Tag: 2021-2022 Oklahoma Softball

Jayda Coleman’s walkoff home run give OU the 9-8 win over Tennessee

In their toughest matchup of the season, Jayda Coleman helped the Oklahoma Sooners stay perfect on the season with her walk off home run.

In a game that was filled with drama throughout, the Oklahoma Sooners fought through adversity to get the win in 10 innings over the Tennessee Volunteers.

Trailing in the bottom of the 10th with one on and two out, Jayda Coleman stepped up with the heroics, launching a ball over the left field fence for the two-run walk-off home run.

In a game where the Sooners pitching staff met their toughest challenge of the season, the Sooners offense continued to keep Oklahoma in it.

The Sooners jumped out to a 3-0 nothing lead in the top of the first, looking like every other game this season. After adding one more in the third, the Sooners looked to be in control as freshman Jordy Bahl was dealing.

Tennessee got on the board in the fourth and then did some real damage in the top of the fifth, plating three runs to tie the game. Oklahoma would retake the lead in the bottom half of the fifth inning.

After a scoreless sixth inning, Tennessee would get their first lead of the day in the top of the seventh and OU would tie sending it to extra innings.

In the extra frames, Tennessee took the lead in the top of the ninth and tenth. OU would tie the game in the ninth before winning it on Coleman’s blast in the bottom of the tenth.

Coleman was 3 for 5 on the afternoon with the home run and two RBIs. Grace Lyons was 2 for 5 with a home run and two RBIs and Jana Johns was 2 for 4 with two home runs and four RBIs.

After a run-rule win in their matchup with No. 8/10 Arizona in the first game of their Saturday double-header, the afternoon affair was much more dramatic. The Sooners are now 14-0 and will close out the Mary Nutter Classic with an 11 a.m. matchup with Utah.

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Opposition between a rock and a hard place when facing Oklahoma lineup

The Oklahoma Sooners are off to a torrid pace in 2022 putting pressure on opposing pitchers up and down the lineup.

Oklahoma’s Jocelyn Alo is on a tear to start the 2022 season with seven home runs in 37 plate appearances. Tied with Lauren Chamberlain for the NCAA all-time home run record, Alo will likely set the new standard this weekend and put it far out of reach for any home run challengers. Her start has been incredible and there’s not much the opposition can do about it.

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The lineup the Oklahoma Sooners are rolling out has hitting depth up and down the order. With Alo typically hitting second in the order, leadoff hitter Tiare Jennings gets a boost as teams have to pitch aggressively to her in order to try and get an out before Alo comes to the plate. And Jennings is making teams pay.

The sophomore out of San Pedro, Calif. is hitting .440 with five home runs and 15 RBIs on the season. She’s second to Alo in just about every offensive category, building off of a tremendous freshman campaign that saw her win freshman of the year honors in 2021.

And as Alo continues to set a new standard for power hitting, she’s also getting the added benefit of a lineup that’s producing behind her.

To start the season, the most typical lineup Patty Gasso was rolling out had Jennings batting leadoff, Alo hitting second, and catcher Kinzie Hansen hitting third. Since the opening week, there’s been a bit more variation but wherever Alo hits, there’s a player hitting behind her that’s having a nice start to the season as well.

Hansen’s hitting .440 with two home runs and six RBIs. Jana Johns spent much of the Houston Classic batting behind Alo is hitting .400 with three home runs and 10 RBIs. Jayda Coleman has worked her way up in the lineup and is hitting .348 with eight RBIs and an on base percentage of .515.

Grace Lyons, who’s hit clean up for the Sooners for much of 2022, is hitting .440 with two home runs and seven RBIs.

There isn’t an easy out in the Oklahoma Sooners lineup. The Sooners put constant pressure on opposing pitchers as they attempt to work through a lineup that returned much of their record-setting 2021 team.

As the Oklahoma Sooners look to defend their national championship, they’ve gotten off to a hot 10-0 start. The numbers really speak for themselves.

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11 things Oklahoma Sooners fans can be thankful for in 2021

It’s the season for giving thanks and the Oklahoma Sooners have a lot to be thankful for as they approach the traditional Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday. It may not have all gone as planned, but it’s been an eventful year for the University of …

It’s the season for giving thanks and the Oklahoma Sooners have a lot to be thankful for as they approach the traditional Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday. It may not have all gone as planned, but it’s been an eventful year for the University of Oklahoma.

As Thanksgiving approaches and we reflect on what we have to be thankful for, we here at the Sooners Wire wanted to provide for you some of the things we’re thankful for as well.

This certainly isn’t an exhaustive list as that could go on and on, especially if we listed each individual player. It also isn’t in any particular order or ranking. The numerical value isn’t representative of a pecking order of things we’re thankful for.

So as you get ready to spend some quality time with your loved ones, we hope you enjoy our list of 11 things we think Sooners fans should be thankful for this year, and would like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.

Oklahoma baseball, softball Big 12 conference schedules released

The 2022 Oklahoma baseball and softball conference schedules have been released. Here’s a look at the Big 12 slates for both teams.

Oklahoma released its respective baseball and softball conference schedules for the upcoming 2022 seasons.

Skip Johnson is entering his fifth season as OU head baseball coach and looking to send the Sooners back into the postseason for the first time since 2018 when Oklahoma advanced to the Tallahassee Regional finals.

The Sooners start conference play with back-to-back home series against Baylor and Texas. After that, the Sooners play in the Bedlam series before traveling to Lawrence, Kan., to take on the Jayhawks.

Then, it’s a home series against Kansas State and West Virginia sandwiched around a road series at TCU. The Sooners close the Big 12 conference schedule with a series at Texas Tech.

Oklahoma softball will be looking to defend the program’s fifth national championship and their reign as the nine-time defending Big 12 champions.

The Sooners open conference play at Marita Hynes Field by hosting the Baylor Bears in a series from March 25-27. Then, OU has a pair of road series at Texas Tech and Texas.

After those road series, Oklahoma returns home for a series versus Iowa State before visiting Kansas in a series to close the month of April. OU closes its conference schedule by hosting fellow 2021 Women’s College World Series participant Oklahoma State in Bedlam.

Oklahoma softball has won 59 of its past 60 conference games and haven’t lost a conference series since 2011. The 2022 team returns 2021 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Jocelyn Alo, along with four other All-Americans in Jayda Coleman, 2021 NFCA Freshman of the Year Tiare Jennings, Kinzie Hansen and Grace Lyons.

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