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OU softball with one final primer weekend to figure things out

Bob Przybyloby:Bob Przybylo•about 11 hours•

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It’s wrong to call this the preseason for OU softball, but it sure does feel like it. The Sooners haven’t been in those monster tournaments to begin the 2025 season.

Instead, with all the fresh faces on the squad, it has been an easing into things process. But that process? Has almost reached its conclusion.

Another weekend at Love’s Field, but zero concerns this time around. The weather will be beautiful, the fans will come out, hoping for another show from Patty Gasso and company

OU schedule

Marshall vs. OU – 1:45 p.m. (Friday)
Kansas vs. OU – 4:15 (Friday)
Kansas vs. OU – 3:15 p.m. (Saturday)
Marshall vs. OU – 6 p.m. (Saturday)
Kansas City vs. OU – 1:45 p.m. (Sunday)

“There are a few things we’re going to make changes with that I think will help them feel more fresh and things like that,” said Gasso on Monday. “We know that this is the last official tournament weekend and kind of the last chance to get things right before conference play.”

That’s the mentality to have. A final look before South Carolina comes to Norman next weekend and SEC play officially begins.

A last weekend for Gasso to make some moves in the lineup or defensively, tinker with things and find out about who you can trust.

OU is 14-0 but that also includes three extra inning victories. The biggest surprise, obviously, being the three-run home run by Kasidi Pickering in the eighth inning against a two-win Bowling Green squad.

A valuable lesson learned. You have to show up and bring it every single day. If that lesson has been learned, you should see the Sooners cruise the next three days.

South Carolina is also undefeated but has a three-game set with No. 8 Duke this weekend. Everybody is going to find out a lot more about that program.

Sanders the senior leader

The best player is sophomore Ella Parker, but it will be intriguing to watch the evolution of Cydney Sanders.

A senior, and the only returning senior who has been in the program. Sanders had a fantastic Monday with two home runs and driving in seven runs.

Sanders is never going to be that vocal rah-rah type of leader. But she has a style all her own, and it’s working.

“I feel like I’m like a behind-the-scenes type of leader, like, I will go up to that person, like, probably a one-on-one situation, like, probably nobody would see it, but I’m like, a person that goes to them and then, like, asks them where their head’s at,” Sanders said. “Because I know I’ve been there before.

“Like, I know how it is to struggle, or I know how it is to feel like you’re in a slump or whatever. But I also know how to get out of that, too. I have a lot of advice that I’ve been giving to everybody. I feel like it’s super cool to be a senior now because I can just Pass the torch and see what everybody else passed to me and see what it looks like after I leave.”

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