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Rosenberry, Maxwell dominate Tulsa in OSU run-rule victory

strikeout, one walk, one earned run and four hits.

A week ago, OSU fell to Wichita State on the road, prompting coach Kenny Gajewski to ask his players what their response would be.

Since then, the Cowgirls are 4-0 and have a run differential of 28-7.

On Tuesday, OSU defeated Tulsa. The game ended 9-1 in run-rule fashion in the sixth inning, improving OSU to 36-3 on the year.

Ivy Rosenberry opened in the circle for the Cowgirls, but her day came to an end after four innings. She finished with one

The Cowgirls beat Tulsa 3-1 earlier this year. Tuesday’s contest was sluggish through the opening four, seemingly trending toward another slow paced slugfest.

OSU led 2-1, but struggled to string together hits.

“It felt like (the previous game with Tulsa) through the first four, without a doubt,” OSU coach Kenny Gajewski. “I was like, ‘Jesus, why is it so tight?,’ but they’re well coached and have good players over there, too.”

But things changed in the fifth.

OSQ&A celebrates OSU’s Pride Month with buttons

at OSU Queers and Allies Pride Month button making event.

After helping set up the button press and activities, Kerrigan Seidenfus greeted guest

Tables lined the second floor of Old Central, with several stations filled with things to do and free things to grab. These included tables full of pride stickers, mini pride flags celebrating sexualities and gender identifications, free foods such as chips and homemade lavender cookies, free enamel OSU pride pins, a full-sized

pride flag for attendees to sign their names onto in commemoration and the main attraction: a custom button press that people could use to make any button they wanted.

As the president of Oklahoma State Queers and Allies, Seidenfus helped out at the event as she helped set up the activities, talked with guests, organized the event and more.

Keys transfers to Oklahoma after three years at OSU

the next matchup will see a former Cowgirl competing on the red side of the rivalry.

Lexy Keys, a guard at OSU, announced her commitment to Oklahoma on Tuesday via her Instagram.

naments in 2021 and 2023. This past season Keys averaged 9.4 points per game and was considered to be one of the better defenders on the team.

Bedlam is always electric, but

“God’s the Author of my story... here’s to a new chapter!” Keys said in her Instagram post. Keys played three years at OSU and participated in two NCAA Tour-

Keys entered the portal last week along with Taylen Collins, Macie James and Makyra Tramble.

The roster is much different, almost similar to last offseason when four players remained following the hire of coach Jacie Hoyt.

There are five players remaining from last season’s squad, but Hoyt is bringing in a 2023 freshman class of three players. That makes it eight Cowgirls, so Hoyt will have to hit the portal hard again in order to complete her roster for next year.

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OSU turned the ball over 17 times against Texas Saturday in the Big 12 Tournament. The Cowgirls average only 13 turnovers a game.

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Transfers...

Keys entered the portal last week along with Taylen Collins, Macie James and Makyra Tramble. The roster is much different, almost similar to last offseason when four players remained following the hire of coach

Jacie Hoyt. There are five players remaining from last season’s squad, but Hoyt is bringing in a 2023 freshman class of three players. That makes it eight Cowgirls, so Hoyt will have to hit the portal hard again in order to complete

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her roster for next year. The switch to OSU’s rival school may cause a stir. In January when OSU football transfer Trace Ford committed to OU, Ford received negative messages from OSU fans.

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Kelly Maxwell replaced Rosenberry and shut out the Golden Hurricane in her two innings of play. She finished with three strikeouts, one walk and no hits.

And then came the Cowgirl’s high powered offense.

Katelynn Carwile stepped up to the plate and singled, starting an explosion of hits and runs. Tallen Edwards pinch hit and crushed a ball to right field, scoring Carwile as she reached second. Shortly after, Taylor Tuck doubled to left field and scored Edwards, pushing the Cowgirls’ lead to 4-1.

“Honestly, nothing was going through my head (at the plate),” Edwards said. “I was probably the most comfortable i’ve been in the box in a couple of weeks, and I was just comfortable and I was like, ‘you know whatever the outcome is, I’m gonna deal with it.’”

