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‘a little fireball’ osu senior rylee Bayless is embracing her second chance to lead the cowgirl softball team to the Women’s College World Series, and said her year off followiing an acl tear afforded her more time to grow as a player and student.

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Bayless credits recovery to intensity, passion for softball A dam Luther , D i g i tal ed itor , @adam wlu t h er

Rylee Bayless started running to her left toward foul territory down the right field line.

As Bayless, a redshirt senior outfielder on the Oklahoma State softball team, tracked a fly ball off the bat of Wichita State’s Wylie Glover, she never checked to find the 4-foot high fence she was quickly approaching.

At the same time the ball touched her glove, she slammed into the wall, falling backward. The ball ended up falling harmlessly to the turf on the other side of the fence.

Kenny Gajewski, OSU’s coach, said though she didn’t make the catch, the play exemplifies the way he wants his players to play.

“It’s a fun play, it will be fun to show, even though she didn’t finish it off,” Gajewski said. “She has no fear, and that’s what we’ve gotta have.”

Gajewski said he has been impressed with Bayless’ play in center and right field the season. Bayless is still learning the outfield positions after transitioning from third base.

Learning the outfield positions is an added challenge for Bayless, who is returning after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee five games into the 2018 season.

The injury occurred during a collision with a teammate in left field during practice. Bayless said she felt a pop in her knee. An MRI discovered the pop was a tear, one that kept Bayless out of what was supposed to be her senior season.

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worried she had played her last game of college softball, but the NCAA granted her a medical redshirt to compete this season.

Bayless said though the injury and surgery were painful, after the first couple of weeks of rehab she knew she would be able to recover.

“After the first two weeks it was challenging but nothing I couldn’t handle,” Bayless said.

Bayless said she feels she is at 100 percent and attributes the success of her recovery to the work of OSU’s training staff.

“I feel strong,” Bayless said.

“Claire [Williams, OSU’s trainer] did an amazing job, Wes [Ulm, strength coach] did an amazing job.”

Ask anyone involved with OSU’s softball program about Bayless and he or she will say Bayless is a competitor with a personality that fits her role on the team to perfection. In every year of her college career she has served as her teams’ leadoff hitter. Taylor Lynch, an OSU senior designated player, said Bayless’ constant energy level and encouragement helps to get her teammates pumped up. Lynch said Bayless’ attitude fits Bayless’ role perfectly. Lynch is playing through an ACL injury of her own.

“She’s obviously a little fireball when she’s playing, she’s very emotional,” Lynch said. “We thrive off of that, especially the kids who aren’t as emotional when they play.

It’s nice to have someone like that because it kinds of gets us going and gets the dugout pumped. When she’s up to bat it kinda feels like all of us are up there with her.”

school, they know how important school is to this program,” Ulm said. “Coach G. set that precedent since day one, so it makes things a little bit easier for us.”

Bayless went from missing classes to graduating from OSU with a bachelor’s degree in university studies in May. With her extra year in college, she is pursuing a graduate degree with an emphasis in leisure studies. ***

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OSU left fielder Rylee Bayless before the No. 21 Oklahoma State vs. No. 9 Texas Big 12 Conference softball game at Cowgirl Stadium in Stillwater on Friday, March 29, 2019.

Bayless said she attributes her intensity in part to wanting to play each game as if it is her last.

“You never know when it’s going to be,” Bayless said. *** Bayless said she credits her junior college coach, Northeastern Oklahoma’s Eric Iverson, with helping her grow as much as a person as she has as a player.

“Being away from my parents, I had to learn what was right and wrong and how to adapt on my own,” Bayless said. “Coach Ivy was a huge part of that. He’s a very brutally honest guy, and I’ve learned to respect that because that’s what you want people to be.”

For Bayless, NEO’s location in Miami, with a population of 13,212, forced her to focus on softball and

her studies.

“The town was so small, there was really nothing else to do but go to the batting cages and so that’s what I did; I worked hard,” Bayless said.

“Going to JUCO really proved to me that hard work does pay off.”

Iverson said Bayless’ passion for the game was apparent during her time in junior college.

“We always tried to just enhance that passion and never stifle it because it’s such an important quality in our game,” Iverson said. “Her personality is infectious; it’s perfect for the game.”

While playing for Iverson at NEO, Bayless won NJCAA Player of the Year in 2015 and 2016, but Iverson said getting her to focus on her studies is as important as her accomplishments on the field, something he stresses to all of his players.

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“We don’t sit here and coddle them, we try to prepare them for how the real world is going to treat them and the professional setting as far as what they choose to do with their lives,” Iverson said.

Bayless said when she arrived at NEO she was focused on playing softball, an approach that Iverson altered.

“I wasn’t very schooloriented, I just wanted to play softball, and coach Ivy helped me understand the importance of school and life and why it is important,” Bayless said.

Iverson and Gajewski don’t use study halls, instead placing the responsibility on their players to manage their time efficiently around the teams’ practice and travel schedules. Ulm said Gajewski makes sure his players know the importance of school to succeeding after their softball career.

“Our girls do really well in

After Bayless graduated from NEO after her sophomore year, Gajewski reached out to her and Iverson, inviting her for an on-campus visit. Bayless said the campus, along with the approach Gajewski’s coaching staff uses, drew her to the program.

