Game Notes: No. 15/12 Oklahoma vs. Texas Tech
Result: W, 13-0 (5)
Date: May 4, 2014
Result: W, 13-0 (5)
Date: May 4, 2014
- With Sunday's win, Oklahoma wins a share of the 2014 Big 12 Championship. It's the team's third Big 12 title in a row, something no other team in league history has accomplished. Two straight titles has been done twice before (Oklahoma in 1999-00 and Texas in 2002-03).
- Oklahoma has 11 overall conference titles: seven regular season championships and four conference tournament titles.
- Oklahoma improves to 43-7 all-time against Texas Tech and has won the last seven in the series. OU's winning percentage of .860 against the Red Raiders is its best against any Big 12 team.
- Oklahoma has won 38 of its past 40 home games dating back to last season.
- The Sooners turned their 26th double play of the season Sunday. That ranks sixth in Big 12 history and one behind four teams tied for second place.
- The shutout was the team's 15th of the season, and OU recorded its 21st run-rule win.
- Oklahoma has won 10 straight games and 24 of its past 26.
- Junior Shelby Pendley made the first start of her career and also earned the first win of her collegiate career. She tied a season high with five strikeouts and established a career high with 5.0 innings pitched.
- At the plate, Pendley was 2-3 with three runs scored and three RBI. She now has 61 RBI this season, tying with three other players for ninth most in a season at Oklahoma.
- Sophomore Leslie Miller established a career high with four RBI. She hit a three-run homer in the first inning and added an RBI single in the second. Her previous high was three against Bradley (3/18/14).
- Miller also tied a career high with two runs scored, the fourth time she's done that. She was 2-3 in the game.
- Sophomore Whitney Ellis hit a grand slam in the second inning. It was her second of the season, joining Erin Miller and Shelby Pendley, who have also hit two grand slams this season.
- Senior Destinee Martinez was 2-3 to extend her hitting streak to 10 games. She also scored two runs and has 154 in her career, tying former teammate Jessica Shults for eighth in OU history.
- Junior Lauren Chamberlain walked in all three of her plate appearances and scored two runs. It was the sixth time this season she walked at least three times and the first time in her career that all her plate appearances ended in a walk.
- With 46 walks on the season, Chamberlain moved from seventh to sixth on the OU single-season walk list.
- Senior Brittany Williams tied a career high with three runs scored. It's the third time she's accomplished the feat in her career. She finished 1-1 with two walks in the game.
