NCAA Norman Regional Begins Friday

Friday, May 21

Norman

7:30 PM

University of Oklahoma

Morgan State

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May 20, 2021 | Softball

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NCAA Norman Regional

May 21-23 / Marita Hynes Field / Norman, Okla.

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REGIONAL STORYLINES

• The No. 1 overall seed Sooners (45-2, 16-1 Big 12) begin their quest for a fifth national title this weekend as it hosts the NCAA Norman Regional at Marita Hynes Field beginning Friday.

• The four-team, three-day event features Wichita State (39-11-1, 18-5-1) facing Texas A&M (31-21, 8-16 SEC) at 5 p.m. CT Friday on ESPN2 before the Sooners take on Morgan State (24-15, 14-5) at 7:30 p.m. CT Friday on ESPN3.

• Friday's winners will square off in the first of three games Saturday (3 p.m.), while Friday's losing teams will face off in an elimination game for game two of Saturday's tripleheader (5:30 p.m.). The loser of Saturday's first game will take on the winner of the day's second game in an elimination game later Saturday night (8 p.m.). The winner of Saturday's final game will take on the winner of the day's first game on Sunday (3 p.m.) with an if necessary rematch scheduled for later on Sunday (5:30 p.m.).

• The winner of this weekend's regional will advance to the NCAA Super Regional round against the winner of the Seattle regional, hosted by Washington, the following weekend with the goal of reaching the 2021 Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City.

• The NCAA Softball Norman Regional at Marita Hynes Field will operate at 100% fan capacity following the NCAA's announcement Wednesday afternoon that allows full capacity at baseball and softball championships where local and state guidelines allow. Tickets are still available via SoonerSports.com/Tickets or by calling the OU Ticket Office at (405) 325-2424.

MAYHEM

• Oklahoma has made the NCAA Tournament 27 straight seasons overall and every year of head coach Patty Gasso's tenure since 1995 (tournament was not played in 2020). Only Arizona has a longer streak (33 straight), while the Sooners are tied with Washington for second-longest run.

• Oklahoma has been a national seed for each of the past 14 seasons. This is the third time in program history that the Sooners have been the top-seeded team, also earning the No. 1 spot in 2013 and 2019.

• In 2019, the last season the tournament was played, OU reached its 13th WCWS in program history, culminating in a runner-up finish in the championship series. With four national titles (2000, '13, '16, '17) Oklahoma trails only UCLA (12) and Arizona (8) for most in NCAA history, and no other team has more than two.

• This marks OU's 10th straight year hosting a regional. Overall, Oklahoma is 74-20 (.787) in NCAA Regional play with 18 Regional championships in 26 appearances. In 2019, OU won the NCAA Norman Regional championship over Wisconsin after the Badgers ended OU's program-best 41-game win streak and 49-game home win streak.

• The Sooners are looking to make their 11th straight appearance in the Super Regionals and 14th overall since the format was introduced in 2005. All-time, OU has competed in 13 Women's College World Series and earned four national championships.

LAST TIME OUT

• No. 1 Oklahoma completed the Big 12 title sweep Saturday, beating No. 7/9 Oklahoma State, 10-2, in run-rule fashion to win their seventh Big 12 tournament crown.

• It marks the fourth consecutive season Oklahoma has won both the regular season conference title and tournament crown. OU has 20 Big 12 titles overall.

• Big 12 Player of the Year Jocelyn Alo registered the run-rule, walk-off hit in the sixth inning on a two-RBI single up the middle. The senior paced OU in the game with a 3-for-5, three runs batted in performance.

• Sophomore Kinzie Hansen was named Most Outstanding Player of the championship after hitting a combined five home runs in OU's three games.

• Seven Sooners were named to the All-Tournament team: Hansen, Alo, Jayda Coleman, Lynnsie Elam, Tiare Jennings, Nicole May and Shannon Saile.

• OU beat Baylor in run-rule fashion in its first game of the tourney, topping the Bears 10-2 in five innings. The Sooners exploded in Friday's second game, hitting six home runs to beat Texas Tech 8-2. It marked the third game of the season the Sooners hit six-plus homers.

A LOOK AT THE REGIONAL FOES

• Wichita State (39-11-1, 18-5-1 AAC), the No. 2 seed in the Norman Regional, comes to Marita Hynes Field as the American Athletic Conference's automatic qualifier after winning its conference tournament over UCF last weekend. The Shockers swept the AAC conference titles, also winning the regular season crown with a 18-5-1 record in conference play.

