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No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners take on Texas A&M in Norman regional final: Players to watch, how to watch, listen, stream

The Oklahoma Sooners are looking to punch their ticket to the NCAA super regionals for the 12th straight time as they take on the Texas A&M Aggies in the Norman regional finals on Sunday. The Sooners knocked off the Aggies on Saturday in the second …

The Oklahoma Sooners are looking to punch their ticket to the NCAA super regionals for the 12th straight time as they take on the Texas A&M Aggies in the Norman regional finals on Sunday.

The Sooners knocked off the Aggies on Saturday in the second leg of the regional, 3-2 behind strong performances from Jayda Coleman and Hope Trautwein.

Coleman was 2-for-3 with a home run, a double, two RBIs, and a run scored. Trautwein threw a complete game and allowed just three hits on the afternoon.

If the Sooners are able to pick up the win in the 1 p.m. matchup, they’ll move on to the super regionals. If the Aggies can overcome a fresher Oklahoma Sooners squad in the regional final, it will force a winner-take-all game two on Sunday in the double-elimination regional.

  • Date: Sunday, May 22, 2022
  • Time: 1 p.m. CDT
  • TV Channel: ESPN family of networks and streaming on ESPN+
  • Live Stream: fuboTV (watch for free)
  • Radio Broadcast: The game can be heard on 107.7 The Franchise in Oklahoma and nationwide on The Varsity app.

No. 1 Oklahoma vs Texas A&M

Players to watch:

Oklahoma

Jocelyn Alo: .489 batting average with 26 home runs, 65 RBIs, 47 walks,

Tiare Jennings: .383 batting average with 23 home runs and 69 RBIs.

Grace Lyons: .415 batting average with 19 home runs and 56 RBIs.

Jayda Coleman: .422 batting average with 7 home runs, 33 RBIs, 43 walks, and 13 stolen bases.

Jordy Bahl: 21-1 with a 0.95 ERA, 199 strikeouts in 132.1 innings pitched.

Nicole May: 13-0 with a 0.97 ERA, 83 strikeouts in 73.2 innings pitched.

Hope Trautwein: 17-1 with a 0.42 ERA, 139 strikeouts in 99.1 innings pitched.

Texas A&M:

Haley Lee: .410 batting average with 15 home runs, 45 RBIs, and 50 walks.

Koko Wooley: .363 batting average with 23 stolen bases, and on base percentage of .402.

Katie Dack: .308 batting average with 13 home runs, 40 RBIs, and 26 walks.

Makinzy Herzog: 9-7 with a 2.47 ERA, 122 strikeouts in 107.3 innings pitched.

Emiley Kennedy: 13-11 with a 2.58 ERA, 109 strikeouts in 138.1 innings pitched.

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Auburn softball hoping to turn season around against Texas A&M

Now 1-8 in conference play and 19-11 overall, the Tigers look to turn things around against a 25-9 Texas A&M squad on the road.

Auburn softball entered the month of March on top of the world. Eleven straight wins improved the Tigers record to 16-1 and saw the ladies rise all the way to No. 7 in the NCAA RPI.

Since then the Tigers have lost 10 games. In those 10 games:

  • four of the losses were shutouts
  • the Tigers allowed more than five runs in four of the losses
  • the Tigers scored fewer than three runs in nine of the ten losses

Now 1-8 in conference play and 19-11 overall, the Tigers look to turn things around against a 25-9 Texas A&M squad on the road.

They’ll have to find a spark offensively to escape College Station with a series victory. As of right now Makenna Dowell (junior) and Tyler King (senior) are the only two Auburn starters with batting averages over .300, meanwhile Texas A&M has five. The Tigers will most likely face off against Makinzy Herzog, Grace Uribe, and Kayla Poynter on the mound all of which have produced a combined 165 strikeouts for the Aggies.

Despite getting swept, the Aggies put up 16 total runs against No. 4 Alabama last weekend. Head coach Mickey Dean acknowledged their hot bats and emphasized, “it’s important we pitch smart, play good defense and score early. I think if we score early, we will kind of relax a little bit.”

Defensively Auburn will likely start freshman Shelby Lowe (0.88 ERA, 0.84 WHIP, 118 SO), freshman Maddie Penta (2.64 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 76 SO), and sophomore KK Dismukes (1.30 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 32 SO) on the mound.

Auburn head coach Mickey Dean recently detailed how he and this team are working together on making improvements:

“Before you can ever experience success, you are going to experience failure. You hope it doesn’t happen as a group, but sometimes it does. It’s not a physical battle. It’s a mental battle. As a coach, you can focus on the negative or focus on the positive. There has to be a mixture. If players are going to play well, they have to feel about what they are doing. If they don’t feel good about what they are doing, they’re not going to play well. A lot of that is what you say to them. You still want them to be positive going into a game even when they have things to work on.”

The Tigers’ series opener against Texas A&M begins at 6 p.m. CST Friday on SEC Network Plus.