1 Oklahoma
16 Washington
May 28-30 / NCAA Super Regional / Marita Hynes Field / Norman, Okla.
SUPER REGIONAL STORYLINES
• The No. 1 overall seed Sooners (48-2, 16-1 Big 12) continue their quest for a fifth national title this weekend as it hosts the No. 16 seed Washington Huskies at Marita Hynes Field for the NCAA Norman Super Regional.
• The Sooners are aiming for their 14th Women's College World Series appearance and fifth consecutive trip to OKC.
• The best-of-three series begins Friday at 2 p.m. CT. Saturday's contest is also scheduled for a 2 p.m. first pitch, and if necessary, Sunday's game will begin at 3 p.m.
• Friday's game will air on ESPN2, while Saturday's contest will become the first college softball game ever broadcast on ABC at 2 p.m. Sunday's if-necessary game will be shown on ESPN.
• The action can be heard on The Franchise 2 (103.3 FM, 1560 AM) Friday and 107.7 The Franchise Saturday and Sunday (if necessary) with OU play-by-play announcer Chris Plank and alum Destinee Martinez on the call.
• The NCAA Norman Super Regional at Marita Hynes Field will operate at 100% fan capacity following the NCAA's announcement last week that allows full capacity at baseball and softball championships where local and state guidelines allow.
• This weekend's super regional is officially sold out after a public ticket sale Tuesday morning.
HOME RUN VILLAGE
• OU has announced a partnership with Pizza Hut for Sooner softball fans to be part of an interactive fan entertainment area on the lawn immediately west of Marita Hynes Field for this weekend's NCAA Super Regional matchup with Washington.
• Although tickets are sold out for the Super Regional, Home Run Village presented by Pizza Hut gives fans a free option to come be a part of the atmosphere at the OU Softball Complex.
• Home Run Village will open two hours prior to first pitch and run through the games this weekend with a 9x16 GoVision jumbotron showing all the game action live.
• Sooner fans of all ages can access the fan fest and take part in the festivities free of charge. Highlights include sponsor giveaways, music, food vendors and more.
• Fans are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating to watch the games.
• Home Run Village food vendors to include, but not limited to: Pizza Hut, Kona Ice and Audrey's Tacos.
MAYHEM
• Oklahoma has made the NCAA Tournament 27 straight seasons overall and every year of head coach Patty Gasso's tenure since 1995 (tournament was not played in 2020). Only Arizona has a longer streak (33 straight), while the Sooners are tied with Washington for second-longest run.
• Oklahoma has been a national seed for each of the past 14 seasons. This is the third time in program history that the Sooners have been the top-seeded team, also earning the No. 1 spot in 2013 and 2019.
• Oklahoma is making its 14th overall appearance in the Super Regionals since the format was introduced in 2005. Only Alabama (16) and Arizona (15) have been to more Supers, while Washington is also making its 14th showing.
• The Sooners have made each of the last 11 Super Regionals, the second-longest active streak behind Alabama's 16.
• This is the eighth time that OU hosts Supers. At home, OU is 12-3 in Super Regional play. When hosting Supers, the Sooners have reached the WCWS six times (2012, '13, '14, '16, '18, '19) and have only had a season end in a Norman Super Regional once (2007).
• With two wins in the Super Regional, the Sooners would make their 14th appearance all-time in the Women's College World Series and ninth trip in the last 10 years. No other program in the country has made as many trips to the WCWS as OU since the 2011 season.
• In 2019, the last season the tournament was played, OU reached its 13th WCWS in program history, culminating in a runner-up finish in the championship series. With four national titles (2000, '13, '16, '17) Oklahoma trails only UCLA (12) and Arizona (8) for most in NCAA history, and no other team has more than two.
LAST TIME OUT
• The top-seeded Sooners shattered records in the NCAA Norman Regional last weekend at Marita Hynes Field, sweeping through three games vs. Morgan State and Wichita State twice.
• Oklahoma set an NCAA Regional record with a combined 50 runs in the three games and set a single-game regional record with 24 runs in the final vs. Wichita State on Sunday.
• In Friday's opener the Sooners beat Morgan State 19-0 for their 22nd shutout of the season. Redshirt Senior Nicole Mendes broke the OU program record for RBIs in a postseason game with seven in a two-home run (one being a grand slam) performance.
• Freshman Tiare Jennings set an NCAA regional program record with three doubles vs. Morgan State.