And with just one out, OSU looked determined to end it. Megan Bloodworth singled and advanced Tuck to the third, and it was quickly followed with a Rachel Becker RBI single that increased the lead to 5-1. The Cowgirls would plate three more runs to finish the fifth inning with six hits and five runs to move the score to 8-1.

One inning later, Scotland David reached first base on a fielder’s choice, scoring Katie Lott to end the game on a run-rule.

“Kelly, she came in and was really sharp, and then I thought our offense got going there (in the fifth inning),” Gajewski said. “We had a lot of good hits, we just couldn’t get the two out hits to break the game open, and then we finally started to get those hits and (started) stringing them together.

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Ivy Rosenberry pitching.

OSU uses 8 pitchers in bullpen game loss to Oral Roberts

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Gabe Davis and Ryan Bogusz were two of eight OSU pitchers who got time on the mound. Bogusz and Drew Blake, who started the game for the Cowboys were the only two pitchers to have more than one inning. Of the eight arms, Evan O’Toole was the only pitcher to not give up a hit. Michael Benzor and Brian Hendry each gave up a run.

While it might have seemed that the coaching staff was getting as many arms as many reps as possible during their mid-week contest, OSU coach Josh Holliday said that wasn’t the case.

“No, we’re trying to win the game,” Holliday said. “We have a conference weekend where you have to know which pitchers are willing to expend their pitch count now and not have for the weekend. We tried to use them in doses today that would give us the best chance to win the game. But also have them available for the weekend and we weaved our way through it pretty good. It just didn’t cap out the way we had hoped.”

Cowboys collapse in the eighth inning

OSU held a three run lead going into the eighth inning. Then, Oral Roberts’ Drew Stahl blasted a pitch by Davis to left field for a threerun home run. With one out to go, Jake McMurray hit a single to left field that brought home two runs. A bunt by ORU’s Jonah Cox and a miscommunication between OSU catcher Chase Adkison and pitcher Bayden Root brought home McMurray from third.

ORU scored six of its eight runs in the game in the eighth inning.

Davis entered the game for Bogusz, who Holliday said

had one of his best outings on Tuesday. Holliday said putting Davis in the game to start the eighth inning was the right decision.

“It was, it was the call we made,” Holliday said. “Gabe’s been throwing great, just quite didn’t deliver tonight… Sometimes you’re constantly making decisions based on the moment you’re in, where you’ve come to get

here, and where you’re trying to get.”

Colin Brueggemann hits first home run as a Cowboy

For a home-run magnet at the junior college ranks, it took Brueggemann 34 games to get his first at the Division I level. Brueggemann’s ability to hit and get on base has been prevalent all year with a .381 batting average. But after hit-

ting 21 home runs which was tied for seventh in the NJCAA, it took him longer to get his first. Holliday said Bruggemann’s home run was crucial for the team considering the place the Cowboys were in. Brueggeman’s two-run homer broke the two-run tie and put the Cowboys in prime position to close out the game with a win… Until the eighth inning.

Bruggemann said it felt good to get his first home run in a Cowboy uniform.

“It feels great to get over the hump,” Bruggemann said. “Wasn’t trying to think about it too much, just trying to get a ball I could get my barrel to. It was a 1-0 fastball, I got it, great to see it go over the fence, just tough we couldn’t pull it out there til the end.”

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Gabe Davis relives Juaron Watts-Brown.

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Pride month is usually celebrated in June, but because of the lack of students during the summer break, many colleges, including OSU, celebrate pride month in April. With the month being far from over, OSQ&A is planning on hosting many more

events.

“[OSQ&A] will have a general body meeting on April 19,” Seidenfus said. “That will be cookie decorating. We have some events with OMA [Office of Multicultural Affairs], the OUT in Industry panel, which is April 15. Also, the Student Safezone Training is on April 24.”

OSQ&A was also at the Dragonfly event on the April 6, a Cirque du Soleil themed drag show.

During the event, OSQ&A executive team members also sold tickets to their Second Chance Prom on April 28. This event is for people who did not or could not attend their high school prom, either because of being LGBT or because of COVID-19. The cost for a ticket to this event is $10, or you can donate an article of clothing to their Clothing Closet. You can visit either the satellite drop-off box in Stout Hall, or at the OMA Office at

the Student Union in room 240. You can also drop any clothes off directly at 411 Scott Hall. You can follow OSQ&A on their official Instagram account, @osq_ and_a, to keep up to date with future events they participate in and to find more information on how you can get involved with their activities.

