Sooners Set for Supers vs. UCF

Friday, May 27

Norman

3:30 PM CT

University of Oklahoma

UCF

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May 26, 2022 | Softball

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WEEKEND BASICS

• The defending national champion and No. 1 overall seed Oklahoma (52-2) continues its quest for a sixth national title as the Sooners play host to 16-seed Central Florida (49-12) for this weekend's NCAA Norman Super Regional.

• It marks OU's 12th consecutive and 15th overall Super Regional appearance. OU holds the longest active Super Regional appearance streak in the country.

• Oklahoma has been a national seed for each of the past 15 seasons. This is the fourth time in program history and third consecutive season that the Sooners have been the top-seeded team, also earning the No. 1 spot in 2013, 2019 and 2021.

• Oklahoma is making its 15th overall appearance in the Super Regionals since the format was introduced in 2005. Only Alabama (16) and Arizona (16) have been to more Supers.

• This is the ninth time that OU hosts Supers. At home, OU is 14-3 in Super Regional play. When hosting Supers, the Sooners have reached the WCWS seven times (2012, '13, '14, '16, '18, '19, '21) and have only had a season end in a Norman Super Regional once (2007).

• With two wins in this weekend's Super Regional, the Sooners would make their 15th appearance all-time in the Women's College World Series and 10th trip in the last 11 years. No other program in the country has made as many trips to the WCWS as OU since the 2011 season.

• Standing in the Sooners way are the Knights of UCF, the tournament's No. 16 national seed. UCF is making its first Super Regional appearance in program history after winning its own regional in Orlando last weekend, defeating Michigan in the final.

• Friday's game is set for a 3:30 p.m. CT start on ESPN2 while Saturday will be shown on ESPN at 1 p.m. CT. Sunday's if-necessary game time and TV designation is TBD.

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

• After 54 games played, the Sooners are batting .369 as a team with a nation-leading 133 home runs, 500 runs scored on 489 hits and 472 RBIs. They are outscoring opponents 500-47 with only 36 runs given up being earned. The team is slugging .729, holds a .476 on-base clip and has swiped 56 bases on 72 attempts.

• The pitching staff holds a nation-best 0.81 ERA and has 429 strikeouts, allowing opponents to bat just .141. The staff has also thrown a program-record seven no-hitters and 31 shutouts on the year.

• The Sooners have won by run-rule in a program-record 37 of their 54 games (69% of games).

MAYHEM

• Oklahoma has made the NCAA Tournament 28 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 (34 straight), while the Sooners are tied with Washington for second-longest run.

• Oklahoma has been a national seed for each of the past 15 seasons. This is the third fourth in program history that the Sooners have been the top-seeded team, also earning the No. 1 spot in 2013, 2019 and 2021.

• In 2021, OU reached its 14th WCWS in program history, culminating in the program's fifth national championship. The Sooners have won three of the past five WCWS crowns.

• With five national titles (2000, '13, '16, '17, '21) Oklahoma trails only UCLA (12) and Arizona (8) for most in NCAA history, and no other team has more than two.

Jocelyn Alo

A LOOK AT THE KNIGHTS

• The Sooners and Knights will meet for the first time in program history for this weekend's Super Regional.

• UCF comes in to Norman at 49-12 and 16-2 in the American Athletic Conference, winning the conference's regular season and tournament crowns.

• The Knights are batting .300 on the year with 41 home runs. They have stolen 93 bases on 109 attempts and hold a .401 OB% and .443 slugging clip.

• Sophomore Jada Cody paces the team with a .363 batting average, 14 home runs and 74 RBIs. Her RBI mark ranks second in the NCAA.

• In the circle, UCF has five different pitchers with over 10 appearances on the year, led by Gianna Mancha's 23-3 record and 1.62 ERA to go with 186 strikeouts.

LAST TIME OUT

• The top-seeded Sooners blasted their way through the Norman Regional, outscoring opponents 37-2, highlighted by a 20-0, run-rule victory in Sunday's final vs. Texas A&M.