• Five different Sooners recorded four or more RBIs in a single game regional weekend. (Mendes, 7 vs. Morgan State; Elam, 4 vs. WSU, Sat.; Jennings, 6 vs. WSU, Sun.; Lyons, 5 vs. WSU, Sun.; Boone, 4 vs. WSU, Sun.)
• OU outscored its regional opponents 50-12 and outhit the foes 46-17.
• Sunday's 24-7 win over WSU broke the NCAA record for highest-scoring postseason game with a combined 31 runs.
• The 31 combined hits between OU and WSU Sunday tied the NCAA postseason record for hits in a game.
A LOOK AT THE HUSKIES
• The Washington Huskies are led by head coach Heather Tarr in her 17th season at the helm in Seattle. Tarr helped the Huskies to the program's first and only national title in 2009.
• The Huskies are 45-12 on the year and finished second in the PAC-12 with a 18-5 mark.
• UW is paced by veterans Sis Bates and Gabbie Plain, among other Husky upperclassmen.
• Bates, a two-time All-American and three-time PAC-12 Defensive Player of the Year, is renowned as one of the top shortstops in the game. Bates is batting .385 in her super senior season with 32 RBIs and 21 stolen bases. She holds a .970 fielding percentage with 65 putouts and 97 assists from short.
• Fellow senior and All-American Gabbie Plain has three seasons with 300+ strikeouts at UW and ranks second in the country in 2021 with 331 entering Supers. She holds a 1.23 ERA in 227.1 innings pitched with just 45 walks.
• History with the Huskies: OU and UW have met four of the last five seasons, including three meetings in the Women's College World Series. Washington holds the all-time record over the Sooners by a slim 14-12 margin. Oklahoma beat UW en route to its most recent national title in 2017 by a score of 3-1 before the Huskies ended the Sooners season in 2018 with two wins over OU in the WCWS. The last meeting came at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in 2020, a 12-2 Washington victory.
RECORD BREAKERS & CHASERS
• The Sooners broke the program record for home runs in their series at Oklahoma State, hitting No. 116 in Stillwater and have since brought their season total to 142, blasting past the 2019 team's previous record of 115. The 2021 squad hit the program mark in 23 less games.
• The Sooners stand alone in second in NCAA history with their current 142 mark, just 16 shy of 2010 Hawaii's NCAA record 158.
• The 2021 Oklahoma Softball team has set the program record for most run-rule victories in a season with 33, surpassing the 2019 and 2013 teams' 25.
• The 2021 team currently holds the single-season program record for runs scored (576) batting average (.424), on-base percentage (.509) and slugging (.814).
• Senior Jocelyn Alo (82 career HRs) is 13 homers shy of the program and NCAA record 95 that 2015 OU grad Lauren Chamberlain hit throughout her career.
• Alo (28 HRs) and freshman Tiare Jennings (25) are quickly approaching the single-season program record for home runs (30) set in 2018 by Alo herself and 2012 and 2013 by Lauren Chamberlain.
• Freshman Tiare Jennings is five home runs short of tying and six away from breaking the NCAA freshman single-season home run record of 30, hit in 2012 by Chamberlain and 2018 by Alo.
• Oklahoma set an NCAA single-game home run record with 13 in the season opener versus UTEP, a 29-0 (5 inn.) run-rule victory. The team tied the NCAA record for homers in an inning with five in the first and fifth innings of the game.
• Freshman Tiare Jennings and junior Grace Lyons tied the school record for home runs in a game with three a piece against the Miners in the season opener.
• 50 runs scored set an NCAA Regional record. The Sooners accomplished the feat in three games.
• 24 runs broke the NCAA Regional single-game record.
• Six home runs in last Sunday's regional final tied the NCAA postseason record for single-game home runs.
• The fourth inning of OU's game three vs. Texas Tech (4/25) marked the most runs scored in an inning in program history and tied for the second most in NCAA history, second only to College of Charleston's 29 on Feb. 11, 2004 (2nd inn.) vs. Savannah State and sharing the mark with Canisius' 18 mark on May 1, 1985 (2nd inn.) vs. Roberts Wesleyan.
• Oklahoma registered a program-best 28 hits in its 33-4 victory over New Mexico on Feb. 27 in Phoenix.
• Oklahoma holds the top two run single-game run totals of 2021 with 33 in its victory over New Mexico Feb. 27 and 29 in its season opener over UTEP.
ALL THE NUMBERS
• Oklahoma's offense leads the country in every major offensive category:
• Home runs: 142 (39 better than 2nd-place Wichita State's 103). The Sooners and Shockers are the only programs with 100+ HRs in 2021.
• Home runs per game: 2.84 avg.
