{"id":19719,"date":"2022-05-23T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/record-breaking-rout-sends-sooners-to-supers\/"},"modified":"2022-05-23T12:47:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:47:20","slug":"record-breaking-rout-sends-sooners-to-supers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/record-breaking-rout-sends-sooners-to-supers\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-Breaking Rout Sends Sooners to Supers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"sidearm-story-template-text-aside\" aria-label=\"Related Sport Links\">&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<section class=\"sidearm-story-template-links\" aria-label=\"Story Links\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"hide\">Story Links<\/h2>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n   <\/section>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game hide-on-small-down\">\n<div id=\"postgame_1-2_nextgame\">\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details\">\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-logo\">\n                \n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent\">\n<h2>Next Game:<\/h2>\n<p>  UCF<\/p>\n<p>5\/27\/2022 |  3:30 PM CT<\/p>\n<p>ESPN2\n                    <\/p>\n<p>The Franchise\n                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"postgame_3_nextgame\">\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-primary\">\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details\">\n<p>May.  27 (Fri) \/ 3:30 PM CT\n                <\/p>\n<div class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent\">\n                    <img class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d4sjo25z9q3iq.cloudfront.net\/images\/logos\/UCF.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"UCF\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        <span class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-text--atVs\"\/> <span>UCF<\/span>&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>          &#13;<br \/>\n                    <\/aside>\n<p><b>NORMAN<\/b> &#8211; Softball games aren&#8217;t decided in the first inning alone, but this year&#8217;s Oklahoma team has wasted little time taking early command.<\/p>\n<p>The top-ranked and top-seeded Sooners jumped out to a 9-0 lead in the top half of the first inning Sunday and went on to post a jaw-dropping 20-0 victory over Texas A&#038;M before a sellout crowd of 1,640 at Marita Hynes Field.  The victory marked an NCAA record for largest win in tournament history, eclipsing 2015 Georgia&#8217;s 17-0 regional win over Western Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>OU&#8217;s 32-minute opening at-bat transpired before the Aggies, designated as the home team for the contest, even had a chance to swing a bat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re looking for somebody to mishit a ball or hit it right to somebody. It just didn&#8217;t happen,&#8221; Aggies coach Jo Evans said afterward.  &#8220;Every ball found a hole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was simply a continuation of OU&#8217;s overwhelming domination in the opening frame this season.  The Sooners have now outscored opponents 103-2 in the first inning, which included a 13-0 advantage at the NCAA Norman Regional.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we put up nine (runs) &#8211; or whatever it was &#8211; it&#8217;s kind of hard to know what to do next,&#8221; Sooners coach <dfn>Patty Gasso<\/dfn> said.  &#8220;That fueled us\u2026 and it&#8217;s hard (for an opponent) to dig out of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When informed of her team&#8217;s 101-run, first-inning advantage, Gasso sheepishly looked down and shook her head in disbelief.  &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know that,&#8221; Gasso said.  &#8220;I don&#8217;t get with that stuff. Our players do things &#8211; if I put it all together &#8211; I&#8217;d be like, &#8216;Wow,&#8217; so I don&#8217;t even pay attention to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OU now advances to its 12<sup>th<\/sup> straight NCAA Super Regional and will host Central Florida in a best-of-three series that begins next weekend with days and times to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>If the defending national champion Sooners are victorious at next weekend&#8217;s Super Regional, they will make their 15th Women&#8217;s College World Series appearance overall and seek their sixth NCAA crown, which would give them four of the last six championships.<\/p>\n<p>Making Sunday&#8217;s result particularly astonishing is the fact just 24 hours earlier, OU held on for a 3-2 victory over Texas A&#038;M.<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts of the Aggies (31-28) avenging the one-run loss had all but disintegrated by the time they stepped to the plate for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What makes them so good is their ability to make adjustments one game to the next, and they did a good job of that,&#8221; Evans said.<\/p>\n<p>OU scored in every inning while right-handed sophomore starter <dfn>Nicole May<\/dfn> surrendered just two hits and faced one more the minimum number of batters in 4 1\/3 innings before Gasso inserted seldom-used junior right-hander <dfn>Macy McAdoo<\/dfn>who had just three appearances during the regular season and none since March 18 against Sam Houston State.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was &#8216;a boss&#8217; is the best way to say it,&#8221; Gasso said of May.  &#8220;A good mix of pitches. Efficient. Effective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Sooners have now won by run-rule in 37 of their 54 games (.685).  While tying its second-highest run total of the season, OU collected 12 hits and three home runs.  Texas A&#038;M aided the Sooners&#8217; cause by committing four errors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was definitely passing the torch,&#8221; Gasso said of her team&#8217;s prolific offense.  &#8220;Top to bottom, there&#8217;s RBIs throughout, there&#8217;s hits throughout. It was just a suffocating offense today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OU super senior and home-run record holder <dfn>Jocelyn Alo<\/dfn> went 3 for 3 with 3 RBI and three runs scored.  Alo&#8217;s 115<sup>th<\/sup> career home run came in her second at-bat.  Her first hit of the game was a line drive that smacked hard halfway up the outfield wall in left.  Had that ball flown 4 feet higher, Alo would have homered twice in the same inning.<\/p>\n<p>Alo also hit a towering home run down the left-field line in the fifth inning that looked fair but was ruled foul.  Asked if she thought her potential second home run was fair, Alo said, &#8220;I did think it was\u2026 I watched it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s made differently,&#8221; Gasso said of Alo, who raised her batting average to an even .500 on the season, a plateau that is far feasible for a slap-hitting speedster rather than the NCAA&#8217;s career home run queen.  &#8220;Lei She doesn&#8217;t get too high. Lei She doesn&#8217;t get too low. Lei Doesn&#8217;t overthink it, but lei she&#8217;s always ready. Lei She always feels and knows she&#8217;s going to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><dfn>Tiare Jennings<\/dfn> also homered and finished 2 for 4 with three RBI and three runs scored.  Leftfielder <dfn>Alyssa Brito<\/dfn> was 2 for 3 with a home run, four RBI and three runs scored. <dfn>Jana Johns<\/dfn> and <dfn>Taylon Snow<\/dfn> added two RBI each.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s probably one of our most complete efforts in all phases of our game, top to bottom,&#8221; Gasso said.  &#8220;Fans were on fire. We were fired up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The status of Big 12 Co-Pitcher of the Year <dfn>Jordy Bahl<\/dfn> remains uncertain.  The freshman All-American righthander suffered an undisclosed injury to her throwing arm and has not pitched since May 5. &#8220;She is doing some movement and we are just going to remain hopeful that she&#8217;s going to be ready to go,&#8221; Gasso said of Bahl possibly returning to action next weekend.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2>NOTES &#038; NUMBERS<\/h2>\n<p>\u2022 Oklahoma advanced to its 12th consecutive and 15th overall NCAA Super Regional.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Sooners broke an NCAA postseason record for largest win in tournament history, besting 2015 Georgia&#8217;s 17-0 regional win over Western Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 OU improved its program-record run-rule mark to 37.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Sooners collected its 31st shutout for a new school record, passing the 1997 and 2018 teams&#8217; 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oklahoma put up nine runs on five hits and three errors in the first inning.  It was the third-highest run total in one frame of the season and tied for the most in a first inning on the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Seven Sooners brought in at least one run in the frame, capped by redshirt senior <dfn>Jocelyn Alo&#8217;s<\/dfn> 27th home run of the season and 115th of her career.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Seven Sooners registered a hit in the contest and nine brought in at least one run, highlights by four RBIs from Brito and three from Alo and Jennings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 OU&#8217;s three home runs was the 25th time this season the Sooners have hit three-plus and the 34th multi-homer game.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>For updates and more information on Oklahoma softball, follow the Sooners on Twitter and Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OU_Softball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@OU_Softball<\/a>) and like Oklahoma Softball on Facebook. <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p align=\"center\"><img alt=\"Launch Pad\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/soonersports.com\/images\/2022\/2\/8\/1416X120.png?ssl=1\" style=\"display: inline-block;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '532571424217817');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Story Links &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: UCF 5\/27\/2022 | 3:30 PM CT ESPN2 The Franchise May. 27 (Fri) \/ 3:30 PM CT &#13; UCF&#13; &#13; NORMAN &#8211; Softball games aren&#8217;t decided in the first inning alone, but this year&#8217;s Oklahoma team has wasted little time taking early &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/record-breaking-rout-sends-sooners-to-supers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Record-Breaking Rout Sends Sooners to Supers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d4sjo25z9q3iq.cloudfront.net\/images\/2022\/5\/22\/Lead_Alo_Supers_Bound.jpg?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/d4sjo25z9q3iq.cloudfront.net\/images\/2022\/5\/22\/Lead_Alo_Supers_Bound.jpg?preset=large.socialmediaimage","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}