Regular Season Wraps Up in College Station

Thursday, April 30

College Station, Texas

8 p.m.

University of Oklahoma

Texas A&M

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Regular Season Wraps Up in College Station

April 29, 2026 | Softball

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No. 1/1 Sooners Face Off Against No. 12/14 Texas A&M

NORMAN — The final three games of the 2026 regular season have the No. 1/1 Oklahoma Softball team up against No. 12/14 Texas A&M in College Station Thursday, April 30 through Saturday, May 2. Beth Mowins (play-by-play) and Michele Smith (color analyst) will be on the call for all three games.

Games one and two will be broadcast on SEC Network, while ESPN2 will carry Saturday's finale. Chris Plank and DJ Sanchez will be on the radio broadcast, which will be carried on The Franchise (107.7 KRXO-FM) and The Franchise 2 (1560 KEBC-AM). .

Weekend Schedule
Thursday, April 30 at 8 p.m. | SEC Network
Friday, May 1 at 5 p.m. | SEC Network
Saturday, May 2 at 4 p.m. | ESPN2

FIRST PITCH

• OU is in a stretch of playing 13 of 14 games against ranked teams to close out the regular season. The Sooners are currently 8-3 during that span, with series wins against No. 4 Texas, No. 6 Arkansas and No. 11 Georgia.

• The Sooners are in the middle of a stretch of being atop the ESPN.com/USA and NFCA Top 25 polls for three consecutive weeks beginning April 14.

• Oklahoma is 46-6 and 18-3 in Southeastern Conference play, with a two-game lead on Alabama and Florida in the league standings. The Sooners have won all seven SEC series this season. The Sooners won the conference with a 17-7 mark a year ago, despite dropping three series. OU swept four series and took two out of three in another.

• The Sooners are 13-5 against top 25 teams, the second-most wins against ranked teams in the SEC. OU is also tied for the most road wins in the league with 14, giving the Sooners the best road-winning percentage in the conference (.825).

• OU has played five series against top-25 teams, taking two out of three in four of them while sweeping the most recent one against No. 11/15 Georgia. Oklahoma has picked up road-series victories at No. 17/18 Arizona, No. 20 LSU and No. 4 Texas. OU also earned run-rule wins against No. 14/20 Duke, No. 23/RV Washington and No. 11/15 Georgia. Eight of those 13 wins have come in road or neutral site settings.

• Oklahoma has won 32 games by run-rule, including nine in SEC play. OU has posted a double-digit scoring effort 27 times.

• Kendall Wells set the SEC single-season home run record previously held by Bri Ellis (Arkansas), Bailey Hemphill (Alabama) and Mia Davidson (Mississippi State). She set it March 31 in just 37 games. Wells then set the NCAA freshman single-season home run record April 11 at Texas. She broke a three-way tie with former Sooners Jocelyn Alo (2018) and Lauren Chamberlain (2012) and Hawaii's Kelly Majam (2010). She then broke Jocelyn Alo's OU single-season home run record (34) Friday against Georgia and needs two more to set the all-time NCAA single-season home run record.

• Oklahoma has scored 551 runs in 52 games. The Sooners tallied 454 runs in 61 contests a year ago. The program record is 638, set in 2021 in 60 games. OU's team batting average is .401, four points shy of the program record average of .405 from 2021.

• OU went on a 22-game winning streak earlier this season, marking the 10th instance in head coach Patty Gasso's career that the Sooners have had a winning streak of 20-plus games.

• Oklahoma has seven players with double-digit home runs after freshman Lexi McDaniel joined that group with her 10th home run of the season.

NOTABLE NUMBERS

• Oklahoma has hit 169 home runs and was the fastest to 100 in NCAA history. OU has already hit 48 more homers than it did in 61 games last year. OU has seven different players with at least 10 home runs 14 have at least 3 homers.

• The Sooners have a nation-best four players on the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top 25 List. Gabbie Garcia, Kai Minor, Ella Parker and Kendall Wells are all on the list. Garcia, Minor and Wells are three of the four underclassmen on the list.

• Isabela Emerling nearly doubled her batting average from 2025. The redshirt-senior hit .212 last season and is hitting .411 this year with a career-high 18 home runs.

