Texas unable to break through in softball against Jordy Bahl, Oklahoma

By the point the ultimate out was recorded at McCombs Subject on Thursday, it was 8:19 p.m. and Oklahoma nonetheless held a prolonged successful streak over Texas.

Texas outhit Oklahoma however failed to interrupt by in a 3-0 loss. The victory was Oklahoma’s twenty second straight within the Purple River Rivalry collection.

Off to one of the best begin within the NCAA’s historical past, No. 1 Oklahoma is now 37-0. No. 18 Texas’ file dropped to 30-11-1 and 6-1 in Huge 12 play.

“I mentioned to the staff, what did we study from this? As a result of it is not a lot about what we do at this time. It is what we do tomorrow or the subsequent day or going into the postseason,” Texas coach Mike White mentioned. “We now have to study from this. You can not apply this sort of stuff.”

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Heading into the sport, Oklahoma had a .392 batting common that led the nation by 31 factors. The Sooners had been scoring 9.83 runs per recreation. Not one of the different 292 Division I groups had been averaging greater than eight runs. No one was topping OU’s slugging (.814) and on-base (.504) percentages.

In different phrases, the Sooners did not want a lot assistance on offense.

However to guide off the sport, Tiare Jennings reached base on an error by UT third baseman Mia Scott. Jennings superior on a teammate’s groundout after which scored on a two-out single by Grace Lyons.

Earlier than the sport, UT coach Mike White expressed some concern about his protection. “We can not beat ourselves. We can not give them further outs,” White mentioned on Tuesday.

Two days later, Texas dedicated 4 errors. Whereas solely the first-inning miscue led to an Oklahoma run, White famous that “4 errors on the scoreboard is 1.1 inning extra we needed to play than them, however that wasn’t actually what damage us.”

Within the second and fifth innings, Oklahoma’s offense did what Oklahoma’s offense has achieved all yr. Jayda Coleman and Alyssa Brito each hit residence runs. Jayda Coleman’s second-session solo shot was her sixth of the season. Brito, who homered at McCombs Subject final yr whereas taking part in in an NCAA regional recreation at Oregon, left a ballpark for the eighth time. These had been the nation-leading one hundred and first and 102nd homers of Oklahoma’s spring.

That 3-0 deficit put Texas in an unenviable place in opposition to an Oklahoma staff that hadn’t let an opponent rating 3 times since March 10. The Sooners’ 0.60 ERA was additionally a nation-leading quantity.

Going through Oklahoma freshman Jordy Bahl, Texas mustered 4 hits. The highest-ranked prospect within the Class of 2021, Bahl registered 15 strikeouts.

“I believe she’s in all probability one of many prime that we have confronted as a staff (this season),” UT infielder Janae Jefferson mentioned. “She has good things up there. We simply need to learn to regulate to it and we’ll get her.”

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Texas stranded 4 runners in scoring place in opposition to Bahl. Two of these runners had been left on second and third base within the sixth inning.

To steer off that sixth inning, Janae Jefferson singled and Scott doubled. However Bahl bounced again and struck out Mary Iakopo, McKenzie Parker and Katie Cimusz on simply 10 pitches. Iakopo, Parker and Cimusz, who had all received a Huge 12 Participant of the Week award up to now six weeks, had been hitting third, fourth and fifth within the UT batting order.

“I might prefer to have that inning again, however we won’t and so we have simply bought to dwell with it,” White mentioned.

Texas bought a runner to second base with one out within the remaining body. However Bahl struck out Bella Dayton and Alyssa Popelka to finish the house staff’s hopes of a comeback.

Across the bases: Texas and Oklahoma will resume their annual collection at 6 p.m. on Friday. … Hailey Dolcini was tagged with the loss for Texas. Dolcini allowed three hits and one stroll over the sixth full recreation of her season. … The introduced attendance of 1,498 was the second-largest crowd within the historical past of McCombs Subject.