The Oklahoma Sooners accomplished the three-game sweep of the Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday with a 12-2 walk-off, run-rule win on Kasidi Pickering’s grand slam house run within the fifth. The Sooners are actually 38-3 on the season and 11-1 in SEC play.
It was a historic day at Love’s Field as Kendall Wells tied the NCAA and OU single-season freshman house run report along with her thirtieth house run of the season. It was a three-run shot within the fourth that made it 6-0 Sooners. Wells tied former Sooners Lauren Chamberlain and Jocelyn Alo, in addition to Hawaii’s Kelly Majam.
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Wells now has 30 house runs in 41 video games and has hit 9 house runs in 12 SEC contests.
Early within the recreation, it was Ella Parker offering the fireworks, launching the primary pitch she noticed to steer off the second inning to launch her seventeenth house run of the season. Isabela Emerling added to the lead within the third with a two-RBI single to make it 3-0 Sooners.
Transfer Sydney Berzon received the beginning for Oklahoma and was improbable towards the Wildcats, throwing 4 no-hit innings, permitting one stroll, and hanging out one to maneuver to 5-1 on the season. Patty Gasso and Jennifer Rocha turned to senior Kierston Deal to pitch the fifth. Deal allowed two runs on three hits and a stroll, however the Sooners’ protection could not reap the benefits of alternatives to assist her out.
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But the Sooners wasted little time responding to Kentucky’s two runs on the prime of the fifth. Freshman Lexi McDaniel singled to steer off the inning. Pinch hitter Tia Milloy moved McDaniel to 3rd with a tough hit single to proper subject. With runners on first and third, Milloy stole second, and she or he and McDaniel superior on Abby Dayton’s ball 4 that received away from the Kentucky catcher.
Kentucky walked Wells to load the bases, and after the Wildcats received Milloy out at house, Kasidi Pickering got here up with the game-ending heroics along with her grand slam house run to left subject. It was Pickering’s sixteenth house run of the season.
The Sooners are actually as much as 144 house runs on the season, simply 14 away from the single-season house run report.
With the sweep, the Sooners will go away the weekend with a one-game lead over the Texas Longhorns within the SEC standings. Texas dropped recreation two to the Alabama Crimson Tide on Friday evening. The prime 5 groups will shut the sequence throughout a noon matchup on Saturday.
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