Softball

[tooney]

She looks like she would be a terrific addition to the team....I've seen tweets that if she joins our team, we'll be well on our way to a three-peat!

She was Freshmen of the Year in the Pac 12 this year!

https://extrainningsoftball.com/cydn...ansfer-portal/

I think she either plays here or aTm.

[Soonerguy06]

Originally Posted by tooney

She looks like she would be a terrific addition to the team....I've seen tweets that if she joins our team, we'll be well on our way to a three-peat!

She was Freshmen of the Year in the Pac 12 this year!

https://extrainningsoftball.com/cydn...ansfer-portal/

I think she either plays here or aTm.

I would have to agree, on paper. Of course one never knows what impact injuries will have, or chemistry, but most likely even without her we've got to be the preseason #1 again!

[tooney]

Boom!!!

Patty lands another hitter!!!

Cydney Sanders


https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb...11d1e1d908b3ef

[tooney]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mor...9ad59f996231de

Patty is reloading.....getting her fourth transfer, Haley Lee from aTm.

[Soonerguy06]

Man, at this point a lot of people believe we may be even better next season. I believe it depends on the chemistry with the newcomers, who most likely will all be starters, and the new pitchers and how Jordy Bahl recovers from injury. If injury and chemistry aren't issues, we may indeed be the undisputed best team yet again next season. At this point I can't think of another team that has the talent we'll have next season!

[SoonerSpock]

Northwestern's 2022 roster list only 1 5th year player. However, they also have 8 seniors on the roster. Likely most if not all would be eligible for a pandemic year if they chose to return. But with the academic strength of NW student/athletes I suspect several eligible seniors would elect not to play a 5th season.

The whorns do not have a player on the roster that was a grad student or super-senior so it is theoretically possible their entire roster could return with pandemic year eligibility. However, they presently have 24 players on their roster and have signed 5 freshmen. So with a 12 scholarship restriction it is likely some of the eligible seniors will not return.


https://nusports.com/sports/softball/roster

https://texassports.com/sports/softball/roster

https://texassports.com/news/2021/11...ing-class.aspx

[TheMont]

Northwestern will be really good again. Most of last year's seniors (including ace pitcher Danielle Williams) announced they are coming back: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce4uEv8AzXg/?hl=en

Their only player who has exhausted eligibility is Rachel Lewis, who was their best offensive player, but they should still be a top-10 team and favorites to win the B1G again next season.

[Salt City Sooner]

Carol Hutchins is calling it a career:

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...rs/7885956001/

[Salt City Sooner]

PG lands another one:

https://twitter.com/tia_milloy2024/s...15345429839873

[SoonerSpock]

OU had 5 first teamer (Jennings, Sanders, Lyons, Bahl and Coleman), 2 second teamers (Hansen and Lee) and 3 third teamers (May, Storako and Boone) on Softball America's Preseason All American softball team. Ten of the twenty players on the OU roster make this preseason All American team. AMAZING!!!



http://www.oklahoman.com/story/sport...m/69855423007/t

[scrybe]

Originally Posted by SoonerSpock

OU had 5 first teamer (Jennings, Sanders, Lyons, Bahl and Coleman), 2 second teamers (Hansen and Lee) and 3 third teamers (May, Storako and Boone) on Softball America's Preseason All American softball team. Ten of the twenty players on the OU roster make this preseason All American team. AMAZING!!!



http://www.oklahoman.com/story/sport...m/69855423007/t

And it probably could have been more.

[SoonerSpock]

Rounding the Bases by Grace Lyons


https://stories.soonersports.com/gra...ing-the-bases/

[MsProudSooner]

Texas Softball Coach Causing Controversy

McLeod: Gamesmanship Has Its Place but A Line was Crossed on Sunday
BY JUSTIN MCLEOD
FEBRUARY 13, 2023


Mike White is in his fifth season as Texas’ head coach. (Photo: Longhorn Athletics)
It’s almost funny, in the most macabre way.