“Stillwater just seemed like home to me,” Bayless said. “There’s this really cool underdog feeling in Stillwater that I wanted to be a part of.”

Bayless is embracing her second chance to lead this team to the Women’s College World Series, and said the year off from playing afforded her more time to grow as a player.

“I felt like I learned a lot just from sitting out,” Bayless said. “Mentally I feel like I’m so much stronger, I’ve come so far with my mentality, and I think that that comes from sitting out a year, to be honest, and growing up more.”

Adam Luther is a sports media senior from Lincoln, Rhode Island.

He can be reached at adam.w.luther@okstate.edu.

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OSU cultural night celebrates diversity on campus L aur en Eg l es ton , S ta f f R epo rter , @o c olly

The International Student Organization at Oklahoma State University held their annual Cultural Night on Friday and Saturday. The event featured performances by different international student associations representing countries from Japan to Bangladesh to Latin American.

“There needs to be a night when international students can come out and just kinda tell everybody ‘Hey we exist, and this is who we are, and this is what we are

about,’” Chuong Do, the ISO president, said.

Every year the ISO plans and puts on Cultural Night with a different theme each time.

The theme of the event focused on “the roots of our people” and every association put on a performance that highlighted the history of an aspect of their culture. Some associations, such as the Sri Lankan and Indian Student Associations, presented an overview of the whole history of their countries. Others showcased parts of their culture through performance.

“Starting out early in

the semester, we start approaching groups about performing,” Do said.

“We send out applications to see how many are interested, and as soon as we know how many will show up, we start planning how much time we need and where we’re gonna do it and what kind of props we need, we have to start approaching people about sponsoring.”

The students performed dances, skits and songs with many different costumes, music, videos and props unique to their culture.

“We did a combination of four different dances from Latin America,

from Mexico, Dominican Republic, Argentina, and Colombia. So I did the tango performance from Argentina and then I was one of the viejitos in ‘la danza de los viejitos’ from Mexico,” said Erik Knatvold from the Latin American Student Association.

The performances the students put on help educate the people attending the event on countries that are not well known, like Sri Lanka.

“I come from a really small country, which is an island, so it is really important for others to know that a small country like that it exists and we

are over here and we have these identities,” said Tarosha Salbaboru from the Sri Lankan Student Association.

Rachel Madden, a student at OSU, said she went to cultural night to experience the diverstiy on campus. “[I went to cultural night] to be able to experience all the different cultures of people I’m in classes with and to understand and appreciate the beauty of people different than me,” Madden said.

Members of the audience were able to learn a lot about foreign cultures and experience the traditional clothing and dances

of other countries.

Cultural Night is a celebration of diversity on OSU’s campus. “[It] gives a really good inside look to the different cultures you guys have here on campus and the amount of diversity that you can even find in Stillwater, Oklahoma, which is pretty fascinating,” said Rylee McDaniel, a student from University of Central Oklahoma.

Lauren Egleston is a multimedia journalism freshman from Stillwater.

She can be reached at lauren.egleston@okstate.edu.

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OSU forward Gabriella Coleman battles for the ball against SMU player during the Oklahoma State-SMU exhibition game at Neal Patterson Stadium on March 30, 2019.

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The Napalese Student Association performing at Cultural Night Friday, March 29th at the Seretean Center.

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We are now less than a month away from the release of the highly anticipated sequel to the long running video game series, “Mortal Kombat 11.”

This fighting game series has had its ups and downs, but since NetherRelm Studios has taken up the series, the franchise has been going nowhere but up.

Here are my thoughts on “Mortal Kombat 11” so far.

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Playable characters right now include Baraka, Jade, Kabal, Scarlet and Scorpion.

NeatherRelm Studios has done a good job of balancing “Mortal Kombat 11”/Twitter out the characters. I played as all five, and, as far as I could New cover art for the upcoming “Mortal Kombat 11”. tell, no character had an NeatherRelm studios did fects they would have before. advantage over the other. a great job in simplifying the One thing I was a little My favorite of the five, gameplay from their previous upset about was the removal though, is Kabal. Kabal’s two “Mortal Kombat” games of the “X-Ray” mechanic, speed and buzz saw ranged without taking away from the which has been replaced moves work best for the way overall feeling from games with “Fatal Blows.” Fatal I like to play fighting games, past.

Blows are only available succeeding at both long and Combos are easier to hit once your health drops to a short ranged attacks. and don’t require six or seven certain level. In the expeributton combinations to hit, ence I have with the game Gameplay yet still deliver the same efso far, the Fatal Blows aren’t

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much of a difference maker in the overall match as much as they are just visual set pieces to show off the gore and brutality the series is known for. To me, as of right now, they seem useless.

The Game Overall There really was not a lot of substance to the closed beta, which is to be expected.

It was still a little disappointing with how little was ready to be played.

The only single-player combat you could do were the “Klassic Towers,” which were only five characters long. The story was ready, which is obvious, but not even the practice modes were

ready for action.

Online competition was ready, but local kombat wasn’t. This was surprising to me. I figured NertherRelm would have wanted people to already be able to play against their friends.

Overall, “Mortal Kombat 11” is on the right track, but there is still some obvious work that needs to be done to the overall game before it is ready for its fast-approaching April 23 release date.

Jet Turner is a multimedia journalism sophomore from Van Buren, Arkansas. He can be reached at entertainment. ed@ocolly.com.

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