Championship teams fight to the bitter end.
On the first weekend of the 2024 season, No. 1 Oklahoma showed why its finished three straight seasons as national champs.
After trailing 3-2 most of the night to No. 7 Washington at the Puerto Vallarta College Challenge in Mexico, the Sooners took care of business late.
Furman transfer Riley Ludlam delivered a game-tying RBI in the sixth inning, and Rylie Boone finished the job in extras.
The OU senior lifted a ball to left field, plating true freshman Kasidi Pickering , to put the Sooners on top 4-3 with two outs.
A transfer knotted the game up for OU, and another one of Patty Gasso’s offseason acquisitions finished the game.
Oklahoma Sate transfer Kelly Maxwell came up huge with a pair of outs with a runner on third to close out the win over the Huskies on Friday night.
Oklahoma (3-0) extended its record winning streak to 56 games, and notched the program’s fourth-straight win over Washington (2-1).
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