No. 4 Softball Opens Road Trip With 15-0 Win at Memphis

Wednesday, March 18

Memphis, Tenn.

6 p.m.

University of Oklahoma

29-2

Memphis

7-20

Oklahoma

Memphis

Photo by: Peyton Martin/University of Oklahoma

No. 4 Softball Opens Road Trip With 15-0 Win at Memphis

March 18, 2026 | Softball

Box Score

Berzon Spins Four Scoreless, Sooners Homer Four Times

MEMPHIS — No. 4 Oklahoma (29-2) started its seven-game road swing with a 15-0 five-inning win against Memphis (7-20) Wednesday, March 18. Sydney Berzon and Berkley Zache combined for five shutout innings, while the Sooners homered four times and tallied 13 hits.

OU 15, Memphis 0 (5 inn.)
Kasidi Pickering walked and Gabbie Garcia reached on an error before both moved up on a wild pitch. Kendall Wells drove in Pickering with an RBI groundout and Garcia scored on a second wild pitch.

Isabela Emerling tucked a towering home run inside the left field foul pole for her 10th homer of the season, giving the Sooners a 3-0 lead to start the second. Abby Dayton walked and eventually came around after a steal, throwing error and another wild pitch.

OU tacked on five runs in the third inning. Ailana Agbayani opened the third with a bunt single and came around to score after another Memphis fielding miscue and a passed ball. Kendall Wells hit a three-run homer over the temporary bleachers in left field and Allyssa Parker hit a solo home run to go back-to-back.

RBI singles from Kasidi Pickering and Sydney Barker tacked on two more in the fourth while Dayton launched a three-run homer to center and Ella Parker doubled in one more in the fifth.

Pitchers of Record
Win: Sydney Berzon (4-1)
Loss: Jericho Tate (2-7)

Statistical Snapshot

Isabela Emerling | 3-for-4, 3R, HR
Kendall Wells | 1-for-2, 4RBIs
Lexi McDaniel | 2-for-4
Abby Dayton | 1-for-2, 3RBIs, HR
Allyssa Parker | HR
Sydney Berzon | W, 4.0 IP, 2H, 0ER, BB, 2Ks

Notes

It was OU's first-ever game at Memphis
OU has homered in 30 of 31 games
Emerling and Allyssa Parker both reached 10 homers on the season, bringing OU to six different players with double-digit homers on the year
OU has had nine instances of back-to-back home runs this year
Pickering extended her reached base streak to 29 games
Dayton made her second appearance at third base on the season
OU is up to 41 innings of four or more runs this season
The Sooners have four players hitting .500 or above through 31 games this year

Up Next
Oklahoma makes the short trip south to prepare for a three-game series against (RV) Ole Miss beginning Saturday, March 21 in Oxford.

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Berzon, Sydney (4-1)

L: Tate, Jericho (2-7)

Oklahoma

Batting:

2B: Parker, Ella 1

HR: Parker, Allyssa 1 ; Wells, Kendall 1 ; Emerling, Isabela 1 ; Dayton, Abby 1

RBI: Parker, Allyssa 1 ; Wells, Kendall 4 ; Parker, Ella 1 ; Pickering, Kasidi 1 ; Emerling, Isabela 1 ; Dayton, Abby 3 ; Barker, Sydney 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Parker, Allyssa 1 ; Wells, Kendall 1 ; Helton, Chaney 2 ; Pickering, Kasidi 2 ; McDaniel, Lexi 1 ; Emerling, Isabela 3 ; Dayton, Abby 2 ; Garcia, Gabbie 1 ; Agbayani, Ailana 1 ; Barker, Sydney 1