The Oklahoma Sooners took game two of their Red River series in Austin against the Texas Longhorns in run-rule fashion on Friday night. Oklahoma, who won 3-0 on Thursday, were challenged early by the Horns who plated their first run of the series in the second inning to tie the game 1-1.
After Texas tied the game in the bottom of the second, the Sooners outscored the Longhorns 8-0 from the third inning on to move to 38-0.
Nicole May and Hope Trautwein combined to allow just one run on four hits.
[autotag]Alyssa Brito[/autotag] stole the show at the plate from the No. 9 spot, going 3 for 3 with two home runs and three RBIs on the evening. Those two give her 10 home runs on the season and she’s fifth on the team in home runs behind [autotag]Jocelyn Alo[/autotag], [autotag]Grace Lyons[/autotag], [autotag]Tiare Jennings[/autotag], and [autotag]Lynnsie Elam[/autotag]. Oklahoma now has five players with double-digit home runs on the season.
Up 3-1 heading into the top of the fifth, Brito sparked a six-run inning with her second home run of the night. [autotag]Tiare Jennings[/autotag] walked and Jocelyn Alo moved her around to third on a liner off the outfield wall. Grace Lyons brought Jennings home on a squeeze play to make it 5-1. After Jana Johns’ bases-loaded walk made it 6-1, Rylie Boone brought in a couple more with a two-run single to right to make it 8-1. Brito would bookend the scoring run with her third RBI of the evening to make it 9-1 for the Sooners.
Hope Trautwein battled out of a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the fifth inning to send the Longhorns home early and the Sooners to their 40th consecutive win dating back to last season.
Trautwein’s now lowered her NCAA-leading ERA to 0.11 on the season with another 2.2 scoreless work. The Sooners pitching staff hasn’t allowed more than one run in a game since their March 10 matchup with Baylor in Hawaii, when they allowed three. That’s 21 games in a row with one or fewer runs allowed.
Oklahoma and Texas will close out the series on Saturday at 1 p.m. C.T. The game will be broadcast on the Longhorn Network and can be heard on 107.7 The Franchise in Oklahoma and on the Varsity App.
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