{"id":43178,"date":"2022-06-09T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T10:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ou-sooners-beat-texas-longhorns-in-game-1-of-ncaa-softball-wcws-finals\/"},"modified":"2022-06-09T10:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T10:26:27","slug":"ou-sooners-beat-texas-longhorns-in-game-1-of-ncaa-softball-wcws-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ou-sooners-beat-texas-longhorns-in-game-1-of-ncaa-softball-wcws-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"OU Sooners beat Texas Longhorns in Game 1 of NCAA softball WCWS finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Sooners run-rule UCLA after losing first game, head to WCWS championship series\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The chorus played loud and strong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After OU second baseman Tiare Jennings&#8217; three-run home run in the third inning took Wednesday&#8217;s Game 1 of the Women&#8217;s College World Series best-of-three championship series from blowout territory to beyond, Carrie Underwood&#8217;s \u201cI am a Champion\u201d played at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I am invincible, unbreakable, unstoppable, unshakeable,&#8221; Underwood sang. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Hard to think any of those don&#8217;t apply to this Sooners team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Might as well add \u201cinevitable\u201d to the list after OU&#8217;s 16-1 shellacking of Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI wouldn&#8217;t really say it surprises us,\u201d Sooners slugger Jocelyn Alo said of the eye-popping numbers her team continues to post.  &#8220;But it&#8217;s definitely cool to see what it is that we can do as the stakes get higher and as the stages get bigger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Sooners didn&#8217;t clinch the program&#8217;s sixth national championship with the victory, but it would take an incredible collapse for that not to happen at this point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">Carlson:<\/strong>OU football coach Brent Venables blown away by Jocelyn Alo, Sooners.  &#8216;Like a nuclear bomb.&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">OU hasn&#8217;t lost back-to-back games since February 2020, and it would take two consecutive wins by the Longhorns to keep the Sooners from taking the title for the second consecutive season and fourth time in the last six championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Game 2 is scheduled for 6:30 pm Thursday (ESPN2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After Jayda Coleman led off with a double and Alo chased it with a home run in Saturday&#8217;s 7-2 OU win over the Longhorns in the second round, Texas coach Mike White was asked why he didn&#8217;t walk Alo.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cThat&#8217;s not the way I play softball,\u201d White said then, going on to call the Sooners&#8217; lineup \u201cMurderer&#8217;s Row,\u201d recalling the famous 1927 New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Wednesday, the Sooners further illustrated the difficulty of navigating their order for opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Coleman, once again, led off with a double off Texas starter Hailey Dolcini.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Then Alo, once again, blasted a home run over the left-field fence and OU&#8217;s offense was off and running.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After the blowout, White was asked if he&#8217;s reconsidered his position at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cWe&#8217;ve got to score runs to beat them,\u201d White said.  \u201cBy walking them, you&#8217;re just putting one more runner on.  They&#8217;re going to put up some numbers &#8211; four or five.  We&#8217;ve got to find a way to score seven.  That&#8217;s the way it is, you know. &#8220;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_anc\" id=\"gnt_atomsnc\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadAnc\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup form\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The home run was the first of six for the Sooners in the win, a WCWS record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Both Alo, who added a solo shot in the fifth, and Jennings hit two each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Taylon Snow added a three-run blast in the first and Jana Johns a solo shot in the third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">Carlson:<\/strong>Tom Brady DMs, HR records &#038; a fan frenzy: How OU&#8217;s Jocelyn Alo became softball&#8217;s Babe Ruth<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:440px\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/09\/NOKL\/886fdb8e-2753-48c2-bf7e-d41028c8d3b3-B_OU-UT-5.jpg?ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/09\/NOKL\/886fdb8e-2753-48c2-bf7e-d41028c8d3b3-B_OU-UT-5.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=880&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oklahoma utility player Taylon Snow (5) hits a home run in the second inning during the championship series softball game of the Women's College World Series between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Texas Longhorns at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, on Wednesday, June 8, 2022.\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Sooners set WCWS records<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Sooners scored in every inning, tying a WCWS record for runs in a game &#8211; thanks in part to the elimination of the run-rule for the championship series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">OU also broke their own WCWS record for runs in the event, upping their number to 54 in five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In eight games last season, the Sooners scored a WCWS-record 49 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Alo also set the single-season WCWS record for home runs (five) and RBIs (13).