On the scale of classiness and sportsmanship, it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever seen. And yet, this one felt different. No one died and, at the end of the day, actually, no one lost. But that’s exactly the point.

Historically, Texas head coach Mike White has demonstrated that he does not care what is said about him and that his focus is simply on winning. Usually, that is true. But during Sunday afternoon’s shenanigans, his focus shifted from winning to “not losing” and doing whatever it took to enact that new goal.

The situation that presented itself was this: Texas and Kentucky were scheduled for a 12:30 first pitch; due to a scheduled flight, Kentucky had a drop-dead time of 3:30.

For those unfamiliar, a drop dead time must be set at the meeting between coaches and umpires at home plate before the game. There are different distinctions of a drop-dead time, usually chosen based on the circumstances specific to why a team has to be finished playing by a certain time. The existence of, circumstances surrounding, and enforcement of the drop-dead time on Sunday are not in dispute.

Texas held a 4-0 lead until the 5th inning, when Kentucky began to come back and ultimately tied the game at 4-4. That tie score held for the rest of regulation, forcing extra innings.

In the top of the 8th inning, Kentucky scored three runs to take a 7-4 lead, their first lead of the game. The clock began to get short, running even past 3:15 as the Wildcats still batted.

Worthy of note here is the rule on what happens if a game reaches a drop-dead time. In that instance, if an inning is in progress and the drop-dead time occurs, the game reverts back to the last fully-completed inning.

On Sunday, if the drop-dead time was reached before the 8th inning was completed, the game would revert back to the 7th inning and be called a tie.

If you didn’t know before, now you do. And so did Mike White.

Personally, I love a good use of strategy and I enjoy even some good gamesmanship at times. I’m not a chess player, but I do enjoy a good chess analogy. But what someone said to me after I used a chess analogy on Sunday is completely appropriate here:

“It’s not a chess match,” they said, “because chess implies a strategy to win, not manipulation.”

Manipulation is the perfect word for Mike White’s antics on Sunday. He, and by extension, the Longhorns, did whatever they could to avoid losing a second game on opening week.

Let’s start in the top of the 7th inning. After Kentucky scored their three runs, the Wildcats had a runner on first base with two outs. Mike White went to the circle to have a meeting with pitcher Mac Morgan.

That meeting lasted exactly one minute. After the meeting, White walked back to the dugout, only to emerge twenty seconds later to make a pitching change. The game did not resume for three minutes, as Sophia Simpson replaced Morgan and took her warm-up pitches.

Simpson threw three pitches to the Kentucky hitter, reaching a 2-1 count and with the runner at first base advancing from first to three in the course of those three pitches.

White attempted to go to the circle for another pitcher’s conference, but was not allowed to do so by the first base umpire – there had already been one coaches conference in the inning, remember. Instead, the entire infield met in the circle for roughly 45 seconds, the better part of a minute.

The time was 3:19 pm.

On the next pitch after the conference, Kentucky’s runner at third left the base early and was called out. That was the third out of the inning, meaning there were roughly ten minutes left for the bottom half of the inning if the game were to be an official 8-inning affair.

The bottom of the 8th started at 3:22 pm. The international tiebreaker rule was in effect, meaning Texas started the inning with a runner on second base just as Kentucky had done in the top half of the frame.

The first batter of the inning flew out to center field for the first out. The runner at second base did not advance.

At 3:24, Mia Scott stepped to the plate. She took ball one, then spoke to the umpire. Based on what happened in front of the Texas dugout thereafter, Scott needed to put some contact solution or eyedrops in her eyes.

It was a particularly windy day in Clearwater, with dust flying up from the infield with every strong breeze.

Scott took a four-pitch walk, which brought the game-tying run to the plate. “Game-tying” the honest way, that is. The way that required actually playing the game, not manipulating it.

Rachel Lawson made a quick trip to the circle in what might have been the fastest mound visit in the history of SEC softball.