• The Shockers are led by head coach Kristi Bredbenner in her 10th season in Wichita. She holds a 284-232-1 record at WSU.

• The Shockers rank second in the country in home runs with 94 to OU's 130 first-place mark. Two Shockers have hit 18-plus home runs on the year with Addison Barnard leading the way with 21 on the season, good for fifth in the country. Madison Perrigan is second on the squad with 18 blasts.

• Bailey Lange paces the Shockers in the circle with a 2.55 ERA and a 21-6 record. She has 128 strikeouts on the season to 55 walks.

• Last Time They Met: The Sooners and Shockers are familiar foes, meeting a few weeks ago in Wichita, a 14-3 OU win in five innings. Grace Green hit OU's seventh grand slam of 2021 to put the game in run-rule territory. All-time, OU holds a 51-7 win margin over the Shockers.

• Regional History: The Sooners and Shockers have met twice in NCAA Regional play, a 2-0 OU win in the 2005 Norman Regional and a 7-2 Sooner victory in the 2016 Norman Regional.

• Texas A&M, the three-seed in this weekend's regional, posted a 31-21 overall record on the year, going 8-16 in SEC play. The Aggies are led by longtime head coach Jo Evans (1,268-682-2) in her 25th season at the helm in College Station.

• The Aggies are led by home run hitter Haley Lee who ranks fourth in the country in homers with 22 on the season. She also paces the Aggies in batting average (.413), RBIs (43) and walks (34).

• Two-way player Makinzy Herzog leads the Aggies in hits with 61 on the year. In the circle, Herzog paces the team with 12 wins to six losses. She's struck out 118 batters and walked 74 on the year to go with a 2.56 ERA.

• Last Time They Met: The Sooners and Aggies met at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in 2020, with OU winning 2-1 in walk-off fashion on an RBI double from Grace Lyons. OU holds the all-time record over A&M, 50-30, with a 24-8 mark in Norman.

• Regional History: OU has met Texas A&M more times in program history than any other opponent in NCAA Regional play. The Sooners are undefeated against the Aggies in regional history, holding a 6-0 mark with the teams last meeting in 2015. The Sooners beat A&M twice in the Norman Regional, 7-5 and 2-0 to advance to Super Regionals.

• Morgan State, automatic qualifiers as winners of the MEAC, went 24-15 on the year with a 14-5 mark in MEAC play. The Bears are making their first NCAA Softball Championship appearance.

• Morgan State is paced at the plate by Ellen Ebbers, Aliya Ewell and Haylee Bobos. Ebbers leads the team with 11 doubles and a .348 batting average while Bobos has hit a team-best four home runs to go with 21 RBIs. Ewell is close behind, bringing in 20 runs on the year to go with a team-best 56 total bases, 35 hits and 29 runs.

• In the circle, Stephanie Rundlett leads the team with a 12-7 record and 83 strikeouts to 31 walks. She holds a 3.12 ERA and teams are batting .266 off the graduate senior.

• Friday's matchup between OU and Morgan State will be the first ever meeting between the two programs.

ALL THE NUMBERS

• Oklahoma's offense leads the country in every major offensive category:
    • Home runs: 130 (36 better than 2nd-place Wichita State's 94)
    • Home runs per game: 2.77 avg.
    • Batting average: .419
    • On base percentage: .505
    • Slugging percentage: .799
    • Runs: 526 (11.19 per game avg.)

• OU is outscoring opponents 526-80 on the season, scoring an average of 11.19 runs per game to opponents 1.70 clip.

• Oklahoma has won by run rule in 32 of its 47 games.

• OU has scored 10-plus runs in one inning six times in 2021.

• 13 Sooners have hit a home run this season, with 11 players blasting at least two.

• The Sooners hold three of the top 10 individual batting averages in the country out of players with at least 100 AB:
    • 2nd - Jocelyn Alo - .479
    • 5th - Jayda Coleman - .477
    • 6th - Tiare Jennings - .474

• Three of the top 10 home run hitters in the country reside in Norman, including the nation's leader.
    • 1st - Alo: 27
    • T2nd - Jennings: 24
    • T8th - Hansen: 20

• As a team, OU has hit at least one home run in 44 of its 47 games this season and has hit at least two in 37 of the 47 contests.

• Oklahoma has hit two-plus home runs in one inning 28 times this season, including three or more seven times and four-plus in one inning four times.

