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Hurt feelings: How Texas Tech softball ended the Oklahoma dynasty in the Women’s College World Series
Hailey Toney on Texas Tech softball’s ability to play in the clutch
Hailey Toney on Texas Tech softball’s ability to play in the clutch
OKLAHOMA CITY — “No hard feelings” was not the way Monday night’s semifinals of the 2025 Women’s College World Series were going to end. It would’ve been impossible.
Too much was at stake at Devon Park, so much on the line for two programs in very different positions less than a year ago. Before Gerry Glasco took over the Texas Tech softball team, landed NiJaree Canady through the transfer portal and altered the course of Red Raider history, he was leading the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns, an emerging mid-major powerhouse with Division I-level talent dotting the roster.
When he left Lafayette, he took a number of players with him to Lubbock but urged his ace pitcher, Sam Landry, to go to Oklahoma. There wouldn’t have been enough innings for Landry with Canady in the fold, and her best chance at success laid with the Sooners.
Landry made the most of her year in the SEC, being drafted No. 1 in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League and guiding the Sooners to regular-season and co-tournament champion status with a mostly young roster. Glasco has spoken glowingly about his former player throughout the year, even in the lead-up to the WCWS last week.
Landry owns one of Glasco’s dogs. The name of his late daughter, Geri Ann, is written in her glove. When Oklahoma didn’t have her usual No. 12 available as a jersey number, she chose No. 21 to honor Geri Ann. Several of her former Louisiana teammates make up the bulk of Texas Tech’s starting lineup.
Somebody was getting their feelings hurt on Monday. It just wound up being Landry, and the Sooners.
Mihyia Davis’s one-out single, chopped over the head of Landry into center field, started the Texas Tech rally in the bottom of the seventh. Hailey Toney followed with a double to put Davis at third, then Lauren Allred hit a fly ball to right field, deep enough for the speedster Davis to slide in for the game-winning run, sending Texas Tech to the championship series of the Women’s College World Series with a 3-2 win, and ending the Sooners’ reign atop the college softball world after four consecutive national titles.
Two former Ragin’ Cajuns teamed up to end their former Louisiana teammates’ season, and career.
“Sam is a great pitcher,” Allred said of the game-winning at-bat. “Going against her, I knew it wasn’t going to be easy, especially with the history we have playing with each other.
“And going to my bat, Coach Hunter (Veach) always says, ‘Doing something really hard, really well, is really fun.’ It reminded me to have fun and just go up there with confidence and trust in all the preparation and training that I had. And I knew Mihyia Davis was probably one of the fastest players in the country, would make something happen as long as I got the ball in play.”
Davis, Texas Tech’s best hitter throughout the season, was hitless in the first two games of the WCWS. She wound up striking out in her first two at-bats against former teammate Landry. Assistant coach Tara Archibald, though, knew Davis was due.
“We kept telling her all week long, ‘Mihyia, you’re going to show up when we need you the most and we know that,’” Archibald said, “and, man, did she ever.”
The Red Raiders didn’t have much time to regroup after the Sooners tied the game in the top of the seventh. Abigale Dayton took an 0-2 offering from Canady for a two-run home run to tie the game. At that point, Canady had appeared to be cruising to another shutout before Sooner Magic took over again.
The best way to combat Sooner Magic, it seems, is with some Raider Power. Toney’s double continued a string of hits the freshman has collected after Canady’s had a (rare) tough inning. She did it in the Lubbock Regional (twice), and again against UCLA with home runs. On Monday, it was her double that put Davis into position for the win.
“That’s the whole team,” Toney said. “We all have each other’s backs no matter what. And she has had our back for the whole season and we’re just trying to have hers.”
Somebody had to leave Devon Park with an L, and Texas Tech made sure it wasn’t them. That didn’t make ending their old friend’s career any easier to swallow.
“Definitely strange,” Alexa Langeliers, another former Louisiana player, said. “I’m used to being on the same field behind her, but she gave it her all. She’s a great pitcher. She’s a great person, and tough end of the season. My heart goes out to her, but it is what it is. I love her to death and she’s just an amazing person.”
Langeleiers called it “surreal,” the whole game and the circumstances leading to Tech’s triumph. The senior second baseman admitted she didn’t think getting to the WCWS finals was going to happen, though the feeling is electric all the same.
That’s especially true for the players who followed Glasco to Texas Tech. Davis and Allred both said that the head coach believed in them, and they trusted him with their careers.
“Coach Glasco always had faith in me,” Allred said, “and I knew that he helped me get to the position I was going to be in, and I wanted to stay by him no matter what.”
UPDATE: Power has been mostly restored in the wide area of Midtown Tulsa. Nearly 500 customers remain without power.
PSO says a car hit a pole near 2800 S Lewis Avenue, and a substation in the area may have shorted out as a result.
Investigation ongoing.
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Original Story:
The Public Service Company of Oklahoma Outage Map shows thousands in Tulsa are without power after reports of multiple downed power lines and a power flash, affecting customers starting near the area of Riverside Drive out past the Mingo Valley Expressway, all the way near East 21 Street to E 81 Street.
News On 6 has received reports of the location of multiple power lines down near 2800 South Lewis Avenue, so it is best to avoid the area.
Crews are currently out addressing the outage, and a time of restoration has not been published at this time.
