'Like a mad scientist': How Hayley Busby developed into OSU softball's cleanup hitter The pairings for the postseason will be announced Sunday night beginning at 8 p.m. Now, the Sooners (45-2) await their postseason fate with the only real doubt being who they’ll face in Norman in next week’s regionals and where they’re seeded among the top eight that’ll put them in position to host a Super Regional. I think it was great today that we were just putting runs on the board anyway we could.” “I think it just shows that we’re a versatile team,” Alo said. Lyons later drove in another run on a bases-loaded groundout to the right side that left the Cowgirls with no choice but to allow the run to score and take the out at first. Grace Lyons’ RBI squeeze bunt in the third gave OU starter Shannon Saile some extra breathing room after two nail-biter escapes early.
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Later in the inning, Taylon Snow worked a full count before delivering an RBI single up the middle to put OU up 3-0. Tiare Jennings drove in Alo with a first-inning double off Cowgirls’ star Carrie Eberle, helping the Sooners jump ahead early. It wasn’t just Alo’s final salvo, though. I just love the way we finished and walked it off not with a ball off the fence but with a hard-hit ball up the middle.” “The worrisome part, at times, is are we trying to be superheroes? And I think Jocelyn Alo showed it today. “They understand the game,” Sooners coach Patty Gasso said. Outside of Kinzie Hansen’s third-inning leadoff homer, which put the Sooners are 130 for the season, OU finished off their seventh Big 12 tournament title by stringing together hits, moving along runners and manufacturing runs rather than just blasting balls out of the park left and right.Īs the Sooners move into next weekend’s regional and beyond, the importance of a well-rounded offense figures to continue to be magnified. 'She brings it all the time': OU softball freshman Jayda Coleman sets the tone for Sooners OU has lived - and lived and lived and lived - by the longball this season, becoming the third team in Division I history with 130 home runs and moving to within 28 of the all-time record.Īnd Alo has been the standard bearer there, leading the Sooners and the nation with 27 home runs.īut Alo’s game-ending hit on the eighth pitch of the at-bat typified the type of game OU played Saturday.
OU had the game well in hand at that point but Alo’s sixth-inning, two-run single that ended the Sooners’ 10-2 win over Oklahoma State in a run-rule was an important one. Jocelyn Alo’s sixth-inning at-bat didn’t decide the outcome of Saturday’s Big 12 Tournament title game at USA Hall of Fame Stadium. View Gallery: Oklahoma Defeats Oklahoma State In Big 12 Softball Championship Game
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