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Votes are in

From Oklahoma Baptist Athletics RUSSELLVILLE, Ark.– The Oklahoma Baptist football team has been picked fifth in the 2022 Great American Conference Preseason Poll, voted on by the league’s coaches, announced on Tuesday by the conference. Harding previewedas theGAC’s top team after receiving six first-place votes, followed by Ouachita (5) and Southeastern (1) at the two and three spots.

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Strain

Continued from B1 runs in 1 1/3 innings and took the loss, had an MRI on Tuesday. “It was tough to sleep last night knowing your best arm is potentially down,” Woodward said before the team announced the MRI results and IL placement.

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Mavericks add big defenseman to lineup

McNulty rejoins Cardiff teammate Lammon with Kansas City bill.althaus@examiner.net Marc McNulty will have one familiar face when he walks into the Kansas City Mavericks locker room this October. McNulty, a 6-foot-7, 207-pound defenseman who the Mavericks signed Thursday afternoon, was a teammate of another newly signed Maverick, Josh Lammon, with the Elite Ice Hockey League’s Cardiff Devils in Europe last season.

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Wildcats make impact with summer visits

bill.althaus@examiner.net Blue Springs senior tight end Eli Youman knows he and his teammatesmade an impact.And the children they visited made an impact on him and his teammates. Members of the Blue Springs High School football team recently visited with students in the summer Prime Time sessions at Lucy Franklin, Thomas Ultican and Sunny Pointe elementary schools as part of a community outreach effort.

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