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Oklahoma softball: Takeaways from Sooners’ Big 12-winning weekend

By Chip Rouse

Oklahoma poses for a photo with the Big 12 Champion trophy after a Bedlam softball game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Oklahoma State University Cowgirls (OSU) at Marita Hynes Field in Norman, Okla., Friday, May 6, 2022. Oklahoma won 6-0.Bedlam Softball
Oklahoma poses for a photo with the Big 12 Champion trophy after a Bedlam softball game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Oklahoma State University Cowgirls (OSU) at Marita Hynes Field in Norman, Okla., Friday, May 6, 2022. Oklahoma won 6-0.Bedlam Softball /
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Oklahoma softball is the Big 12 regular-season champion. That’s really not news anymore since the Sooners have now done that 11 years in a row.

And it’s happened 15 times in the 27-year history of the Big 12. Only one other team, Texas, has won the regular-season softball title as many as four times.

OU’s Big 12 dominance, however, hasn’t been confined to the regular season. The Sooners also has won the last 10 conference tournaments and will be the No. 1 seed in the tournament again this season.

The No. 1-ranked Sooners (45-1, 15-0) clinched the outright conference regular-season crown on Sunday with an 8-2 win over the Kansas Jayhawks.

Over the last three seasons (including this one), during which Oklahoma has won back-to-back national championships, the Sooners are an extraordinary 48-2 against Big 12 opponents.

OU has faced 16 top-25 opponents this season, winning all 16 games.

Oklahoma has a midweek contest at Tulsa this week before traveling the short distance to Stillwater for a regular season-ending Bedlam series against 7th-ranked Oklahoma State. For much of the season, the Cowgirls were ranked No. 2 in the nation right behind the Sooners.

Takeaways from the weekend series against Kansas

  • Kansas scored a run in the first inning on Sunday, snapping a scoreless streak of 54 innings against Big 12 opponents.
  • The Sooners posted two more shutouts in the Kansas series, improving their nation-best shutout total this season to 28.
  • With the series sweep of the Jayhawks, Oklahoma has won 37 consecutive games since a one-run, 4-3 loss to Baylor on Feb. 19. The Sooners also have won 24 consecutive Big 12 games and 53 consecutive conference series, which includes 45 series sweeps.
  • OU has won 60 consecutive home games at Marita Hynes Field.
  • Oklahoma has outscored opponents this season by an overwhelming 385 to 37 and has allowed just 11 runs to Big 12 opponents in 15 games.
  • Against Big 12 teams this season, OU is outscoring foes 107-11, with 32 home runs and a staff ERA of 0.44 along with 10 shutouts.
  • Jayda Coleman was seven of nine at the plate with six RBI and five runs scored in the Kansas series to improve her Big 12-leading batting average to .465. She also hit her team-leading 13th home run of the season in the middle game of the series.
  • Tiare Jennings had a monster day at the plate in the series finale on Sunday. She had four hits in five at bats, drove in three runs and scored twice.
  • Three Oklahoma starting pitchers — Nicole May, Alex Storako and Jordy Bahl — rank one, two, three in the Big 12 in earned run average. May and Storako are also two and three, nationally, with ERAs under 1.00. May has a 0.43 ERA after the weekend and Storako’s is 0.77.
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