Edmond North's Liesel Kehoe named 2022-23 Gatorade Oklahoma Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year

Edmond North's Liesel Kehoe named 2022-23 Gatorade Oklahoma Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year

Edmond North star Liesel Kehoe is the 2022-23 Gatorade Oklahoma Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year, the company announced Monday.

A junior, Kehoe is the first Edmond North girls cross country runner to win the award.

She dealt with a stress fracture in her hip this past season but made her return and dominated. She claimed the Class 6A state title in the fall at Edmond Santa Fe as she finished in 17 minutes, 14.34 seconds. Edmond North placed third as a team.

After that, Kehoe placed third at the Nike South Regional Championships before finishing 23rd at the Nike Cross Nationals in Oregon.

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OU women's gymnastics team tops Utah in home opener

The top-ranked OU women's gymnastics team matched it season high with a 197.925 as it defeated No. 5 Utah in its home opener Sunday night inside Lloyd Noble Center in Norman.

OU, the defending national champion, competed in front of 7,013 fans, the third-highest crowd in program history.

OU freshman Faith Torrez won her first-ever all-around title with a career-high 39.525. Torrez also won two events as she had career highs on bars (9.900) and floor (9.950). Sophomore Jordan Bowers had a 39.500, her third straight 39.500-plus in the all-around. Bowers shared the bars title with Torrez.

Torrez and Bowers finished ahead of Utah star and 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medalist Grace McCallum, who placed third in the all-around with a 39.350. OU senior Allie Stern posted a 9.975 to share the vault title with Utah standout and reigning NCAA vault champion Jaedyn Rucker.

OU will next travel to No. 8 Denver for a matchup at 3 p.m. Sunday.

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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander hits winner, lifts Thunder past Nuggets

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander banked in a decisive 8-foot jumper with 9.2 seconds remaining and finished with 34 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder snapped Denver’s league-leading nine-game win streak and beat the Nuggets 101-99 Sunday night in Denver.

After Denver’s Zeke Nnaji hit two free throws to tie the game at 99 with 30 seconds left, Gilgeous-Alexander got the ball out of a timeout and hit the mid-range jumper to give the Thunder the lead. The Nuggets’ Jamal Murray missed a fadeaway 14-foot shot in the final seconds.

Oklahoma City’s victory ended the Nuggets’ 16-game home win streak — the franchise’s longest run in 10 years.

Josh Giddey had 18 points and a team-high nine rebounds for the Thunder, who earned their seventh win in nine games.

Denver center Nikola Jokic missed his second straight game while dealing with tightness in his left hamstring. The two-time reigning NBA MVP had recorded a triple-double in five of his last six games. Nuggets acting head coach David Adelman said expects that Jokic’s return is “going to be very soon.”

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Extra point

NBA: The Los Angeles Lakers have acquired former lottery pick Rui Hachimura from the Washington Wizards in exchange for Kendrick Nunn and a package of second-round draft picks. Hachimura and the Wizards didn't agree on a rookie extension before the season started. That prompted speculation that the Japanese power forward wouldn’t be in their long-term plans.

-Staff and wire reports

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