• The Sooners have hit back-to-back home runs 13 times in 2021 and back-to-back-to-back blasts three times.

• The Oklahoma defense shares a tie for first in the country out of teams that have played at least five games with a .986 fielding percentage and has committed just 15 errors on the season.

• OU's pitching staff leads the country with 21 shutouts. The staff ranks 10th with a 1.73 ERA.

RECORD BREAKERS

• The Sooners broke the program record for home runs in their series at Oklahoma State, hitting No. 116 in Stillwater and have since brought their season total to 130, blasting past the 2019 team's previous record of 115. The 2021 squad hit the program mark in 23 less games.

• The 2021 Oklahoma Softball team has set the program record for most run-rule victories in a season with 32, surpassing the 2019 and 2013 teams' 25.

• The 2021 team currently holds the single-season program record for runs scored (526) batting average (.419), on-base percentage (.505) and slugging (.799).

• Senior Jocelyn Alo (81 career HRs) is 14 homers shy of the program and NCAA record 95 that 2015 OU grad Lauren Chamberlain hit throughout her career.

• Alo (27 HRs) and freshman Tiare Jennings (24) are quickly approaching the single-season program record for home runs (30) set in 2018 by Alo herself and 2012 and 2013 by Lauren Chamberlain.

• Freshman Tiare Jennings is six home runs short of tying and seven away from breaking the NCAA freshman single-season home run record of 30, hit in 2012 by Chamberlain and 2018 by Alo.

• Oklahoma set an NCAA single-game home run record with 13 in the season opener versus UTEP, a 29-0 (5 inn.) run-rule victory. The team tied the NCAA record for homers in an inning with five in the first and fifth innings of the game.

• Freshman Tiare Jennings and junior Grace Lyons tied the school record for home runs in a game with three a piece against the Miners in the season opener.

• The fourth inning of OU's game three vs. Texas Tech (4/25) marked the most runs scored in an inning in program history and tied for the second most in NCAA history, second only to College of Charleston's 29 on Feb. 11, 2004 (2nd inn.) vs. Savannah State and sharing the mark with Canisius' 18 mark on May 1, 1985 (2nd inn.) vs. Roberts Wesleyan.

• Oklahoma registered a program-best 28 hits in its 33-4 victory over New Mexico on Feb. 27 in Phoenix.

• Oklahoma holds the top two run single-game run totals of 2021 with 33 in its victory over New Mexico Feb. 27 and 29 in its season opener over UTEP.

ALO ONE OF THREE FINALISTS FOR PLAYER OF THE YEAR

• Oklahoma senior utility player Jocelyn Alo has been named one of the three finalists for the 2021 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, USA Softball announced Wednesday.

• Alo, the Big 12 Player of the Year and First Team All-Big 12 selection, has paced the potent Oklahoma offense in 2021, holding the nation's lead in home runs (27) and slugging percentage (1.120) and ranks second in RBIs (75) and fifth in batting average (.479).

• The senior slugger has homered in 25 of OU's 47 games, including two grand slams and two multi-home run games. She has successfully reached base in 59 of OU's last 60 games dating back to last season, including going on a program record 40-game consecutive hit streak from Feb. 21, 2020 vs. Texas A&M to April 3, 2021 vs. Kansas.

• Additionally, Alo tied the NCAA record for consecutive games with a home run at seven from March 7 vs. Sam Houston through OU's first matchup with Iowa State, March 26. The Hauula, Hawaii, native has 81 career homers, just 14 shy of the OU and NCAA career record for home runs (95), set by 2015 OU grad Lauren Chamberlain.

• No. 1 Oklahoma was one of three programs to have multiple top-10 finalists for the award, as Tiare Jennings was a Top-10 candidate the the award, considered the most prestigious honor in NCAA Division I softball.

• The winner will be announced June 1 prior to the start of the NCAA Women's College World Series

• Oklahoma alumna Keilani Ricketts was a two-time recipient of the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award in 2012 and 2013. Most recently, 2019 graduate Sydney Romero was a top-three finalist in 2019.

SOONERS DOMINATE BIG 12 AWARDS

• Oklahoma Softball collected four of the five individual awards from the Big 12 conference and placed all eight nominees on all-conference teams with an additional three named to the freshman team. The league announced the honors Wednesday.

• Jocelyn Alo was named Big 12 Player of the Year, Grace Lyons earned Defensive Player of the Year, Tiare Jennings garnered Freshman of the Year and head coach Patty Gasso was voted Coach of the Year. The honorees were selected by a vote of the conference head coaches.