• Batting average: .424
• On base percentage: .509
• Slugging percentage: .814
• Runs: 576 (11.52 per game avg.)
• OU is outscoring opponents 576-92 on the season, scoring an average of 11.52 runs per game to opponents 1.84 clip.
• Oklahoma has won by run rule in 33 of its 50 games.
• OU has scored 10-plus runs in one inning seven times in 2021.
• 14 Sooners have hit a home run this season, with 11 players blasting at least two. Six Sooners have 10-plus homers on the year, a program best.
• 17 times on the season OU has had a player hit two-plus home runs in a game.
• The Sooners hold four of the top 10 individual batting averages in the country out of players with at least 100 AB:
• 2nd - Tiare Jennings - .488
• 5th - Jayda Coleman - .478
• 6th - Jocelyn Alo - .477
• 8th - Kinzie Hansen - .455
• Three of the top 10 home run hitters in the country reside in Norman, including the nation's leader.
• 1st - Alo: 28
• T2nd - Jennings: 25
• T9th - Hansen: 20
• As a team, OU has hit at least one home run in 48 of its 50 games this season and has hit at least two in 40 games. The Sooners have hit six HRs in a game four times on the year, only to be topped by 13 in the season opener.
• Oklahoma has hit two-plus home runs in one inning 30 times this season, including three or more eight times and four-plus in one inning five times.
• The Sooners have hit back-to-back home runs 14 times in 2021 and back-to-back-to-back blasts three times.
• The Oklahoma defense ranks first in the country out of teams that have played at least five games with a .986 fielding percentage and has committed just 15 errors on the season.
• OU's pitching staff leads the country with 22 shutouts. The staff ranks 15th with a 1.91 ERA.
ALO ONE OF THREE FINALISTS FOR PLAYER OF THE YEAR
• Oklahoma senior utility player Jocelyn Alo has been named one of the three finalists for the 2021 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, USA Softball announced last Wednesday.
• Alo, the Big 12 Player of the Year and First Team All-Big 12 selection, has paced the potent Oklahoma offense in 2021, holding the nation's lead in home runs (28) and slugging percentage (1.106) and ranks second in RBIs (78) and sixth in batting average (.477).
• The senior slugger has homered in 26 of OU's 50 games, including two grand slams and two multi-home run games. She has successfully reached base in 62 of OU's last 63 games dating back to last season, including going on a program record 40-game consecutive hit streak from Feb. 21, 2020 vs. Texas A&M to April 3, 2021 vs. Kansas.
• Additionally, Alo tied the NCAA record for consecutive games with a home run at seven from March 7 vs. Sam Houston through OU's first matchup with Iowa State, March 26. The Hauula, Hawaii, native has 82 career homers, just 13 shy of the OU and NCAA career record for home runs (95), set by 2015 OU grad Lauren Chamberlain.
• No. 1 Oklahoma was one of three programs to have multiple top-10 finalists for the award, as Tiare Jennings was a Top-10 candidate the the award, considered the most prestigious honor in NCAA Division I softball.
• The winner will be announced June 1 prior to the start of the NCAA Women's College World Series
• Oklahoma alumna Keilani Ricketts was a two-time recipient of the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award in 2012 and 2013. Most recently, 2019 graduate Sydney Romero was a top-three finalist in 2019.
COLEMAN, JENNINGS TWO OF THE THREE FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR FINALISTS
• University of Oklahoma softball freshmen Jayda Coleman and Tiare Jennings have been named two of the three finalists for the NFCA/Schutt Sports Division I National Freshman of the Year award, the NFCA announced Thursday.
• The versatile Coleman, named First Team All-Big 12, has been a force in the field and at the plate for OU, batting .478 to go with 46 RBI, eight home runs and 19 stolen bases. Coleman has started every game of her first-year campaign across the outfield or at first base. She holds a team-best .584 on-base percentage, drawing 31 walks to just eight strikeouts. The native of The Colony, Texas, went on a 19-game hit streak earlier in the year and currently holds an on-base streak of 41 games. Her 19 stolen bases is best on the team by 12 while her 67 hits ranks second among the potent OU offense.
• The Big 12 Freshman of the Year, Jennings, also a top-10 finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, has hit 25 home runs to go with 84 RBIs. Her RBI mark leads in the nation and she's tied for second in the country for home runs, just three behind teammate Jocelyn Alo's 28. She holds an exceptional slash line of .488/.536/1.067. The San Pedro, Calif., product has homered in 21 of OU's 50 games and hit multiple homers in a game three times, beginning with the season opener at UTEP where she tied a single-game program record with three home runs in her first collegiate game. The frosh has started every game of the season at second or third base and holds a .969 fielding percentage with 54 putouts and 41 assists to just three errors.
