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Hoyt signed a one-year extension on her previous contract. The new deal expires June 30, 2028. Hoyt’s annual salary is increased from $500,000 to $650,000.

Performance incentives established in the initial contract remain but are now potentially more lucrative. There are two ways Hoyt can earn bonuses.

Each NCAA Tournament appearance nets her 8% of her total compensation. Each additional NCAA Tournament win kicks in a 4%.

The other way Hoyt can earn an incentive is by winning the Big 12 regular season championship or the Big 12 tournament championship. Winning either title would earn her 16% total compensation.

Additional non-cash benefits provided to Hoyt are tickets to OSU football and men’s basketball games and a membership at Karsten Creek Golf Course.

Hoyt’s contract has a buyout. If she pursues another Big 12 job without written permission from OSU athletic director Chad Weiberg, the buyout will be 100% of her remaining contract. If she pursues a non-Big 12 job, it will be 75%.

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But for as well as Timm performed at the plate, there were a couple of plays she missed in the field, including one where the ball zipped by her glove and allowed a runner to score, handing OSU a loss in walk-off fashion.

Those plays have Gajewski considering what spot in the field makes the most sense for Timm, specifically long-term, as he hopes to utilize Timm’s abilities moving forward.

“She looks kind of stiff and doesn’t bend well, you know, doesn’t quite hinge in the right spot,” Gajewski said. “So, it puts her in some tough spots, but she’s got a great arm, you know, can catch anything that’s hit at her.

“It’s a spot that she can play, but I don’t know that I foresee her long-term as a third baseman. Probably more at first (base) or something like that.”

For every hit Timm delivered, it was met with cheers from the dugout. And as Chyenne Factor and Micaela Wark crossed home plate, thanks to Timm’s successful at-bat, they exploded with fist pumps and claps for her.

She also garnered support from Megan Bloodworth, the defensively sound player that was pulled from the lineup for Timm.

“Megan had her back, which was cool,” Gajewski said. “And I think when you have that, (it) tells me that things are really good. And I saw Megan give her a big hug after her first at-bat, and I was like ‘that is cool,’ and that’s how it ought to be.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

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Corpora- tions within these counties were responsible for over half (57%) of all carcinogenic releases within this period.

After identifying the major carcinogens at play, as well as where these releases occurred, respiratory cancer rate statistics were retrieved from OK2SHARE for each of the affected counties, for each year of the past five years. Each yearly cancer rate was then standardized per 100,000 residents and compared to state and national incidence rates provided by the CDC and NIH, which also standardize rates per 100,000 residents.

This data revealed that over this five-year period, five of the seven counties experienced multiple years with respiratory cancer rates far above the state incident rate of 65.7 per 100,000 residents.

This finding was best exemplified by Creek County, which had an average respiratory cancer incidence rate of 110.9 per 100,000 residents and experiences over 50 toxic releases per year.

What does this mean for Oklahomans?

For any Oklahoman these numbers should be concerning, as a recent Stacker study found that just over 20% of Oklahomans live near a TRI facility. This coupled with large numbers of releases of carcinogens certainly has helped increase cancer incidence rates in these counties, however determining the causes cancer is not that simple.

The data shows that these releases are certainly dangerous, and the correlation shows between both data sets, the causation between these two issues needs to be analyzed further. However this data does show that these toxic releases are a compounding factor.

Note: the State Department of Health and State Department of Environmental Quality have not responded to questions at the time of publishing.