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OU drops to #2 behind Virginia Tech in the new rankings as of today.

Well folks...here we are. The post-season realistically starts now. We start playing for all the marbles--every game, here on out.
How do we match up against the Cowgirls?? A quick scan at just a few stats give us a general idea: Records--OU 45-1,...

Line-up:

CF  Coleman
DP  Alo
2B  Jennings
SS  Lyons
LF  Brito
1B  Elam
3B  Johns
C   Hansen
RF  Boone
​​​​​​​P   May

Game Times Change for Bedlam:

Due to a shift in television broadcasts, the game times for this week’s Bedlam Softball games have been adjusted.

Thursday, May 5th: 7:00 pm.

Friday, May 6th: 6:00 pm.

Saturday, May 7th: 4:00 pm.

Effective immediately. They have already been removed from their website. The interim is the director of operations.

They moved fast on this.

It has been a while since the Sooners have had one of these types of games. Since I am spoiled by being a Sooner fan, I will say that it is about time ! (I am smiling a little bit.)

Offensively, the Sooners started slowly with a lot of runners left...

Here's a look at the season totals so far for HR's :

23 Jocelyn Alo
20 Tiare Jennings
17 Grace Lyons
13 Lynnsie Elam
12 Alyssa Brito
10 Jana Johns
7 Kinzie Hansen
6 Jayda Coleman
3 Taylon Snow
3 Grace Green
2 Rylie Boone
1 Sophia Nugent
1 Mackenzie...

Here are a group of comments about the game on Friday.

Oklahoma Starting Lineup ...

1 .... cf .... 24 ..Coleman, Jayda / L / .456
2 ... dp ... 78 .. Alo, Jocelyn / R / .486
3 ... 2b ... 23 .. Jennings, Tiare / R / .378
4 ... ss ...... 3 .. Lyons,...

I saw that the Cowgirls swept of UT* this afternoon, Meaning, that unless we screw-up at Kansas, both teams will have one loss going into Bedlam. The winner of 2 of the 3 games will be Big XII champion. At least the games are in Norman.

Ok State...

I see this on both schedules but nothing posted at OU softball or Twitter.

Keep checking.

While we are waiting for the games with Kansas to unfold....
Read an article today commenting that the wheels continue to turn to have the new 4 members of the Big 12 actively participating in Big 12 sports starting in 2023. It also indicated that...

Here are the two lists of players/pitchers chosen by Softball America.

Pitchers for April:

#1 - Chenise Delce - Arkansas
Notes: 2022 stats (as of 4/24/22): 13-2, 2.16 ERA, 127 SO, 100.2 IP

Arkansas looks to be in the driver's seat to win the...

Here are the eight Sooner Softballers that earn Academic All Big 12 Honors.

NAME MAJOR YEAR
Rylie Boone Communication Junior
Lynnsie Elam* Health and Exercise Science/Psychology R-Senior
Grace Green Communication Senior
Kinzie Hansen Psychology...

Last night Alabama lost to Western Kentucky 3-1. How does that happen? Alabama started Torrence, easily their #3 pitcher behind Fouts and Kilfoyl. Torrence pitched 0.2 runs and gave up 3 runs. Against a pretty good pitcher for Western Kentucky,...

This coming weekend the Sooners face off against the University of Missouri-Kansas City on Thursday and Kansas on Friday-Saturday-Sunday.
First up: UMKC. According to the Roos Softball Homepage, their game with the Sooners is a sell-out. There will...

Lauren Bennett catcher for James Madison that played against us at the WCWS last year passed away.
Prayers to al her family and friends.

College Power-Brokers Poised to Turn NCAA Upside Down

The Transformation Committee is considering wholesale changes that would make the NCAA’s post–Mark Emmert era a completely different experience.

Imagine a college sports world where schools are...

Looking forward to the D1 Softball Playoffs - Here is an example of the 16 regional brackets as 'predicted' by EIS as food for thought.

Getting Oregon State assigned to OU's regional is probably not going to happen. In theory the #1 seed should...

I suspect it's different for each coach but what exactly do the pitching coaches call?
1. They obviously call basic pitches - fast ball, changeup, screw ball, etc.
2. do they call ball, strike, or low or high?

Can the call be: screwball low...