Softball Loses Both Ends Of Twin Bill At Baylor

WACO, Texas The No. 9 Oklahoma softball team lost both games of the doubleheader at Baylor on Monday afternoon. An OU error sent the first game into extra innings, where Baylor won, 3-1, on a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th. Four unanswered Bear runs were enough to finish the sweep with a 4-1 win in the nightcap at Getterman Stadium on the Waco campus.

OU, which has lost five straight for the first time since 1993, dropped to 26-13-1 and 0-4 in conference, which is the worst start to Big 12 play in the program's history.

In the first game of the doubleheader, Baylor was on the verge of scoring the entire game. The Bears left 16 runners on bases and left runners stranded in scoring position in all but two of the 10 innings. It wasn't until the bottom of the seventh inning that BU broke through. An untimely two out error by April Valdez allowed the tying (1-1) run to come around from second base.

Game 1 Box Score | Game 2 Box Score

OU's lone run came off the bat of Heather Scaglione who laced a home run off the top of the left field wall in the second inning. The round-tripper was the 11th of the season for the junior catcher, who leads all Big 12 hitters in home runs and RBI (33). Scaglione (3-for-3) and Kristin Vesely (2-for-4) accounted for all of OU's offense.

The game went into extra innings where it remained a deadlock until the 10th frame. During the international tie breaker, OU couldn't move its runner (Jamie Fox) from second base in its half of the 10th frame. On the other side, one swing of the bat from leadoff hitter Kelly Osburn put the ball over the left field fence and gave the Bears the 3-1 victory.

All-American Kami Keiter had a pitching line of one earned run, two walks, two strikeouts and 13 hits. The junior lefty fell to 4-6 on the season and remained under .500 in the win column for the first time in her career. Keiter has lost four games (Fresno State, Washington and Texas A&M) in the final at-bat over the last 10 days. In the circle for Baylor was Cristin Vitek who improved her Big 12 leading-record to 20-3.

In game two, OU jumped out to a 1-0 lead thanks to an RBI from starting pitcher April Valdez. The lead was short lived as Baylor scored a pair of runs in the second and fourth innings. With the Sooners down 4-1 in the fourth, OU head coach Patty Gasso pulled Valdez and relieved her with Keiter.

After the second inning the Sooner's offense was held at bay by Baylor hurler Lisa Ferguson (13-1) and reliever Vitek. The loss was the first of the season for Valdez (2-1), who allowed four earned runs in 3.2 innings of work

For OU, the losses snapped a streak of 21 consecutive wins against Baylor, which dated back to 1997. The 0-4 start is the worst of Gasso's tenure and the worst conference start since 1993, when OU began 0-6 in Big Eight play. The five-game losing streak is also a first for Gasso during her helm of the Sooner program and the longest since the same stretch during 1993.

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