Scaglione Records Seventh Big 12 Weekly Honor

NORMAN, Okla. Oklahoma senior Heather Scaglione was announced Tuesday afternoon as the Big 12 Player of the Week for the games of April 10-17.

Scaglione powered the fifth-ranked Sooners to a 3-1 record, including a split with Big 12 leading Texas A&M, last week by hitting .583 with three home runs and 11 RBI. The Sooner signal caller had seven hits in 12 at bats, scored five runs, recorded two doubles, a slugging percentage of 1.500 and an on-base percentage of .688.

She began the week with a four RBI in both ends of doubleheader at Texas Tech. Then on Saturday, the San Diego native led the Sooners to a run-rule defeat of Texas A&M (15-7, six innings) by slugging two home runs and driving in three runs. She became the 24th player in OU history to tie the school record with two HR in a single game.

Scaglione set a Big 12 record by earning five POW honors last season. She also owns the career mark for Player of the Week honors with seven. Texas ace Cat Osterman has garnered the most Big 12 Pitcher of the Week awards with 18 in three seasons.

The No. 5/6 Oklahoma softball team concludes a five-game home stand on Wednesday night, when it looks to avenge an earlier loss to Tulsa. First pitch between the Sooners and Golden Hurricane is set for 7 p.m. OU returns to Big 12 action over the weekend when it travels to Lawrence for a two game set with Kansas. The series begins on Saturday at 2 p.m. and concludes Sunday at 1 p.m.

The Tulsa contest will carried on KOKC (1520 AM) and Yahoo! audio with play-by-play man Brian Brinkley pulling the one-man show. It will also be webcast on the O-Zone and as usual, free live stats are available through SoonerSports.com. The only service that will be available for the Kansas series is live stats.

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The first 250 fans in attendance at the Tulsa contest will receive free OU pom-pons. Wednesday is also the ever-popular $.50 hot dog and Coke night.

Despite the fact that Tulsa has only been ranked once in its history and has never reached the NCAA postseason, the Golden Hurricane have given the Sooners all they could handle the last three seasons. In fact, the Golden Hurricane have won three of the last four in the series. Prior to that stretch OU won the first 24 meetings in the series and maintains a 25-3 all-time advantage.

TU is 21-27 in 2005, after going 45-18 and finishing second behind Fresno State in the WAC standings last season. The Golden Hurricane enter the regional showdown having lost six straight games, during which time they have only managed to score six runs.

OU will likely face junior Maren Genow, who is 2-1 against OU in the last two seasons. Genow held the Sooners to two runs on nine hits in the TU's 4-2 win on March 23. On the season Genow is 6-6 with a 2.53 ERA.

Junior first baseman Katie Torres leads the TU offense with a .287 BA and 14 RBI. In the first meeting Torres went 1-for-3. Last season she hit a solo home run that helped the Golden Hurricane knock off OU, 2-0.

As for the Sooners, Kristin Vesely went 4-for-4 in the first meeting, while Jessica Leslie accounted for all of OU's offense with a two-run homer during a 2-for-3 outing. Heather Scaglione also went 2-for-3 with a run scored. Keiter took the loss after allowing four runs (three earned) on nine hits.

University of Oklahoma Athletics

Scaglione Records Seventh Big 12 Weekly Honor

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