PSO Communications Manager Matt Rahn said teams are still trying to figure out the specific cause of the outage and will update after an investigation is conducted.
After a quick shot of arctic air, things warm up quickly this week
Emergency Info: Outages Across Oklahoma:
Northeast Oklahoma has various power companies and electric cooperatives, many of which have overlapping areas of coverage. Below is a link to various outage maps.
- PSO Outage Map
- OG&E Outage Map
- VVEC Outage Map
- Indian Electric Cooperative (IEC) Outage Map
- Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives Outage Map — (Note: Several Smaller Co-ops Included)
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Oklahoma is looking to make some history when it takes on Alabama on Friday in the opening round of the College Football Playoff.
The Sooners and Crimson Tide square off at 7 p.m. Friday at Gaylord Family — Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. The game will be televised on ABC.
A win would not only boost the Sooners into the quarterfinals, but would give them three consecutive victories over the Crimson Tide.
OU beat Alabama 24-3 last season in Norman and 23-21 earlier this season in Tuscaloosa.
Since 1960, only 12 programs have beaten the Crimson Tide in three consecutive meetings and only one such streak included a win over Alabama following Nick Saban’s first season in 2007 when the Crimson Tide went 7-6.
That streak?
Another Sooners’ winning streak in the series, which included pre-Saban wins in 2002 and 2003 and the Trevor Knight-led Sugar Bowl win as part of the 2013 season.
In the last 65 seasons, the Sooners were only the second non-conference team to knock off Alabama in three consecutive meetings, joining Texas, which beat the Crimson Tide in 1981, 1972 and 1964.
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Now, OU has a chance to repeat the streak, but this time as part of the SEC and in a do-or-die situation.
The other most recent three-game winning streaks against the Tide were Auburn (six consecutive from 2002-07), LSU (five straight from 2003-07) and Georgia (three straight in 2003-03 and 2007).
Alabama had won 10 or more games every season since that 2007 season before last year’s team finished 9-4.
OU is 5-2-1 against the Crimson Tide all-time.
Only a handful of other programs that have played Alabama more than once have a winning record against the Tide.
Texas is 8-2-1 vs. the Crimson Tide, while Notre Dame is 5-3 and Michigan is 4-3.
The only other programs with a winning record against Alabama in more than one meeting are the Birmingham Athletic Club (3-2), Boston College (3-1), Louisiana Tech (3-2), Rice (3-0), TCU (3-2) and UCLA (2-1).
Alabama is, by any measure, one of the most successful programs in college football history, claiming 18 national championships and four Heisman Trophy winners.
Of course, the Sooners are one of the few programs that can measure up to that, with several national titles and seven Heisman winners.
No team has beaten Alabama twice in the same season.
“Obviously we have tendencies. They have tendencies,” Sooners coach Brent Venables said. “They have certain matchups they like. We have certain matchups we like. At the end of the day, you can throw all that out. It’s time to start completely over. All that matters is what you do here moving forward.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are taking on the San Antonio Spurs in the Semi Final of the 2025 NBA Cup tournament. This is the third year of the event and second straight trip for the OKC Thunder to the Semi Final.
This is set to be a barn burner, as the Oklahoma City Thunder enter this contest 24-1 and the San Antonio Spurs sit at 17-7. Though, the even better news for both sides is the injury report. The Spurs get back generational talent Victor Wembanyama from his multi-week stint on the injured list and the Isaiah Hartenstein returns for Oklahoma City after missing the Thunder’s last five games.
With Oklahoma City only missing Isaiah Joe (knee contusion) in this contest, it gives them a rare treat. The Thunder for the first time all season will have their fully healthy starting five at their disposal. Many believe Mark Daigneault will deploy superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Defensive ace Lu Dort, All NBA swingman Jalen Williams, Rising star Chet Holmgren and Hartenstein.
This was the first time all season the Thunder have had the chance to prove that thought process right. It can be hard to navigate such a talent filled roster especially as well as Cason Wallace played as a spot starter and leading the league in steals.
In the end, the Oklahoma City Thunder weren’t the ones to throw a curveball with the starting lineup. It was the San Antonio Spurs who will bring Victor Wembanyama off the bench according to the official injury report submitted to the league before tip off.
This makes sense as Wembanyama has missed three weeks of action with a calf strain. San Antonio head coach Mitch Johnson revealed that his star center was going to be restricted in his first game back, especially against this historically great defense.
OKC Thunder vs. San Antonio Spurs Starting Lineups
OKC Thunder Starters
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, G
- Lu Dort, G
- Jalen Williams, F
- Chet Holmgren, F
- Isaiah Hartenstein, C
San Antonio Spurs Starters
- De’Aaron Fox, G
- Steph Castle, G
- Devin Vassell, F
- Harrison Barnes, F
- Luke Kornet, C
The Oklahoma City Thunder will have to be mindful of their rotations to counter Wembanyama off the bench and stagger the likes of Holmgren and Hartenstein to counter it.
Up next, the Oklahoma City Thunder will either take on the New York Knicks on Tuesday in the NBA Cup Championship game with a win or resume their regular season with a loss. Falling to the Spurs would snap the Thunder’s 16 game winning streak, but issue Oklahoma City four days off leading into Thursday’s clash with the L.A. Clippers.
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