Jr., they decided it was in the best interest of the college to reopen the
application period. “We’re definitely very studentfocused and we want to give people the opportunity to come here and experience one of the great public institutions in America,” Wilson said. “So we just thought that opening the application back up, since there was a demand for it, would be the prudent thing to do.” The fact OU has one of the earliest application deadlines in the state played a factor in the decision, Wilson said. Many students do not notice the early deadline and unintentionally miss it, she said. “We decided to open it back up, so that anyone who maybe changed their mind about going to law school this year has an opportunity,” Wilson said. “If they’d like to be considered, we have spots
available.” The extension is not a result of a decrease in applicants this year, Wilson said. U.S. News and World Report recently named the College of Law the sixth most-popular law school in the nation based on the number of applicants accepted compared to the number that end up attending the institution. The U.S. News and World Report study showed the college accepted 335 applicants last year, 174 of whom chose to attend. Wilson said the admissions office plans to accept the same number this year. The College of Law begins sending out acceptance letters in November of each year, Wilson said. Students will be admitted through May, she said.
GSS approves creation of freshman council The Graduate Student Senate passed legislation supporting the creation of the Sooner Freshman Council, despite concerns about the bill’s wording at its meeting at 7 p.m Sunday in Sarkeys Energy Center, Room A235. Jason Robison, political science senior, authored the bill and said it creates an organization to give freshmen a voice for their unique concerns and gives them a chance to intern with UOSA. Although GSS members said they appreciated the spirit of the bill, there was debate about whether it should be called the first-year council instead of the freshmen council. Senators were concerned that calling it the Freshman Council would discourage transfer students or other
first-year students from joining the organization. Concerns were also raised about the engendered nature of the word freshman. UOSA President Hannah Morris said she understands the concerns about the language of the bill. “The legislation by no means was meant to be discriminatory, but rather include everyday college language that is easily recognized by the student body,” said Morris, political science and public relations junior. Despite concerns, no formal amendments were offered and the bill passed. — Lilly Chapa/The Daily
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UPGRADES: Work to begin during summer Continued from page 1 conditioning units and the central elevator, Shilling said. Also, signs and directories will go up in the union to make the building easier to navigate, he said. Regent-approved plans for the bond will be sent to state officials who have the opportunity to review them before renovations begin, according to the regents’ agenda. If the bond
Today around campus  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer student group will host Pride Week Kickoff from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the South Oval.  The School of Art will show a black and white photography exhibition 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery.  Healthy Sooners will give out snacks, T-shirts and lifestyle tips 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the South Oval. Students can enter to win an iPod or iPad.  University College will provide a session on preparing for medical school from 1 to 2 p.m. in Adams Center’s Muldrow Tower, Room 105.  Ambassador Maen Areikat will give a lecture for the Arab-Israeli Conflict Presidential Dream Course from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
Tuesday, April 12  The Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts will hold its Annual Celebration from 8:30 to 11 p.m. with a special private performance of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.  The School of Art will show a black and white photography exhibition from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery.
is allocated, the financial impact to the university should be approximately $195,000 a year, said Chris Kuwitzky, department of finance associate vice president. Renovation to the auditorium is expected to begin this summer. Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning renovations will take place in late 2011. The next steps will be making sure costs match proposed amounts and acquiring contract bids, and it is likely students will see progress by the fall semester, Shilling said.