• Additionally, Jennings and Coleman rank second and fifth, respectively, in the country in batting average.
• Oklahoma is the one of two programs in the award's history with two of the three finalists, joining Florida's Amanda Lorenz (winner) and Kelly Barnhill in 2016.
• Since the award was created in 2014, Oklahoma is the only program with more than one winner with Paige Parker garnering the honor in 2015 and Jocelyn Alo winning the award in 2018.
• The 2021 Schutt Sports/NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year will be announced June 1.
ALO-NE AT THE TOP
• Senior utility player Jocelyn Alo leads the country with 28 home runs in OU's 50 games. The Hawaii native has hit a homer in 26 of OU's 50 games, including two grand slams and two multi-HR games.
• Alo has moved up the OU record book for career home runs to second in program history with 82. The NCAA HR record holder Lauren Chamberlain ranks first in program and NCAA history with 95.
• The slugger tied the NCAA record for consecutive games with a home run at seven from March 7 vs. Sam Houston through OU's first matchup with Iowa State on March 26.
• Alo and Chamberlain share the OU single-season HR record at 30 home runs, Chamberlain doing so twice ('12, '13) and Alo hitting the 30 mark her freshman season in 2018.
• More of Alo's eye-popping numbers:
• 1st in the country with 28 home runs.
• Averaging 0.56 home runs per game and a home run ever 5.75 at-bats
• Ranks sixth in the country out of players with at least 100 AB with a .477 batting average.
• NCAA-leading 1.106 slugging percentage
• Has recorded a hit in 45 of OU's 50 games in 2021
• Program record 40-game hit streak dating back to Feb. 21, 2020 vs. Texas A&M came to a close April 3 vs. Kansas. The streak goes down as the third best consecutive game hitting streak in NCAA history, falling just three games shy of the record.
• In conference play, Alo batted .500 with seven HRs, 22 RBIs and a 1.042 slugging clip.
• Alo recently announced she will be returning for her extra year of eligibility in 2022 as a redshirt senior.
FRESHMAN PHENOMS
• Oklahoma's freshman trio of Jayda Coleman, Tiare Jennings and Nicole May have put together quite the first-year campaigns as Sooners.
• Jennings, the 2019-20 Gatorade California Softball Player of the Year, leads the country with 84 RBIs on the year and is second on the team and in the country with 25 home runs. She batted .451 in Big 12 play with eight HR, 25 RBI and 53 TB.
• Coleman, the 2019-20 Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year out of The Colony, Texas, is first on the team with a .584 on-base percentage and holds an on-base streak of 4 1 games as she's second on the team with 31 walks drawn.
• Coleman leads the team with 19 stolen bases on 23 attempts in 2021. She's fourth on the team in doubles with nine on the year and has hit eight home runs.
• May, the 2018-19 Gatorade California Softball Player of the Year, is third among the OU pitching staff with 13 wins on the season and third in strikeouts behind veterans Giselle Juarez and Shannon Saile with 80 K's on the year to 19 walks. She holds a 1.72 ERA and opponents are batting just .190 against the Pleasanton, Calif., native.
JUAREZ, SAILE, MAY LEAD PITCHING STAFF
• The seven-deep Oklahoma pitching staff has put together a solid season, pitching shutouts in 22 of OU's 50 games.
• The staff has put together two combined perfect games this season plus a no-hitter. Redshirt senior Giselle Juarez, redshirt sophomore Brooke Vestal and freshman Nicole May pitched a perfect game vs. Portland State (2/28). Three OU pitchers, Vestal, freshman Alanna Thiede and sophomore Olivia Rains, combined for OU's second perfect game of the season vs. Sam Houston, March 7. Juarez, Rains and Shannon Saile combined to throw a no-hitter versus New Mexico Feb. 26, an 8-0 run-rule OU victory.
• Along with two perfect games and one no-hitter, the staff has allowed just one hit in 10 games this season.
• The staff holds a 1.91 ERA, good for 15th in the country, and has allowed 92 runs in 50 games to go with 357 strikeouts and 178 hits allowed to 96 walks.
• First Team All-Big 12 redshirt senior Shannon Saile boasts 116 strikeouts in 80.2 innings of work to go with 16 wins, two saves and no losses. Opponents are batting just .155 against the Land O'Lakes, Fla., native. In conference play, Saile posted a 1.71 ERA with 54 strikeouts to 22 walks while opponents batted .155 against her.
