Softball Makes First Trip to Oxford

Saturday, March 21

Oxford, Miss

2 p.m.

University of Oklahoma

Ole Miss

Photo by: Peyton Martin/University of Oklahoma

March 20, 2026 | Softball

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Sooners Set for Saturday, Sunday and Monday Series

NORMAN — No. 4 Oklahoma Softball makes its first-ever trip to Oxford and prepares for a three-game series against (RV) Ole Miss Saturday, March 21 through Monday, March 23.

FIRST PITCH

• Oklahoma plays its first road SEC series of the season at Ole Miss Saturday, March 21 through Monday, March 23.

• OU is currently on a 18-game winning streak dating back to February 21. The Sooners are coming off a three-game sweep of (RV) Auburn last weekend and a 15-0 (five inning) win against Memphis in Memphis on Wednesday.

• Saturday's game will be streamed on SEC Network+, with Jake Hromada (play-by-play) and Carly Hummel (color analyst) on the call. Sunday and Monday's games will be carried on SEC Network, with Kevin Fitzgerald (play-by-play) and Amanda Scarborough (color analyst) on the broadcast. The radio broadcast will be available on KEBC/KRXO (1560 AM / 104.5 FM) both Saturday and Sunday and on KEBC 1560 AM Monday night.

• The Sooners make their first-ever trip to Oxford. OU has played Ole Miss six times though, winning all six contests. The Sooners and Rebels last met Feb. 17, 2017 in Houston, Texas, with the Sooners winning, 11-8. OU and Ole Miss faced off in the 2016 NCAA Super Regionals, with the Sooners winning both games at Marita Hynes Field.

• This weekend features a matchup of two 2025 Women's College World Series teams. The Sooners and Rebels did not meet in Oklahoma City last season. Ole Miss won the Tucson Regional and Fayetteville Super Regional before suffering a pair of one-run losses to Texas Tech and Oregon respectively in the WCWS.

• The Sooners are 29-2 and 3-0 in SEC play and ranked fourth in the most recent ESPN.com/USA Poll as well as sixth in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) poll. The Sooners are only one game off their pace from the 2025 season through 30 games, with OU going 30-1 in the first 31 games last season.

• OU is 7-1 on the road this season, with its true road games coming at (RV) Arizona State (won, 2-1) No. 17/20 Arizona (won the series, 2-1), at New Mexico State (won, 18-6), at UTEP (won, 34-0), at North Texas (won, 16-4 and at Memphis (won, 15-0).

• Oklahoma posted two double-digit scoring performances in the SEC opener against Auburn, winning by run-rule fashion, 13-5, and, 14-2. Oklahoma paces the nation with 23 run-rule victories, while scoring 10 or more runs 20 different times this season. Twice this year OU has scored more than 30 runs.

• The Sooners have hit at least one home run in 30 of 31 games this season, with the lone game without a homer coming in a 7-5 win against California February 21. The Sooners have posted multi-homer games in 28 of 31 contests and have hit seven home runs or more three times. The Sooners added four more homers at Memphis Wednesday evening.

FLEXIN' FRESHMEN

•  The Sooner freshmen Lexi McDaniel, Kai Minor, Allyssa Parker and Kendall Wells have combined for 44 home runs, 119 RBIs, 124 runs and a .449 batting average (125-278).

•  Kai Minor is hitting .506, leading all D1 freshmen in batting average. She is also leading all freshmen in hits (42) and is second in runs (35), behind only OU's Kendall Wells (41).

•  Kendall Wells is not only leading the country in home runs (22), but is on pace to hit 39.6 over the regular season, which would break the NCAA single season record for home runs. She is on pace to break the freshman single season home run record of 30, set by former OU legends, Jocelyn Alo and Lauren Chamberlain. That mark is also shared with Kelly Majam of Hawaii.

•  Allyssa Parker is one of six Sooners with double-digit home runs, having hit 10 this season in just 49 at-bats. Her 1.061 slugging percentage is second in the nation among all freshmen, behind only Wells (1.178). She is the only player in the nation with an undefeated pitching record and at least 10 home runs at the plate. On March 7 she achieved the rare feat of tripling and spinning a complete game in the circle. She fanned four and worked six scoreless frames in that game.

•  Lexi McDaniel is on pace to become the third OU freshman with double-digit homers. Three times this season she has hit a pinch hit home run. She joins Kai Minor as one of four Sooners with a .500 or better batting average.

SCENE SETTERS

• OU is on a historic pace in a number of offensive categories this season. The Sooners are hitting .452 as a team and for context, OU's program record is .405 in the 2021 season. The Sooners slashed their way to program records that season, slugging .778 in 2021 while reaching base at a .490 clip. The Sooners are leading the country with a .941 slugging percentage and tout a .542 on-base percentage.

• The Sooners have hit more home runs than 134 teams in Division I have for total runs scored. OU's 401 runs account for 88.3 percent of its total run total from all of last season. The Sooners set the NCAA single season runs record with 638 in 2021, doing so in 60 games. Oklahoma averaged 10.6 runs per game that season. The Sooners are averaging 12.9 runs per game through 31 contests this season, on pace for 696 runs in the regular season alone in 2026.

• OU's offense features 14 players with at least three home runs. Six players have at least 10 home runs and four have 12 or more. In all of 2025 seven players had eight home runs or more. OU's batting averages range from .328 to .506, 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.

GIFT OF GAB

• Redshirt-senior Isabela Emerling has 10 home runs through 26 games played, just two 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 March 3 at North Texas.

STREAKY KASSY P

• Junior Kasidi Pickering is in the midst of a 29-game reached base streak that dates all the way back to the season opener at Arizona State. During that span she's generated 13 multi-hit games and 14 multi-RBI games, both good for third and second on the team respectively. Her ability to get on has helped the lineup as Pickering has been in the leadoff spot 23 times this season.

PICK & PARKER

• Juniors Kasidi Pickering and Ella Parker enter 2025 as the lone juniors on the roster and the only two position players to have won a national title - not including redshirt-sophomore Nelly McEnroe-Marinas who sat out the 2024 campaign.

• Pickering and Parker were both named NFCA First Team All-Americans a year ago, while Parker also took home third team honors in 2024 as an NFCA Freshman of the Year Finalist.

• The duo is one of the most deadly left-handed hitting pairs in the nation, touting very similar career stat lines. Together the have combined for 351 hits in just 311 games.

• Pickering career stat line: .414 BA, 150 R, 33 2Bs, 42 HRs, 148 RBIs

• Parker career stat line: .428 BA, 145 R, 39 2Bs, 42 HRs, 159 RBIs

DAYTON 500

• Abby Dayton is knocking at the door of the 200-career hits milestone. The senior enters the Ole Miss series with 196 hits to her name after starting off the season with 30 hits in 31 games. The veteran is turning in the best offensive year of her career as she is hitting .500 with a .900 slugging percentage.

• Traditionally an outfielder, Dayton slid in to play third base for the first time in her collegiate career and turned a double play in the win March 8 against Abilene Christian.

• Dayton is on pace to post one of the best seasons in OU history in the "toughest-to-strikeout" category. The lefty hitter has only struck out once in 78 plate appearances (61 at-bats) this season. The program record is held by Sandy Ochoa in 1987 (only struck out once in 115 at-bats).