COURT: Tenants file 40 complaints RELAY: OU Continued from page 1 group still accepting donations street at 929 Branchwood Drive. “I saw him reach out and shove [Grizzle] back, and I thought I should go out to the Lee via email. Frazier said she has incurred front porch because it was getting physical,� costs of more than $11,000 during the course King said. “I’ve heard screaming matches with [Lee] and his tenants over there beof the repairs. Though Frazier had not yet moved into cause he never fixes anything, but I’ve never her home, she said she had repaired the seen him shove anyone before like he did.� King said she has lived in her house for 15 home to a habitable condition before schedyears, and she has yet to see uling a March 21 meeting Lee perform any upkeep at with Lee to speak about “Some OU students 929 Branchwood Drive. further repairs. with lower income King said she had met Frazier ’s boyfriend, Robert Grizzle, joined her at account could easily many of Lee’s former tenthe meeting. When Frazier get trapped by [Lee],� ants and felt sorry for them. Lee owns 60 properties in presented Lee with a list deGrizzle said. “People Norman, according to the tailing the proposed repair can easily fall into Norman Code Compliance costs, Lee became aggrathis trap that [Frazier] Office. From those 60 propvated, Frazier said. erties, the code compliance has fallen into.� “The landlord immedioffice has received 40 comately became very agitated plaints from Lee’s tenants and angry with me and said — ROBERT GRIZZLE, since 2009. that he would not pay for FRAZIER’S BOYFRIEND The City of Norman has any of those things and that I was trying to scam him into discounting notified Lee numerous times about his my rent because I couldn’t afford it,� Frazier properties being in code violation. The city has cited Lee for damaged siding, rotting said. roofing and trim, according to a March 24 Lee stormed out of the house, she said. “[Lee] then went running outside yelling letter signed by Code Compliance Inspector at me to get my stuff out of the garage imme- Joe Schier. “Some OU students with lower income diately or he’d have the sheriff come over, and he sped off in his car squealing the tires,� account could easily get trapped by [Lee],� Grizzle said. “People can easily fall into this Frazier said. Grizzle filed a police report March 21 at trap that [Frazier] has fallen into.� The disagreement between Frazier and the Norman Police Department. The Daily tried to reach Lee by way of of- Lee escalated to a small claims court date fice phone, rental property phone line and Tuesday at the Cleveland County Municipal email on seven occasions. Lee did not return Court. Because neither Frazier nor Lee had obtained legal counsel by that date, Judge calls for comment. Retired parole officer Mary King said she Steven Stice granted a continuance, and saw the altercation between Frazier, Grizzle Frazier and Lee are due back in court at 8:30 and Lee from her kitchen window across the a.m. Thursday.
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Continued from page 1 Auld said. “We go through the stages to celebrate those who are still with us, remember those who have passed and then we fight back for life,� Condit said. The 15 members of the Society of Petroleum Engineers team participated in Relay for Life and raised $17,000 for the event, said Casey Morgan, Relay For Life co-chairwoman. A disc jockey and live bands provided music to keep par ticipants busy throughout the night. Participants spent time playing Frisbee, Root Beer pong, flag football, Zumba and pilates. All of the event costs, approximately $3,500, were funded through OU, Auld said. All proceeds from the event go to the American Cancer Society. OU Relay for Life will accept donations through the rest of the semester.
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Boren’s changes to sexual- Sexual assault assault policy unacceptable policy doesn’t President David Boren has recommended changing dealing with course work and who may be dealing with the the university’s sexual assault policy. As it stands, victims physical effects of sexual assault in a span of six months is of sexual assault only have 30 days to file a student code unacceptable. complaint. The statute of limitations for rape in Oklahoma is 12 years Boren’s recommendations include increasing the statute — more than 24 times the amount of time Boren’s requested of limitations to 180 days to — as he put it — extension is. There should be no limit on go along with the federal statute of limitawhen you can file charges. Just because an tions for sexual-assault. While the increase established time frame has ended doesn’t Victims shouldn’t be is a step in the right direction, Boren’s remean the damage has gone away. forced into action quest is far from adequate. Sexual-assault victims are often relucuntil they are prepared tant to discussing their experience, and Sexual-assault victims have both physito — not when an cal and mental scars. Allowing them only by limiting their window to file charges six months to emotionally ground themOU is silencing the silent. Sexual assault establishment says selves and file sexual assault charges with is too serious an issue to limit a victim’s they should.” university police is a joke. response. Victims shouldn’t be forced into action OU should be considered a safe haven until they are prepared to — not when an establishment for all of