OBU’s Oliver receives weekly GAC honor
Ouachita Baptist has produced the Great American Conference player of the week on offense for the second week in a row.
Sophomore Kris Oliver split the award with Oklahoma Baptist’s Isaiah Mallory after his performance in the Tigers’ 42-34 road win over Northwestern Oklahoma State Saturday night. Oliver ran for a career-high 237 yards, scoring on a oneyard run in the third quarter and a 67-yard dash midway in the fourth period. In two games against the Rangers, he has 455 yards and four touchdowns.
Oliver ranks fourth in NCAA Division II with nine rushing touchdowns. A redshirt sophomore from Arkadelphia, he has 28 rushing touchdowns through 15 games, an average of 1.87 rushing TDs per game for his career.
Ouachita quarterback Austin Warford received the weekly GAC offensive honor in Week 3. The 3-1 Tigers play 4-0 Harding at 6 p.m. Saturday in Searcy.
Texas Chrome keeps shining in Oklahoma
California Chrome is still a bigger name in horse racing, but Texas Chrome, a late blooming 3-year-old, is making a name for himself on the sport’s Midwest circuit.
Stakes placed at Oaklawn Park in April, the Grasshopper colt notched his third consecutive stakes victory Sunday in the Grade 3 $400,000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park. Darting inside when stuck between horses, Texas Chrome got up by a half-length over Stickstatelydude with favored Fish Trappe Road third.
C.J. McMahon is 3 for 3 aboard Texas Chrome since trainer J.R. Caldwell gave him the mount in August’s Super Derby Prelude, earning a fees-paid berth to the Grade III race at Louisiana Downs and winning it Sept. 10.
Texas Chrome, drawing the rail post in a field of 11, ran the mile and an eighth Sunday in 1:48.94. He paid $6.60, $3.60 and $2.60. The victory was Texas Chrome’s eighth in 13 starts, giving him career earnings of $842,462. Texan Danny Keene bought him for $10,000 at a sale in the owner’s home state.
In his only local start, Texas Chrome finished third in the Bachelor, a sprint stake won by the Steve Asmussen-trained Counterforce.