Oklahoma State Cowboys Sports Minute
Oklahoman assistant Sports Editor Scott Munn here with the latest edition of the Oklahoma State Cowboys Sports Minute.
The Cowboys football team is 3-0 after its 63-7 bulldozing of Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium.
Most of Oklahoma State's starters were on the sideline by the second quarter against a UAPB squad that was overmatched from the get-go.
Quarterback Spencer Sanders threw for 242 yards and four touchdowns to help give the Cowboys a 35-0 lead. Coach Mike Gundy started inserting second- and third-teamers in the second quarter, including son Gunnar, who threw his first collegiate touchdown passes.
The Cowboys had a couple special teams touchdowns, one each coming off a blocked field goal and punt. It was an overall whipping that, quite frankly, was expected against a team that only a week earlier played an NAIA squad.
Now comes the hard part. The Cowboys play Big 12 opponents the rest of the way, including defending league champion Baylor on Oct. 1 in Waco, Texas.
Elsewhere ...
∎Grace Yochum was chosen as the Big 12 Soccer Offensive Player of the Week. It was a record-setting week for the midfielder, who became OSU’s all-time goal scorer while helping the Cowgirls to road wins against Stephen F. Austin and Central Arkansas.
Yochum had four goals, scoring twice in each match. She had the game-winning goal in each win, too.
Against Stephen F. Austin, Yochum’s first-half goal tied the school record for career goals with 35.. Yochum’s 36th goal, which came in the second half, moved her past Jolene Schweitzer and Yolanda Odenyo to the top of the all-time list. Schweitzer first set the record in 2004, and Odenyo matched it in 2008.
In the 3-0 win at Central Arkansas, Yochum netted the Cowgirls' first goal less than nine minutes into the contest and converted a penalty kick in the second half.
With her impressive week, Yochum moved into a tie for the leading goal scorer in the Big 12 this season with five. She also ranks third nationally with three game-winning goals.
∎Five Oklahoma State greats were inducted into to the school's Athletics Hall of Honor last Friday night. Longtime softball coach Sandy Fischer and All-Americans AD Franch (soccer), Andrea Riley (women's basketball), Lindy Miller (men's golf) and Rashaun Woods (football) were added to the hall, which now has 71 members.
The softball program has added Katie Norris as the director of player development. In an usual twist, Norris is a former OU softball standout, but she's also a Stillwater native who spent the past five years in OSU's Department of Wellness. She coordinated grants for a variety of different health-related initiatives throughout the state.
Before joining OSU, she was a volunteer assistant coach at OU.
∎Speaking of softball, the Cowgirls will have a seven-game fall schedule, including home games vs. NAIA powherhouse Science & Arts of Oklahoma on Sept. 28; Central Arkansas and West Texas A&M on Oct. 9; Seminole State on Oct. 18; and Tulsa on Oct. 27. All home games are open to the public free of admission charge.
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Oklahoma State Sports Minute: Cowboys rout UAPB in football
