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L. Dale Mitchell Ballpark was filled to the brim, and the Sooners delivered on Friday night advancing into the winner’s bracket of the Norman Regional with a 14-0 win against Oral Roberts. It was a night of celebration with postseason baseball returning to Norman for the first time since 2010. The Oklahoma fan base was treated to quite the celebration. Kyson Witherspoon stranded seven Oral Roberts base runners over the first three innings before settling in and retiring the final 10 batters he faced. He ended the fifth and sixth – his final frame– with back-to-back strikeouts. A John Spikerman...
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OKLAHOMA CITY – In a 9-1 victory for OU softball, it wouldn’t feel like there were legitimate game-changing moments. But there was one when the Sooners were on the field. Although OU had a 4-1 lead going into the top of the fourth, Kelly Maxwell didn’t have her best stuff. Bases loaded, two outs, and head coach Patty Gasso was ready to make a move. Nicole May, who has been lights out as a reliever in recent weeks? Karlie Keeney, who has been circled for this spot often through the season? Nope, Gasso went Kierston Deal. Usually wouldn’t bat an eye at that one, but Deal has been the definition ...
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OKLAHOMA CITY – OU softball head coach Patty Gasso simply never went away from them. It didn’t matter how much Alynah Torres or Cydney Sanders had been struggling at the plate, Gasso had the belief. You get into the Women’s College World Series, and you can turn your season around with one swing. OU will need more of that the rest of the way, but what it got from them Thursday is a great start. Both Torres and Sanders hit two-run home runs as No. 2 OU dominated No. 10 Duke 9-1 in a six-inning, run-rule to begin the WCWS at OGE Field at Devon Park. OU advances in the winner’s bracket to take on...
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Arrogance isn’t exactly the word, but we’ve heard it repeatedly from OU softball head coach Patty Gasso in recent weeks. That type of confidence. Her team just wanted to get to the Women’s College World Series. Time to go to the home away from home. Return to that stage and go to work, remind everybody who they are. Because who they are? The three-time defending national champions going for an unprecedented fourth in a row. The second-ranked Sooners did indeed go straight to work in dominating No. 10 Duke 9-1 in a six-inning, run-rule on Thursday afternoon in the opening round ...
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OKLAHOMA CITY – OU softball is back in very familiar territory. The Sooners have returned to Devon Park in Oklahoma City for the Women’s College World Series. OU is, of course, gunning for its fourth consecutive national championship. The No. 2-seeded Sooners get things started against No. 10 Duke at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Wednesday, though, was about media day. The final thoughts on head coach Patty Gasso as OU attempts to write itself in the history books again. Anything stand out about first game vs. Duke (3-0 win)?“It was a very exciting game. It was one of our first games of the season. Both...
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OU softball head coach Patty Gasso said it in the moment, but it was hard for Sooner fans to take her at face value. Gasso understood the significance of Oklahoma’s 8-2 victory against Oklahoma State in the final Bedlam regular season matchup this season (May 5). She said she felt like OU was a different team. The problem? Well, Gasso had been trying to preach (and convince?) everybody that was the case after other losses. After Louisiana shocked OU the opening weekend of Love’s Field, Gasso challenged the team. Said we’ll find out what the Sooners are made of. OU went about its business until...
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With postseason baseball returning to L. Dale Mitchell Ballpark this weekend for the first time since 2010, it’s time to stop down and take count of the teams making up the Norman Regional. It should be no surprise Duke heads to Norman as one of the talks of the country following Monday’s selection show. The Blue Devils certainly have the case as one of the better No. 2 seeds in the Tournament after seeing its bid to host fall short. UConn returns to the big dance as an at-large bid for the 25th time in school history. And Oral Roberts makes the short trek down to the turnpike following a stor...
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With OU softball holding onto a narrow lead in Game 2 of the Super Regional, you wondered who was going to be that pitcher to close the show? Kierston Deal started the show. Karlie Keeney was fighting through the middle innings against Florida State. You saw Kelly Maxwell warming up in the bullpen. But head coach Patty Gasso knew. It gets to the sixth inning, and it’s Nicole May time. “You now watch her in these moments and I think Nicole has been unfairly judged and she knows that we’ve got her back and we’ve got her support,” Gasso said. “This is a great example of coming in and just being a...
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A return trip to Omaha will run through Norman for Oklahoma Sooners baseball. Well, at least for the first weekend. A crazy sentence to read. An even crazier sentence to write. The Sooners are the No. 9 overall national seed in the NCAA Tournament with regional play beginning on Friday. Oklahoma just misses out on being a top-8 national seed. While there was some shock within the east side stadium club at the Sooners watch party, Oklahoma head coach Skip Johnson wasn’t dwelling on the national seed snub. “Not at all. We can’t control that. We only can control what we can control, and that’s go...
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OU softball head coach Patty Gasso exhaled and then smiled Friday night. The Sooners had just punched their ticket back to the Women’s College World Series. So you know what? Free weekend. And a weekend to sit back and watch the rest of the Super Regional chaos. It absolutely was chaos, with five of the eight series going to that deciding Game 3. No. 2 OU (54-6) wasn’t one of them, but its opponent was. Duke went to Missouri and earned the Game 3 win on the road for the No. 10 seed upset vs. No. 7. The Blue Devils and Tigers were scoreless through eight innings before Duke put up a four-spot i...
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