Red River Rivals Meet in Austin

Thursday, April 14

Austin, Texas

6 PM CT

University of Oklahoma

Texas

April 13, 2022 | Softball

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¹ Oklahoma

¹⁸ Texas

April 14-16 / Austin, Texas / McCombs Field

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WEEKEND BASICS

• No. 1 OU meets No. 19/19 Texas in Austin, April 14-16. The teams play Thursday and Friday at 6 p.m. CT before a 1 p.m. finale on Saturday.

• All three games can be seen on Longhorn Network and via the ESPN app with Alex Loeb and UT alum and Olympian Cat Osterman on the call.

• The games can be heard in Oklahoma on 107.7 The Franchise and nationwide on The Varsity app with OU play-by-play announcer Chris Plank calling the action.

• After 36 games played, the Sooners are batting .392 as a team with a nation-leading 100 home runs, 354 runs scored on 338 hits and 334 RBIs. They are outscoring opponents 354-27 with only 17 runs given up being earned. The team is slugging .814, holds a .504 on-base clip and has swiped 37 bases on 46 attempts.

• The pitching staff holds a nation-best 0.60 ERA and has 310 strikeouts, allowing opponents to bat just .133.

• The Sooners have won by run-rule in 30 of their 36 games (83% of games).

LAST TIME OUT

• The Sooners swept Texas Tech in dominating fashion, winning 11-0, 11-0 and 21-0 in five innings all three games.

• With the Sunday win, Oklahoma set the record for best start in Division I softball history at 36-0.

• On Sunday, pitchers Jordy Bahl and Nicole May combined on OU's sixth no-hitter of the season, while the Sooner bats blasted a season-high seven home runs.

• The Sooners did not allow Texas Tech (19-19, 2-7) to score a run on the weekend, outscoring the Red Raiders 43-0 in 15 innings. The offense hit 17 home runs to bring OU's season total to 100.

• The 21 runs in game three was a season high for the Sooners, putting up runs in each of the five innings they went to the plate.

SERIES HISTORY

• Oklahoma leads the all-time series over Texas 48-24 including a 17-9 mark in Austin.

• OU has won 21 straight over Texas dating back to April 18, 2014, when the Longhorns last beat the Sooners, 0-9 in six innings in Norman.

• The Sooners have swept the Longhorns in six straight Big 12 conference series.

LAST TIME THEY MET

• OU swept UT in Norman last year, beating the Longhorns 11-1 (5), 10-2 (5) and 9-0 (5).

• Oklahoma outscored Texas 30-3 in the series and outhit the Horns 32-12 while OU's pitching staff struck out 15 to UT's three. OU's batters did not register a strikeout in the box in Sunday's finale.

• Freshman Tiare Jennings homered in every game of her first OU-Texas series while senior captain Lynnsie Elam hit a long ball in two of the three contests.

LOVING THE LONG BALL

• In 2022, the Sooners pace the NCAA with 100 home runs and a 2.78 HR/game average.

• Three Sooners occupy the top-10 in the country in home runs: Alo leads the NCAA with 21 blasts while Lyons (17) ranks third and Jennings (16) sits at seventh.

• 13 Sooners have went yard already in 2022 with 10 hitting multiple blasts and eight hitting four-plus.

• As a team, Oklahoma has hit homers in 30 of its 36 contests, including hitting two or more in 26 games, three-plus in 20 games, four-plus in 14 games, five-plus five times, six or more in four games and seven once.

• The team has hit two-plus home runs in one inning 22 times, three in one inning three times and four in one inning once.

• They have hit back-to-back home runs nine times on the year.

• 16 times this season a Sooner has hit two or more homers in one game. Jocelyn Alo leads the way with five games of 2+ HRs, while Tiare Jennings has accomplished the feat four times. Grace Lyons, Alyssa Brito and Lynnsie Elam have done so twice and Jana Johns once. Alo, Elam and Lyons each have one game of three homers a piece.

PITCHING PACING THE NATION

• 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 leads the country with a 0.60 ERA, allowing just 17 earned runs (27 R) in OU's 36 games. Additionally, the staff holds a nation-best 21 shutouts on the season.

• OU is the only school with three pitchers in the top-ten nationally in ERA: Trautwein ranks first in the country with her 0.12, while Bahl (0.73) holds seventh and May (0.82) sits at eighth.

• The staff have a combined 310 strikeouts in 198.0 innings pitched, a product of OU's 30 run-rules.

• Freshman Jordy Bahl leads the group with 138 strikeouts in 86.1 IP, while Trautwein (59.2 IP) and May (51.1 IP) have 104 and 67 K's, respectively.

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

• The staff has thrown two perfect games and four 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. May and Bahl combined on a no-hitter at Hawaii on March 12, Bahl threw a no-hitter in OU's 20-0 win over Iowa on March 20 and Bahl and May combined on a no-no at Texas Tech on April 10.

• The six no-hitters on the year is tied for the most in a single season in program history, matching 2013, 2015 and 2019's mark.

CONFERENCE DOMINANCE

• OU finished the Big 12 regular season 16-1 a season ago en route to winning its 13th regular season crown and seventh Big 12 tourney championship.

• The Sooners have won 65 of their last 66 Big 12 regular season games. Their streak of 57 consecutive that ended in Stillwater with a narrow loss to the Cowgirls in 2021 was the longest in conference and program history.

