OU softball makes history, earns fourth straight national championship
(by Bob Przybylo) OKLAHOMA CITY – The four-peat is real for OU softball. It happened. In one of the unlikelier ways in the championship clincher, it happened. Head coach Patty Gasso has always said her club is able to win without one of the players. But it will only win because of all of them. The army of 21. That army showed up in so many different...read more from the SoonerScoop
OU Softball: Patty Gasso Makes History Again as Oklahoma Takes Down Texas for Softball National Championship
(by John E. Hoover) OKLAHOMA CITY — Patty Gasso always seems to push the right buttons. Sometimes those buttons might not even be on the board, but the Oklahoma coach still finds a way to make them work. Thursday night against Texas, Gasso pulled off an all-timer. The Sooners and their Hall of Fame coach won their eighth national championship...read more from AllSooners
Oklahoma's Patty Gasso, Texas' Mike White Now Battle the Mental 'Chess Match'
(by John E. Hoover) OKLAHOMA CITY — The importance of the mental game at work now at the Women’s College World Series must feel immense. But that’s why Oklahoma and Texas pay Patty Gasso and Mike White the big bucks. As the No. 2-seed Sooners and the No. 1 Longhorns get together again tonight at Devon Park to decide college softball’s...read more from AllSooners
OU Softball: Not 'Over-jubilant', Oklahoma Knows There's 'Work to do' to Close Out Texas
(by Ryan Chapman) OKLAHOMA CITY — The job’s not done — well not yet anyways. Oklahoma pounced on Texas on Wednesday to race out to a 1-0 lead in the Championship Series at the 2024 Women’s College World Series. Mike White’s top-seeded Longhorns have another chance, of course, to battle back. Texas dropped the first contest of the year to...read more from AllSooners
OU softball one win away from fourth straight national championship, downs No. 1 Texas
(by Bob Przybylo) OKLAHOMA CITY – So much for the fatigue factor for OU softball. So much for the emotional drain of getting to the Women’s College World Series championship series. And so much for Texas being the fresher team. You can rest this weekend, there’s work to do now. And OU did just that, going to work early and often and sending a...read more from the SoonerScoop
Power hitting propels Sooners past Texas to open WCWS Championship Series
(by Jesse Crittenden) OKLAHOMA CITY — Coming off an emotional, grueling 6-5 win over Florida in extra innings on Tuesday, there was a question facing Oklahoma. Would there be fatigue for the Sooners, with their Women's College World Series finals matchup with Texas beginning just 26 hours later? The Sooners, ironically, appeared to be fresh from...read more from the OUInsider
OU Softball: Oklahoma Home Runs, Texas Errors Put OU on the Verge of History
(by John E. Hoover) OKLAHOMA CITY — Texas is playing uphill. It’s hard enough when Kelly Maxwell is dealing like she did on Wednesday night. But throw in three home runs by the vaunted Oklahoma lineup and the usual shaky defense by the Longhorns, and the Sooners are suddenly in total control of the Women’s College World Series...read more from AllSooners
Underdog Sooners in Red River showdown with WCWS history at stake for both combatants
(by Chip Rouse) Sixty-four teams and 134 games played in the 2024 NCAA Softball Tournament, and it all comes down to this: a Women's College World Series championship series between two very familiar foes, the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners. How could it be any better, the top two teams in the country battling it out on...read more from Stormin' in Norman
OU Softball: How Oklahoma's Jayda Coleman Calmed Herself and Used 'Every Single Ounce' to Get to WCWS Finals
(by John E. Hoover) OKLAHOMA CITY — After Oklahoma lost to Florida on Monday night, Jayda Coleman had something to say. “Did a great thing last night,” OU coach Patty Gasso said Tuesday. “Brought the team together and kind of apologized for stepping away from them. I felt her ownership, becoming a woman, just stepping up for this team today.”...read more from AllSooners
OU softball feels like 'the underdogs' vs Texas in WCWS finals and Patty Gasso likes it
(by Ryan Aber) Kinzie Hansen ended OU’s pre-Women’s College World Series press conference with a bit of foreshadowing. “Hopefully we get to step on the field with them coming this week,” Hansen said last week, asked about the possibility of facing one of its Big 12 brethren — Texas or Oklahoma State. The Sooners will get the opportunity, after...read more from The Oklahoman
OU Softball: Oklahoma Kicking Off Championship Series With Texas as 'Underdogs'
(by Ryan Chapman) OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s road back to a fifth-straight Championship Series was no cakewalk. The 2-seeded Sooners survived an old school pitcher’s duel on Saturday, outlasting UCLA 1-0 to reach the semifinals at the Women’s College World Series. Then OU was dealt numerous body blows. Florida trounced the Sooners on...read more from AllSooners
2024 WCWS: Oklahoma 6 Florida 5 | EPIC Jayda Coleman WALK OFF HOME RUN!
Jayda Coleman's walk off home run lifts Sooners back to WCWS Championship series
(by Jame D. Jackson) OKLAHOMA CITY – Kinzie Hansen said a few things after the Sooners lost to Florida on Monday. But the one that stuck out the most was, "The Sooners play best after we get punched in the mouth," she said. "That's what I've learned this season." The Sooners definitely got punched in the mouth, but they fought all the way back...read more from Sooners Illustrated
OU softball fights back, earns bid to WCWS championship series
(by Bob Przybylo) OKLAHOMA CITY – OU softball head coach Patty Gasso has said a lot of things a lot of times throughout the 2024 season. But No. 1? Her club is a team of fighters. And they had to fight, every pitch, every at-bat, every inning against an outstanding Florida team in a winner-take-all showdown at the Women’s College World Series...read more from the SoonerScoop
OU Softball: Oklahoma 'Has to Step Up' to in Tuesday Elimination Game vs. Florida
(by Ryan Chapman) OKLAHOMA CITY — The 2024 season has been, by modern Oklahoma softball standards, turbulent. The No. 2-seeded Sooners dropped just six games during the regular season, but lost a pair of series to Texas and Oklahoma State. In the past, the thought of beating OU on consecutive days seemed more of a dream than an attainable goal...read more from AllSooners
OU softball stumbles, Gators force 'if' game for WCWS championship series
(by Bob Przybylo) OKLAHOMA CITY – It doesn’t happen often for OU softball, but it’s happened more than what everybody is accustomed to in 2024. For whatever reason, there comes a game where the Sooners aren’t clicking. And this time around, Florida was there to capitalize. The Gators are known for their bats and brought them on their way to...read more from the SoonerScoop
OU softball taking on Florida in the WCWS semifinals
(by Bob Przybylo) It’s going to be OU and Florida to determine who is going to the Women’s College World Series championship series. The Sooners got to chill all Sunday, with a number of the players attending the OU baseball game. But the Gators got the job done Sunday afternoon after a three-hour rain delay with a 6-4 victory against Alabama to...read more from the SoonerScoop
One Win Away From the WCWS Championship Series, Oklahoma's Offense can Still Improve
(by Ryan Chapman) OKLAHOMA CITY — Kinzie Hansen sparked Oklahoma’s offense to start the Women’s College World Series. She led the charge against Duke, a game the Sooners won 9-1 despite Tiare Jennings going 1-for-3 at the plate. Saturday, it was the shortstop’s turn. Jennings hammered the ninth home run of her WCWS, three behind Jocelyn...read more from AllSooners
