

Seminole, OK - The Seminole State College Trojan men's golf team competed in the OCAC Region II golf tournament at Jimmie Austin Golf Course on April 16th. The team got off to a slow start in the first round, shooting a 305 team total, putting them in second place behind Murray State who shot a team total of 294. The Trojans made a strong push the in the second round shooting a 292, but the 11 shots were too much to overcome. Murray shot a 302 and won the Regional Tournament by 1 shot. "We put ourselves too far behind on the first 18 holes," said head coach Nate Jahn. "We didn't play poorly, just couldn't get anything going." Freshman Tyler Carlson finished the tournament in 1st with rounds of 73 and 69 to qualify for the National Tournament in Plymouth, Indianan. "I am very happy for Tyler and impressed by his strong play all season long," said Jahn. Sophomore, Tomasz Pulsakowski, finished fourth overall with rounds of 78 and 72. Freshman Nathan Swisher shot a two round total of 151 finishing tied for fifth. Rounding out the team scoring was freshman Mickane Replogle firing a 154 and sophomore Seth DeLong with a 166. The NJCAA Men's National Golf Tournament will be held in Plymouth, Indiana, May 22-25, 2012.

Seminole, OK - The Seminole State College Trojan women's golf team competed in the OCAC Region II Golf Tournament at Jimmie Austin Golf Course on April 16th. The team went against some tough competition going against the number one team in the nation. The Trojans had one of their best two-round totals of the year shooting 356 and 354. However, this was not enough to overtake Redlands for the team title. "I was very pleased with how the girls played today," said head coach Nate Jahn. "Some of the girls have come a long way throughout the course of the season." Freshman Alejandra Arellano lead the team with a 6th place finish shooting rounds of 80 and 72. This was good enough to qualify her for the National Tournament in Daytona Beach, Florida. Joining Arellano at the National Tournament will be sophomore Danielle Rhodes, finishing with a two round total of 175 and freshman Payton Taylor, who also shot a two round total of 175. Rounding out the team scoring was Freshman Brittany Pyles shooting a two round total of 208. The NJCAA Women's Golf National Championship will be held in Daytona Beach, Florida, May 14-17, 2012.
The Seminole State College Lady Trojan tennis team are playing in the 2012 Women's NJCAA National Championships May 6-11. The tournament will be held in Tyler, Texas this year on the campus of Tyler Junior College.
The tournament will consist of three draws of doubles and six draws of singles. The tournament draws will be updated throughout each day at the following website:
http://tennislink.usta.com/TOURNAMENTS/TournamentHome_New/Tournament.aspx?T=124418

Seminole State College Trojan Volleyball has five players that have signed a National Letter of Intent to continue their Volleyball career at the next level. Maryna Samoday (Ukraine, Europe) will be playing at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Katriena Nachtergaele (Belgium, Europe), Emily McCollum (Denton, TX), and Tory Kappel (Yukon, OK) will be playing at University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. Ashley Williams (Aloha, OR) will be playing at St. Gregory's University in Shawnee, Oklahoma. These young ladies have had a very successful career at Seminole State with an overall record of 67-12 and two Region II Championships. We are very proud of them and wish them a successful future.
The Seminole State College Trojan Softball team finished in 2nd Place in the NJCAA Region II tournament this weekend held at Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City. The Trojans won games against Eastern and Connors on Friday, and defeated Northeastern Oklahoma A&M (NEO) on Saturday. However, NEO came back to defeat the Trojans in back-to-back games on Sunday afternoon - winning the Regional title.
The Trojans finished their season with a record of 44-13. Congratulations to Coach Kristina McSweeney and her team.

