No. 1 OU Wins Bedlam, Ninth Straight Big 12 Title

Sunday, May 9

Stillwater, Okla.

11 AM

University of Oklahoma

42-2, 16-1

Oklahoma State

40-8, 15-3

Oklahoma

Oklahoma State

No. 1 OU Wins Bedlam, Ninth Straight Big 12 Title

May 09, 2021 | Softball

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STILLWATER, Okla. — The No. 1 Oklahoma softball team won the Bedlam series and its ninth consecutive Big 12 regular season title with an 11-8 win over No. 7/9 Oklahoma State Sunday at Cowgirl Stadium in Stillwater.

OU's freshman trio of Jayda Coleman, Tiare Jennings and Nicole May played like veterans to help guide OU to its 19th overall conference title.

May got the win in the circle after entering in the bottom of the third with the bases loaded and collecting the third out via strikeout to leave the runners stranded. May finished with 4.1 innings pitched, allowing three hits and just one run to go with four strikeouts and zero walks. She retired 13 of the 16 batters she faced in game three and concluded her first Bedlam series with one win, one save and six strikeouts, allowing OSU to hit just .133 off her.

Coleman picked up where she left off Saturday, batting in three runs in Sunday's finale to go with one hit by pitch. The freshman finished the weekend batting .625 with six RBIs, one home run, one double and nine putouts from centerfield.

Jennings hit her 23rd home run of her first-year campaign on a solo shot in the fourth inning to go with two RBIs on the day.

Oklahoma (42-2, 16-1) got on the board first for the third time this weekend, plating six in the top of the second off three hits and three OSU errors. After an RBI single from sophomore Mackenzie Donihoo, senior captain Lynnsie Elam came across home via the first Cowgirl error of the inning. Following a stolen base from redshirt senior Nicole Mendes, Coleman ripped a two-RBI single up the middle. Coleman would score two at-bats later off OSU's second error of the game and inning. Tiare Jennings closed the frame with a fielder's choice RBI, scoring senior Jocelyn Alo.

Oklahoma State (40-8, 15-3) responded with one run in the bottom of the second off a Sydney Pennington single.

A combined nine runs were scored in the third, beginning with three from OU in the top of the inning. Following a pair of walks drawn by senior Jana Johns and Elam, Mendes blasted her second home run in as many games to left field to score three. It marked Mendes' seventh home run of the season and third in the past five games.

Oklahoma State hit two two-run home runs in the bottom of the third, accompanied by two bases-loaded walks to plate six. May entered for redshirt senior Shannon Saile with the bases loaded and collected the third and final out of the inning on a strike out to limit the damage and leave OU up two runs.

Each team put one across in the fourth, starting with Jennings' 23rd blast of 2021, a solo shot to right center. OSU answered with a solo shot from Hayley Busby.

The Sooners scored their 11th and final run of the game in the fifth inning via a sacrifice-fly RBI from Coleman, her third run batted in of the game.

Coleman and Mendes paced OU with three RBIs a piece, while Donihoo and junior Grace Lyons went 2-for-4 at the plate with Donihoo bringing in one. Five Sooners recorded a hit in the contest with four registering RBIs.

With two more Sunday, OU has now hit 120 home runs on the season. The Sooners have homered in 41 of their 44 games and launched at least two round-trippers in 35 games.

Oklahoma concludes the regular season 42-2 and 16-1 in Big 12 play. The Sooners will open postseason play at the Big 12 Softball Championship at Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, May 14-15.

No. 1 seed OU will match up with fourth-seeded Baylor Friday at 2 p.m. CT before facing off against sixth-seeded Texas Tech Friday night at 7:30 p.m. Both games can be seen via Big 12 NOW on ESPN+ and heard on The Franchise 2 (103.3 FM, 1560 AM) in Oklahoma and nationwide on the TuneIn app.

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OU Head Coach Patty Gasso

On winning the Bedlam series and Big 12 regular season title:

"It's a tough environment without question. It's a good environment, though. We needed to feel that. Really, really impressed with our freshmen. Jayda Coleman, Nicole May, just really stepped up big when we needed them. Definitely like veterans out there. I thought our leadership was good along the way. There were times when we were giving up too much on the pitching side. But our team never let that bother them. It didn't take our momentum away. They did a really good job of staying locked in the whole way through, so still some things we've got to fix. But they competed like champions this weekend, absolutely."

On freshmen Jayda Coleman and Nicole May:

"I don't know that we would be holding up a trophy without either one of them right now. Really proud of them. To be able to have these experiences as a freshman and come through over and over is just telling everyone something about what our future is going to look like, which is very bright."

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: May, Nicole (12-1)

L: Eberle, C. (19-2)

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Batting:

HR: Jennings, Tiare 1 ; Mendes, Nicole 1

RBI: Coleman, Jayda 3 ; Jennings, Tiare 2 ; Donihoo, Mackenzie 1 ; Mendes, Nicole 3

SF: Coleman, Jayda 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Coleman, Jayda 1 ; Alo, Jocelyn 1 ; Jennings, Tiare 1 ; Lyons, Grace 1 ; Elam, Lynnsie 2 ; Donihoo, Mackenzie 1 ; Johns, Jana 2 ; Mendes, Nicole 2