Oklahoma softball: Sooners post 2nd straight shutout over Baylor
By Chip Rouse
Top-ranked Oklahoma softball made it two in a row over Baylor with a 4-0 win in Game 1 of a twin bill on Saturday at Getterman Stadium in Waco.
Kinzie Hansen tripled home Tiare Jennings, who had walked to open the sixth inning, with Oklahoma’s first run to break open a scoreless game. Sophia Nugent walked to put OU runners at the corners. Cydney Sanders followed with a fence-clearing blast to left, her second of the series, to open up a four-run advantage for the Sooners.
There was no scoring for the first five innings as pitching dominated for both sides. Alex Storako for Oklahoma and Kaci West for Baylor were locked in a pitching duel, with each team held to three hits until the Sooners’ four-run sixth.
Baylor threated in the bottom half of the seventh, loading the bases with two out, but Jordy Bahl, on in relief of Storako, got Amber Tovan, the No. 2 hitter in the Baylor lineup, to ground out to shortstop ending the game and preserving the shutout for the Sooners.
Neither team mounted much offense in the game. OU ended with five hits and Baylor got just four hits in the game, all off of Storako, who picked up the win, her 14th of the season without a loss. All of Baylor’s hits again on Saturday were singles. In the first two games of this series, the Bears have not had an extra-base hit.
The victory was win number 40 for the Sooners on the season with just one loss, ironically against this same Baylor team on Feb. 19. It was also OU’s nation-leading 25th shutout of the season.
Oklahoma has now won 24 of its last 26 games against the Baylor Bears.