its students. But an establishment that forces an says they should. emotionally unstable individual to come forward and talk OU should strive to protect its students at every possible about what is possibly the worst experience of his or her moment. Forcing students recovering from a traumatic ex- lives seems anything but protective. perience to come forward in such a short time frame fails to We urge Boren to reevaluate his recommendations for accomplish this goal. changes to OU’s rape policy. We hope he would recomIf a female was sexually assaulted and impregnated, by mend changing our policy to mirror our state’s statute of the time she gave birth she will have missed her window for limitations. filing charges by three months. Forcing a student who is already emotionally distressed, Comment on this column at OUDaily.com
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U.S. military gets free ride Was anyone else appalled by last week’s political grand- this “embassy” and other consular outposts, we’re talking standing? Both parties threatened a shutdown over a differ- about “15 different sites... including three air hubs, three poence of less than $10 billion. Meanwhile, the estimated federal lice training centers... and five Office of Security Cooperation deficit for 2011 is expected to be $1.65 trillion. sites,” staffed by 17,000 civilian employees and defended by The surreal thing about this insanity is that our military 5,500 mercenaries. spending has hardly factored into this debate at all. We have USA Today estimated the cost of running just the Baghdad decided, for whatever reason, that our military budget is im- embassy at $1.5 billion a year, and we’re building similarly exmune to scrutiny. pensive embassies is Pakistan and Afghanistan. Not only do we not talk about the almost $700 billion we We need to ask ourselves if all this spending is necessary. spend every year on our military, we Did we need to send former Egypt don’t even bother to ask if that money is President Hosni Mubara a billion dolWe need to ask ourselves if all lars every year for the past 30 years? Do being spent appropriately. this spending is necessary. Did we need to keep up massively unpopuIn a time when terms like fiscal conwe need to send former Egypt lar bombings in Pakistan and Yemen? servatism, fiscal responsibility and small government are being thrown around Do we need to be propping up a weak President Hosni Mubarak a like firecrackers, I find this surreal. billion dollars every year for the and unpopular government in Pakistan For example, operations in and a corrupt and unpopular governpast 30 years?” Afghanistan cost U.S. taxpayers well ment in Afghanistan? Do we need to over a $100 billion every year. You and keep giving military aid to Israel when I — and our children — are paying for tenuous control of a they keep thumbing their noses at us? Do we need to have country which is the fifth poorest, second most corrupt and 22,000 people on payroll in Iraq? Do we need military bases No. 1 drug-producing country in the world. in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Japan and dozens of other counWe’re spending over $10 billion every year to train up tries around the world? Afghani security forces, large portions of whom desert every The United States spends as much on its military as the next year. 16 largest militaries put together or 40 percent of total military Ignoring for a moment the money which we are indirectly spending in the world. wasting, the Afghan army alone has gobbled up $12 billion in It is time for fiscal conservatives and supporters of small graft, corruption and incompetence. government to ask if we really need it, because we definitely For another example, we’re supposed to be almost out of can’t afford it any more. Iraq, right? Think again. We’ve been building a citadel/embassy to the tune of $750 million in downtown Baghdad. — Andrew Slagle, According to Wired.com’s Danger Room website, between history and Arabic junior
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UOSA emergency funding explained The purpose of this letter is to address concerns about one-time capital investment. the UOSA Budgetary Committee raised by Court Hill in Declining to fund these purchases was not an arbitrary Thursday’s Oklahoma Daily. decision I took upon myself to declare unilaterally, as Hill The majority of the emergency funding request submit- seems to imply, nor was it made because of any personal ted by the Student Firearms Association was to purchase feelings towards Hill or his organization. $450 worth of ammunition, specifically: .223 rounds, Rather, it was the unanimous opinion of the budgetary 9mm rounds, 12ga rounds and 22lr rounds, all listed as committee, made with the same consistency used in reone-time capital investments. viewing all other budgets. Money appropriated has consistently been viewed by As SFA was informed, we would be happy to fund exthe budgetary committee as a long-term physical invest- penses like shooting range rentals, firearms instructors ment in an organization, to be used or targets, and we funded the nonfor the purchase of items for continuammunition items listed on their al use. Examples from this past fiscal budget. Declining to fund these year would include things like a banI have offered to arrange a meeting purchases was not an ner or color printer. between SFA and the budgetary staff arbitrary decision I took upon to