The No. 4-ranked Sooners breezed past Kansas, setting up a date with BYU in Friday's semifinals at the Big 12 Tournament.
Spurred by Sunday’s Bedlam victory, the Sooners throttled Kansas to open their portion of the 2024 Big 12 Tournament in style.
OU leaned on both the long ball and small ball to blow by the Jayhawks 10-1 in five innings on Thursday at Devon Park, formerly Hall of Fame Stadium, in Oklahoma City. The win set up a semifinal date with BYU after the Cougars upset No. 3 Oklahoma State in the first game of the day.Oklahoma scored multiple runs in each of the first three innings to make quick work of Kansas , but the start of the contest didn’t go quite asAfter a quick mound visit, the OU ace steadied and quelled the threat to send her offense to the plate with trailing but just the single run.
Two batters later, Torres, who had moved over to third after a fielder’s choice, seized on a wild pitch to score and cap off the three-run inning.Kansas put two runners aboard with no outs, but the senior left-hander fired a strikeout and trusted her defense to make a pair of plays to end the threat.
Boone’s leadoff double kept OU’s offense on track again in the bottom half of the inning as the Sooners put the game into run-rule territory.Maxwell allowed three hits and two walks while firing a pair of strikeouts.Oklahoma and BYU will meet at 5 p.m. on Friday with a spot in Saturday’s title game on the line, and the game will be broadcast on ESPN+.Ryan is deputy editor at AllSooners and covers a number of sports in and around Norman and Oklahoma City.
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