On Saturday the Seminole State College Trojan softball team defeated Northeastern Oklahoma A&M 6-4 during day-two action of the NJCAA Region II Softball Tournament at Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City. With the win, the Trojans advance to Sunday's 4 pm championship game vs. the winner of Sunday's 2 pm loser's bracket final between NEO and Western Oklahoma State. Follow live play by play action of the games at http://www.gamechanger.io/t/spring-2012/seminole-state-trojans-4f22ef1a890e01da2b000003 or call 382-9600 for inning by inning score updates.
After defeating Eastern Oklahoma State 8-3 and Connors State 6-0 in the first two rounds on Friday, Coach McSweeney sent Whitney Robinson to the circle for the all important winner's bracket contest. Robinson, a freshman from Choctaw, responded with a stunning performance that kept the Norse off-balance all afternoon. The only damage NEO could register on the day was a fourth inning grand slam, which was not enough combat the Trojan offense.During a third round in the appeal process of the NJCAA Region II ruling prohibiting the participation of Seminole State College in the May 10-13 Region II Tournament, the penalty for the violation has been altered. The SSC Trojans will be allowed to compete. The Head Coach will not be allowed to participate in the Regional tournament.
Each member college of Region II was allowed one vote after reviewing the evidence regarding a violation of a statistics reporting rule. The schools voted to overturn the ruling.
SSC President Dr. Jim Utterback said, "I appreciate our colleagues voting with Seminole State College and Northern Oklahoma College to properly restore the hopes and dreams of the student-athletes who were being inappropriately punished for a clerical oversight of the coaching staff."



The SSC Trojans hosted Rose State College yesterday and came up short despite their 12 hits. The Trojans left 10 runners on base that they weren't able to convert to runs, losing 6-3. Cisco Factor hit a home run in the first inning, and two RBI's on three hits and a single in the fifth but it just wasn't enough. An SSC fielding error in the fifth sparked the Raiders to four runs. Head Coach Jeff Shafer said, "We left too many runners on base and made three costly errors that led to all six of their runs. We didn't play well enough to win, plain and simple." The Trojans will play Rose State again today at 6 pm in Midwest City as part of the four game series. SSC's overall record is 37-12.

The SSC Trojan softball team traveled to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M on Sunday for their last two games of the regular season and came up with two losses. The ladies racked up six hits in game one but it wasn't enough, losing 8-2. Shanna Davidson was a workhorse in the circle allowing six earned runs, 11 hits and four walks while striking out two over six innings. Game two, the Trojans were tied at 5 in the bottom of the third inning. NEO scored two more runs in the bottom of the sixth and SSC was only able to answer with one run in the seventh giving the Lady Norse the victory. Despite the losses the Trojans are the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference Champions with a conference record of 24-4 and an overall record of 41-11. The NJCAA Region 2 Tournament begins on Friday, May 4. Seminole State will play the number eight seed at 1 pm in Oklahoma City at Hall of Fame Stadium.
The Seminole State Trojans swept the Eastern Oklahoma Mountaineers in the four game series that concluded on Saturday. The Trojans played solid competitive baseball winning both games 12-2 and 7-2. In game one, Josh Lavender was hot at the plate going 2 for 3 and ensuring the win. Tyler Kruse pitched the entire seven innings earning the win. He allowed two earned runs, eight hits and no walks and three strike outs. In game two, SSC scored five runs in the fourth inning on an RBI single by Jose Olazagasti, a hit by pitch and three passed balls. Juedys Garcia racked up three RBI's on two hits. Lucas Quary got the win for Seminole State Trojans. He allowed two runs over four innings. Quary struck out five, walked one and surrendered two hits. The lead stayed with the Trojans after the third, when five more runs were scored on a three-run double by Garcia, and RBI by Frank Arena and a walk by Cisco Factor.
On Wednesday, Seminole will start another four game series against Rose State College. Game time will be 4 pm at Oiler Park Field in Seminole and on Friday at 4 pm with a cook out to follow. They will play at Rose on Thursday at 6 pm and Saturday at 1 pm.
Trojan softball is on a roll. The ladies continue to move up in the NJCAA National Polls, moving from number ten to number seven. On a nineteen game winning streak their overall record is now 39-8 and 22-1 in conference. The ladies currently stand at number one in Region 2, Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference. They defeated Connors State College last night, 8-3 and 8-0. In game one, Connors and Seminole were tied 3-3 until the ninth inning when the Trojans scored five runs to get the win. Game two started out with SSC scoring three runs off hits and walks. They answered back and scored three in the second inning and one in the third and fourth. Seminole came out victorious for a sweep on Connors.
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