Then it was Alyssa Washington to the plate. Washington took her time stepping to the plate, but once she did, Stephanie Schoonover threw two pitches right down the middle, then wasted one pitch high and another was fouled away.

White decided it was time for a pinch-runner at second base – this was the player who had gone out there before any pitches were thrown in the inning. The runner who starts an inning at second base is designated as the player who made the last out of the previous inning, but can be substituted for as if they had reached the base via a hit.

Washington struck out looking on the next pitch, a pitch on the outside corner.

Katie Cimusz stepped to the plate at 3:29 pm. With two runners on base, she represented both the game-tying run and Texas’ last opportunity to avoid taking the loss.

Well, their last opportunity to avoid losing without manipulation, that is.

The first two pitches to Cimusz both went down the heart of the plate, sending the Longhorns down to their final strike.

What was Mike White’s response?

Down to their final strike of the game, the Longhorns needed a pinch runner at first base.

The time was 3:30. The game ended, officially a 4-4 tie after seven innings. Everything that happened in the eighth inning actually didn’t happen, at least not as far as the official stat book was concerned.

Much of what transpired on Sunday can be attributed to gamesmanship – even Kentucky’s runner leaving early to end the top half of the 8th. But gamesmanship has its limits and those limits were crossed by Mike White and Texas on Sunday.

When I sought out a former coach to gauge their opinion on the 8th inning happenings on Sunday, the response was worth quoting. “I would be embarrassed,” they said, “to get on the bus, to face my team, as the head coach at the University of Texas, and tell them we had to do that to avoid a loss.”

The “official” scorebook may show a 4-4 final score, but Texas was a beaten team on Sunday. And Mike White knows it.

[SoonerSpock]

OU 14 UCLA 0

OU has 20 hits and 6 HRs. Hansen has 2 Alex Storako throws 3 hit shutout.


UCLA school account of the game:

uclabruins.com/news/2023/2/26/softball-no-1-bruins-fall-to-no-2-oklahoma-in-mary-nutter-finale.aspx

UCLA student newspaper article on the game:

dailybruin.com/2023/02/26/ucla-softball-ends-top-two-matchup-against-oklahoma-with-shutout-loss

[scrybe]

Originally Posted by SoonerSpock

OU 14 UCLA 0

OU has 20 hits and 6 HRs. Hansen has 2 Alex Storako throws 3 hit shutout.


UCLA school account of the game:

uclabruins.com/news/2023/2/26/softball-no-1-bruins-fall-to-no-2-oklahoma-in-mary-nutter-finale.aspx

UCLA student newspaper article on the game:

dailybruin.com/2023/02/26/ucla-softball-ends-top-two-matchup-against-oklahoma-with-shutout-loss

Right, KIP. And the Bruins' heads on a constant swivel watching those ball fly out of the stadium surely added to their fatigue.

[BanjoCharley]

Everyone going to the OU UT games this weekend, wear a tie.

Don't have to wear it traditionally, tie it around your head tie it under an OU flag, just hold it in your hand and wave it at appropriate time.

[TheMont]

Originally Posted by BanjoCharley

Everyone going to the OU UT games this weekend, wear a tie.

Don't have to wear it traditionally, tie it around your head tie it under an OU flag, just hold it in your hand and wave it at appropriate time.

What's the symbolism?

[BanjoCharley]

Texas "tie" against Kentucky by stalling out the game!

[MsProudSooner]

Sooners clinch their 11th straight Big XII Championship today!

[tooney]

CONGRATULATIONS OU SOFTBALL ON THE THREE-PEAT!!!

I've been watching their season...what a season!!!

Kind of like a no-no; not wanting to post anything until the games were over.

Hope the team knows that they have support from all over and enjoy the wins!!

[Oliver Hardy]

Our Softball Team, from Coaches down to the last bench player are tremendous and have been for years.

Who is the best coach ever at OU? Gasso is challenging Wilkinson for number 1 in my opinion!


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[mikeareese]

Good person to follow on Twitter. He announces transfers. Justin McLeod @justfactsmaam. Brooke Vestal in the portal from Ole Miss to A&M.

