OU Rolls Through Fall Festival

NORMAN – The Oklahoma softball team wrapped up its first weekend of fall play with a pair of run-rule victories Saturday afternoon as it took down Seminole State College and Connors State College. The Sooners defeated each team, 11-1, in six innings.

OU 11, Seminole State 1 (6 Innings)

The Sooners opened up the scoring in the first inning as Grace Green got things started with an RBI single. An Alycia Flores double to right center scored Green, Jocelyn Alo and Raylee Pogue to make it 4-0 OU.

OU tacked on five more runs in the second. Alo got things started with a single to drive in two before an RBI double by Grace Green. Alo came home on a sac fly and Green ran in on a single to make it 9-0 OU after two innings.

The third inning went scoreless. Seminole State registered their only run of the contest in the fourth with a leadoff homerun. The Sooners would score twice more in the game, with an Alo solo homer launched over the right field wall in the bottom of the fifth and an RBI single by Mackenzie Donihoo in the bottom of the sixth.

OU 11, Connors State 1 (6 innings)

After being held scoreless in the first inning, the Sooners would plate their first run of the game in the second inning on a Kinsey Koeltzow sacrifice fly.

OU would drive in eight runs over the next two innings. Jocelyn Alo crushed a two-run homerun over the left field wall to make it a 3-0 game, before back-to-back RBI singles from Mackenzie Donihoo and Koeltzow brought the score to 5-0.

Connors State would add its only run of the game in the top of the fourth on an RBI single. The Sooners responded with four runs in the home half, as three Sooners recorded RBI doubles to make it a 9-1 game at the end of the fourth.

Alycia Flores added a run on a sacrifice fly in the fifth and Donihoo would put the game away with an RBI single in the bottom of the sixth to give OU the run-rule victory.