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USA Today
05-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
No. 2 Oklahoma Sooners beat UCF Knights 6-0 for third straight win
No. 2 Oklahoma Sooners beat UCF Knights 6-0 for third straight win The No. 2 Oklahoma Sooners needed the weekend they've had so far at Love's Field. On Friday, the Sooners beat former Big 12 foe UCF, 6-0, to win their third straight game. Oklahoma lost its first series at home in over a decade last weekend when Tennessee came to Norman and took two of three games. The Sooners had this Thursday through Saturday off from SEC play and played in the Okana Invitational at home. After beating St. Thomas on Thursday, OU followed that up with a shutout against the Knights. It came relatively easily, as Oklahoma allowed just three base-runners over seven innings in the win. Starter Sam Landry picked up her 11th win of the season, working 4 2/3 innings, giving up three hits while striking out four. It was plenty of good work, as teammates quickly staked her to a lead. Isabela Emerling hit an RBI double, and she later scored on a rundown in the second inning to open a 2-0 lead. In the next frame, OU plated four more as Ella Parker's grand slam cleared the bases and ensured the Sooners' victory. It was Parker's sixth home home run of the season but just her second long ball since March 1. Emerling joined Nelly McEnroe-Marinas, Gabbie Garcia, Kasidi Pickering, and Hannah Coor with two hits apiece for the Sooners. Oklahoma, which is now 34-3 overall, will play Oklahoma State on Wednesday in Oklahoma City for a nonconference Bedlam affair after Saturday's matchup with UCF was canceled due to weather. Contact/Follow us @SoonersWire on X, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Oklahoma news, notes, and opinions.
USA Today
30-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Oklahoma softball coach Patty Gasso: \
Oklahoma softball coach Patty Gasso: "We're not good enough" after loss to Tennessee Most programs in college softball would be thrilled to hold a 31-3 record through the end of March. But Oklahoma is not most college softball programs. And coach Patty Gasso certainly isn't most college softball coaches. She was blunt following her Sooners' loss to Tennessee on Sunday, a loss that provided Oklahoma its first-ever Southeastern Conference series defeat. "It's humbling, but we know we're not good enough," Gasso said. "We're winning, but we're still not good enough." That's how it goes for a team that has won four straight national titles. Gasso has won eight since becoming coach at OU in 1995. Her first came in 2000 and the Sooners have been in the national championship final series every year but one - discounting the 2020 season in which no Women's College World Series was played - since 2016. OU hadn't lost a conference series at home since 2011 against Missouri during a time when only two games were played each set, instead of the more common three now. The Sooners entered the weekend against the Volunteers second in the nation in runs, averaging 8.68 per game. Against Tennessee, OU managed a grand total of nine over three games. "This did not feel good watching this happen on our own field," Gasso said. "But this is what this young team has to learn as we go forward." Oklahoma gets a break from SEC play next weekend as the Sooners host St. Thomas and Central Florida in the Okana Invitational. A game against Texas-Arlington comes before it and another against Oklahoma State follows the week after.