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OSU Queers and Allies held a button making event in Old Central last week.

Graham Rayman New York Daily News

NEW YORK — Unstaffed posts, a failure to check on detainees, delays in providing first aid, inaccurate log book entries, missed medical visits and pretrial stays of more than a year.

Themes of widespread dysfunction run through the latest Board of Correction report on deaths in the jails released Wednesday covering seven fatalities from August through December 2022, and echo conclusions in two earlier BOC reports on 2021 and 2022 deaths.

“The pervasive issue of insufficient or inadequate rounding (walking housing units) and supervision was present in five of the seven deaths investigated in this report,” the Board of Correction said.

“Correctional staff failed to render immediate first aid to people in custody on multiple occasions. DOC should reevaluate and strengthen its CPR and first aid training for staff.”

In the case of Michael Nieves, a man with a long psychiatric history who cut his throat with a departmentissued razor on Aug. 25, the board reports he had shown paranoia and agitation but staff decided not to hospitalize him.

Nieves, as the Daily News reported, had been begging authorities to place him in a psychiatric facility rather than Rikers. His pleas were left unmet.

On the day he fatally cut his throat, there was no suicide prevention aide as required in his unit to monitor other detainees and no psychiatric nurse, the report said.

A correction officer noticed the razor was missing but Nieves allegedly said he couldn’t find it, the report said. A search failed to find the razor. Nieves then cut himself, saying, “The state forced me to

commit suicide.”

Two officers in the unit stood outside his cell without going in as Nieves bled from the wound in his neck.

“Neither officer nor the captain rendered aid during the approximately nine minutes they waited for medical staff, instead standing outside of Mr. Nieves’s cell,” the report said.

When medical staff arrived, they found Nieves sitting in a pool of his own blood. A confused clinician said out loud, “It would have been better for us to know what it is. At least we need to know what it is. Nobody told us anything.”

City paramedics arrived about an hour later but by then Nieves was almost beyond saving. He was declared brain dead on Aug. 26 and removed

from life support Aug. 30.

Two correction officers and a captain were suspended. Nieves’ brothers are pursuing a lawsuit.

On Sept. 20, Gregory Acevedo climbed a 30-foot metal fence and jumped from the rooftop recreation yard at the Vernon C. Bain Center roughly 50 feet into the East River and drowned.

The report said officers eventually spotted him on the fence, tried to order him down, tried pepper spray, which was ineffective, and one officer even tried to climb the fence to get to him. His body showed multiple fractures and organ failure from the fall.

“Recreation officers did not immediately notice when (he) began scaling the metal fence in VCBC’s recreation

yard given that all three officers were already inside the facility and no one stayed behind to supervise those that still remained in the yard,” the report said. Just prior to the hanging death of Erick Tavira on Oct. 22, the floor officer in his unit repeatedly left the area and failed to conduct tours every 15 minutes as required — including a critical one-hour period when Tavira wrapped a sheet around his neck and took his life.

The report notes that Correctional Health Services records show after Tavira was transferred from mental observation housing to general population housing in September 2021, DOC did not produce him for mental health follow-up for two months.

Three detainees in the five-month period died by suicide, one from acute fentanyl intoxication, one from loss of oxygen to the brain caused by cardiac arrest and a pulmonary embolism, one from drowning. One death remains undetermined.

The report notes that Nieves was in custody for 3 years and 5 months, Gilberto Garcia, who died Oct. 31, was held for three years and Tavira, for 16 months. The average pre-trial stay for detainees is nearly a year, longer than in most other jail systems.

Two previous BOC reports covered deaths in the jails in 2021 and 2022. In all 19 people died in the city jails in 2022, with 16 more in 2021.

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The Rikers Island jail sign is seen on March 7, 2023, in New York City.

Memphis officials vote to reinstate expelled lawmaker Justin Pearson

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Justin Pearson made history last week when he and fellow Democrat Justin Jones were expelled from their elected offices for leading a gun control demonstration on the Tennessee House floor.

On Wednesday afternoon, Pearson followed Jones into the history books once more when the Shelby County Commission voted to return him to the seat to which he was elected by constituents in January.