• OU beat Prairie View A&M, 14-0, in the opener, followed by a pair of wins over Texas A&M (3-2, 20-0 [5]).

• Reigning national player of the year and top-three finalist for the award again in 2022, Jocelyn Alo, led OU at the plate with a .857 batting average, going 6-for-7 on the weekend with two home runs and six RBIs.

• In the circle, sophomore Nicole May, junior Macy McAdoo and redshirt senior Hope Trautwein combined on two shutouts, including one no-hitter, and allowed opponents just two runs to go with 18 strikeouts and two walks.

• OU's 20-0 win on Sunday was the largest margin of victory in NCAA Tournament history, besting 2015 Georgia's 17-0 win over Western Kentucky.

HOMER HAPPY

• In 2022, the Sooners pace the NCAA with 133 home runs and a 2.5 HR/game average.

• Three Sooners occupy the top-20 in the country in home runs: Alo is third in the NCAA with 27 blasts while Jennings (24) ranks fourth and Lyons (19) sits at 17th.

• 14 Sooners have went yard already in 2022 with 11 hitting multiple blasts and eight hitting four-plus.

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

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

• As a team, Oklahoma has hit homers in 48 of its 54 contests, including hitting two or more in 34 games, three-plus in 25 games, four-plus in 16 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 24 times, three in one inning four times and four in one inning once.

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 0.81 ERA, allowing just 36 earned runs (47 R) in OU's 54 games. Additionally, the staff holds a nation-best 31 shutouts on the season, good for a school record

• OU is the only school with three pitchers in the top-ten nationally in ERA, including three of the top six: Trautwein ranks first in the country with her 0.42 while Bahl (0.95) holds fifth and May (0.99) sits at sixth.

• The staff have a combined 429 strikeouts in 311.0 innings pitched, a product of OU's 37 run-rules.

• Freshman Jordy Bahl leads the group with 199 strikeouts in 132.1 IP, while Trautwein (99.1 IP) and May (78.0 IP) have 139 and 89 K's, respectively.

• Bahl has six games with double-digit strikeouts, including a 16-K performance vs. Tennessee and 15-K showing at Texas. Trautwein holds four double-digit K games while May has two.

• The staff has thrown two perfect games and five 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. Most recently, May and Trautwein combined on a no-hit performance in OU's regional opener vs. Prairie View A&M, allowing just one walk.

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

ALO NAMED TOP THREE FINALIST FOR PLAYER OF THE YEAR

• Oklahoma Softball redshirt senior Jocelyn Alo has been named a top three finalist for the 2022 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award, the organization announced the three finalists Wednesday.

• Alo was joined by South Florida fifth-year senior pitcher Georgina Corrick and Washington senior infielder Baylee Klingler.

• The reigning USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, Alo, has had another season for the record books in 2022. She broke the NCAA career home run record in early March in her home state of Hawaii, hitting career No. 96 vs. Hawaii on March 12. The Hauula, Hawaii, product now has 115 career home runs and 27 on the season to go with 68 RBIs and 11 doubles. She leads the nation with a 1.157 slugging percentage and .640 on-base clip, while her 27 blasts rank third. She has five multi-homer games on the year, including one game with three.

• Recently collecting her second straight Big 12 Player of the Year honor, Alo also claimed All-Big 12 First Team accolades for the fourth time of her career.

• It marks the fourth season in a row OU has had a top three finalist and eighth time in the award's history.

• Alo looks to become the fifth player to win the award in consecutive seasons. In 2021, she joined Keilani Ricketts as the only Sooner to win the award, with Ricketts winning the prestigious trophy back-to-back years in 2012 and 2013.

• The 2022 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year will be announced on May 31st prior to the NCAA Women's College World Series.

• Four Sooners (Alo, Jordy Bahl, Jayda Coleman, Grace Lyons) made the initial Top 25 cut for POTY before three (Alo, Bahl, Lyons) made the top-10 list. The Sooners had twice as many players make the top 25 list as the next closest program.

