Back Home to Host Wichita State

NORMAN — Oklahoma Softball returns home for the first time since March 15 and wraps up the month against Wichita State at Love's Field Tuesday, March 31.

The game will be televised on SEC Network with Alex Loeb (play-by-play) and Cat Osterman (color commentary) on the call. A radio call of the game will be available on The Franchise 2, KEBC 1560 AM.

Promotions and Ticket Info:
The first 250 fans at tomorrow's game will receive a coupon for a honey butter chicken biscuit from Whataburger. In lieu of the 133 home runs hit by Oklahoma bats, 133 hot dog and candy combos will be given away to students. Students must present their OU student ID at Love's Field gate 2.

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FIRST PITCH

• The Sooners wrap up the month of March with a single non-conference game against Wichita State. OU is 26-2 in non-conference play this season.

• The Sooners upped their winning streak to 22 games before having it snapped in game two against LSU this past weekend. That stretch marked the 10th 20-plus game winning streak during head coach Patty Gasso's tenure.

• OU head coach Patty Gasso became just the third head coach in NCAA history to reach 1,600 wins after the win at LSU Friday.

• The Sooners went 16-1 in the month of March while going 8-1 in SEC play. Gabbie Garcia and Kai Minor paced all hitters with a .480 and .479 batting average respectively. Kendall Wells notched a team-best 11 homers and 27 RBIs during the month, while Ella Parker was right behind her with 10 homers, 26 RBIs and 50 stolen bases.

• Oklahoma's pitching staff has held it down in March. The Sooners' six-pitcher rotation spun a combined 2.10 ERA and fanned 95 in exactly 100 innings. Audrey Lowry is 6-0 with a save, while Kierston Deal and Berkley Zache combined for a 0.00 ERA in five appearances.

• OU has won 25 games by run-rule, including four in SEC play. OU has posted a double-digit scoring effort 22 times. The Sooners are 34-3 and 8-1 in SEC play and ranked third in the most recent ESPN.com/USA Poll as well as fifth in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) poll.

• The Sooners have an identical overall and conference record through 37 games as they did a year ago. The Sooners would go on to finish 52-9 with a 17-7 SEC record last season.

• The Sooners have hit at least one homer in 34 of 37 games and had done so in 20 consecutive games prior to Friday's game at LSU. OU's 133 home runs on the season is already good for third all-time in OU single season history and seventh in NCAA history.

• OU homered four times Sunday against LSU, the 17th instance in which OU has hit four or more home runs in a game this season.

FLEXIN' FRESHMEN

•  The Sooner freshmen Lexi McDaniel, Kai Minor, Allyssa Parker and Kendall Wells have combined for 50 homers, 132 RBIs, 133 hits 315 total bases. Together they are slashing .427/.509/.960. Their 50 homers is greater than 274 teams nationwide.

•  Kai Minor is hitting .505, leading all D1 freshmen in batting average. She is also second among all freshmen in hits (47) and is third in runs (41). She has earned SEC Freshman of the Week honors this season and paces the OU lineup with 18 multi-hit games. She added to that multi-hit total with a pair this weekend at LSU.

•  Kendall Wells is not only leading the country in home runs (26), but is on pace to hit 37.9 over the regular season, which would break the NCAA single season record for home runs. She is also nearing a number of other home run records including the SEC single season home run record (27), OU freshman home run record (31), OU single season home run record (35) and NCAA home run record (38).

•  Allyssa Parker is one of six Sooners with double-digit home runs, having hit 10 this season in just 52 at-bats. Her 1.000 slugging percentage is second in the nation among all freshmen, behind only Wells (1.107). She is the only player in the nation with an undefeated pitching record and at least 10 home runs at the plate. On March 7 she achieved the rare feat of tripling and spinning a complete game in the circle. She fanned four and worked six scoreless frames in that game. She is the first Sooner since Keilani Ricketts (May 31, 2012) to spin a complete game and triple in the same game.

•  Lexi McDaniel is on pace to become the third OU freshman with double-digit homers. She also has three pinch-hit homers this year. McDaniel and Wells both earned national freshman and or player of the week honors this season. Wells was named Softball America Freshman of the Week and D1Softball National Player of the Week. McDaniel was also named SEC Freshman of the Week and D1Softball Freshman of the Week.

