NORMAN — A dozen girls in orange “Konawa Strong” T-shirts locked arms with the Oklahoma softball team Sunday, forming a circle in the middle of the dirt infield.
They swayed back and forth in a pregame pump-up ritual. There was joy in the togetherness, but sorrow for whom the circle lacked. One month ago, 12-year-old Rhindi Kay Isaacs was killed in a bus crash when the Konawa Lady Tigers junior high softball team was coming home from a game in Okemah.
An SUV collided with the school activities bus on U.S. 377 in Seminole County. The driver of the SUV, who was scheduled to appear in court on a DUI charge, was killed.