Coming Up on Bison Hill (April 24-30)

SHAWNEE – This week marks your last chance to see your favorite Bison and Lady Bison compete at home in regular season action for the 2016-17 school year. Here's what's coming up this week on Bison Hill.
 
Monday: Men's and Women's Golf resume competition in Hot Springs, Arkansas, at the Great American Conference Championships. Though not eligible to place as a team, the Bison are tied for fourth in the field, and the Lady Bison have three inside the Top 20. Baseball resumes their weather-altered series with a single nine-inning game against Southeastern Oklahoma State at 1 p.m. at Bison Field at Ford Park. Oklahoma Baptist will be looking to claim their second GAC series sweep in as many tries after winning the first two games of the series yesterday.
 
Tuesday: Men's and Women's Golf wrap up the GAC Championship with a final round of 18 holes. Men's and Women's Tennis take on Seminole State at 1 p.m. at the OBU Tennis Courts in their final tune-up before the National Christian College Athletic Association Regional this weekend. The reigning GAC regular season and tournament champions, the Bison for their third straight win on their home courts, while the women will be looking for their fourth straight win to close out the regular season. Softball welcomes Texas A&M-Commerce for a doubleheader at Lady Bison Park beginning at 6 p.m. The Lady Bison dropped a pair of games to the Lions last year in Commerce, Texas. Baseball welcomes MacArthur Street rival St. Gregory's to Bison Hill for a single game at 6 p.m. to wrap up a home-and-home series with the Cavaliers. The Bison decimated SGU, 11-2, on the Cavaliers' home field earlier this year.
 
Wednesday: Men's and Women's Track and Field head to Des Moines, Iowa, for the Drake Relays. Head coach Ford Mastin will be inducted into the Drake Relays Hall of Fame during the four-day event.
 
Thursday: Men's and Women's Track and Field continue competition at the Drake Relays.
 
Friday: Men's and Women's Track and Field take part in the third day of competition at the Drake Relays. Women's Tennis battles Colorado Christian in Abliene, Texas, at 11 a.m. in the first match of the NCCAA Regionals. It will be the first time the Lady Bison have met CCU in the regional play. Men's Tennis squares off with Dallas Baptist at 2 p.m., also in Abilene. The Bison blanked DBU, 5-0, in last year's regional tournament. Baseball continues its path through in-state rivals as they head to Bethany, Oklahoma, to take on Southern Nazarene at 3 p.m. in the first game of a three-game GAC series. Oklahoma Baptist swept the Crimson Storm in Shawnee in 2016. Softball hosts Ouachita Baptist in a twin bill at Lady Bison Park starting at 4 p.m. The Lady Bison split the four-game series with the Tigers last year in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
 
Saturday: Men's and Women's Track and Field wrap up competition at the Drake Relays, and will also send a contingent to run at the Southwestern College Relays in Winfield, Kansas. Men's Tennis meets Colorado Christian in Abilene in the second match of the NCCAA Central Regional at 8:30 a.m. Like the women a day earlier, this is the first time the Bison will meet CCU in regional action. Women's Tennis takes on McMurry at 11:30 a.m. in their second match at the NCCAA Regional. The Lady Bison blanked McMurry, 5-0, last year in the Central Regional. Softball wraps up their four-game series with Ouachita with a second double header set to begin at 12 p.m. Baseball concludes their series SNU with a twin bill beginning at 1 p.m.