OU softball coaches named staff of the year

The Oklahoma softball coaching staff has been selected by the National Fastpitch Association as the 2013 NFCA Division I National Coaching Staff of the Year, it was announced Wednesday.

OU coach Patty Gasso, associate head coach Melyssa Lombardi, assistant coach Tripp MacKay and director of operations Sharon Bell took home the honor after guiding the Sooners to a 57-4 record and the program’s second national championship.

Gasso’s staff, including Lombardi, was also tabbed the nation’s best in 2000 after the Sooners won the school’s first softball title.

SUIT AGAINST COX DISMISSED

A Denver judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a woman who accused former Oklahoma State cornerback Perrish Cox of sexual assault.

Court documents show the case was dismissed last week at both parties’ request, with no one admitting fault.

Attorneys for both sides mentioned a confidential agreement reached outside of court in declining to comment.

The woman had sued after jurors acquitted Cox of criminal charges alleging he sexually assaulted the woman at his apartment in 2010 after a night of partying.

She remembered little of what happened but became pregnant, and prosecutors said DNA tests indicated Cox was the father.

Cox now plays for the San Francisco 49ers.

SERVICE FOR RECTOR SET FOR FRIDAY

A memorial service for Joe Rector, a Bud Wilkinson- era OU football standout who died earlier this month, will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Demuth’s Funeral Home in Oklahoma City, located at 1145 W. Britton Road.

In lieu of flowers, the Rector family asks that gifts be sent to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes’ OU chapter at P.O. Box 721686, Norman, OK 73070.

Rector, who was 76, played at OU from 1955-58.

BRIEFLY

Oklahoma City FC will take on Mexico’s Club America, an under-20 squad, in an exhibition match at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Putnam City Stadium.