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Back to Love's Field for OU softball, back to dominance?

Bob Przybyloby:Bob Przybylo•04/10/24•

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Syndication: Treasure Coast
Oklahoma’s Ella Parker (5) runs to home base after hitting a home run against Texas, Sunday, April 7, 2024, at McCombs Field in Austin.

Interesting few weeks coming up for OU softball. Because it feels like no matter what the Sooners do these next three weekends, all eyes will go toward either the first weekend of May or last weekend.

BYU and Houston are coming to town, and OU will go to Central Florida. But based off what happened at Texas, now the attention is about Oklahoma State.

If OSU can take two of three from the Longhorns, and UT can take two of three from OU, hmm, what’s about to go down here in the stretch run?

OU was able to end that two-game skid with a 7-0 victory at Wichita State on Tuesday. The seven runs in the first two innings were nice. But going scoreless in the final five frames? Yea, even that was a cause for concern for head coach Patty Gasso.

Gasso gave a lot of reserves a chance to show what they can do. And instead, OU didn’t earn that one more run to cause the run-rule. It goes back to Gasso and her belief of everybody has to be ready when their number is called.

That didn’t stop pitchers Kierston Deal and Karlie Keeney from doing what they needed to do. They were impressive.

And now OU comes back home for a three-game set vs. BYU from Thursday-Saturday. A return to Love’s Field for the first time in three weeks.

When the Cougars beat OSU last month, even if it was just one game, you didn’t know what to expect. But BYU is a team that if OU is clicking again, a series of very little difficulty.

OU didn’t trail in a game for nearly a month. That’s the conundrum. As the Sooners were making their mark at Texas Tech or Kansas, you just wonder what that means as you get ready for the likes of a Texas or OSU.

But that month run was very impressive. OU needs to be on that same type of run heading into Bedlam. That road begins this weekend against the Cougars.

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