After an unbelievable outing to beat the UCLA Bruins to shut out the Mary Nutter Traditional in California, the Oklahoma Sooners put collectively an encore efficiency Friday night in opposition to No. 17 Kentucky.
After beating UIC 5-0 within the first sport of their Friday double-header, the Oklahoma Sooners had been as soon as once more dominant over a ranked opponent, beating the Wildcats 18-0 at Marita Hynes Discipline.
Alex Storako received the beginning within the circle and was flawless, throwing 5 innings and hanging out 5 for the no-hitter. Her lone blemish within the win was successful batter with two outs within the first inning. She didn’t enable one other base runner over the ultimate 4.1 innings pitched to maneuver to 5-0 and decrease her ERA to 0.27 on the season.
To not be overshadowed by one other dominant outing for Storako, the Sooners’ bats had one other big outing.
As they’ve executed rather a lot this 12 months, Oklahoma went to work early, placing the strain on within the first inning.
Jayda Coleman led off the sport with a double earlier than Tiare Jennings drove her in for the 1-0 lead. After shifting to 3rd on a Haley Lee floor out, and Kinzie Hansen singled and stole second, true freshman Jocelyn Erickson got here up with a pair of runners in scoring place and only one out.
She did what she’s been doing all 12 months and added to the lead with a two-run single to make it 3-0 OU.
Hansen, who had an enormous debut weekend within the Mary Nutter Traditional every week in the past, stored her offensive outburst going with a grand slam within the second inning to place the Sooners up 4-0.
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It was her third residence run of the season and first of two within the sport.
Within the backside of the fourth inning, the Oklahoma Sooners erupted for 10 runs, kickstarted by Jayda Coleman’s fourth residence run of the season. It was a solo shot to place the Sooners up 8-0. However they weren’t glad there.
With two on and one out, Sophia Nugent belted a three-run residence run for her third residence run of the season. Arizona State switch Cydney Sanders and Quincee Lilio adopted Nugent’s blast with residence runs of their very own to go back-to-back-to-back.
Jordy Bahl walked to drive in a run, and Haley Lee introduced in Rylie Boone from third on a fielder’s option to make it 15-0. Then Kinzie Hansen got here to the plate once more and bashed a three-run residence run for her fourth homer of the 12 months. Hansen’s performed in simply seven video games this season and has 4 residence runs and 16 RBIs.
The Sooners hit 5 residence runs within the 10-run inning to place away yet one more high 25 opponent.
Oklahoma was just about flawless from the circle and on the plate. In Alex Storako’s final two begins, each in opposition to ranked groups, the Sooners have outscored their opponents 32-0.
Oklahoma is now 15-1 on the season and has been completely dominant since dropping to Baylor almost two weeks in the past.
They’ll face Kentucky as soon as once more at 3 p.m. CT on Saturday at Marita Hynes Feld. Their second matchup with UIC will observe Oklahoma-UCLA.
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