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Seminoles defeat Cowgirls, ending OSU season Ian Nikkel Staff Reporter The final out was recorded at 2:18 a.m. CT. It was also the same time the Oklahoma State’s season ended. The Cowgirls lost 4-2 against No. 10 Florida State at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City. The loss bounced the Cowgirls from the Women’s College World Series, effectively ending their season. FSU pitcher Kathryn Sandercock, threw a complete game, and had eight strikeouts on 111 pitches. A rain delay caused the start time to be pushed back to 11:50 p.m., and also left the field slick, which caused fielding problems for each team. “We were treating it like any other game,” third baseman Sydney Pennington said. “We weren’t discouraged by the time we were starting. We were probably more amped up. With our fans, we expect them to be there.” OSU committed four errors, including one from center fielder Chyenne Factor that brought in Florida State’s second run of the game in the third and missed throw by catcher Reagan Wright brought in Florida State’s fourth and final run of the ball game. OSU Athletics

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Interim president, dean announced at OSU Center for Health Sciences Adam Engel Staff Reporter Dr. Johnny Stephens will serve as interim president of Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences effective July 1, announced OSU President Burns Hargis. Hargis said Stephens has been a valued member of the OSU-Center for Health Sciences team for seven years. On the same day, Dr. Dennis Blakenship will become interim dean of the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has previously served as the College’s chair of emergency

medicine and OSU Medical Center’s chief of staff. “I am extremely proud of the progress and accomplishments of CHS under the leadership of Kasey Shrum and her entire team,” Hargis said. “The academic health care center has been stabilized and will soon grow to include a veterans’ hospital and mental health hospital, which will expand the care for veterans and our most vulnerable populations while increasing the number of resident physicians in Oklahoma.” Dr. Kasey Shrum, the current president of OSUCHS and dean of the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine, will replace Hargis as OSU president on July 1.

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No hard deadline yet for bipartisan stimulus, Raimondo says Tony Czuczka and Yueqi Yang Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON — Bipartisan talks on a U.S. stimulus bill are headed for a “big week” and there’s no firm deadline yet for a deal, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said. While President Joe Biden and key Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito have agreed to talk again on Monday to discuss a potential agreement, pressure is building on the administration — including from progressive Democrats — to abandon bipartisan efforts and attempt to pass the stimulus without GOP support. “There’s no hard-wired deadline,” Raimondo said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “So we won’t do

this forever, but right now there are good-faith efforts on both sides and we’re going to continue the work of doing our job and trying to get a bipartisan agreement.” Biden on Friday rejected the latest offer from a group of Senate Republicans led by West Virginia’s Capito that called for about $50 billion more in spending than they previously proposed, according to the White House. That offer came after Biden lowered his initial demand for a $2.3 trillion bill to $1.7 trillion, all of which would be new spending. “This has got to be done soon,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” while saying she wasn’t “putting a specific date on it.” “It’s just a bit perplexing why the Republicans haven’t moved further on critical pieces,” she said.

MAKE YOURSELF AVAILABLE! Make yourself available; It is somewhat like the challenge God gave to Abraham. “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.” (Gen.12:1 NIV) He left not knowing exactly where he was going. Yet, look at the way God used his life and produced a great legacy. Abraham moved into the land that God called him to inherit, and he dwelt there not yet owning it. Through faith and perseverance, he obtained. Four hundred years later the Israelites march in and took the land. God in his timing will give us all he has promised. Be encouraged, to “make yourself available” to God. Be practical in pursuing God, and you too will taste and see how faithful he is. God fulfilled another promise to Abraham; for he promised that through him, God would bless the whole world. Through Abraham, possibly 2500 years later, God sent his Son into the world to save and bless all who would trust in him.

We may not see how God can and will use our lives, but the challenge to “Make yourself available” is a call to all. This is the only way that you and I will see the love and faithfulness of God in reality. I can testify that he is true and faithful. Even if you stumble, make mistakes, just get up and keep going. Acknowledge your failure; He forgives, lovingly leads on into his plans for your life. You will not be sorry now and in the life to come, that you trusted and followed Christ. Make yourself available!

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Separately, a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers are preparing to reveal a roughly $878 billion infrastructure proposal probably this week, Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich said Sunday on Twitter, without saying how the information was obtained. Capito’s group has offered a plan that on its face totals $928 billion in spending over eight years, but only $257 billion of that would be new net spending above amounts Congress was expected to approve anyway. While stopping short of deadlines for a big infrastructure bill, Raimondo cited parallel efforts to advance a $547 billion highway and transit bill. Rep. Pete DeFazio, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, plans to begin

debate on that legislation this week. He and Biden last week discussed “the benefits of continued engagement with Democratic and Republican senators as the House works on infrastructure advances this coming week,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Friday. The administration is open to a “range of options” on infrastructure, which she said included working with a bipartisan group of senators including Republican Mitt Romney of Utah and Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana, Psaki said. Manchin, speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” said he remained confident a bipartisan bill could be finalized.

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sports Seminoles... Continued from pg.1 The other two Cowgirl errors were ground ball bobbles from shortstop Kiley Naomi in the fourth inning and Pennington in the seventh. But the costliest error wasn’t one of the four mentioned. It occurred in the 5th inning when Factor singled into right field, scoring Alexander. The ball was thrown to the catcher, but Naomi

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failed to see it and was tagged for the second out by Florida State catcher Anna Shelnutt. Costing the Cowgirls a potential run and ending any chance of scoring on a sacrifice fly. “Hard to reflect quite yet,” coach Kenny Gajewski said. “I don’t know if I want to go there. We’re gonna lose some great kids. Team will look different next year, I don’t know how much I want to think about it yet. There’s a lot of great things.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

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Disappointment in the desert Cowboys fall to UCSB to end season in Arizona

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Once the UC Santa Barbara onslaught started Oklahoma State just couldn’t find an answer. The Gauchos scored a run in five of the eight innings they hit in. “We didn’t have a great start that’s for sure,” OSU coach Josh Holliday said. “They came out and put pressure on us in the first. We couldn’t get any kind of pushback and couldn’t mount our own big inning to get back on their heels.” The Gauchos ended the Cowboys season Sunday with a 13-3 dominating win in the Tucson regional. “You’re going to be disappointed until you win the whole thing,” Holliday said. “It would be shortsided on my end and the kids end to let this ending discount the joy we’ve experienced this year together. “This game stings, this one hurts. The final result is tough to swallow.” After two runs in the first inning the Gauchos broke the game wide open in the second, scoring six runs on Cowboy starter Mitchell Stone. The inning was broken open with a bases-clearing three-run double from Marcos Castanon. Castanon had the See Desert on pg.6

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sports Desert... Continued from pg.5 Cowboys number in the two games he played against them in the regional, batting 8-10 with 10 RBIs in the two games. “He had hits to all fields, I think he had hits on all speeds of pitches, I’d just have to tip my cap to him. He did a good job moving the ball all over the yard on us,” Holliday said. The Cowboys did not reach their ultimate goal of making it to Omaha and bringing hardware back to Stillwater, but Holliday isn’t displeased with the effort or the season the Cowboys put out. “We’re disappointed, yes we are, but I am not disappointed in them. I’m proud of them and appreciative of their effort,” Holliday said. “To be disappointed in the result of this game, yes, but to be disappointed in the season? No shot, man.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

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