No. 1 OU Hosts Hall of Fame Classic in OKC

Friday, March 18

Oklahoma City, Okla.

4 PM CT

University of Oklahoma

Sam Houston

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No. 1 OU Hosts Hall of Fame Classic in OKC

March 17, 2022 | Softball

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March 18-20 / Oklahoma City / USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium

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WEEKEND BASICS

• No. 1 Oklahoma (20-0) hosts the second annual Oklahoma Hall of Fame Classic March 18-20 in Oklahoma City at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium.

• OU meets five opponents on the weekend, matching up with Sam Houston (4 p.m. CT) and Indiana (6:30 p.m.) on Friday before games vs. San Diego (1:30 p.m.) and Houston (6:30 p.m.) Saturday and a finale vs. Iowa at 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

• All five of OU's games on the weekend can be seen via subscription on SoonerSports.tv with Chris Plank calling the action and alums Nicole Mendes (Friday) and Destinee Martinez (Saturday & Sunday) handling the color commentary.

• This weekend's games can be heard on 107.7 The Franchise in Oklahoma and nationwide on the TuneIn app.

• After 20 games played, the Sooners are batting .379 as a team with 48 home runs, 186 runs scored on 184 hits and 170 RBIs. They are outscoring opponents 186-20 with only 12 runs given up being earned. The team is slugging .746, holds a .496 on-base clip and has swiped 14 bases on 20 attempts. The pitching staff holds a 0.74 ERA and has 180 strikeouts.

• The Sooners have run-ruled 16 of their 20 opponents.

FOR THE FANS

• 1,000 posters celebrating Jocelyn Alo's record-breaking 96th career home run will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis on Friday before OU's 4 p.m. matchup with Sam Houston.

• Additionally, prior to OU's second game on Friday (6:30 p.m.), a special presentation will take place to honor Alo with a commemorative canvas for home run No. 96, presented by OU VP and director of athletics Joe Castiglione and head coach Patty Gasso. USA Softball also plans to honor Alo with a presentation of the 2021 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year trophy.

• OU alum Shay Knighten (2016-19) will throw out the honorary first pitch for the Sooners game vs. San Diego on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Knighten serves as an assistant coach for USD and is a two-time national champion at Oklahoma.

• Other giveaways on the weekend include: 500 quantity of apple stress relievers for Education Appreciation Day; OU Softball Koozies (500 quantity) and 2022 posters (1,000) on Saturday; 2021 National Championship posters on Sunday (1,500 quantity).

SECOND HOME

• The Sooners will make a familiar trip up I-35 North for this weekend's Hall of Fame Classic, traveling less than 30 miles from Marita Hynes Field to USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium.

• OU went a combined 16-2 at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium last year, defeating Houston, Kansas City and Liberty (twice) in the inaugural Hall of Fame Classic, March 12-14 prior to winning three games at the Big 12 Softball Championship (Baylor, Texas Tech, OSU) and finishing 6-2 in the Women's College World Series punctuated by the program's fifth national title. Oklahoma has won 39 of its last 47 games there.

• All time, Oklahoma is 119-48 under Patty Gasso in Oklahoma City, including regular season and postseason games.

HOME RUN QUEEN

• Jocelyn Alo is the new home run queen of college softball. In front of the home crowd of friends of family in Honolulu, Alo hit career home run No. 96 to break the tie with OU alum Lauren Chamberlain to be the NCAA career home run leader.

• After an eight-game stretch that saw Alo walk a combined 16 times including three intentional walks, the Hauula, Hawaii, native left no doubt when she saw the pitch she wanted last Friday night.

• The historic homer came in the top of the sixth inning versus Hawaii, a two-run blast to right center on a 2-1 count. Alo went 3-for-3 in the game with three RBIs.

• Alo hit the 96 mark in 224 games and 651 at-bats, she hit the record-tying No. 95 in 215 games, less games than Chamberlain (220) and anyone else in the all-time top 10. Chamberlain registered 607 at-bats in her career, hitting home run No. 95 in her last career at-bat.

• In 2022, Alo is hitting a team-best .532 (good for second in NCAA) with 27 RBIs. She's hit eight homers and has 14 extra-base hits, slugging an astronomical 1.170 and holds an NCAA-best .703 on-base percentage.

LAST TIME OUT

• The Sooners went 4-0 at the Rainbow Wahine Classic in Honolulu highlighted by Alo's NCAA record-breaking 96th career home run Friday in front of the home crowd. Oklahoma outscored its opposition 40-3 on the island and won all four games by run-rule, Beating Baylor, Cal and Hawaii (twice).

