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OU softball taken down by Florida, still No. 1 seed in SEC Tournament

Bob Przybyloby:Bob Przybylo•05/02/25•

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OU head coach Patty Gasso. (Sarah Phipps - Imagn Images)

The day couldn’t have started better for OU softball. The Sooners became SEC regular season champions without ever having taken the field.

A loss by Texas A&M against Tennessee guaranteed the No. 1 seed for the Sooners, just hours before taking the field against Florida.

But that game against the Gators? Not their finest hour. OU pitching was rocked time and time again en route to a 9-4 defeat in Gainesville on Friday.

Head coach Patty Gasso isn’t going to change her philosophy. OU needs to build a staff, not just a one-person wrecking crew named Sam Landry.

And Kierston Deal was terrific last weekend against Texas. But she couldn’t make it out of the second inning Friday.

The big bomb was allowing a two-out grand slam in the bottom of the second to give Florida a 5-1 lead.

Isabella Smith calmed things down for a bit, and Ella Parker made the game incredibly interesting. The sophomore homered in her fourth straight game, a three-run bomb to make it 5-4 in the fifth.

However, the Gators came alive in the bottom half. Three home runs, four runs total off of Smith to guarantee they would not get swept.

Back to trying to get that pitching staff confident once again.

A day after having 15 hits in the nine-inning victory, OU had trouble all Friday. Unless your name was Parker, as she had another three-hit game. Back to-back three-hit games for Parker and her average is now up to .424. Yep, she’s back.

Up next

Let’s finish the regular season. No. 1 OU (43-6 overall, 17-6) takes on Florida one more time. The game is still 4 p.m., but it has now moved to ESPN. It will be interesting to see Gasso’s pitching strategy, after using the other three arms Friday. Back to Landry? Or wait to see if someone else wants that moment?

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