• Alo collects OU's 14th Big 12 Player of the Year award and fifth in the last six seasons. The top-3 finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year has paced the Sooners and NCAA at the plate in 2021. She leads the country in home runs (27) and slugging percentage (1.120) and ranks second in RBIs (75) and fifth in batting average (.479). In league play, Alo batted .500 with seven home runs, 22 RBIs and a 1.042 slugging clip.

• Lyons, the anchor of OU's nation-leading defense, wins OU's fourth Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year award of the last five seasons. The junior has started all 47 games of the season and all 134 games of her career at shortstop dating back to her freshman season. In 2021, she has registered 46 putouts and 53 assists to just three errors for a .971 fielding percentage. Additionally, the Peoria, Ariz., native has turned eight double plays on the year. Lyons has been equally impressive at the plate with a .438 batting average, 12 home runs and 44 RBIs.

• One of two freshmen in the country named as a top-10 finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, Jennings wins OU's sixth consecutive Big 12 Freshman of the Year award and ninth overall. She was the unanimous choice for the award by the league's head coaches. The San Pedro, Calif., product has been exceptional at the plate and in the field in 2021. She's blasted 24 home runs, good for a share of second in the country, batted in a nation-leading 76 runs and ranks ninth with a .474 batting average. In the Big 12, Jennings ranked first in RBIs, runs scored (60) and shared the lead with 14 doubles. She's second in the country and conference to teammate Alo with a 1.046 slugging percentage. In the field, Jennings has started every game of her rookie campaign at second or third base and registered 50 putouts and 37 assists to three errors for a .967 fielding percentage.

• NFCA Hall of Fame head coach Patty Gasso collects her ninth consecutive Big 12 Coach of the Year honor and 13th overall in her 27 seasons at Oklahoma. Gasso has led the Sooners to a 45-2 overall record and their fourth straight Big 12 title sweep, along with a 12-week hold on the No. 1 national ranking in both major polls. No other Big 12 coach has won more than three Big 12 Coach of the Year awards.

• OU collected a league-best 11 spots across the three all-conference teams. The Sooners placed five on the All-Big 12 First Team with freshman Jayda Coleman and redshirt senior Shannon Saile joining Alo, Lyons and Jennings. Alo and Saile were unanimous selections.

• Sophomore Mackenzie Donihoo, senior Lynnsie Elam and redshirt senior Giselle Juarez were placed on the All-Big 12 Second Team while Coleman, Jennings and Nicole May garnered unanimous All-Big 12 Freshman Team honors.

• Alo's first team accolade marks her third All-Big 12 First Team selection while Coleman, Lyons, Jennings and Saile collect their first selection. Saile was a second-teamer in 2019. Donihoo and Elam are awarded their first conference honor while Juarez wins her third after being named Pitcher of the Year and All-Big 12 First Team in 2019.

• OU's five first-team selection ties for second most in program history behind the six selections the 2000 and 2019 teams garnered.

COLEMAN, JENNINGS TOP-15 FINALISTS FOR FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR

• University of Oklahoma softball freshmen Jayda Coleman and Tiare Jennings have been named two of the 15 finalists for the NFCA/Schutt Sports Division I National Freshman of the Year award, the NFCA announced last week.

• The versatile Coleman, named First Team All-Big 12 Wednesday, has been a force in the field and at the plate for OU, batting .477 to go with 43 RBI, seven home runs and 18 stolen bases. Coleman has started every game of her first-year campaign across the outfield or at first base. She holds a team-best .582 on-base percentage, drawing 29 walks to just eight strikeouts. The native of The Colony, Texas, went on a 19-game hit streak earlier in the year and currently holds an on-base streak of 38 games. Her 18 stolen bases is best on the team by 12 while her 61 hits ranks third among the potent OU offense.

• The Big 12 Freshman of the Year, Jennings, also a top-10 finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, has hit 24 home runs to go with 76 RBIs. Her RBI mark leads in the nation and she's tied for second in the country for home runs, just three behind teammate Jocelyn Alo's 27. She holds an exceptional slash line of .474/.522/1.046. The San Pedro, Calif., product has homered in 20 of OU's 47 games and hit multiple homers in a game three times, beginning with the season opener at UTEP where she tied a single-game program record with three home runs in her first collegiate game. The frosh has started every game of the season at second or third base and holds a .967 fielding percentage with 50 putouts and 37 assists to just three errors.