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Then Jennings tied Alo&#8217;s home run record with her fifth-inning shot on the heels of Alo&#8217;s, then broke Alo&#8217;s RBI record, running her total to 14 on her sixth-inning RBI double.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Alo also broke the record for runs scored in a WCWS game with five as she raised her season batting average to an eye-popping .527.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Alo is hitting .733 (11 for 15) in the WCWS, and .690 (20 for 29) in the postseason.  She&#8217;s reached base in each of her last nine plate appearances di lei. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">Blackberries:<\/strong>How &#8216;Nanny Johns&#8217; became life of party for OU softball fans at WCWS.  &#8216;This team is loved.&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:440px\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/09\/NOKL\/40bc6359-9cef-4a2d-8cb2-7e3cb1dee6db-_LX19698.jpg?ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/09\/NOKL\/40bc6359-9cef-4a2d-8cb2-7e3cb1dee6db-_LX19698.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=880&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oklahoma's Jana Johns (20) is greeted at home by teammates after hitting a home run in the third inning of a championship series softball game in the Women's College World Series between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Texas Longhorns at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Oklahoma won 16-1. \" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Things didn&#8217;t get off to the best of starts for OU on Wednesday, as starting pitcher Hope Trautwein surrendered a double before walking three consecutive hitters to give the Longhorns an early lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But the Sooners&#8217; bats gave Trautwein breathing room, and the super senior &#8211; who grew up rooting for the Longhorns &#8211; settled in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Trautwein went five innings, allowing just two hits and walking just one more to improve to 22-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Nicole May finished off the victory with two shutout innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Now, OU is one win away from another title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI think the approach just stays the same,\u201d Snow said.  \u201cWe&#8217;re going to come out and we&#8217;re going to dominate.  It doesn&#8217;t matter who&#8217;s on that mound.  It doesn&#8217;t matter what name across their chest that they&#8217;re wearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;We&#8217;re just going to come out and play Sooner softball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">And Texas will look to push the series to a third game after being out of Wednesday&#8217;s game by the time the first inning ended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cNothing from today carries over,\u201d Dolcini said.  \u201cSo you learn from it and try not to make the same mistakes again.  Then we just come out and play loose. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I think we just lost a little bit of that today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">&#8216;To meet them here is insane&#8217;:<\/strong>How Hope Trautwein went from Texas fan to OU softball ace?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/09\/NOKL\/8fd5a6b3-48b0-440b-8512-bc84d6eb65ca-OU-UT-11.jpg?resize=660%2C372&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/09\/NOKL\/8fd5a6b3-48b0-440b-8512-bc84d6eb65ca-OU-UT-11.jpg?crop=3812,2145,x0,y0&amp;width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">WCWS championship series schedule<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Best-of-three series between OU and Texas:<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>Game 1:<\/strong>Oklahoma 16, Texas 1<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>Game 2:<\/strong> 6:30 pm Thursday (ESPN2)<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>* -Game 3:<\/strong> 7:30 pm Friday (ESPN)<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">x-If necessary<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">Blackberries:<\/strong>&#8216;All hands on deck&#8217; for OU softball pitching staff, but new WCWS schedule helping Sooners<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">NCAA softball tournament scoreboard<\/h2>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_hf gnt_em__lp\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-type=\"method\" data-gl-method=\"loadHb64\" aria-label=\"wcws\" data-t-cel=\"hb64\" data-gl-hb64=\"PGRpdiBjbGFzcz0ic2NvcmVzdHJlYW0td2lkZ2V0LWNvbnRhaW5lciIgZGF0YS1zc193aWRnZXRfdHlwZT0idmVydFNjb3JlYm9hcmQiIHN0eWxlPSJoZWlnaHQ6NjAwcHg7IiBkYXRhLXVzZXItd2lkZ2V0LWlkPSI0OTQ3OCI+PC9kaXY+PHNjcmlwdCBhc3luYz0iYXN5bmMiIHR5cGU9InRleHQvamF2YXNjcmlwdCIgc3JjPSJodHRwczovL3Njb3Jlc3RyZWFtLmNvbS9hcGlKc0Nkbi93aWRnZXRzL2VtYmVkLmpzIj48L3NjcmlwdD48L2Rpdj4=\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chorus played loud and strong. After OU second baseman Tiare Jennings&#8217; three-run home run in the third inning took Wednesday&#8217;s Game 1 of the Women&#8217;s College World Series best-of-three championship series from blowout territory to beyond, Carrie Underwood&#8217;s \u201cI am a Champion\u201d played at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium. &#8220;I am invincible, unbreakable, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ou-sooners-beat-texas-longhorns-in-game-1-of-ncaa-softball-wcws-finals\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OU Sooners beat Texas Longhorns in Game 1 of NCAA softball WCWS finals<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/09\/NOKL\/145fb2b1-cd57-4186-a152-3075662d1865-_LX10449.jpg?width=660&height=440&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43178"}],"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=43178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}