Kendall Wells ties record, Sooners beat Kentucky 12-2
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 at the moment are 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 together 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 sport, it was Ella Parker offering the fireworks, launching the primary pitch she noticed to guide 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 obtained the beginning for Oklahoma and was improbable in opposition to the Wildcats, throwing 4 no-hit innings, permitting one stroll, and placing 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 make the most of alternatives to assist her out.
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But the Sooners spent little time responding to Kentucky’s two runs on the high of the fifth. Freshman Lexi McDaniel singled to guide 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 he or she and McDaniel superior on Abby Dayton’s ball 4 that obtained away from the Kentucky catcher.
Kentucky walked Wells to load the bases, and after the Wildcats obtained Milloy out at house, Kasidi Pickering got here up with the game-ending heroics together with her grand slam house run to left subject. It was Pickering’s sixteenth house run of the season.
The Sooners at the moment are 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 sport two to the Alabama Crimson Tide on Friday evening. The high 5 groups will shut the collection throughout a noon matchup on Saturday.
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