Sooners Down NCTC Monday Night - University of Oklahoma

NORMAN – The Oklahoma softball team downed North Central Texas College 17-1 Monday night at Marita Hynes Field.

The Sooners started off hot, plating four runs in the first inning. After three scoreless innings, OU would go on to score at least one run in each of the final four innings, including a four-run seventh and six-run eighth.

Offensively, the Sooners were led at the plate by Lynnsie Elam, who went 3-for-6 on the night with a solo homerun and a grand slam. Elam also added a two-RBI double in her seven RBI outing.

Kinzie Hansen, Eliyah Flores and Alycia Flores each added a pair of hits. E. Flores drove in six runs of her own with a three-run homerun. A. Flores notched a two-run homerun in the Sooners' six-run eighth inning.

Jocelyn Alo scored four runs in the contest while Hansen, and both Flores sisters crossed home twice.

Additionally, pitchers Olivia Rains, Shannon Saile, Macy McAdoo and Brooke Vestal combined to hold NCTC to just two hits and one run in the fall exhibition. Saile led the pitching staff with seven strikeouts in 2.2 innings of work, while Rains added five in 3.1 innings. McAdoo tallied four strikeouts of her own and Vestal added another three.

OU will wrap up the fall slate on Friday, Nov. 1, when the University of Texas - Arlington comes to Marita Hynes Field.