Thursday, October 6, 2022
OSU secondary to deal with Texas Tech air raid offense Wyatt Phillips Staff Reporter
the Cowboys surrendered 359 passing yards to Baylor quarterback Blake Shapen. This Saturday, OSU takes on Texas Tech, a team that leads the Big After losing four of five starters 12 in passing attempts under offensive in the OSU secondary to the transfer coordinator Zach Kittley’s air raid style portal and NFL draft, young players offense. were thrown into the fire to open the “(Quarterback Donovan Smith) season thus far. takes a lot of risks and makes couraAnd it has showed. geous throws,” said Texas Tech coach The OSU secondary is lacking in Joey McGuire. experience this year. During the season Smith has thrown for 11 touchopener, Central Michigan quarterback downs so far this season, albeit with Daniel Richardson threw for 424 yards seven interceptions. and four touchdowns, toasting OSU’s Coverage downfield is going to young defensive backs. Last weekend, have to be the best that it has been this
season. There is little room for error due to the aggressiveness of the Red Raider offense. If the Cowboys lock up from the start, they are going to force Texas Tech to get out of their comfort zone and start running through the front five. Players to watch for Texas Tech No. 1: Donovan Smith, quarterback Smith has thrown 214 passes this season through only five games. Last season, when the Cowboys traveled to Lubbock, they shut out the Red Raiders 23-0. With another year of experience under his belt, Wilson is hoping to be able to put some points up on the board
against a very similar OSU defense. No. 2 Xavier White, wide receiver Last week, Xavier White caught nine passes for 120 yards and a touchdown in a loss at Kansas State. White is the big hitter for the Red Raider offense. On the season he has only caught 15 passes, but has made the most of it, with 208 yards total so far. This Saturday, the Cowboys are going to have to worry about the big hitter plays, and Xavier White looks like the guy that they are going to look for downfield. sports.ed@ocolly.com
The soul of blues Buddy Guy to perform at McKnight Center
my Awards, was ranked 23rd in Rolling Stones magazine’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” Mallory Pool and many other such as the News Editor honors Grammy Lifetime Achievement This is the Award, National moment music Medal of Arts and fans have been Kennedy Center waiting for. Honors. American “No matblues guitarist ter how great the and singer George song, or perfor“Buddy” Guy mance, my ear plays at Stillwawould always find ter’s own McKhim out,” Clapton night Center for said when inductthe Performing ing Guy into the Arts on Friday at Rock and Roll 7:30 p.m. Hall of Fame. Guy has “He stood out in influenced genthe mix, simply erations of blues by virtue of the musicians includ- originality and ing artists such vitality of his as Jimi Hendrix, playing.” John Mayer and Guy’s music Eric Clapton. style is often Clapton has labeled Chicago described Guy as blues, but his the “best guitar foundation goes player alive” and deeper than that. his achievements reflect that statement. Guy has won eight Gram- See Buddy on page 5
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Bedlam Domination Grace Yochum is 5-1-1 versus OU in her career at OSU.
OSU dominates in a forgoing rivalry
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its the biggest rivalry and match for OSU. “(Bedlam), it’s very important,” said coach Colin Carmichael. “I’m not from Oklahoma, but when I moved here, it was made Davis Cordova clear very, very quickly Staff Reporter that Bedlam means a lot to everybody in Stillwater and that was ingrained in me a It’s the most anticilong, long time ago.” pated match on the schedule With the series more each season, soon it may go than likely going away, away. OSU loses a lot of things, Bedlam soccer will including the excitement be an afterthought in a and buzz around a Bedlam few years once Oklahoma gameday. makes the move to the SEC. “What you lose is that Nonetheless, the series gameday atmosphere,” Carbetween OU is important to michael said. “The crowds OSU’s program in different are a little bit more intense, ways, the main one being a little bit more attention
to the game than usual and the rivalry, so you lose that aspect.” But, there are still matches to be played, with one coming up on Thursday in Norman. The Cowgirls head south with a 9-1-2 record, tying with Texas Tech last week to open homeconference play. On the other hand, OU welcomes OSU with a 7-3-2 record coming off a loss to Texas Tech. OSU dominates the Bedlam series with a record of 31-9-3 with the Cowgirls’ last loss coming in 2018. OSU senior Grace Yochum is 5-1-1 against the Sooners and she doesn’t want to be on the downside of success
versus OU as the rivalry is on its last legs. “I don’t want to be on the other end of losing one of our last games against them,” Yochum said. “We’ve had a great record against them for so long and so I don’t want to be the group that goes off on the wrong foot. We believe we’re the better team, if we just play the soccer we know how to play, but at the end of the day, they want to make it a fight, they want to be competitive and that’s fine. But, I think if we play our game, we win.”
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