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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Wednesday, March 11
6:30 p.m.
University of Oklahoma
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Tulsa
Photo by: Peyton Martin/University of Oklahoma
Softball Hosts Tulsa Wednesday
March 10, 2026 | Softball
Final Non-Conference Game Before SEC Play
NORMAN — Oklahoma plays its final non-conference game before the start of SEC play Wednesday, March 11 against Tulsa at 6:30 p.m. The Sooners are 10-0 at home this season and are playing their first home midweek game of the year. OU plays three home midweek games this regular season (March 11 vs. Tulsa, March 31 vs. Wichita State and April 21 against Arkansas - Pine Bluff).
The game will be streamed on SEC Network+ and KEBC 1560 AM The Franchise 2 will carry the radio broadcast of the contest.
OU and Tulsa have met 60 times, with the Sooners winning 50 of those contests. The Sooners are 25-4 against Tulsa in Norman. Oklahoma took both meetings in run-rule fashion last year, winning 8-0 in five innings Feb. 22 as well as 10-2 in six innings in Tulsa March 12. Ailana Agbayani had five RBI in that game to lead the Sooners.
Promotions and Ticket Info:
Tomorrow night is the Mental Health Awareness Game with mental health awareness wristbands being given away. Therapy dogs from "Another Leash on Life" will be on the concourse, with Dolores Christensen from OU PROS (Psychological Resources for OU Student-Athletes) throwing out the First "Fetch" to one of the "Another Leash on Life" service dogs.
A limited number of reserved seats along with standing room only tickets are available for sale. Continue to support the Sooners and ensure your seats are always filled through our SeatShare program. To participate, you can share your tickets with a family member or friend by transferring your tickets, sell your tickets on SeatGeek (Football, Men's and Women's Basketball, Women's Gymnastics, Baseball, and Softball) or donate your tickets back to us for a service member to use. To learn more about earning bonus points or sharing, selling or donating your tickets, click here.
• Oklahoma freshmen have already combined for five weekly honors between national accolades and SEC laurels this season. Kendall Wells has earned three national honors, Kai Minor one and Lexi McDaniel another.
• OU leads the nation in run-rule victories with 18. Prior to OU's 2-1 win against Louisiana Sunday, March 8 the Sooners had won 10 consecutive games in run-rule fashion.
• OU's offense features 14 players with at least three home runs. Six players have at least eight home runs, while in all of 2025 seven players had eight home runs or more. OU's batting averages range from .327 to .522, with 11 of 14 players with an at-bat batting above .400. Ella Parker hit .423 last year, the lone Sooner to hit above .400 in 2025.
• OU is 4-1 against ranked teams this season, tallying two victories against No. 17/18 Arizona (21-3 and 5-4) as well as a win against No. 14/20 Duke and No. 23/RV Washington. Three of those four victories have been via run-rule as the Sooners have outscored ranked teams, 58-14, this season.
• The Sooners posted a historic home-opening weekend. Oklahoma set a program record for most runs scored in a home opener in a 32-0 win against Alabama State Thursday. It turned out to be the first chunk of a massive 116-run output over the 6-0 home weekend as the Sooners also set a program record with 21 runs in the third inning against Alabama State Feb. 28. That mark was also good for second in NCAA Division I history for runs in one frame. 15,723 fans took in a weekend that saw the Sooners hit 30 home runs.
• Each position player that's played has played in at least 19 of 26 games, while 13 of 14 players have greater than a .400 batting average and four have at least a .500 batting average.
• McDaniel, Parker, Wells and Minor have had staggering success at the plate this season. McDaniel and Minor are tied for the team lead with a .522 average. Prior to this past weekend, Minor was on a 17-game hitting streak and still rides a .556 on-base percentage. McDaniel touts a 1.022 slugging percentage and seven homers, three of which are pinch-hit roundtrippers. Wells leads the entire nation with 19 home runs to go with 37 RBI, while Allyssa Parker's 1.116 slugging percentage ranks third on the team.
• Lexi McDaniel, a freshman out of St. Joseph, Mo., is the latest Sooner to earn SEC Freshman of the Week. The infielder hit four home runs and while going 10-for-13 with 11 runs, 12 RBI and a 1.769 slugging percentage during that week. She homered twice Feb. 28 and hit a grand slam to propel OU to a record-setting 21-run inning.