EIGHT SOONERS NAMED ALL-REGION

• Oklahoma paced the country by placing seven student-athletes on the Division I All-Region First Team. All eight of OU's nominees were named Central All-Region selections. The NFCA announced the honors last Thursday.

• Redshirt seniors Jocelyn Alo and Lynnsie Elam, senior Grace Lyons, junior Rylie Boone, sophomores Jayda Coleman and Tiare Jennings and freshman Jordy Bahl were all selected for the All-Central Region First Team. Sophomore Alyssa Brito received second team honors.

• The eight selections tied with Arkansas, Boston and Virginia Tech for most in the country, while its seven first-team selections lead the country by one over the Razorbacks and Hokies. It marks the third consecutive season OU has put seven members on the first team.

• Overall, this marks the seventh time in eight seasons that OU has had eight nominees be selected.

• 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 2022 NFCA Division I All-American teams.

• The 2022 NFCA Division I All-America teams, voted on by the NFCA DI All-American Committee, will be announced on Wednesday, June 1.

BAHL NAMED TOP THREE FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR FINALIST

• Freshman Jordy Bahl has been named one of three finalists for the 2022 Schutt Sports/NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year award, the NFCA announced the three finalists Thursday.

• The freshman phenom, Bahl, has taken college softball by storm in her first-year campaign with the Sooners. In 132.1 innings pitched, Bahl holds a 0.95 ERA with 199 strikeouts to 29 walks. Her earned run average ranks fifth in the country. She has allowed just 18 earned runs on the season (23 runs total) and is allowing opponents to bat just .137. Bahl has surrendered 16 extra-base hits, with only three being home runs.

• In conference play, Bahl held a 1.30 ERA in 53.2 IP to go with 71 strikeouts to 13 walks. She surrendered nine extra-base hits in Big 12 play, and no homers for a .157 opponent BA.

• A Sooner has won the award three times in its eight-year history: Paige Parker (2015), Jocelyn Alo (2018) and Tiare Jennings (2021). Last season OU had two of the final three finalists for the award in eventual-winner Tiare Jennings and classmate Jayda Coleman.

• Additionally, Oklahoma looks to become the first program to produce consecutive winners of the award.

• The 2022 Schutt Sports/NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year will be announced on May 31. The list of 25 was selected by the NFCA. The top 10, top three and winner are voted on by the NFCA Division I All-America Committee.

TOP RANKS

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

• Batting Average: .369

• Earned Run Average: 0.81

• Home Runs: 133

• Home Runs per game: 2.42

• Slugging Percentage: .730

• Scoring: 9.09 runs/game

• On Base Percentage: .476

• W-L Percentage: .964

• Shutouts: 31

• Individual Ranks

• Batting Average:

• Jocelyn Alo - 2nd (.500)

• Jayda Coleman - 21st (.425)

• Grace Lyons - 35th (.411)

• ERA:

• Hope Trautwein - 1st (0.42)

• Jordy Bahl - 5th (0.95)

• Nicole May - 6th (0.99)

• Slugging Percentage:

• Jocelyn Alo - 1st - (1.157)

• Tiare Jennings - 7th (.903)

• Grace Lyons - 12th (.868)

• On Base Percentage:

• Jocelyn Alo - 1st (.640)

• Jayda Coleman - 3rd (.588)

• Home Runs

• Jocelyn Alo - 3rd (27)

• Tiare Jennings - 4th (24)

• Grace Lyons - 17th (19)

• RBIs

• Tiare Jennings - 3rd (72)

• Jocelyn Alo - 7th (68)

• Grace Lyons - 17th (58)

MORE NOTES & NUMBERS

• Oklahoma has won 108 of its last 114 games dating back to the start of the 2021 season.

• Of those 114 games, 72 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 six top-10 and nine top-25 wins on the season and rank first in the NCAA DI RPI.

