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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Conference Play Starts with Baylor
April 05, 2013 | Softball
April 5, 2013
| No. 1/1 OU (31-2, 0-0 Big 12) vs. No. 18/17 Baylor (29-7, 3-2 Big 12) | |
| Friday | TV | 6:30 p.m. | Fox Sports Southwest/Fox College Sports |
| Saturday | TV | 12 p.m. | Fox Sports Oklahoma/Fox College Sports |
| Sunday | TV | 2 p.m. | ESPN |
| Location | Norman, Okla. | Marita Hynes Field |
| Live Stats | GameTracker - Fri. | GameTracker - Sat. | GameTracker - Sun. |
| Game Info | OU Game Notes | Twitter | Tickets |
After 33 consecutive non-conference games to open the season, the top-ranked Oklahoma Sooners open Big 12 play when No. 18/17 Baylor visits Norman for a three-game series.
Friday's game will be carried on Fox Sports Southwest, Saturday's will be on Fox Sports Oklahoma and Sunday's finale will be shown nation-wide on ESPN.
The two teams met last season in a three-game series in Waco. OU won the first two games, 2-0 and 5-0, but Baylor took the finale, 1-0, to snap the Sooners' 17-game win streak.
The Sooners are 12-5 all-time in Big 12 openers, including a 2-0 win over Baylor in 2012. Friday's matchup will be just the second time OU has opened Big 12 play against BU.
With 114 career wins, Oklahoma senior Keilani Ricketts enters the weekend one victory away from tying Jennifer Stewart for the most in school history. Stewart won 115 games from 1999-2002.
WEEKEND PROMOTIONS
Friday
Stick around after Friday night's game for a short postgame fireworks show.
Saturday
Pack the Park Pink on Saturday. The first 500 fans receive a free pink t-shirt, while the team will be wearing pink jerseys, socks and helmets.
It's also our third installment of Senior Saturday where the first 250 fans will receive free Keilani Ricketts posters.
Also, it is Dads and Daughters Day, which means $4 tickets for dad/daughter parties.
Sunday
In addition to Season Ticket Holder Sunday, it is also Mom's Weekend on campus so mom's will enjoy discounted tickets.
SOONERS REMAIN CONSENSUS NO. 1 TEAM
For the fourth week in a row, Oklahoma is the consensus No. 1 team in the country. With a 30-2 record, the Sooners received all 31 first-place votes in the USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Poll and 18 of 20 votes in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25.
Oklahoma has now been ranked No. 1 by USA Softball for eight straight weeks, while the NFCA has put the Sooners on top for four weeks in a row.
The Sooners also maintained their spot as the No. 1 team in the second installment of NCAA Division I RPI rankings on April 2.
BIG 12 SUCCESS
OU head coach Patty Gasso has won more Big 12 games (228-77) than any coach in the league's history and has twice as many wins as any other coach in OU history.
Gasso's Sooner teams have finished second or higher 13 different times since the inception of the Big 12 in 1996.
They have won nearly 75 percent of their Big 12 contests, and OU has claimed five Big 12 regular season and four championship titles under her direction.
TAKING ON THE TOP 25
OU is 11-2 against top 25 teams at the time of the matchup with wins over Stanford (No. 20), Oregon (No. 6),
Kentucky (No. 22), Washington (No. 16), Georgia (No. 16),
Arizona (No. 19 and No. 14), Florida State (No. 23) and Tulsa (No. 20). The Sooners are 1-1 against Nebraska when the
Huskers (No. 25) are ranked and 1-1 vs. Louisville (11).
Through April 4, the Sooners lead the nation in wins against top-25 teams (11) and winning percentage against top-25 teams (.846; min. 2 games), while they are tied for fourth in games played against ranked teams (13).
For comparison, Baylor is 2-4 (.333) against top-25 teams this season.
OU won its first eight games of the year against top-25 teams, tying for the school's longest winning streak in such games. The record was initially set March 14-May 12, 2000.
SOONERS TAKE PITCHERS' DUEL AT TULSA
After both teams lost games vs. Louisiana-Lafayette due to rain outs, OU visited Tulsa on Thursday night and left with a hard-fought 3-1 win. Jessica Shults' two-run single in the sixth inning broke a 1-1 tie and propelled OU to the victory.
LEADING THE NATION
As of April 2, Oklahoma leads Division I in two categories, team ERA (0.84) and team winning percentage (.938). In addition, Lauren Chamberlain is ranked No. 1 in two categories, while Michelle Gascoigne has the top ERA and Keilani Ricketts has the most shutouts. Below is a list of all OU's top-10 rankings (complete rankings pages 11 and 12).
DOMINANT DUO
Oklahoma's 1-2 punch of Keilani Ricketts and Michelle Gascoigne has been dominant in 2013. While Ricketts is 16-1 and Gascoigne is 13-1, each has an ERA under 0.98 and is holding an opponents' batting
average under .140. Ricketts has thrown 11 shutouts, Gascoigne has thrown six and the pair combined on another.
Gascoigne is averaging 12.4 strikeouts per seven innings and has an 12.4 strikeout-to-walk ratio, while Ricketts' marks in those categories stand at 10.6 and 8.2, respectively.
Ricketts has tallied nine 10+ strikeout games this year and now has 72 for her career. Likewise, Gascoigne has 7 this season and 21 in her career.
SUCCESS WITH 2 OUTS
OU has enjoyed tremendous success with 2 outs this season. Of the team's 237 runs, 113 have come with 2 outs (47.7 %). Oklahoma has had 11 games this year where it has scored 5+ runs with 2 outs and seven games with 7+ runs coming with 2 out.
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