further discuss this decision, and I Ammunition, in contrast, cannot be myself to declare unilaterally” regret that he has chosen not to take reused and therefore would not represent a lasting physical investment; as me up on that offer. such, funding this purchase would not have been a suitI appreciate Mr. Hill bringing the perceived unprofesable use of public funds. sional behavior of several committee members to my atIn addition, during the budget review, members of the tention, and I have privately addressed these concerns committee raised concerns about whether the purchase with the individuals in question. of ammunition or weapons of any kind would violate uniI regret that this paper has been utilized as a venue for versity policy and/or state and federal laws. personal attacks, and I hope that in the future the Student Research conducted after the review concluded that the Firearms Association will contact me directly to discuss statutes are ambiguous on this point, as well as whether their concerns. or not these purchases could become a legal liability for — Sean Bender, UOSA. Regardless, the decision to not fund these items chemistry sophomore was unanimously agreed upon as an inappropriate use of Chairman, UOSA Budgetary Committee
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OU President David Boren released a stateSTAFF COLUMN MN ment last week detailing his proposed changes to the sexual-assault poliMatt Bruenig nig cy. The only change the statement proposed was increasing the statute of limitations to pursue charges after first report from 30 days to 180 days. These changes are in response to a recent column and proposal made by OU sophomore Jordan Ward regarding the inadequacy of the sexual-assault policy. In her proposal, Ward urged the administration to, among other things, extend the statute of limitations to one full calendar year, and provide better information and resources to sexual-assault victims when they go to the campus police department. Without meeting with Ward, Boren ignored the proposal’s suggestion to extend the statute of limitations by one year, making clear his intentions to only pursue an extension half that long. The reason given for this decision is that 180 days is the statute of limitations used by the federal government for reporting sexual assault cases. This justification fails for a variety of reasons, but I want to focus on one in particular: the flow of university life is very different from that of the federal government. Even if 180 days is a sufficient statute in the context of the federal government — something which I am doubtful of anyway — the unique circumstances of the lives of students during their university careers would render such a statute entirely insufficient for OU. Given OU’s semester schedule, students have significant lengths of time in which most are away from the campus. The university The recognition has a more than one-month that a student’s break during the winter, and life during college a more than three-month involves frequent break during the summer. With respect to the sexualand lengthy assault policy, these breaks interruptions functionally diminish the in their time on length of time provided for campus is one of in the statute of limitations. For example if someone the reasons why was assaulted in January or a full calendar February, but was not emoyear should be tionally ready to pursue a provided for report by May, the threevictims of sexual month summer break would completely erase the latter assault.” half of Boren’s proposed 180 day statute of limitations. It goes without saying three- months is not enough time. In addition to university breaks, it is very common for students to study abroad for entire semesters. In fact, it is a requirement for international and area studies majors. This means students are away from campus for about four months, and there is a winter or summer break immediately following their time abroad. If they were assaulted near the time they went abroad, the statute of limitations would not only be functionally diminished, but could even disappear altogether. The recognition that a student’s life during college involves frequent and lengthy interruptions in their time on campus is one of the reasons why a full calendar year should be provided for victims of sexual assault. Undoubtedly, this consideration, among others, is what drives other universities to provide statute of limitations of at least this length. Although 180 days is preferable to the present 30-day statute of limitations, it is absolutely not long enough. That the federal government has deemed such a time frame to be sufficient for the contexts in which they apply it tells us nothing about whether it is sufficient in the completely different context of a university. Although some might be inclined to be happy with any extension, and not push it further, this is precisely the time — with changes being in the air — to push as hard as we can to actually get the necessary changes implemented, not an inadequate compromise. After all, it should be just as easy for Boren to get the policy changed to one year as it is for him to get it changed to 180 days, especially given that the latter is demonstrably insufficient. — Matt Bruenig, Philosophy senior