SCENE SETTERS

• OU is close to securing back-to-back SEC Regular Season Championships in its first two seasons in the conference. The Sooners would guarantee at least a share of the regular season crown with one win, while two wins would give the Sooners the title outright.

• Oklahoma plays its final regular season series of the year and makes its first trip to College Station since 2012. The Sooners have won ten in a row against Texas A&M, although the last meeting in College Station was an Aggies series finale win in 2012. OU won games one and two in that series before A&M took the final game. OU and Texas A&M split the 2025 SEC Tournament Championship after the final was rained out.

• The Sooners have hit more home runs than 42 teams in Division I have for total runs scored. OU 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 10.5 runs per game through 52 contests this season, on pace for 582 runs in the regular season alone in 2026.

FLEXIN' FRESHMEN

• The Sooner freshmen Lexi McDaniel, Kai Minor, Allyssa Parker and Kendall Wells have combined for 61 home runs, 165 RBIs, 168 runs and a .409 batting average.

• Freshman centerfielder Kai Minor is not only leading OU with a .451 batting average, but she is leading all Division I freshmen in that category - as well as the entire Southeastern Conference. She ranks fourth in the league in hits (64) and third in stolen bases (17).

• Allyssa Parker is one of six Sooners with double-digit home runs, having hit 11 this season in 62 at-bats. On March 7 she achieved the rare feat of tripling and spinning a complete game in the circle.

• Lexi McDaniel became the third freshman to reach double-digit home runs this season, posting 10 to go with a .443 batting average in 79 at-bats. She also has three pinch-hit homers and a team-best seven pinch-hit RBIs. McDaniel was also named SEC Freshman and D1Softball Freshman of the Week.

• In the circle, freshman Berkley Zache has posted a 2.55 ERA across eight appearances. She hasn't allowed an earned run since her collegiate debut at No. 17/18 Arizona Feb. 7.

• All four freshmen position players played in last Wednesday's Bedlam game, with three of them starting (Kai Minor, Kendall Wells and Lexi McDaniel). Allyssa Parker also pitched and earned a hit in that game.

CIAO BELA

• Redshirt-senior Isabela Emerling has 18 home runs through 46 games played, six more than her total from all of last year. The Sooners are 25-1 in her OU career when she hits at least one home run in a game.

• Emerling hit a game-tying and momentum shifting grand slam against No. 6/8 Arkansas Friday, April 17. That grand slam marked the ninth of her career, tying her for third all-time in NCAA history in that category. She hit a solo home run to give OU insurance in the 3-0 win against No. 4 Texas.

• March 24 she was named SEC Player of the Week after hitting a game-winning grand slam at Ole Miss March 23. 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. She also added a key game-tying home run in OU's 4-1 win against Oregon in the 2025 WCWS.

DAYTON 500

• Abby Dayton knocked off two milestones March 27, surpassing 200 career hits while reaching 200 career games. The veteran is turning in the best offensive year of her career as she is hitting .436 with an .812 slugging percentage.

• Traditionally an outfielder, Dayton slid in to play third base for the first time in her collegiate career and turned a double play in the win March 8 against Abilene Christian.

• Dayton is on pace to post one of the best seasons in OU history in the "toughest-to-strikeout" category. The lefty hitter has only struck out four times in 134 plate appearances (101 at-bats) this season. The program record is held by Sandy Ochoa in 1987 (only struck out once in 115 at-bats).

GIFT OF GAB

• Sophomore shortstop Gabbie Garcia ranks in the top 15 in the country in home runs (22, 8th) and RBIs (66, 15th). Garcia hits big and in bunches, pacing the Sooners with five games of 5+ RBIs. She is second on the team in multi-hit games with 20.

• In 105 career games she is hitting .381 with 125 hits, 102 runs, 124 RBIs, 42 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 304 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 I this season.

SOPHOMORE ARMS

• The Sooner sophomore pitching duo of Audrey Lowry and Miali Guachino both have double-digit wins, combining for a 34-3 record in the circle. Lowry leads the team in innings pitched (106.2) and ERA (2.45), while Guachino leads OU with a .201 opponents' batting average and 97 strikeouts.