Oklahoma 16 - Texas 1
Oklahoma 10 - Texas 5
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma played in their third straight National Championship Series, and was looking to go back-to-back once again.
The Sooners squared off against the unranked Texas Longhorns who were the first unranked team to ever make the Championship Series. The ’Horns got out to an early lead in Game 1 when Courtney Day drew an RBI walk to score Bella Dayton to make it 1-0.
It did not take long for Oklahoma to answer as the home run queen Jocelyn Alo got a hold of a hanging breaking pitch and drove it into the left field bleachers. That made it 2-1 OU.
After some defensive miscues from Texas, Taylon Snow made Texas pay as she got a hold of one and deposited it into the bleachers to make it 5-1 after the first inning.
Grace Lyons kept the bats hot in the second as she singled into the outfield to score Alo to extend the OU lead.
Tiare Jennings and Jana Johns both homered in the third inning to make it 10-1 Sooners.
The Sooner offense stayed hot in the fourth inning when Johns had an RBI single, and Grace Green had an RBI groundout to further extend the lead.
The Sooners refused to stop scoring as Alo and Jennings both drove home runs over the fence in the fifth inning to make it 14-1. Then in the seventh, Oklahoma had a little more juice left in the tank as Jennings doubled in a run to left field and Alyssa Brito singled in a run up the middle to finish the scoring at 16-1 Sooners.
After OU rolled in game one, the Sooners found themselves one win away from the National Title in Game 2.
Once again, the Longhorns struck first as Alyssa Washington and Mary Iakopo each hit a pair of sacrifice flies to make it 2-0 in the first inning.
Oklahoma came to life again in the fourth inning when Kinzie Hansen scored a run and reached on an error; Snow singled into center field to tie up the game. Oklahoma took the lead in the fifth inning as Brito doubled in a run to take a one-run lead. Hansen then blew the game open to make it 6-2 Sooners.
In the sixth, Jennings drove a sacrifice fly to score a run, and then Lyons drove a three-run home run over the wall to make it 10-2.
But Texas did not go away quietly.
In the seventh inning, Mia Scott drove a three-run home run of her own over the fence to cut the lead down to 10-5.
Oklahoma held the lead to clinch their sixth National title of all time. This is the Sooners’ fifth National championship in the past nine seasons.