MORNING ROUNDUP
Cowboys’ Joseph in SUV from which fatal shots were fired
An attorney for Dallas Cowboys cornerback Kelvin Joseph says the secondround pick in last year’s draft was riding in a vehicle from which a man was fatally shot about two months ago.
However, in a statement Friday, Dallas lawyer Barry Sorrels said Joseph was unarmed when 20-year-old Cameron Ray was shot and did not shoot the man.
Sorrels says Joseph “found himself in a situation that escalated without his knowledge or consent.”
A Dallas police spokesman declined to confirm Joseph’s involvement in the March 18 case, but The Dallas Morning News reports detectives intend to question the 22-year-old.
Hockey great Mike Bossy dies
New York Islanders great Mike Bossy has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 65.
TVA Sports in Canada, where Bossy worked as an analyst, confirmed he died Thursday night. Bossy was arguably the best player during the early 1980s dynasty years when the Islanders won the Stanley Cup four times in a row.
Bossy scored 50 or more goals in each of his first nine seasons. The Montreal native scored the Cup-winning goal twice and won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in 1982.
OU softball shuts out Texas in opener
Oklahoma had a season low three hits - but two were homers — as the top-ranked Sooners downed No. 18 Texas, 3-0, Thursday night in Austin.
Freshman Jordy Bahl fanned 15 Longhorns (30-11-1, 6-1 Big 12) in the complete-game shutout. She allowed just four hits and one walk.
Sophomores Jayda Coleman and Alyssa Brito hit solo homers for the Sooners (37-0, 7-0). Senior Grace Lyons’ RBI single was the only other hit in the game for OU. Texas committed four errors.
The Longhorns threatened in the sixth, putting a pair on base with backto-back hits. Bahl stranded them with three straight K’s. She struck out the side in the seventh. Texas stranded six runners on the night.
It was Bahl’s fifth individual shutout of the season and OU’s 22nd as a team.
Cowgirls rally past Kansas
Miranda Elish pitched a complete game and drove in five runs to lead No. 6 Oklahoma State to a 9-4 win over Kansas Thursday night at Cowgirl Stadium.
OSU (32-7, 9-2 Big 12) trailed 4-0 as Elish gave a three-run homer in the first and a solo shot in the second.
After that, Elish settled in to hold the Jayhawks scoreless for the final five innings. She finished with 10 strikeouts.
In the fourth, the Cowgirls tied the game by scoring four runs, highlighted by Elish’s three-run blast to center field. Elish broke the tie in the fifth when she singled in Chyenne Factor.
Sydney Pennington added insurance with a two-run sacrifice fly later in the frame. OSU then added two more runs to seal the victory.
OU baseball downs Pacific
Oklahoma baseball stepped out of conference play on Thursday night and defeated Pacific, 7-3, at L. Dale Mitchell Park.
Blake Robertson’s bases-clearing double in the sixth inning gave the Sooners (20-12) a 7-1 lead. Jackson Nicklaus, Peyton Graham, Jimmy Crooks and John Spikerman each had two hits for the Sooners. Graham and Spikerman each scored twice.
Redshirt freshman Cade Horton (2-1) allowed one hit, struck out two and walked two over four scoreless innings in his first career start on the mound.
Extra points
EL PASO 7, OKC DODGERS 5: Aderlin Rodriguez hit a pair of three-run homers, including a walk-off blast in the ninth inning, sending the Chihuahuas to the win over Oklahoma City Thursday night in El Paso.
OSU GOLF: Oklahoma State’s Eugenio Chacarra was named one of 10 semifinalists for the 2022 Ben Hogan Award. The Ben Hogan Award is presented annually to the top men’s NCAA Division I, II or III, NAIA or NJCAA college golfer based on all collegiate, amateur and professional events over the previous 12 months.
OSU TRACK: Taylor Roe set a school record in the 5,000 meters Thursday night at the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, California. Roe shattered the previous school record by almost 20 seconds with her winning time of 15:21.47.
OSU TENNIS: Oklahoma State’s men’s tennis team fell 5-1 against No. 1 TCU Thursday night in the Greenwood Tennis Center.
LOUISVILLE: Head basketball coach Kenny Payne has hired former Kansas great and college basketball Hall of Famer Danny Manning as an assistant, a month after the coaching veteran completed an interim stint at Maryland.