No. 1 Sooners take Game 1 over No. 7 Cowgirls

NORMAN — No. 1 Oklahoma won Game 1 of Bedlam on Thursday over No. 7 Oklahoma State, 7-1.

A four-run third inning broke things open for OU (46-1, 15-1 Big 12), with three runs coming off the bat of Tiare Jennings. The sophomore blasted her 22nd home run of the season and fourth in as many games.

Freshman Jordy Bahl was again a force in the circle, throwing a four-hit complete game, allowing just one run and one walk with six strikeouts of the Cowgirl (38-10, 142) offense. Bahl is 21-1 on the year and collected her third top-10 win of the season.

Six Sooners registered a hit in the game with Jennings bringing in a trio, senior Jocelyn Alo plating two and sophomore Jayda Coleman recording one

RBI.

The win was OU’s 27th in the past 28 games over OSU and with the victory, Oklahoma is one win away from winning its 10th consecutive and 14th overall Big 12 regular season title.

After a quiet pair of innings, OU plated four runs on four hits in the third with all four runs coming with two outs.

Following singles from super senior Jana Johns and Coleman, an RBI single to left center from Alo scored the first run of the game.

The next at-bat, Jennings sent a three-run homer over the fence for OU’s 121st home run of the year and the sophomore’s 49th of her career.

OU pushed two more across in the fourth via bases-loaded walks to Coleman and Alo.

OSU scored their lone run of the game on an RBI single from Sydney Pennington at the top of the fifth on a ball that bounced off the third-base bag into left.

OU got the run back quickly in the bottom half of the inning as senior captain Lynnsie Elam raced home on a Maxwell wild pitch.

Bahl finished the Cowgirls in the final two innings, retiring six of the final seven batters with just one baserunner getting aboard on OU’s only error of the contest. OU State made two errors in the game, with Maxwell allowing four earned runs and seven runs total with four strikeouts and six walks.

OU hit a home run for the 41st game of the season out of 47, while the pitching staff allowed one run or fewer for the 41st time.