• The OU bats were in typical homer-blasting fashion with the team hitting a combined eight homers over the four games. Senior Captain Lynnsie Elam and senior Grace Lyons paced the team with two homers a piece, while Alo batted a team-best .778 on the island.

• The Sooner pitching staff tossed three shutouts in the four games, punctuated by a no-hitter by Nicole May and Jordy Bahl vs. Hawaii in the finale. The no-hitter was the Sooner pitching staff's fourth of the season and the second combined no hit performance. It marked the 64th no-hitter in program history.

• Redshirt senior Hope Trautwein led the staff with 17 strikeouts in 8.0 IP, allowing no runs and just two hits.

LAST TIME THEY MET

• Sam Houston: The Sooners lead the all-time series 12-7 over Sam Houston, last meeting the Bearkats on March 7, 2021 in Norman, a 17-0 Sooner win in five innings. OU holds an 8-6 advantage at neutral sites.

• Indiana: OU holds a 10-2-1 record vs. Indiana including a 2-0 mark at neutral sites. The teams last met on March 9, 2018, a 9-3 OU win.

• San Diego: Saturday's matchup marks the first meeting in program history vs. the Toreros. The team features a familiar face in the dugout, 2019 OU alum Shay Knighten. Knighten is an assistant coach with USD under her sister and head coach M.J. Knighten.

• Houston: OU leads the all-time series over the Coogs, 13-1, including a 1-0 neutral site advantage, played during last season's HOF Classic (9-1 [5] OU win). The teams met under a month ago in Houston with OU taking two in run-rule fashion over the host Cougars, 8-0 and 13-0, both in five.

• Iowa: The Sooners are 12-4 all-time over Iowa including a 5-1 mark at neutral sites. The teams will meet Sunday for the first time in seven years, last playing in Norman on March 16, 2015, a 9-0 OU win in five innings.

LAST TIME THEY MET

• Baylor: The Sooners hold a 66-13 advantage all-time over the Bears, sweeping a doubleheader in Waco last season (7-1, 11-0 [5]). The teams have met just twice outside the states of Oklahoma and Texas, last meeting in Tucson, Ariz., in 2001 (2-1 OU win).

• Cal: The Golden Bears lead the all-time series 11-6 over the Sooners, including an 8-5 neutral site advantage. The teams have not met since a Women's College World Series meeting in 2012, a 3-0 Oklahoma win.

• Hawaii: OU holds the series advantage over the Rainbow Wahine, 4-3, including a 3-1 mark in Honolulu. The teams last met during OU's last trip to Oahu in Feb. 2015, sweeping two games vs. UH (7-0, 8-0 [5]).

BREAKING DOWN THE 96

• New NCAA Career Home Run Leader Jocelyn Alo can hit blasts from anywhere in the lineup, anywhere in the count and anywhere in the country. A closer look at her 96 career homers:

• Starting with a bang: she's hit her most home runs in the first inning.

        • 1st inning: 21
        • 2nd: 13
        • 3rd: 19
        • 4th: 18
        • 5th: 12
        • 6th: 9
        • 7th: 3
        • 8th: 1

• The First Pitch She Sees: Alo has hit the most homers with a 0-0 count: 20. Next closest is the full count, 3-2, where she's hit 13.

• All over the field: Her most popular homer destination? Dead center.

        • Center Field: 29
        • Left Center: 12
        • Left Field: 25
        • Right Center: 13
        • Right Field: 9
     • Unidentified: 8

• Drive 'em in: Alo has hit homers throughout spots in the lineup, but her primary spot in the two-hole has seen the most blasts.

                • Leadoff: 4
                • 2 hole: 52
                • 3 hole: 24
• 4 hole: 11
• 5 hole: 2
                • 6 hole: 3

• The Mainland and Beyond: Understandably so, Alo has hit the most homers in the Sooner State, but she's also hit blasts in places like Mexico and most recently, her home state of Hawaii. The full list contains 10 states and Mexico. The top three states she's hit HRs:

                • Oklahoma: 50
                • Texas: 14
                • California: 11

HOMER HAPPY

• In 2022, the Sooners currently are second in the NCAA with 48 home runs and an NCAA-best 2.40 HR/game average.

• Jennings is currently tied for seventh in the NCAA with 10 homers while Alo follows close behind with eight.

• 13 Sooners have went yard already in 2022 with nine hitting multiple blasts and five hitting four-plus.

• As a team, Oklahoma has hit homers in 16 of its 20 contests, including hitting two or more in 13 games, three-plus in 10 games, four-plus in eight games and five home runs in one game.

