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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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Postseason baseball is returning to L. Dale Mitchell Ballpark for the first time since 2010. Oklahoma (37-19 overall, 23-7 Big 12) was announced as one of the 16 regional hosts on Sunday evening with an expectation they will be a top-8 national seed in the NCAA Tournament. Skip Johnson’s crew will find out who the other three teams that will be headed to The Dale in Norman along with their seeding on Monday during the NCAA Tournament Selection Show (11 a.m.). Oklahoma heads into the NCAA Tournament after winning three games last weekend at the Big 12 Tournament in Arlington, Texas. The Sooners...
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ARLINGTON, Texas — The Sooners’ run in Arlington at the Big 12 Tournament came to an end Saturday night in a 9-3 loss to Oklahoma State. Frustrating to say the least for the Sooners baseball team, who finishes the year 1-4 against their in-state rival from Payne County. Even more frustrating after the start from Carter Campbell who kept Oklahoma within striking distance in the early innings. Just one of those nights for Oklahoma offensively, after the highs of a comeback semifinal win 24 hours prior. “Hats off to Oklahoma State for winning. That’s good for them. I thought we never gave in at t...
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OU senior centerfielder Jayda Coleman made a promise. OK, maybe not a promise, but she was determined to steal a home run at Love’s Field. She wasn’t going to have a lot of time to do it, obviously. Just this one season. And she was going to have to do it despite the fact OU didn’t practice at Love’s Field for the majority of the season. But she got the chance, and she took advantage in a 4-2 victory against Florida State on Friday in the Super Regional to send OU back to the Women’s College World Series. “We do this at practice all the time, and she acts like she’s going to catch it and every...
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And the first team to punch its ticket to the Women’s College World Series is… OU. Imagine that. Florida State threw everything it could think of at the Sooners, but eventually, the big hit came. The big hit, big pitch, the big catch, been the hallmark of the Sooners during the last couple of weeks. OU will get a chance to earn its fourth straight national championship, defeating FSU 4-2 on Friday night in the Super Regional at Love’s Field. OU has now won 18 straight NCAA Tournament games. It’s a far cry from where this month started. OU dropped back-to-back games at home vs. Oklahoma State. ...
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Relentless. Persistent. Resilient. Oklahoma overcame a six-run deficit Friday afternoon to advance to the Big 12 Tournament championship game on a Jackson Nicklauswalk-off two run home run. It will be the Sooners’ final athletic competition in a conference they’ve called home to for the last 29 years following the come-from-behind 8-6 victory against Kansas. “Our pitching staff came in there and pitched their guts off. Grant (Stevens) came in there and pitched with his heart on his sleeve. I just wanted to do something. You never want to try to hit home runs, but I was just trying to compete a...
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The realization has hit for the OU softball seniors. This will be their final weeks of playing softball for the Sooners and head coach Patty Gasso. But what Alyssa Brito, Kinzie Hansen and the rest of them want to make sure? This is not that final weekend. They did their part in a 11-3 five-inning, run-rule dominant victory over Florida State on Thursday night in Game 1 of the two-of-three Super Regional at Love’s Field. Obviously, OU and Florida State are no strangers to each other. And in previewing the matchup, it was very easy to see this could be a breakout weekend for the Sooners offense...
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ARLINGTON, Texas — As Oklahoma Sooners baseball coach Skip Johnson settled into his postgame press conference, he smirked a bit. That’s all you could do. Maybe it’s luck. Maybe it was just a bad day at the yard. Whatever you want to chalk it up to, Oklahoma was fortunate to beat Kansas 7-5 on Thursday at Globe Life Field despite seven (!) errors. Yes you read that correctly. And sure a nice stiff drink wouldn’t hurt. “I’ve been to three goat ropings, four chili cookoffs and five rodeos and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like that,” said Johnson in his opening remarks. Yep. That’s one wa...
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