“I will continue to fight with and for our people, whether in or out of office,” Pearson wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Wednesday. “We and the young protesters are the future of a new Tennessee.” Nashville’s metro council voted Monday to reinstate Jones in an interim position until a special election is held. Pearson too will hold an interim spot while awaiting a public vote.

Pearson needed a majority vote from the commission’s 13 members to be reappointed. He got seven. Four Republicans didn’t vote and two members were not in town.

The pair used a bullhorn to call for stricter gun safety measures during a legislative session that followed a March 27 mass shooting at the Covenant School, where three adults and three children were slaughtered.

Conservative House speaker Cameron Sexton accused Jones and Pearson — along with a white lawmaker — of “knowingly and intentionally (bringing) disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives.”

A Republican supermajority voted to discharge the Black officials. That decision was met with heavy criticism from Democrats including Vice President Kamala Harris, who traveled to the Volunteer State to meet with “The Ten-

nessee Three” Friday.

Only twice since the Civil War era had lawmakers previously been expelled from the State House — one for bribery, the other over numerous allegations of sexual misconduct. Sen. Chuck Schumer tweeted Wednesday that he and Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock want the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the legality of Jones’ and Pearson’s

expulsions.

Pearson’s return to power began with a demonstration outside the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis at noon local time.

“TODAY, as we mourn with the families of those lost in Nashville & Louisville to gun violence, we won’t be silent!” his Twitter feed announced Wednesday. “We’ll march from The National Civil

Rights Museum to the County Commission in support of, justice, gun violence prevention and Our Representative Justin J. Pearson!”

Pearson, 29, and Jones, 26, are both first-term representatives. Memphis station WREG reports that if reelected, the pair would have legal immunity from being expelled again for the same offense.

When asked if he’d

repeat the behavior that got him in trouble, Jones told CNN after being reinstated, “Sometimes rules have to be broken in order for us to create justice.” Jones and Gloria Johnson, the third member of The Tennessee Three, were in Memphis to celebrate their colleague’s reinstatement.

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Democratic state Rep. Justin Pearson (right) of Memphis speaks with supporters after being expelled from the state Legislature on April 6, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Pearson and fellow Democratic Reps. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville and Justin Jones of Nashville were brought up for expulsion for leading chants of protesters from the floor in the wake of a mass shooting at a Christian school in which three 9-year-old students and three adults were killed by a 28-year-old former student of the school on March 27. Pearson and Jones, who is also Black, were expelled while the vote against Johnson, who is white, fell one vote short.

OSU Flying Aggies host annual fly-in

from Civil Air Patrol to operate a Cessna 182, to the United States Air Force to operate a Beechcraft T-6 Texan and a Boeing Stearman biplane.

On Saturday, OSU Flying Aggies club hosted its annual fly-in at the Ray and Linda Booker Flight Center. There were over 20 privately owned aircraft for guests to learn about and walk around. The event ranged

For guests to have an experience flying in something other than a commercial aircraft, the club offered rides for guests in its Cessna 172s, and the event offered grilled food. An associate professor of aviation and faculty advisor for the Flying Aggies, Dr. Jon Loffi, said he believed that events like this can help people learn more about aviation.

“The Flying Aggies are most excited about having all the aviation

families and the public celebrating, learning and enjoying all the aspects of the fly-in,” Loffi said. “[They are] sharing in their enthusiasm for aviation and what OSU’s aviation and space program has to offer.”

Fly-ins are a networking opportunity for those in the aviation community, not only a visual spectacle. A professional pilot major and social chair for the Flying Aggies, Kaylin Klein, said while events like these prove to be rewarding and are a great task.

“Networking is very important in the aviation industry and the Aggies have helped our members and the club

as a whole,” Klein said. “It has helped make a name for our members and for the Flying Aggies.”

More than 1,000 guests attended the fly-in. The Flying Aggies vice president and aerospace administration and operations major, Ryan Austin, said the Flying Aggies have been around since 1948 and he feels that events like these are one of the reasons.

“Our organization thrives because we interact with the rest of OSU and the Stillwater community, and no event helps us accomplish that more each year than the fly-in,” Austin said.

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The Stillwater community gathered at the Flying Aggie’s annual fly-in on Saturday.

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