Bedlam softball game thread. Sooners beat OSU 6-2..

[Plainosooner]

Lopez pitching for OU. Retired the Cowgirls who got one bloop single.

B1 Mendes bunt single. To 2nd on a wild pitch.

Clifton's double scored scored Mendes.
1-0 Sooners

Knighten grounded to the left side for first out.

Romero two strike single scored Clifton
2-0 Sooners

Aviu Hit by pitch. Romero went to second.

Pendley's line single to right, loads the bases.

Coats, the Cowgirl pitcher gone after a third of an inning.

Line out to right center by Hatfield. Bad baserunning by Romero to not tag on the play.

Wodach soft liner to 3rd. 2-0 Sooners. T2

 

[Plainosooner]

Pokes go in order in T2. 3U, F7, K.

For OU, Arnold grounded to 2nd.

Mendes just smoked the shortstop on one hop. Ruled a hit. She stole 2nd on the first pitch.

Clifton hard single through the 5-6 hole, booted by the leftfielder. Mendes scored. Caleigh all the way to 3rd. 3-0 Sooners.

Knighten's 2-run homer to right center puts Sooners up 5-0.

Romero grounded to 2nd.

Aviu hit by a pitch in the second straight plate appearance.

All three Sooner outs 4-3. Pendley ends the inning grounding to 2nd.

 

[Plainosooner]

T3, ,OSU gets three hits and scores two on consecutive two out doubles by their 2-3 hitters. Sooners lead 5-2 heading to B3.

OSU's third pitcher.

Hatifled popped out to 2nd.

Wodach singled off the 1st baseman's glove. Pinch running. Rogers.

Rogers off and running on Arnold's soft liner to third. Doubled off.

 

[Plainosooner]

T4 Pokes got a one out single, but she goes no where. Arnold nice play for the first out. Pop to short for the second out. Pop to Romero to end the inning. Still 5-2 OU.

Mendes K's on three pitches.

Clifton flies to right.

Knighten gets her second straight homer, this one to left. 6-2 Sooners.

Romero grounds to 3rd.

 

[Plainosooner]

Paige 1 pitching for OU.

Nice play by Clifton beating the runner to 1st on a bunt throw by Knighten. Cowgirls get a two out walk, but she doesn't get past 1st. 6-2 Sooners heading to B5.


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Aviu grounds to 2nd.

Pendley walks. But thrown out stealing. Two out.

Hatfield walks.

Wodach grounds to short. Still 6-2 Sooners.

 

[Plainosooner]

Parker is working on a 24 inning plus scoreless streak. OSU goes in order on two pops to Knighten and a fly to Hatfield in left. Going to B6 6-2 Sooners.

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Arnold grounds to short

First base ump misses the call on Mendes' bunt single. Not even close. But called out. Two down.

Clifton hit by pitch.

Knighten drills it to left, but caught on the backhand. 6-2 heading to T7

 

[Plainosooner]

Lowary enters to pitch for OU. Not my favorite move, but we'll see.

Aviu goes to the outfield and plays short against the first two righties.

Arnold throws out the lead off hitter. One down.

Two down on Romero's throw on a easy grounder.

Last Poke hitter is so overmatched, that she tries to bunt an 1-2 pitch. Lowary retires the side in order on nine pitches. Sooners win 6-2.

BTW, Texas was down to Baylor 2-1 with two down in the top of the second and runners at first and second and Baylor's centerifelder threw out a runner at the plate on a single, to end the game.

So Texas is now 6-9 in the conference and will finish under .500 in the Big XII with two games left. And still has a top 40 RPI.

 

[bullmarket]

Lowary enters to pitch for OU. Not my favorite move, but we'll see.

Aviu goes to the outfield and plays short against the first two righties.

Arnold throws out the lead off hitter. One down.

Two down on Romero's throw on a easy grounder.

Last Poke hitter is so overmatched, that she tries to bunt an 1-2 pitch. Lowary retires the side in order on nine pitches. Sooners win 6-2.

BTW, Texas was down to Baylor 2-1 with two down in the top of the second and runners at first and second and Baylor's centerifelder threw out a runner at the plate on a single, to end the game.

So Texas is now 6-9 in the conference and will finish under .500 in the Big XII with two games left. And still has a top 40 RPI.

A healthy Shea Knighten with 2 HRs is red hot!

 

[sybarite43]

With a healthy Shay, OU is a solid #1 team. When she was injured, we really weren't.

 

[Plainosooner]

I don't care if you're playing slow pitch. She's averaging better than a homer per game the last two weekends.

 

[bullmarket]

I don't care if you're playing slow pitch. She's averaging better than a homer per game the last two weekends.

Paige Parker is pitching great
Shay Knighten is playing great
The OU defense is playing great
Paige Lowary is doing great pitching as is Lopez
Mendes a freshman is adding so much to our team
THE TEAM IS RED HOT WINNING 24 OF OUR LAST 25
OU IS A DANGEROUS TEAM AND THEY KNOW HOW TO WIN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

I SEE A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sybarite43]

http://www.big12sports.com/fls/10410/pdfs/softball/2017ConfStatistics.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=10410

Shay's stats in Big Twelve conference play are absurd. She has 8 home runs. Pendlley and Romero are tied with three others for second---at four. Her 53 total bases are 18 more than second place Romero (35). Her slugging percentage (914) is 206 more than #2 (708). It just keeps going. She isn't just leading the conference. They ought to retire her number after this year. Then, I remember---Chamberlain did better every year.