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WATCH: Oklahoma SS Avery Hodge Turns in SportsCenter's Top Play

The Sooners are trying to replace All-American Grace Lyons at shortstop, and Hodge may have taken a step in that direction on Thursday.

John E. Hoover

WATCH: Oklahoma SS Avery Hodge Turns in SportsCenter's Top Play
WATCH: Oklahoma SS Avery Hodge Turns in SportsCenter's Top Play /

Watch Oklahoma shortstop Avery Hodge make the No. 1 play of the day on ESPN "SportsCenter Top 10" from Thursday's Battle Series at Marita Hynes Field.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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