OU Records 100th Big 12 Win

March 20, 2003

Lincoln, Neb. - No. 4 Oklahoma earned the 100th Big 12 victory in the program's history with a 1-0 win over No. 5 Nebraska in Lincoln on Thursday afternoon. OU lefty Kami Keiter fanned a career-high 14 Husker batters and improved to 15-1 on the season with the win.

Oklahoma (25-3) scored the deciding run in the top of the fourth. After Christina Enea walked to first, Heather Scaglione (1-for-1) hit her fifth double of the season to advance Enea to third. Jennifer Stump got the RBI when Nebraska fielded her single, attempted a throw home and Enea danced around the Husker catcher to tag home plate.

It was not a batter's day in Lincoln. Fierce winds kept several potential homers inside the park or sent them sailing over the foul line. Strong pitching and the weather limited the teams to just three hits combined.

OU won its 18th consecutive game and dropped Nebraska to 18-5 on the season. Husker pitcher Peaches James fell to 10-4 with the loss.

Keiter struck out 12 or more batters for the second straight game. The Arvada, Colo., native had set her career strikeout record last weekend in Fullerton, Calif., when she fanned 12 batters in OU's 1-0 win over Louisiana-Lafayette.

Keiter retired 14 batters against Nebraska with 10 swinging and four looking.

OU is the first team in Big 12 Conference history to reach the 100-win mark. Oklahoma is 100-22 (.820) since the formation of the conference in 1996. Nebraska follows the Sooners with an 88-32 (.733) all-time league record.

The two teams have historically been the top teams in the Big 12, combining for five conference titles out of seven. Oklahoma softball won the first Big 12 Conference championship ever awarded in any sport in 1996 and also claimed the 1999 and 2000 regular-season titles. The Corhuskers won the conference in 1998 and 2001.

The Sooners and Huskers return to the field at 4 p.m. to conclude the series.

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