Eight Homers Give Gasso 1000th Win at OU

Sunday, March 15

Norman

12:15 PM

University of Oklahoma

East Carolina

Eight Homers Give Gasso 1000th Win at OU

March 15, 2015 | Softball

By: Athletics Communications

East Carolina

Oklahoma

Box Score | Highlights | Photos

Inning-by-Inning
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
ECU	0	1	0	0	0	x	x	1	3	0
OU	0	1	17	5	x	x	x	23	22	1

Pitching
	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
W - S. Pendley (6-1)	2.1	2	0	0	0	3
L - Cruise (2-9)	2.2	9	10	10	3	1
S - N/A	--	--	--	--	--	--

Individual Leaders
	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	HR
OU - S. Pendley	5	3	3	6	0	2
ECU - Ramirez	3	1	1	1	0	1

Player of the Game
Shelby Pendley // Sr. // IF/P Shelby Pendley had two of the Sooners' record-setting eight home runs Sunday as she finished 3-5 with a double, three runs scored and six runs batted in. Both homers came in the third inning as she hit a grand slam and a two-run blast. It was her fourth career grand slam and her 13th career multi-homer game. In the circle, she struck out three in 2.1 innings of relief to improve to 6-1 on the season.

Player of the Game

Shelby Pendley // Sr. // IF/P
Shelby Pendley had two of the Sooners' record-setting eight home runs Sunday as she finished 3-5 with a double, three runs scored and six runs batted in. Both homers came in the third inning as she hit a grand slam and a two-run blast. It was her fourth career grand slam and her 13th career multi-homer game. In the circle, she struck out three in 2.1 innings of relief to improve to 6-1 on the season.

Game Notes
Oklahoma now leads the all-time series against East Carolina, 4-0 ... OU is on a season-best 11-game winning streak, it's longest since winning 16 straight from April 19 - May 23 last season ... OU now has 14 run-rule wins in 2015, including eight straight wins via run-rule ... when East Carolina took a 1-0 lead in the second inning, it marked the first time since a 6-5 loss to Georgia on Feb. 20 that the Sooners had trailed, a span of 56 innings ... head coach Patty Gasso earned her 1000th win as the head coach at Oklahoma ... needing just 1,300 games, Coach Gasso becomes the second-fastest coach in NCAA Division 1 history to reach 1,000 wins (only Arizona's Mike Candrea did it quicker in 1,191 games) ... Gasso is the 28th coach in NCAA softball history to reach that figure and the 17th to do it at the D-1 level ... she is also one of 10 coaches to get 1,000 wins at one Division 1 school ... OU's eight home runs were a program record, breaking the old mark of six ... it tied as the fourth-highest HR total in DI history, marking the 10th time ever a team hit eight homers ... the five home runs in the third inning tied an NCAA all-time mark ... the 23 runs tied a season-high and tied for the third-most in program history ... OU's 53 total bases were the seventh-most in DI history ... Lauren Chamberlain hit her 86th career home run, giving her sole possession of third place and bringing her within four of the all-time record of 90 ... Chamberlain's 232 career RBI move her past former teammate Jessica Shults for second in Big 12 and OU history ... Shelby Pendley had her 13th career multi-home run game, including her fourth career grand slam ... she is now tied for 14th in NCAA history with 69 career home runs ... Pendley also has 50 HR in her Sooners career to tie for fourth place