• Additionally, Jennings and Coleman rank eighth and ninth, respectively, in the country in batting average.

• Oklahoma is the only program with two representatives on the top-15 list.

• Since the award was created in 2014, Oklahoma is the only program with more than one winner with Paige Parker garnering the honor in 2015 and Jocelyn Alo winning the award in 2018.

• The three finalists for the award will be announced May 27. The 2021 Schutt Sports/NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year will be announced June 1.

AMAZING ALO

• Senior utility player Jocelyn Alo leads the country with 27 home runs in OU's 47 games. The Hawaii native has hit a homer in 25 of OU's 47 games, including two grand slams and two multi-HR games.

• Alo has moved up the OU record book for career home runs to second in program history with 81. The NCAA HR record holder Lauren Chamberlain ranks first in program and NCAA history with 95.

• The slugger tied the NCAA record for consecutive games with a home run at seven from March 7 vs. Sam Houston through OU's first matchup with Iowa State on March 26.

• Alo and Chamberlain share the OU single-season HR record at 30 home runs, Chamberlain doing so twice ('12, '13) and Alo hitting the 30 mark her freshman season in 2018.

• More of Alo's eye-popping numbers:
    • 1st in the country with 27 home runs.
    • Averaging 0.57 home runs per game and a home run ever 5.25 at-bats
    • Ranks second in the country out of players with at least 100 AB with a .479 batting average.
    • NCAA-leading 1.120 slugging percentage
    • Has recorded a hit in 42 of OU's 47 games in 2021
    • Program record 40-game hit streak dating back to Feb. 21, 2020 vs. Texas A&M came to a close April 3 vs. Kansas. The streak goes down as the third best consecutive game hitting streak in NCAA history, falling just three games shy of the record.

• In conference play, Alo batted .500 with seven HRs, 22 RBIs and a 1.042 slugging clip.

• Alo recently announced she will be returning for her extra year of eligibility in 2022 as a redshirt senior.

FRESHMAN PHENOMS

• Oklahoma's freshman trio of Jayda Coleman, Tiare Jennings and Nicole May have put together quite the first-year campaigns as Sooners.

• Jennings, the 2019-20 Gatorade California Softball Player of the Year, leads the country with 76 RBIs on the year and is second on the team and in the country with 24 home runs. She's batted .451 in Big 12 play with eight HR, 25 RBI and 53 TB.

• Coleman, the 2019-20 Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year out of The Colony, Texas, is first on the team with a .582 batting average and holds an on-base streak of 38 games as she leads the team with 29 walks drawn in 2021.

• Coleman also leads the team with 18 stolen bases on 21 attempts in 2021. She's fourth on the team in doubles with eight on the year and has hit seven home runs.

• May, the 2018-19 Gatorade California Softball Player of the Year, is third among the OU pitching staff with 12 wins on the season and third in strikeouts behind veterans Giselle Juarez and Shannon Saile with 73 K's on the year to 18 walks. She holds a 1.62 ERA and opponents are batting just .182 against the Pleasanton, Calif., native.

JUAREZ, SAILE LEAD PITCHING STAFF

• The seven-deep Oklahoma pitching staff has put together a solid season, pitching shutouts in 21 of OU's 47 games.

• The staff has put together two combined perfect games this season plus a no-hitter. Redshirt senior Giselle Juarez, redshirt sophomore Brooke Vestal and freshman Nicole May pitched a perfect game vs. Portland State (2/28). Three OU pitchers, Vestal, freshman Alanna Thiede and sophomore Olivia Rains, combined for OU's second perfect game of the season vs. Sam Houston, March 7. Juarez, Rains and Shannon Saile combined to throw a no-hitter versus New Mexico Feb. 26, an 8-0 run-rule OU victory.

• Along with two perfect games and one no-hitter, the staff has allowed just one hit in nine games this season.

• The staff holds a 1.73 ERA, good for 10th in the country, and has allowed 80 runs in 47 games to go with 340 strikeouts and 157 hits allowed to 92 walks.

• First Team All-Big 12 redshirt senior Shannon Saile boasts 1116 strikeouts in 77.0 innings of work to go with 16 wins, two saves and no losses. Opponents are batting just .148 against the Land O'Lakes, Fla., native. In conference play, Saile posted a 1.71 ERA with 54 strikeouts to 22 walks while opponents batted .155 against her.