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Book offers unexplored side of Fey’s personality T ina Fey’s collection of personal essays, “Bossypants,� is a witty and heartfelt foray into the world of a comedic superstar. Fey has self-deprication down to an artform in her writing. Her cracks against herself never get old or whiny, but increasingly more relatable as we follow her from a high school theatre geek to the famous Fey we know today. She admits her bossypants attitude from the beginning of the book, addressing those people who always ask her “is it hard for you, being the boss?� Her answer no, it’s not if you do what Fey suggests: hiring talented people and then letting them do their thing. This is certainly a book you can judge by its cover. The jacket is an airbrushed picture of her face attached to the body and arms of a big, burly, hairy man — perhaps alluding to her Greek heritage (she notes that, as a 10-year-old, her “dark shin fur was hard to
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Ionut Beleleu made his final home match as a Sooner a memorable one. The Romanian senior was honored before the No. 26 men’s tennis team took down No. 39 Rice, 6-1, Sunday at the Gregg Wadley Indoor Tennis Pavilion. With the win, the Sooners stretched their winning streak to three matches. “It was a good match, and we played really well overall,” OU coach John Roddick said. “It was as good as I’ve seen us play as a team.” Oklahoma (13-4, 2-1 Big 12) won seven of nine matches against Rice, with its only losses coming in tiebreaker sets at No. 1 doubles and No. 3 singles. OU’s lone doubles loss came at the No. 1 spot where Beleleu and freshman Tsvetan Mihov dropped the tiebreaker set to Rice’s Harry Fowler and Oscar Podlewski, 9-8. The Sooners kept their momentum in singles play, winning 5-of-6. Sophomore Costin Paval IONUT BELELEU won OU its first singles » Year: Senior point when he won identi» Position: cal sets — 6-1, 6-1 — in No. No. 1 doubles, 2 singles. No. 1 singles Beleleu, Oklahoma’s » Hometown: lone senior, gave OU a Zalau, Romania three-point lead after he » Game stats: routed Rice’s Fowler at the Beat Harry Fowler (6-1, 6-2) in No. 1 singles position — singles play 6-1, 6-2 — to earn the final singles-match victory of his career in Norman. Sophomore Lawrence Formentera secured the win for OU after he bested the Owls’ Christian Saravia in straight sets — 6-3, 6-1 — from the No. 5 singles spot. Freshman Laurentiu Gavrila put the Sooners up 5-0 after he beat Rice’s Sam Garthorth-Bles at the No. 4 position — 6-3, 6-3. The Sooners took their final match point of the day when Mihov defeated the Owls’ Philip Seifert — 6-3, 6-4 — at the No. 6 singles spot. The Sooners will battle Baylor at 6 p.m. Friday before taking on Texas Tech at noon Sunday.
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Sophomore pitcher Keilani Ricketts pitches against Oklahoma State earlier this season. Ricketts pitched all 14 innings for OU against Baylor over the weekend.
giving the Sooners all they could handle. Canion collected 11 strikeouts and allowed just five runs over the weekend. OU’s Keilani Ricketts (19-7) also started both ga m e s, p i t c h i n g a l l 1 4 innings. After allowing five hits and two earned runs Saturday, the sophomore ace allowed eight hits Sunday, including the game-changing sixth inning that saw four runs off five hits. “[Ricketts] knows she’s better,” Gasso said. “We kept
her out there too long.” But the San Jose, Calif., native maintained her superior strikeout-to-walk ratio, combining for 19 strikeouts and allowing just two walks. “They were just taking away pitches from me,” Ricketts said. “I wasn’t throwing the variety of pitches I wanted to throw.” Baylor led off Sunday’s scoring in the top of fourth with an RBI single. OU freshman left fielder Brittany Williams lifted her 10th homer of the season to even the score, 1-1, in
the bottom of the fifth, and senior Haley Nix singled through the right side to score Chana’e Jones for a 2-1 lead. But the Bears’ gameswinging sixth inning stood after the Sooners failed to produce any more runs. “We have a sour taste in our mouth because we let that [series] get away,” Gasso said. “We can’t have breakdowns like that the rest of the way.” The Sooners host Bedlam rival Oklahoma State at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Norman.
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The OU softball team settled for a series split against Baylor after dropping the second game, 5-2, Sunday at Marita Hynes Field. The Sooners (32-11, 5-3 Big 12) took the first game, 3-2, Saturday to lead the series but could not complete the sweep after the Bears put together a four-run, sixth-inning rally Sunday. Although the Sooners have split three of their four conference series this season, only sweeping Kansas on the road last week. But coach Patty Gasso said she isn’t worried about her team’s conference performance this season. “I don’t feel we’re a team that’s struggling,” Gasso said. “We just had an ugly, ugly inning.” In both games against Baylor, one inning made the difference. The Sooners scored all three runs in the seventh inning to win Saturday’s game, and Baylor had a sixth-inning rally in Sunday’s contest. Gasso attributed the steep competition to the toughness of the Big 12 Conference. “We had opportunities to make plays, but if you give a team like Baylor continued plays and continued innings, they will make you pay,” Gasso said. The Sooners faced Baylor’s Whitney Canion (17-5) for two consecutive games,
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