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September 2, 2010

STATE SPORTS BRIEFS

Stoops chooses O'Hara as kicker

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CHICKASHA — NORMAN (AP) — Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops has named walk-on Patrick O'Hara as the starting place-kicker for the seventh-ranked Sooners.

Stoops said on his radio show Tuesday night that O'Hara won the competition with Jimmy Stevens, freshman Michael Hunnicutt and redshirt freshman Bryce Easley.

O'Hara emerged late last season as the Sooners' kicker after Stevens and Tress Way struggled. However, Stoops had expressed disappointment throughout training camp that none of his kickers had performed at a consistently high level.

Now that he's chosen a starter, Stoops says O'Hara "needs to be given an opportunity to keep it and improve with it as opposed to some knee-jerk reaction and change it every kick."

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