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Around the Bases: Feb. 6, 2025

by:Cooper Taylor•about 10 hours
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Courtesy of Oklahoma State Athletics

Around the Bases is Softball America’s free daily recap of the day’s biggest games. We’ll highlight four marquee matches and run toward the plate with other notable moments.

No. 4 Oklahoma State 9, No. 10 Florida State 6

It was an all-around effort for Oklahoma State’s win over Florida State, with seven different Cowgirls collecting a hit, including solo home runs from Tallen Edwards, Micaela Wark, and Amanda Hasler.

Transfer pitcher Ruby Meylan was as advertised, striking out nine batters in five innings for her first win in an Oklahoma State uniform. Another transfer, outfielder Megan Delgadillo, shined in her Cowgirl debut, notching three hits, an RBI, and three stolen bases. Jaysoni Beachum was a bright spot for the Seminoles though, hitting a pair of homers and driving in three runs in the loss.

Ashtyn Danley and Meylan got the opening day starts for this marquee matchup. Delgadillo opened the scoring for the Cowgirls, doubling to start the season, then scoring on a wild pitch and an error. Micaela Wark added a second run for Oklahoma State in the opening frame with an RBI single. After Meylan struck out the Seminole side in the second, Oklahoma State pushed across a third run on Tallen Edwards’ solo home run.

Meylan rode a strikeout streak of six consecutive batters until Beachum put the Seminoles on the board in the third with a solo homer of her own. Julia Apsel relieved Danley in the third, keeping the Cowgirls quiet with a pair of strikeouts. However, Oklahoma State added another run in the fourth on Delgadillo’s RBI single, her third hit of the game. The Seminoles earned a run back on a sacrifice fly in the fifth. But the Pokes answered immediately with a solo homer from Wark and an RBI squeeze bunt from Edwards.

Meylan struck out nine before Baylor transfer RyLee Crandall was brought in to close the game. Oklahoma State continued its offensive clinic in the sixth with three more runs. A solo shot from Amanda Hasler, a Florida State error, and a Rachael Hathoot RBI double. A pair of two-run homers from Kennedy Harp and Beachum sparked a Seminole rally in the seventh, but it was too late. The Seminoles and Cowgirls will meet again at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday.

No. 24 Virginia vs. South Carolina (6 p.m. ET, SEC Network+)

No. 21 Nebraska vs. No. 6 Tennessee (7 p.m. ET, GameChanger)

No. 3 Oklahoma at San Diego State (9 p.m. ET, Mountain West Network)

Players of the Day

Ole Miss freshman Miali Guachino tossed 3.2 IP hitless innings with five Ks in a 3-2 comeback win over Clemson. Fellow freshman Persy Llamas hit a pinch-hit three-run go-ahead home run in her first collegiate at-bat.

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