[tooney]

LOL!!!!

https://www.stadiumtalk.com/s/greate...511c3fba004473

[SoonerTraveler]

2024 Softball Roster (Updated July 18, 2023)

While there is a limit to the number of scholarships for Softball (12),there is no limit to the size of a Softball roster. With the latest addition, the 2024 OU Roster now numbers 20 players (same as the 2023 roster).
https://www.ncsasports.org/softball/scholarship-facts
https://www.collegesportsscholarships.com/softball.htm

The last of the "Covid Softball Players" will use up their eligibility in the 2024 season.

**** 2023 Softball Players Departed (as of July 18, 2023)
> Graduated (4) - Grace Lyons; Haley Lee; Alex Storako; Grace Green
> Transfer Portal (3) - Jordy Bahl; Sophia Nugent; Jocelyn Erickson
(These 7 departures have been replaced by 4 inbound freshmen and 3 inbound transfers)

2024 Roster (below) is Sorted by Remaining Eligibility of Each Player and Incoming Recruiting Classes
2023 Roster: https://soonersports.com/sports/soft...?path=softball
Note: First Softball Season in the SEC will be 2025.
The 2024 Recruiting Class (committed players listed) will enroll in 2024 and play in 2025.

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2024 is Last Year of Eligibility (** Extra Covid Season)
> Kinzie Hansen / C / RS-Senior** / Norco, California
> Rylie Boone / OF / RS-Senior** / Owasso, Oklahoma
> Alynah Torres / OF / RS-Senior** / Glendale, Ariz (Arizona State)
> Tiare Jennings / 2B / Senior / San Pedro, California
> Jayda Coleman / CF / Senior / The Colony, Texas
> Alyssa Brito / 3B / Senior / Tustin, California (Oregon)
> Nicole May / RHP / Senior / Pleasanton, California
> Karlie Keeney / RHP / RS-Senior** / Providence, Kentucky (Grad Transfer from Liberty)
> Riley Ludlam / C-SS / RS-Senior** / Fort Myers, Florida (Grad Transfer from Furman)

________________________
2025 is Last Year of Eligibility
> Cydney Sanders / 1B / Junior / San Marcos, Calif (Arizona State)

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2026 is Last Year of Eligibility
> Paytn Monticelli / RHP / Cedarburg, Wisconsin / Transfer from Wisconsin
> Hanna Coor / OF / RS-Soph / Yorba Linda, California (2023 Medical Redshirt)
> Quincee Lilio / UTL / RS-Soph / Oceanside, California
> Kierston Deal / LHP / Sophomore / Winston Salem, NC
> Avery Hodge / INF / Sophomore / Richmond, Texas

________________________
2027 is Last Year of Eligibility
https://soonersports.com/news/2022/1...-four-for-2023
> SJ Geurin / LHP / RS-Freshman / Leander, Texas (2022 Recruit that Redshirted in 2023)
> Ella Parker / UTL / Freshman / Los Angeles, California
> Kasidi Pickering / OF / Freshman / Humble, Texas
> Nelly McEnroe-Marinas / INF / Freshman / Waianae, Hawaii
> Maya Bland / OF / Freshman / Argyle, Texas


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Everything that follows below was originally posted by OUBeliever56 on 247Sports.com
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The Recruiting Class of 2024 currently has 7 commitments, compared to 9 players that will end their eligibility in 2024. The players listed bellow will be high school seniors in 2023-24.

> Tia Malloy (INF)- LH Hitter
> Audrey Lowry LHP/UT
> Corri Hicks C- RH Hitter (power)
> Kadey Lee McKay SS/INF- LH Hitter (power)
> Sydney Barker SS- RH Hitter
> Gabriella Garcia INF- RH Hitter (power)
> Cheney Helton CF- LH Hitter

[Salt City Sooner]

Maxwell to OU:

https://extrainningsoftball.com/brea...d-to-oklahoma/