Game Notes

Oklahoma now leads the all-time series against East Carolina, 4-0 ... OU is on a season-best 11-game winning streak, it's longest since winning 16 straight from April 19 - May 23 last season ... OU now has 14 run-rule wins in 2015, including eight straight wins via run-rule ... when East Carolina took a 1-0 lead in the second inning, it marked the first time since a 6-5 loss to Georgia on Feb. 20 that the Sooners had trailed, a span of 56 innings ... head coach Patty Gasso earned her 1000th win as the head coach at Oklahoma ... needing just 1,300 games, Coach Gasso becomes the second-fastest coach in NCAA Division 1 history to reach 1,000 wins (only Arizona's Mike Candrea did it quicker in 1,191 games) ... Gasso is the 28th coach in NCAA softball history to reach that figure and the 17th to do it at the D-1 level ... she is also one of 10 coaches to get 1,000 wins at one Division 1 school ... OU's eight home runs were a program record, breaking the old mark of six ... it tied as the fourth-highest HR total in DI history, marking the 10th time ever a team hit eight homers ... the five home runs in the third inning tied an NCAA all-time mark ... the 23 runs tied a season-high and tied for the third-most in program history ... OU's 53 total bases were the seventh-most in DI history ... Lauren Chamberlain hit her 86th career home run, giving her sole possession of third place and bringing her within four of the all-time record of 90 ... Chamberlain's 232 career RBI move her past former teammate Jessica Shults for second in Big 12 and OU history ... Shelby Pendley had her 13th career multi-home run game, including her fourth career grand slam ... she is now tied for 14th in NCAA history with 69 career home runs ... Pendley also has 50 HR in her Sooners career to tie for fourth place

NORMAN – The No. 6 Oklahoma softball team (21-3) celebrated head coach Patty Gasso's 1,000th win at the school with a program-record eight home runs as it cruised to a 23-1, five-inning win over East Carolina (8-19) on Sunday at Marita Hynes Field.

Needing just 1,300 games, Gasso became the second-fastest coach in NCAA Division 1 history to reach 1,000 wins. Only Arizona's Mike Candrea did it quicker, doing so in 1,191 games. Gasso is the 28thcoach in NCAA softball history to reach that figure and the 17th to do it at the D-1 level. She is also one of 10 coaches to get 1,000 wins at one Division 1 school.

The eight home runs tied for the fourth most in a game in NCAA Division I history, and it was the 10th time a program reached that total. Five of the eight home runs came in the third inning alone, tying a DI mark done eight times previously.

Among the highlights in the game were two home runs each for senior Shelby Pendley and junior Kady Self. In addition, senior Lauren Chamberlain tallied the 86^th home run of her career, breaking a tie for third place with two other hitters. She is now just four homers away from tying the all-time mark of 90.

The third inning alone produced a record-tying 17 runs for the Sooners. That ties a record set last year against Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Feb. 28 and goes down as a tie for the second-most in an inning in NCAA history.

Surprisingly, the Sooners actually trailed in the game. Ali Ramirez's one-out, solo home run put the Pirates on the board 1-0 and marked the first time since a 6-5 loss to No. 8/7 Georgia on Feb. 20 that OU trailed, a span of 56 innings. The lead would not last long, though.

Two batters into the bottom of the second, junior Kady Self drove the first pitch she saw over the fences in center field just to the right of the batter's eye. Her second home run of the year tied the game at 1-1.

The flood gates then opened with a five-homer, 17-run third inning.

Junior Erin Miller, freshman Paige Parker and senior Jessica Vest all hit run-scoring single to give the Sooners a 4-1 lead. A bases loaded hit by pitch recorded by Chamberlain made it 5-1. With the bases full, Pendley drilled the fourth grand slam of her career to the bleachers in left center, putting OU on top 9-1.

Two batters later, sophomore Macey Hatfield got in on the act with two-run shot to center field for her third homer of the year. Up 11-1, junior Leslie Miller pinch hit and brought home the 12^th run of the game with a double. Fellow pinch hitting junior Paris Townsend followed with her first homer of the year, a towering three-run shot, to push the advantage to 15-1. The Sooners ended up going back-to-back as junior transfer Tori Nirschl hit her first home run as a Sooner with a solo blast to left center.

A walk to Chamberlain kept the inning going and Pendley capped the inning with her second homer of the frame. That brought her career total to 69, tying her for 14^th place on the all-time home run list.

Leading 18-1 in the fourth, Oklahoma tacked on five more runs to tie a season high and tie for the third-most runs in a game in program history.

Self led off the inning with a solo home run to right on the first pitch of the frame. It was her career-high fourth hit of the game as she finished 4-4 with three runs scored and two solo home runs. Up next was freshman Destinie Lookout, who recorded her first career hit with a triple to the corner in right field. She came home when senior Jessica Vest doubled to right center. After an RBI double by Nirschl, Chamberlain connected on her two-run homer to close out the scoring for OU.