Oklahoma softball: Reminiscing on another specatacular Sooner season

Could the Sooners knock Auburn out the Championship a second straight year?

OU and No. 7-seeded Auburn were scoreless and locked in a pitching duel through the first five innings of their Super Regional opener. The Sooners broke the scoreless deadlock with a pair of runs in the sixth inning and added two more insurance runs in the seventh, and junior pitcher Paige Parker did the rest, allowing just four hits and striking out 14 Auburn hitters on the way to a complete-game 4-0 OU win.

Junior left fielder Nicole Pendley was the hero in Game 2 of the Super Regionals, blasting a three-run home run in the third inning that proved to be all Oklahoma would need for a series-clinching 5-2 victory that punched the Sooners’ return ticket to the Women’s College World Series.

The series win extended OU’s program record-setting road winning streak to 28 consecutive games in true road contests.

It also improved Oklahoma’s all-time record against Auburn to 6-2 and 4-1 in the postseason

So that was one SEC team out of the way, but there were three more teams from that conference waiting for the defending national champion Sooners in Oklahoma City in the WCWS, including the country’s top-ranked team, the Florida Gators.