Coach Bill Blankenship, TU Athletics

After four seasons as head coach of the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team Bill Blankenship was dismissed on Monday morning.

Blankenship took over for Todd Graham, who left the Hurricane to coach the University of Pittsburgh Panthers at the end of the 2010 season.  After an 8-5 season in 2011 and an 11-3 season and two bowl appearances, the Golden Hurricane have had two consecutive losing seasons (3-9 in 2013 and 2-10 this season).  This season saw the Hurricane win two games at home, and no road or non-conference games.
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TULSA, OK—The Tulsa Revolution hosted the Wichita B-52s on Saturday night in the hopes of reversing their fortunes after a 14-5 shellacking at the hands of the Dallas Sidekicks last Saturday. The score was less, but the impact the same as the B-52 scored early and often to hand the Revs an 8-4 loss.

The B-52s had four goals on the board from Travis Pittman, Kevin Jackson, Alex Moseley and Matt Clare and were working a shutout until the 29th minute of the first half, when the Tulsa’s Nick McDonald finally solved Wichita goalie Chris Penner to finally put the home team on the board.
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Pat Quinn, as Oilers Player

Pat Quinn, former NHL player, coach and general manager and former Tulsa Oilers defense-man passed away Sunday night in Vancouver, British Columbia after a long illness.  He was 71.

The native of Hamilton Ontario spent 19 seasons as a player and 20 seasons as a head coach in the National Hockey League and coached the Canadian Men to the 2002 Gold Medal in the Salt Lake Winter Olympics.

Quinn had three stints with the Tulsa Oilers in the late 1960’s.  He played a total of 70 games from 1967 through 1970, scoring only six goals and 22 assists for 28 points in the era when defense-men were not heavily relied upon to score goals.  He won a championship with the Oilers in 1968.
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Oilers forward Jon Booras celebrates one of two goals against Wichita Sunday.      Photo by Kevin Pyle.

TULSA: The off-season acquisition of center Jon Booras has paid enormous dividends for the Tulsa Oilers in their debut in the ECHL this season.  He proved to be the superhero for the Oilers when they defeated the Wichita Thunder 3-2 in front of 4,096 in the BOK Center on Sunday afternoon.

The 32-year old native of Billings, Montana scored two goals on Sunday afternoon, the first being a shorthanded goal in the second period when Tulsa defenseman Dave Pszenyczny was sent off for boarding.  In that situation, Tulsa goalie Kevin Carr made a blocker save that bounced to Drew Fisher who started a shorthanded rush for the Oilers.

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