• The team has hit two-plus home runs in one inning 11 times and back-to-back blasts four times on the year.

• Seven times this season a Sooner has hit two homers in one game, Tiare Jennings leads the way with four games of two HRs, while Jocelyn Alo has done so twice and Jana Johns once.

DOMINANCE IN THE CIRCLE

• Oklahoma's pitching staff is not to be overlooked by the potent offense. The OU staff of Jordy Bahl, Nicole May, Hope Trautwein and Macy McAdoo have combined for a 0.74 ERA, allowing just 12 earned runs (20 R) in OU's 20 games.

• The staff has thrown two perfect games and two no-hitters. Bahl, May and Trautwein combined on a perfect game in the season opener, Trautwein threw a no-no vs. McNeese on Feb. 19 and Bahl tossed her first career perfect game Feb. 25 vs. CSU-Fullerton. Most recently, May and Bahl combined on a no-hitter at Hawaii on March 12.

• The staff have a combined 180 strikeouts in 113.0 innings pitched, a product of OU's 16 run-rules in 20 games.

• Freshman Jordy Bahl leads the group with 78 strikeouts in 47.2 IP (0.73 ERA), while May (33.0 IP) and Trautwein (31.2 IP) have 47 and 54 K's, respectively.

• Bahl has three games with double-digit strikeouts, including a 16 K performance vs. Tennessee. May has two double-digit strikeout games, while Trautwein holds one.

HOME RUN U

• Oklahoma is officially Home Run University. With Jocelyn Alo's record-breaking career homer No. 96, two Sooners sit atop the NCAA record books for career home runs in Alo and 2015 alum Lauren Chamberlain.

• In addition to Alo and Chamberlain, 2015 alum Shelby Pendley sits at ninth all-time with 84 career blasts.

• More evidence of the Sooners staking claim to HRU is the past two seasons when OU has lit up the record books:

• 2021 saw the Sooners set NCAA records for home runs (161), runs scored (638), runs per game (10.63) and homers per game (2.68), among other records.

• Jocelyn Alo hit 34 blasts in 2021 for second all-time in single-season NCAA history, just three shy of Laura Espinoza's (Arizona) 37 in 1995. Alo's 2018 along with Chamberlain's 2012 and '13 where each hit 30 homers a piece all rank in the all-time top-10.

• Sophomore Tiare Jennings nearly matched Alo and Chamberlain's record (30) for freshman homers a season ago, hitting 27 to come within three of the NCAA frosh record.

THE ALL-AMERICANS ARE BACK

• Oklahoma returns five NFCA All-Americans from a season ago in redshirt senior Jocelyn Alo, senior Grace Lyons, junior Kinzie Hansen and sophomores Jayda Coleman and Tiare Jennings.

• Alo, the 2021 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year and NFCA First Team All-American, rewrote the record books a season ago and will have the opportunity to do more damage as a super senior in 2022. Also the 2021 Big 12 Player of the Year, Alo recorded program records for home runs (34), batting average (.475) and total bases (203) in 2021, including an NCAA-best 1.109 slugging percentage in 2021.

• Another NFCA All-American, Hansen, ranked fifth in the country a season ago with 24 home runs as she batted .438 with 66 RBIs. The Norco, Calif., product was a versatile weapon for OU, starting all but two games behind the plate or at first base. The 2021 Big 12 Tournament Most Outstanding Player allowed just three runners to steal on her, finishing the season with a .990 fielding clip.

• Coleman, an NFCA First Team All-American and finalist for the NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year, burst onto the college softball scene with her energy and playmaking ability as a freshman in 2021. The OU centerfielder led the team with 20 stolen bases and ranked second on the team with a .545 on-base percentage to go with nine home runs, 11 doubles and 53 RBIs.

• Jennings, the 2021 NFCA DI National Freshman of the Year and unanimous NFCA First Team All-American, had one of the most dominant first-year campaigns in not only Oklahoma, but NCAA history. The San Pedro, Calif., native set the NCAA single-season freshman RBI record with 92 and finished with 27 home runs on the season, just three away from the NCAA freshman HR record. Jennings also led the NCAA with 25 doubles and was second nationally behind Alo with a 1.000 slugging percentage.

FRESH FACES

• The Sooners reloaded once again via recruiting and the transfer portal for 2022.

• Nine newcomers enter the mix for OU this season, highlighted by consensus No. 1 recruit in the 2021 class, Jordy Bahl, and transfers Alyssa Brito (Oregon) and Hope Trautwein (North Texas).

