No. 7 Texas softball fell to No. 1 Oklahoma within the remaining spherical of the Phillips 66 Large 12 Softball Championship in a 6-1 upset this weekend, permitting the Sooners to proceed their 43-game successful streak.
Oklahoma swept Texas in a three-game sequence earlier within the season, with one recreation in Oklahoma Metropolis and two in Norman.
The Sooners began off the scoring within the second inning with a house run. Nevertheless, freshman shortstop and second baseman Viviana Martinez replied to their early lead with a far homerun of her personal to proper discipline within the prime of the fourth, tying the rating 1-1 and giving Martinez her fifth homerun as a freshman.
Oklahoma didn’t enable Texas to remain of their recreation. Within the backside of the fourth, Oklahoma had three runs, placing their lead at 4-1.
The Sooners have been in a position to rating two extra runs within the backside of the sixth. On prime of Oklahoma’s spectacular offense, they have been in a position to shut down Texas from scoring.
Junior Nicole Might and sophomore Jordy Bahl each pitched for Oklahoma and had a mixed ERA of 0.9 and solely gave up 5 hits compared to Texas’ seven.
Freshman Citlaly Gutierrez pitched the primary three innings for Texas till Estelle Czech was known as in to switch her. They’d a mean ERA of two.31 with 107 pitches thrown.
Apart from Martinez’ spectacular homerun, junior outfielder Bella Dayton and sophomore infielder Mia Scott each had one hit and redshirt freshman outfielder Ashton Moleney had two by the tip of the matchup.
When evaluating the performances of the groups, Texas held an excellent combat statistically. All of Texas’s numbers corresponding to strike proportion, put outs, fly balls and general hitting proportion have been comparatively shut with Oklahoma at all times having a slight benefit.
Nevertheless, a significant factor of the sport appeared to be their depth from the dugout. There was by no means a silent second for the Sooners. They have been persistently cheering and getting the gang on their toes, which appeared to create a tough ambiance for Texas to achieve.
Popping out of the robust loss, Texas will now put together for the NCAA regionals, with the schedule but to be introduced.
