Oklahoma softball finished 4-1 in the Hillenbrand Invitational in Tuscon, Arizona to improve to 8-1 on the season. Their lone loss was to Long Beach State.
The Sooners beat Bryant and Northern Iowa on Friday before dropping their first game of the season to Long Beach State 5-4 early Saturday. The Sooners bounced-back with a 6-4 extra-inning win over No. 4 Arizona Saturday night, and capped off the invitational with a run-rule win over NIU early Sunday.
Oklahoma led for a majority of the contest against Long Beach State, but gave up four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to fall to the Sharks. Shannon Saile took the Sooners first loss in the circle.
It took the Sooners ten innings to beat the Wildcats Saturday night. Lynnsie Elam homered in the sixth inning to cut the lead to one, and junior Taylon Snow batted in the tying run that would send the game into extras.
After scoreless eighth and ninth innings, Snow scored the winning run after Grace Green smacked a ball into left field that was dropped.
Jocelyn Alo, Green, and Elam all finished with two hits in the Sooners 8-0 win over NIU on Sunday.
Next up, the Sooners travel to Cathedral City, Calif. to participate in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, taking on Nebraska and Texas A&M on Friday, Seattle and No. 1 Washington on Saturday, and Wisconsin on Sunday.
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