Oklahoma Softball: Sooners Run Rule Kansas

Someway, NCAA residence run queen Jocelyn Alo had by no means hit a house run in her profession at Kansas.

Alo took care of that Saturday afternoon in Lawrence.

Alo mashed her twenty third residence run of the season and the 111th of her embellished profession – however her first at KU – as Oklahoma defeated Kansas 19-0.

With the win, No. 1-ranked OU improved to 44-1 total and 13-1 in Massive 12 Convention play, whereas KU fell to 15-30 and 2-12.

OU received Friday’s recreation 7-0. Recreation three of their sequence begins at midday Sunday at Arrocha Ballpark.

Alo’s homer got here within the second inning and gave the Sooners a 3-0 lead.

Oklahoma loaded the bases within the first inning however scored just one run. Alo drew a one-out stroll, moved to 3rd on Tiare Jennings’ single to proper and scored on a wild pitch.

Alo, nonetheless, didn’t fiddle within the second inning. After Jayda Coleman drew a two-out stroll, Alo blasted a two-run homer over the wall in right-center area for a 3-0 OU lead.

Lyons opened the third inning with a tough single to proper, then stole second base. Alyssa Brito reached on an infield single, and Taylon Snow moved each runners with a groundout to second base. Jana Johns was hit by pitch to load the bases however Kinzie Hansen grounded right into a double play to finish the inning.

OU loaded the bases once more within the fourth inning – and eventually blew it open this time – when Coleman and Alo drew back-to-back walks with one out and Jennings slipped a single by the infield. Lyons drove in Coleman with a deep sacrifice fly to heart for a 4-0 lead, and Alo got here residence from third on an errant throw to second base by catcher Shelby Gayre. Snow’s two-out triple beneath the glove in proper area scored Jennings and Brito to place the Sooners up 7-0 and compelled a pitching change.

With the bases loaded and one out within the fifth, Lyons delivered an RBI single to proper area to plate Rylie Boone for an 8-0 lead, and Brito smacked a two-run single to left to attain Turiya Coleman and Jennings for a 10-0 Oklahoma lead. Johns then added two extra with a three-run double to the wall in left-center area to make it 12-0.

Lynnsie Elam then obliterated a pitch off the constructing past proper area for a two-run residence run that put the Sooners in entrance 15-0.

Boone restarted one other rally with a single, and Sophia Nugent adopted with an RBI double to the wall in proper area for a 16-0 lead.

The hit parade continued when Jennings launched one other satellite tv for pc off the construction past heart area for a three-run blast that scored Alo and Coor and put the Sooners up 19-0.

Hope Trautwein (13-0) opened within the circle for the Sooners and gave up a single within the first inning and a stroll within the third however the nation’s chief in earned run common (0.10) was largely dominant as normal and obtained loads of assist from her protection.

Trautwein, who allowed only one earned run in her first 18 appearances this season, obtained a go to from pitching coach Jen Rocha after giving up a few one-out singles within the backside of the fourth. However Trautwein induced two infield popups to finish the risk and preserve the shutout. She completed 4 innings, gave up three hits, allowed one stroll and recorded a season-low one strikeout.

Nicole Might got here in to pitch the fifth inning. Boone completed the sport in fashion with a diving catch in proper area.

Following Sunday’s sequence finale with KU, the Sooners return residence subsequent weekend for a three-game convention sequence in opposition to No. 6-ranked Oklahoma State – the ultimate sequence of the common season.