• OU is undefeated in their last 62 conference series (58-0-4 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 150-14. 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.

TOP RANKS

• Oklahoma holds the No. 1 ranking in nine national categories as a team:

• Batting Average: .392

• Earned Run Average: 0.60

• Home Runs: 100

• Home Runs per game: 2.78

• Slugging Percentage: .814

• Scoring: 9.83 runs/game

• On Base Percentage: .504

• W-L Percentage: 1.000

• Shutouts: 21

• Individual Ranks: A Sooner holds first in the NCAA in seven different categories, with Alo holding the top spot in six.

• Batting Average:

• Jocelyn Alo - 1st (.528)

• Taylon Snow - 11th (.464)

• Jayda Coleman - 17th (.452)

• Grace Lyons - 22nd (.443)

• ERA:

• Hope Trautwein - 1st (0.12)

• Jordy Bahl - 7th (0.73)

• Nicole May - 8th (0.82)

• Slugging Percentage:

• Jocelyn Alo - 1st - (1.360)

• Grace Lyons - 2nd (1.072)

• Tiare Jennings - 6th (.969)

• On Base Percentage:

• Jocelyn Alo - 1st (.679)

• Jayda Coleman - 3rd (.613)

• Tiare Jennings - 21st (.548)

• Home Runs

• Jocelyn Alo - 1st (21)

• Grace Lyons - 3rd (17)

• Tiare Jennings - 7th (16)

• RBIs

• Jocelyn Alo - 5th (49)

• Tiare Jennings - 5th (49)

• Grace Lyons - 18th (42)

• Strikeouts per 7 Innings Pitched

• Hope Trautwein - 5th (12.2)

• Jordy Bahl - 13th (11.2)

MORE NOTES & NUMBERS

• Oklahoma has won 99 of its last 103 games dating back to the start of the 2021 season.

• Of those 103 games, 65 have been run-rule victories (63%).

• The Sooners have gone on consecutive run-rule stretches of nine games (Feb. 13-26) and 13 games (Feb. 27-March 26).

• The top-ranked Sooners have three top-10 and four top-25 wins on the season and rank first in the NCAA DI RPI.

• Of their three top-10 wins, two have been by run-rule. Two of their four top-25 W's have also been mercy-rule wins.

• In their three top-10 wins, the Sooners have outscored opponents 23-4. The margin is 32-12 in OU's favor in their four top-25 victories.

• The OU offense has 100 home runs on the year to just 94 strikeouts. Just three Sooners hold double-digit strikeouts this season.

• The pitching staff has sacrificed just 27 runs (17 ER) on the season to opponents. Individually, five Sooners have 27 or more runs scored. Another three have over 20-plus runs scored.

• OU has 157 extra-base hits on the season to opponents' 25. Jocelyn Alo has 32 extra-base hits on the season by herself.

• OU's trio of Jocelyn Alo, Grace Lyons and Tiare Jennings have more combined home runs (54) than all but 14 NCAA DI teams.

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 on March 12, 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 finally saw the pitch she wanted.

• 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 .528 with 21 home runs and 49 RBIs. She has 32 extra-base hits, slugging an astronomical 1.360 and holds an NCAA-best .679 on-base percentage.

NO. 1

• OU has been the top-ranked squad since March 2, 2021, or 58 weeks, or 407 days.

• The Sooners have held the top spot in both the USA Today/NFCA Coaches Poll and ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 for 22 straight polls.

• OU spent a school-record 13 straight weeks at No. 1 during the 2021 season and currently hold a nine-week streak to start the 2022 season (every poll).

• Oklahoma was chosen as the unanimous No. 1 in both the NFCA Division I Preseason Coaches Poll and USA Softball Collegiate Preseason Top 25 and has held the top spot for all nine weeks of the 2022 season.

• Oklahoma's No. 1 spot in the NFCA preseason poll marked the third time the Sooners enter a season in the top spot (2017, '18) and just the second time OU has been the unanimous choice in the coaches poll, joining the 2017 squad.

• Additionally, it's the 11th straight year the Sooners have started in the NFCA's top 10, good for the nation's longest active streak. OU has been ranked in the top five nine of the past 10 years, the most over that stretch.

• Overall, the Sooners rank third with 22 top-10 appearances in the NFCA preseason poll, trailing only Arizona (24) and UCLA (23).

• Oklahoma, Michigan, UCLA and Washington are the only programs to be ranked in every NFCA preseason poll, which dates back to 1995. OU also extended its streak of being the only program ranked every week in the 28-year existence of the NFCA's poll (392 straight).

• It's the 15th straight season and 18th in the 20-year history of the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll that Oklahoma is ranked in the preseason top 10.

ALO WRECKING THE NCAA RECORD BOOK

• Along with her new title as the all-time NCAA Home Run Queen, Jocelyn Alo is in rare air with numerous other all-time softball records:

• Total Bases: 1st - 682 (Recently passed UCLA's Stacy Nuveman (1997-2002) total of 653)

• SLG %: 1st - .981 (Above Lauren Chamberlain's career .960)

• Consecutive Games with a HR: T1st - 7 games (3/7-26/21)

• Consecutive Game Hit Streak: 3rd - 40 games (2/21/20-4/3/21)

• RBIs: 8th - 287 (1st - Jenny Dalton [Arizona, 1993-96] 328)

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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