• Freshman Kai Minor was named SEC Freshman of the Week as well, hitting .692 with seven runs, three doubles, one triple, two homers and nine RBI. She tripled and homered in the same game and scored in all five contests on the weekend. The speedy centerfielder has swiped seven bases, homered four times and tripled twice.
• Junior Kasidi Pickering was named SEC Player of the Week Monday, Feb. 16, the first such award in her career. She earned the honor after hitting .833 (10-for-12), with 13 runs, 11 RBIs, three home runs and six walks. Pickering leads the team with 25 starts, touting a .640 on-base percentage and a whopping 23 walks.
• Emerling is hitting .469, .229 points higher than her 2025 season total. With one more grand slam she would be tied for seventh in NCAA history for career grand slams. She currently sits at six, with 41 career home runs to her name. Emerling is slugging 1.082, well above her previous career high of .685 set as a sophomore at North Carolina. She is just two runs scored short of her total of 24 from last year and five hits shy of the 28 she had in 2025.
The game will be streamed on SEC Network+ and KEBC 1560 AM The Franchise 2 will carry the radio broadcast of the contest.
OU and Tulsa have met 60 times, with the Sooners winning 50 of those contests. The Sooners are 25-4 against Tulsa in Norman. Oklahoma took both meetings in run-rule fashion last year, winning 8-0 in five innings Feb. 22 as well as 10-2 in six innings in Tulsa March 12. Ailana Agbayani had five RBI in that game to lead the Sooners.
Promotions and Ticket Info:
Tomorrow night is the Mental Health Awareness Game with mental health awareness wristbands being given away. Therapy dogs from "Another Leash on Life" will be on the concourse, with Dolores Christensen from OU PROS (Psychological Resources for OU Student-Athletes) throwing out the First "Fetch" to one of the "Another Leash on Life" service dogs.
A limited number of reserved seats along with standing room only tickets are available for sale. Continue to support the Sooners and ensure your seats are always filled through our SeatShare program. To participate, you can share your tickets with a family member or friend by transferring your tickets, sell your tickets on SeatGeek (Football, Men's and Women's Basketball, Women's Gymnastics, Baseball, and Softball) or donate your tickets back to us for a service member to use. To learn more about earning bonus points or sharing, selling or donating your tickets, click here.
FIRST PITCH
• Oklahoma has hit 103 home runs through 26 games and become the fastest program to 100 homers in a season in NCAA history on Sunday against Louisiana. The 2026 tally already ranks in the top ten in OU history for home runs in a season.• Oklahoma freshmen have already combined for five weekly honors between national accolades and SEC laurels this season. Kendall Wells has earned three national honors, Kai Minor one and Lexi McDaniel another.
• OU leads the nation in run-rule victories with 18. Prior to OU's 2-1 win against Louisiana Sunday, March 8 the Sooners had won 10 consecutive games in run-rule fashion.
• OU's offense features 14 players with at least three home runs. Six players have at least eight home runs, while in all of 2025 seven players had eight home runs or more. OU's batting averages range from .327 to .522, with 11 of 14 players with an at-bat batting above .400. Ella Parker hit .423 last year, the lone Sooner to hit above .400 in 2025.
• OU is 4-1 against ranked teams this season, tallying two victories against No. 17/18 Arizona (21-3 and 5-4) as well as a win against No. 14/20 Duke and No. 23/RV Washington. Three of those four victories have been via run-rule as the Sooners have outscored ranked teams, 58-14, this season.
• The Sooners posted a historic home-opening weekend. Oklahoma set a program record for most runs scored in a home opener in a 32-0 win against Alabama State Thursday. It turned out to be the first chunk of a massive 116-run output over the 6-0 home weekend as the Sooners also set a program record with 21 runs in the third inning against Alabama State Feb. 28. That mark was also good for second in NCAA Division I history for runs in one frame. 15,723 fans took in a weekend that saw the Sooners hit 30 home runs.
