Oklahoma softball closed out the first month of the season in a dominant home-opening series at Love’s Field that felt like they were playing a video game.
While the offense crushed Alabama State, Sam Houston and Southeastern Louisiana with a ludicrous 116 combined runs, the six-game stretch also gave an opportunity for Patty Gasso to address the pitching staff’s problems. This time around, each of the five Sooners earned five-inning mercy rule wins in the circle.
To complement the enormous score tally by Oklahoma in its first outings on home turf, pitchers Allyssa Parker, Audrey Lowry, Miali Guachino, Sydney Berzon and Kierston Deal allowed just 15 runs from the visiting batters, who were struck out 27 times during those four days.
OU softball’s historic home-opening weekend has a pitching-by-committee to thank
Parker made her debut on the mound for Thursday’s record-breaking 32-0 beatdown against Alabama State, where the two-way freshman allowed only two hits in three innings while contributing five RBI to the shutout of the Hornets. She went 4-for-10 at the plate while scoring 11 runs and blasting three bombs over the weekend…