SCENE SETTERS

• OU is on a historic pace in a number of offensive categories this season. The Sooners are hitting .426 as a team and for context, OU's program record is .405 in the 2021 season. The Sooners slashed their way to program records that season, slugging .778 in 2021 while reaching base at a .490 clip. The Sooners are leading the country with an .883 slugging percentage and tout a .517 on-base percentage.

• The Sooners and Shockers meet for the 65th time. OU won both meetings a year ago, including a wild 19-16 win March 26 in Wichita. Wichita State is 7-3 over its last 10 games. It was picked to finish third in the American Athletic Conference Preseason Coaches Poll.

• The Sooners have hit more home runs than 88 teams in Division I have for total runs scored. OU's 401 runs account for 97.3 percent of its total run total from all of last season. The Sooners set the NCAA single season runs record with 638 in 2021, doing so in 60 games. Oklahoma averaged 10.6 runs per game that season. The Sooners are averaging 11.9 runs per game through 37 contests this season, on pace for 645 runs in the regular season alone in 2026.

• Seniors Abby Dayton and Ailana Agbayani both reached the same milestones within the last month. Agbayani reached 200 career hits March 7, while Dayton joined her with her 200th career hit Friday against LSU. They both reached 200 games played Friday night as well.

• With OU's comeback extra-inning win on Friday the Sooners have earned 11 comeback wins this season. OU has four comeback wins in SEC play this season.

• OU's offense features 14 players with at least three home runs. Six players have at least 10 home runs and four have 12 or more. In all of 2025 seven players had eight home runs or more. OU's batting averages range from .311 to .505, with 10 of 14 players with an at-bat batting above .400. Ella Parker hit .423 last year, the lone Sooner to hit above .400 in 2025.

CIAO BELA

• Redshirt-senior Isabela Emerling has 12 home runs through 31 games played, tied with her total from all of last year. Emerling tied the program record for homers with three against Montana last month, while coming up just inches from another three-homer game March 3 at North Texas.

• She hit the game-winning grand slam against Ole Miss Monday, March 23. That grand slam marked the eighth of her career, tying her for fifth all-time in NCAA history in that category. Tuesday she was named SEC Player of the Week. It's the second late-inning game-winning grand slam of her OU career after doing so in a nine-inning 11-6 win against San Diego State on the first day of the season in 2025.

• On Sunday she added her latest clutch hit as she hit the eventual game-winning three-run home run in the 8-4 win against LSU.

GIFT OF GAB

• Sophomore shortstop Gabbie Garcia is tied for the national lead for homers among all shortstops (16 homers). Garcia ranks tied for eighth in the nation in home runs and tied for 12th in RBIs (49). Garcia hits big and in bunches, pacing the Sooners with four games of 5+ RBIs. She is second on the team in multi-hit games with 16.

• In 94 career games she is hitting .385 with 110 hits, 91 runs, 107 RBIs, 36 home runs. The everyday shortstop helped OU set a single season double plays turned record (31) in 2025. She has made only seven errors in 254 chances, all of which have come at shortstop. She was named to the 2025 SEC All-Defensive Team and helped OU turn four double plays against Abilene Christian March 8, tied for the most by a team in NCAA Division 1 this season.

SOPHOMORE ARMS

• The Sooner sophomore pitching duo of Audrey Lowry and Miali Guachino both have double-digit wins, combining for a 26-1 record in the circle. Lowry leads the team in innings pitched (73.2) and ERA (2.09), while Guachino leads OU with a .183 opponents' batting average and 68 strikeouts.

UP NEXT

OU finishes the first half of SEC play against Kentucky Thursday, April 2 through Saturday, April 4.

FIRST PITCH

FLEXIN' FRESHMEN

SCENE SETTERS

CIAO BELA

GIFT OF GAB

SOPHOMORE ARMS

UP NEXT

Players Mentioned

Ailana Agbayani

Abby Dayton

Kierston Deal

Isabela Emerling

Gabbie Garcia

Miali Guachino

Audrey Lowry

Lexi McDaniel

Kai Minor

Allyssa Parker

Ella Parker

Kendall Wells

Berkley Zache

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