A RECORD PACE
If the season were to conclude today OU would still finish eighth in its record book for home runs in a single season. OU's 103 homers are its most through 26 games in program history. Over the past five years at the 26-game mark OU has stood with:- 2025: 54 home runs
- 2024: 46 home runs
- 2023: 42 home runs
- 2022: 70 home runs
- 2021: 89 home runs
OFFENSIVE ONSLAUGHT
Oklahoma is slashing the national lead while pacing the country in 10 different offensive statistical categories this year. OU stands atop the country through 26 games in:- Batting average (.456)
- Hits (335)
- Home Runs (103)
- Home Runs/Game (3.9)
- On-Base Percentage (.546)
- RBIs/Game (12.77)
- RBIs (332)
- Runs/Game (13.04)
- Slugging Percentage (.951)
- Runs (339)
EVERYBODY HITS
• OU's lineup has produced from every angle this season. All 14 Sooners that have had an at-bat this season have hit at least three home runs, while five Sooners have had a multi-home run game. Allyssa Parker, Ella Parker, Lexi McDaniel, Gabbie Garcia and Isabela Emerling are all in that group, while Emerling and Ella Parker have both hit three home runs in a single game.• Each position player that's played has played in at least 19 of 26 games, while 13 of 14 players have greater than a .400 batting average and four have at least a .500 batting average.
FRESHMAN FEATURE
• OU owns the nation's top recruiting class in 2025 and this spring that group takes the field for the first time. Lexi McDaniel (INF, St. Joseph, Mo.), Kai Minor (OF, Irvine, Calif.), Allyssa Parker (RHP/UTL, Pocola, Okla.), Kendall Wells (C, Bogart, Ga.) and Berkley Zache (RHP, Niles, Mich.) round out the 2025 signing class. Freshman Jerrell "Ori" Mailo joins the Sooners early after signing this past November as part of the Sooners' top-ranked 2026 signing class.• McDaniel, Parker, Wells and Minor have had staggering success at the plate this season. McDaniel and Minor are tied for the team lead with a .522 average. Prior to this past weekend, Minor was on a 17-game hitting streak and still rides a .556 on-base percentage. McDaniel touts a 1.022 slugging percentage and seven homers, three of which are pinch-hit roundtrippers. Wells leads the entire nation with 19 home runs to go with 37 RBI, while Allyssa Parker's 1.116 slugging percentage ranks third on the team.
SOPHOMORE ARMS
• Sophomore pitching duo of lefty Audrey Lowry and righty Miali Guachino have combined for a 18-1 record, 82 strikeouts and just 16 walks in 86 innings of work. Lowry started the season going 8-0 in her first eight decisions, while Guachino picked up a pair of wins against (RV) San Diego State and No. 23 Washington at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic. Both hurlers have a sub-.90 WHIP.NATIONAL NODS
• Freshmen Kendall Wells and Lexi McDaniel went back-to-back weeks earning national honors. Wells was named D1Softball Player of the Week and Softball America Freshman of the Week Feb. 24, while Lexi McDaniel earned D1Softball Freshman of the Week honors March 4.SEC HONORS
• OU has earned SEC weekly honors in three of five weeks to start the season, with two of them being freshmen.• Lexi McDaniel, a freshman out of St. Joseph, Mo., is the latest Sooner to earn SEC Freshman of the Week. The infielder hit four home runs and while going 10-for-13 with 11 runs, 12 RBI and a 1.769 slugging percentage during that week. She homered twice Feb. 28 and hit a grand slam to propel OU to a record-setting 21-run inning.
• Freshman Kai Minor was named SEC Freshman of the Week as well, hitting .692 with seven runs, three doubles, one triple, two homers and nine RBI. She tripled and homered in the same game and scored in all five contests on the weekend. The speedy centerfielder has swiped seven bases, homered four times and tripled twice.
• Junior Kasidi Pickering was named SEC Player of the Week Monday, Feb. 16, the first such award in her career. She earned the honor after hitting .833 (10-for-12), with 13 runs, 11 RBIs, three home runs and six walks. Pickering leads the team with 25 starts, touting a .640 on-base percentage and a whopping 23 walks.
CIAO BELA
• Redshirt-senior Isabela Emerling has nine home runs through 21 games played, just three short of her total in 58 games played a year ago. Emerling tied the program record for homers with three against Montana last month, while coming up just inches from another three-homer game Tuesday at North Texas.• Emerling is hitting .469, .229 points higher than her 2025 season total. With one more grand slam she would be tied for seventh in NCAA history for career grand slams. She currently sits at six, with 41 career home runs to her name. Emerling is slugging 1.082, well above her previous career high of .685 set as a sophomore at North Carolina. She is just two runs scored short of her total of 24 from last year and five hits shy of the 28 she had in 2025.
UP NEXT
Oklahoma opens conference play Friday against Auburn at 6:30 p.m. in the start of a three-game series at Love's Field.
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