• Six freshmen will lace 'em up for OU in 2022: Bahl, Turiya Coleman, Hannah Coor, Emmy Guthrie, Quincee Lilio and Sophia Nugent.

• Bahl, the 2020-21 Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year, posted a 27-0 record with a 0.10 ERA her senior season, surrendering just 27 hits and 15 walks in 137 innings pitched and striking out 316 batters.

• Transferring to Norman from Oregon, Brito joins the Sooners following an All-Pac 12 season with the Ducks. The rising sophomore will have three years of eligibility with the Sooners.

• As a freshman in Eugene, Brito collected Second Team All-Pac 12, Pac-12 All-Freshman Team and Pac-12 All-Defense accolades and was named to the NFCA's All-Pacific Region Second Team. She started 53 games at shortstop in her first-year campaign with the Ducks, batting .299 with 10 home runs and 31 RBIs, adding five doubles, a triple and 30 runs scored. At shortstop, the Tustin, Calif., product registered 59 putouts, 73 assists and committed just four errors.

• Helping the Sooners reload in the circle is graduate transfer Trautwein.

• Trautwein departed North Texas as its career leader in ERA (2.05), wins (61), opponent batting average (.197) and K/7IP (8.11). Named back-to-back Conference USA Pitcher of the Year and to the first team NFCA All-South Region team in 2021, the Pflugerville, Texas, product made national news in April when she tossed a perfect game, striking out all 21 batters faced in UNT's game versus Arkansas Pine-Bluff, becoming the first pitcher in Division I history to tally 21 strikeouts in a perfect game. She amassed a 46-12 record over the last three seasons and is a four-time member of the C-USA all-conference squad.

ALO, COLEMAN, HANSEN JENNINGS NAMED TO NATIONAL TEAM ROSTERS

• Four members of the Oklahoma softball team were named to USA Softball rosters for international competition this summer, the organization announced the rosters in early February.

• Senior Jocelyn Alo, sophomore Jayda Coleman, junior Kinzie Hansen and sophomore Tiare Jennings will all compete in tournaments with USA Softball this summer. The four will compete in one tournament as a group at the 2022 Japan All-Star Series.

• Already announced as a member of the 2022 Women's National Team for the World Games in Birmingham, Ala., this July is Kinzie Hansen. The Norco, Calif., product was also named to the Japan All-Star Series roster Wednesday afternoon.

• Alo and Coleman were both named to the 2022 Canada Cup and Japan All-Star Series rosters while Jennings will join her Sooner teammates for the Japan series.

• Selected by the Women's National Team Selection Committee (WNTSC) following the selection trials held in January, Alo, Coleman and Jennings make their first appearances on a Women's Senior National Team roster.

• The World Games are set to be held July 7-12 in Birmingham, while the 2022 Canada Cup will take place in Surrey, BC, Canada, June 20-26. The Japan All-Star Series is scheduled for August 1-9 in Fukushima, Japan.

THE TROPHY CLUB

• The Oklahoma softball program has announced the launch of its restructured booster club under a new name, The Trophy Club.

• The Trophy Club replaces the former Diamond Club as the program's premier booster initiative to continue to enhance the student-athlete experience at Oklahoma, both on and off the field.

• Softball fans can join now and take part in exclusive events, including the annual golf tournament, coaches luncheon and more.

For membership details and how donations will be utilized, visit The Trophy Club landing page on SoonerSports.com.

• Gifts to the Trophy Club and Oklahoma softball will be utilized for: resources for the development of our student-athletes, facility upgrades to enhance recruiting and student-athlete experiences and improved quality of travel to increase academic participation by our student-athletes.

THE #LAUNCHPAD IS BACK

• The #LaunchPad is back in 2022! Cheer on your Sooners and support our student-athletes in a fun, new and creative way by joining the #LaunchPad. The #LaunchPad is all about #homers. Pledge to donate your own customized dollar amount for every #homer that OU Softball hits in 2022!

• All donations are 100% tax deductible and will be directed to help fund the facility project of your choice - the new Love's Field - 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 for the 2022 season.

• Include if you'd like to make a gift for every home run hit in the 2022 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. For example, if OU Softball hits 20 home runs in March after you pledged $10 per #Homer, on April 1 we will charge your card $200.

Monthly Payment Dates:

Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Friday, April 1, 2022
Monday, May 2, 2022
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

• Have fun along the way by interacting with @OU_Baseball & @OU_Softball on social media with your favorite term to use for #homers! Some of our favorites include #dingers #taters #bombs #ruthianblast #yack #fourbagger #jimmyjack

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