• Redshirt senior LHP Giselle Juarez leads the team with 121 strikeouts on the year in 96.2 IP to go with a 18 wins. In conference play, Juarez was 7-1 with a 2.67 ERA to go with 47 strikeouts and just five walks. Opponents are batting .184 against Juarez.
• Freshman Nicole May has impressed in her first season of collegiate competition, striking out 80 in 69.0 innings pitched and collecting 13 wins to one loss and two saves. May holds a 1.72 ERA and struck out 22 in conference play to just six walks.
• Sophomores Olivia Rains (17.2), Macy McAdoo (7.2), Alanna Thiede (10.2) and Brooke Vestal (7.1) have all seen action for the Sooners in 2021.
EIGHT SOONERS EARN ALL-REGION HONORS
• The No. 1/1 Oklahoma softball team tied a school record by placing all eight of its nominees on the 2021 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division I All-Central Regional Team, the NFCA announced Thursday.
• Redshirt senior Shannon Saile, senior Jocelyn Alo, junior Grace Lyons, sophomores Mackenzie Donihoo and Kinzie Hansen, along with freshmen Jayda Coleman and Tiare Jennings were all selected for the All-Region First Team. Redshirt senior Nicole Mendes received All-Region Second Team honors.
• Seven first-team selections tied for most in the country with UCLA and ties the OU program record for first-team selections, also hitting the mark in 2019.
• Overall, this marks the sixth time in seven seasons that OU has had eight selections. The Sooners are one of six teams to have eight All-Region honorees this year, joining Alabama, Arizona, Oklahoma State, Oregon and UCLA.
• The awards honor softball student-athletes from the Association's 10 regions with first, second and third teams selected for each region. The all-region teams were voted on by NFCA member coaches from each respective region, and all the honorees now become eligible for selection to one of three 2021 NFCA Division I All-American teams.
• The 2021 NFCA Division I All-America teams will be announced at Wednesday, June 2.
• The Sooners return to action this weekend as they host Wichita State, Texas A&M and Morgan State in the NCAA Norman Regional at Marita Hynes Field.
CONFERENCE DOMINANCE
• The top-ranked Sooners finished the Big 12 regular season 16-1. OU swept Iowa State (March 26-28) in Ames while sweeping Kansas (April 1-3), No. 7/8 Texas (April 16-18) and Texas Tech (April 24-25) in Norman and topping Baylor in two (April 27).
• Oklahoma State gave OU it's first conference loss since April 23, 2017, on May 7 in Stillwater by a score of 6-4. It snapped OU's streak of 57 consecutive Big 12 regular season games. The streak was the longest in conference and program history.
• OU remains undefeated in their last 60 conference series (56-0-4 in that span) and have not lost a conference series since 2011.
• OU has finished first in the Big 12 over the past nine seasons with a combined record of 144-14. Prior to OU's current run of nine straight regular season titles, no team had ever won more than two consecutive.
• Overall, the Sooners have 20 Big 12 titles with 13 regular season crowns and seven Big 12 tournament championships, all under head coach Patty Gasso.
#LAUNCHPAD
• The Sooner Club recently launched a fun, new and creative way to support OU student-athletes and the OU Softball and Baseball stadium projects by offering fans the opportunity to join the #LaunchPad. The #LaunchPad is all about #homers. Pledge to donate your own customized dollar amount for every #homer that OU Softball and/or OU Baseball hit in 2021!
• All donations are 100% tax deductible and will be directed to help fund the facility project of your choice - the new OU Softball Stadium Project and/or the OU Baseball Stadium Renovation Project.
• How It Works: Donate an amount to be charged per home run for softball and/or baseball for the 2021 season.
• Include if you'd like to make a gift for every home run hit in the 2021 season or start your pledge as of today.
• Watch the Sooners and cheer us on to victory while supporting future OU facility projects for baseball and softball.
• #Homers hit prior to your gift date will be included in your pledge. Monthly updates on the Pledge Per Home Run Campaign and other important Sooner Club information will be shared throughout the season.
• All donations from the Pledge Per Home Run Campaign will be treated as charitable donations supporting either the OU Softball Stadium Project or the OU Baseball Stadium Renovation Project and are tax-deductible.
• Payment Dates: Each month, we will charge your card on the first business day of the proceeding month for the amount you have elected to pledge per home run multiplied by the number of home runs in that month. (Monthly Payment Dates: Thursday, April 1, 2021; Monday, May 3, 2021; Tuesday, June 1, 2021; Thursday, July 1, 2021)
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