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SEC softball championship weather update: Projected rain pushes up Oklahoma vs Texas A&M game
Oklahoma leads SEC softball tournament predictions
Oklahoma’s offense is heating up, making them the top pick for the SEC softball title.
There’s little question about what the biggest game on the college softball calendar is Saturday, with No. 2 Oklahoma set to take on No. 1 Texas A&M in the SEC championship game one day after the Sooners pulled off the biggest comeback win in the event’s history.
As any college softball or baseball fan knows, though, even the most consequential games are occasionally subject to change.
The Sooners’ highly anticipated matchup with the Aggies has been moved up four hours, from 4 p.m. CT to noon, with the SEC citing “projected weather conditions” for the Athens, Georgia area as the reason for the late switch.
Even with the new time, the stakes of the matchup remain the same. Oklahoma is seeking the SEC title in its first year in the conference and its seventh conference championship in its past eight attempts, with the previous six victories coming in the Big 12. Whoever wins Saturday will not only earn an automatic berth to the 2025 NCAA Tournament — not that either teams’ postseason aspirations are in doubt — but will likely lock up the No. 1 overall national seed.
Though they compete in the same conference, this will be the first meeting between the Sooners and Aggies this season.
Here’s an updated look at the weather for Saturday’s game, as well as how to watch it after the time and TV channel switch:
After already having moved the first pitch up four hours, the SEC has delayed the start of its 2025 softball championship game between Oklahoma and Texas A&M due to weather conditions in the Athens, Georgia area.
The league has said additional updates will follow, though no restart time has been set.
SEC softball championship weather update
The SEC moved Oklahoma’s meeting with Texas A&M in the league’s 2025 softball tournament championship game at Jack Turner Softball Stadium in Athens, Georgia up four hours to account for inclement weather that’s expected to hit the area later in the day Saturday.
Rain is expected throughout the day Saturday in Athens, though according to the latest forecast from The Weather Channel, the precipitation is estimated to let up around noon CT, with the chance of rain at less than 30% from noon CT until 4 p.m., at which point rain is once again expected.
Moving the game back to Sunday wouldn’t have avoided the issue. It’s projected to rain throughout the day Sunday in Athens, though there’s a brief window from 9 a.m. CT until noon when the chance of rain is never greater than 30%.
SEC softball championship time today
- Date: Saturday, May 10
- Time: Noon ET
- Location: Jack Turner Softball Stadium (Athens, Georgia)
The first pitch of the 2025 SEC softball championship is scheduled for noon CT on Saturday. The game had originally been scheduled for 4 p.m. CT, but projected weather conditions for the Athens area later in the day prompted the SEC to move the game up four hours.
What TV channel is the SEC softball championship on today?
The 2025 SEC softball championship game will air on SEC Network. The game originally was scheduled to be on ESPN. Because the game is taking place 90 minutes before the ACC championship (which will also be on ESPN), the game was moved to the SEC Network.
Streaming options for the game include the ESPN app — with a cable login — and Fubo, the latter of which offers a free trial to potential subscribers.
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Oklahoma Moves up Friday Start Times for Baseball, Softball Games
OU fans hoping to make it to either diamond on Friday will need to get there earlier than expected.
Oklahoma announced on Thursday that its baseball and softball series openers will each begin at 5:30 p.m on Friday.
Game 1 of the No. 14 Sooners’ baseball series against Missouri was scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m., while the No. 1 softball team’s series opener against No. 8 Arkansas was slated for 7 p.m.
In a pair of releases on OU’s athletic website, the reason given for both time changes was “forecasted inclement weather.” According to the National Weather Service, severe weather is supposed to arrive in Norman and its surrounding areas around 8 p.m.
OU’s other baseball games against the Tigers on Saturday and Sunday will remain at their scheduled times (4 p.m. and 2 p.m., respectively). The softball games scheduled for Saturday and Sunday will remain at 7 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively.
The baseball team’s three-game duel with Mizzou will be OU’s third home series of SEC play. Oklahoma opened conference play by taking two games of three against Texas A&M before dropping two of three to Alabama a few weeks later.
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OU has already played three SEC road series. The Sooners won two games of three at LSU in March before getting swept at Texas a week later. Most recently — last week — Oklahoma won two games against Vanderbilt in Nashville.
Oklahoma (24-12 overall, 7-8 SEC) sits in a five-way tie for ninth place in the SEC standings alongside Mississippi State, Kentucky, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.
Missouri, on the other hand, has played its way out of contention.
The Tigers come to Norman 20-17 and 3-12. They earned a road series win against Kentucky two weeks ago, but they followed that up with three losses in a row to fellow conference bottom feeder South Carolina last week. Mizzou has been swept three times — by Auburn, Texas A&M and the Gamecocks — since the start of SEC play.
On the softball side, Oklahoma is ranked No. 1 after taking two games of three against former top-ranked squad Texas. The Sooners, though, dropped their third game in Austin before falling to unranked Oklahoma State at Devon Park in Oklahoma City on Wednesday.
The Sooners are 40-5 overall and 13-2 in conference play. OU currently sits atop the SEC standings, one game ahead of second-place Alabama.
Arkansas comes into the series at Love’s Field on a heater. The Razorbacks (35-6, 10-5) have won six of their last seven contests. Their only series loss of conference play this year came against Alabama, which is ranked No. 3.
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Oklahoma police set up sting for stolen property
TULSA, Okla. (KOKH) — One person has been arrested after allegedly trying to sell stolen property on Facebook.
On April 10, an officer with the Tulsa Police Department saw a post on Facebook Marketplace for a projector lens that was stolen from the condemned Promenade Mall.
The lens, which is worth $20,000, was listed for just $500.
The officer used a fake Facebook account to message the seller and arranged a trade for the lens in exchange for a minibike.
Earlier this week, 19-year-old Zachery Scrivner met with the officer and was arrested.
According to the police department, Scrivner said he knew the lens was stolen but decided to try to sell it anyway.
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He was arrested on a complaint of knowingly concealing stolen property.
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