• Of their six top-10 wins, two have been by run-rule. Three of their nine top-25 W's have also been mercy-rule wins.

• In their six top-10 wins, the Sooners have outscored opponents 41-8. The margin is 69-21 in OU's favor in their nine top-25 victories.

• The OU offense has 133 home runs on the year to 135 strikeouts. 10 Sooners hold double-digit strikeouts this season, and none have struck out more than 16 times.

• The Sooners have held opponents to one run or fewer in 45 of 54 games.

• The pitching staff has sacrificed just 47 runs (36 ER) on the season to opponents. Individually, four Sooners have 47 or more runs scored.

• OU has 205 extra-base hits on the season to opponents' 39. Jocelyn Alo has 38 extra-base hits on the season by herself.

SOONERS DOMINATE BIG 12 AWARDS

• Oklahoma softball collected or earned a share of all five end-of-the-year Big 12 awards and placed seven across the All-Big 12 First and Second Teams, including a league-best six on the first team. The conference announced the honors Wednesday.

• Redshirt senior Jocelyn Alo was named Big 12 Player of the Year for the second straight season in unanimous fashion, while senior Grace Lyons earned Defensive Player of the Year accolades for the second consecutive year. Garnering Freshman of the Year honors was pitcher Jordy Bahl. Bahl was also named the league's Co-Pitcher of the Year, sharing the honor with OSU's Kelly Maxwell. OU head coach Patty Gasso was the unanimous choice for Coach of the Year, her 10th straight Big 12 Coach of the Year honor.

• Alo collects OU's 15th Big 12 Player of the Year award and sixth in the last seven seasons. She was chosen unanimously as the conference player of the year and is the first repeat winner since OU alum Amber Flores (2009-10) went back-to-back. She joins Flores and Shelby Pendley (2013, '15) as the only Sooners to claim two Big 12 Player of the Year awards.

• OU's defensive anchor, Lyons, wins her second consecutive Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year award and OU's fourth in the last five years. Lyons joins Heather Scaglione (2004-05) and Kelsey Arnold (2016, '18) as repeat winners in program history.

• The freshman phenom and finalist for NFCA National Freshman of the Year and USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, Bahl, collects her first career conference awards in Big 12 Co-Pitcher of the Year and Freshman of the Year. Her pitcher of the year honor is OU's eighth in school annals, while her unanimous freshman of the year accolade is OU's seventh consecutive.

• The NFCA Hall of Fame head coach, Gasso, wins an unprecedented 10th consecutive Big 12 Coach of the Year award and 14th overall in her 28 seasons at the helm in Norman.

• Of the 12 student-athletes that made up the All-Big 12 First Team, six of the selections are Sooners: Jocelyn Alo, Jordy Bahl, Jayda Coleman, Tiare Jennings, Grace Lyons and Hope Trautwein. OU's league-best six selections tie a program-best and outpaces the next-highest school by three.

• Alo collects her fourth career First Team honor, while Coleman, Jennings and Lyons all earn their second and Bahl and Trautwein were named First Team honorees for the first time of their Big 12 careers. Alo, Bahl, Jennings and Lyons were all unanimous choices. Bahl was also named to the All-Freshman Team.

• Sophomore Alyssa Brito brings OU's All-Big 12 Team total to seven Sooners as the outfielder was named to the All-Big 12 Second Team, her first career Big 12 all-conference team accolade.

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.

NO. 1

• OU has been the top-ranked squad since March 2, 2021, or 64 weeks, or 450 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 28 straight polls.

• OU has been the wire-to-wire No. 1 team in 2022 and has spent a school-record 14 straight weeks at No. 1 in the 2022 season, recently breaking the tie with the 2021 team's run of 13 weeks.

• 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 14 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.

Lead, team boomer

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 - 723 (Passed UCLA's Stacy Nuveman (1997-2002) total of 653)

• SLG %: 1st - .969 (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: 4th - 306 (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.

#LAUNCHPAD

• 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

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