• Redshirt senior LHP Giselle Juarez is close behind Saile with 113 strikeouts on the year in 91.1 IP to go with a 16 wins. In conference play, Juarez was 7-1 with a 2.67 ERA to go with 47 strikeouts and just five walks. Opponents are batting .184 against Juarez.

• Freshman Nicole May has impressed in her first season of collegiate competition, striking out 73 in 60.1 innings pitched and collecting 12 wins to one loss. May holds a 1.62 ERA and struck out 22 in conference play to just six walks.

• Sophomores Olivia Rains (16.2), Macy McAdoo (7.2), Alanna Thiede (10.1) and Brooke Vestal (7.1) have all seen action for the Sooners in 2021.

EIGHT SOONERS EARN ALL-REGION HONORS

• The No. 1/1 Oklahoma softball team tied a school record by placing all eight of its nominees on the 2021 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division I All-Central Regional Team, the NFCA announced Thursday.

• Redshirt senior Shannon Saile, senior Jocelyn Alo, junior Grace Lyons, sophomores Mackenzie Donihoo and Kinzie Hansen, along with freshmen Jayda Coleman and Tiare Jennings were all selected for the All-Region First Team. Redshirt senior Nicole Mendes received All-Region Second Team honors.

• Seven first-team selections tied for most in the country with UCLA and ties the OU program record for first-team selections, also hitting the mark in 2019.

• Overall, this marks the sixth time in seven seasons that OU has had eight selections. The Sooners are one of six teams to have eight All-Region honorees this year, joining Alabama, Arizona, Oklahoma State, Oregon and UCLA.

• The awards honor softball student-athletes from the Association's 10 regions with first, second and third teams selected for each region. The all-region teams were voted on by NFCA member coaches from each respective region, and all the honorees now become eligible for selection to one of three 2021 NFCA Division I All-American teams.

• The 2021 NFCA Division I All-America teams will be announced at Wednesday, June 2.

• The Sooners return to action this weekend as they host Wichita State, Texas A&M and Morgan State in the NCAA Norman Regional at Marita Hynes Field.

CONFERENCE DOMINANCE

• The top-ranked Sooners finished the Big 12 regular season 16-1. OU swept Iowa State (March 26-28) in Ames while sweeping Kansas (April 1-3), No. 7/8 Texas (April 16-18) and Texas Tech (April 24-25) in Norman and topping Baylor in two (April 27).

• Oklahoma State gave OU it's first conference loss since April 23, 2017, on May 7 in Stillwater by a score of 6-4. It snapped OU's streak of 57 consecutive Big 12 regular season games. The streak was the longest in conference and program history.

• OU remains undefeated in their last 60 conference series (56-0-4 in that span) and have not lost a conference series since 2011.

• OU has finished first in the Big 12 over the past nine seasons with a combined record of 144-14. Prior to OU's current run of nine straight regular season titles, no team had ever won more than two consecutive.

• Overall, the Sooners have 20 Big 12 titles with 13 regular season crowns and seven Big 12 tournament championships, all under head coach Patty Gasso.

#LAUNCHPAD

• The Sooner Club recently launched a fun, new and creative way to support OU student-athletes and the OU Softball and Baseball stadium projects by offering fans the opportunity to join the #LaunchPad. The #LaunchPad is all about #homers. Pledge to donate your own customized dollar amount for every #homer that OU Softball and/or OU Baseball hit in 2021!

• All donations are 100% tax deductible and will be directed to help fund the facility project of your choice - the new OU Softball Stadium Project and/or the OU Baseball Stadium Renovation Project.

• How It Works: Donate an amount to be charged per home run for softball and/or baseball for the 2021 season.

• Include if you'd like to make a gift for every home run hit in the 2021 season or start your pledge as of today.

• Watch the Sooners and cheer us on to victory while supporting future OU facility projects for baseball and softball.

• #Homers hit prior to your gift date will be included in your pledge. Monthly updates on the Pledge Per Home Run Campaign and other important Sooner Club information will be shared throughout the season.

• All donations from the Pledge Per Home Run Campaign will be treated as charitable donations supporting either the OU Softball Stadium Project or the OU Baseball Stadium Renovation Project and are tax-deductible.

• Payment Dates: Each month, we will charge your card on the first business day of the proceeding month for the amount you have elected to pledge per home run multiplied by the number of home runs in that month. (Monthly Payment Dates: Thursday, April 1, 2021; Monday, May 3, 2021; Tuesday, June 1, 2021; Thursday, July 1, 2021)

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