Oklahoma’s season opening baseball series against Wichita State has been canceled.
The Sooners and Shockers were scheduled to play a three-game this weekend at Dell Diamond in Round Rock, TX, but winter weather and related issues with the facility forced forced the series to be called off.
OU is working to schedule a new series for this weekend, according to a press release.
Fans who purchased tickets for these games may contact the Round Rock Express for refund information at tickets@rrexpress.com.
Oklahoma sweeps weekly Big 12 awards
Anastasia Webb, Audrey Davis and Jordan Draper help give coach K.J. Kindler her 400th win as head coach
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Anastasia Webb, Audrey Davis and Jordan Draper took all three Big 12 weekly awards after a dominant night in helping coach
K.J. Kindler earn her 400
th win as head coach of the Sooners.
Webb landed a perfect 10 on vault and took home four event titles to earn Gymnast of the Week. The 10 was the second of her career and first on vault. She finished the night in Fort Worth with event titles on the floor, beam and all-around. Her all-around score of 39.725 was a career best and is the third-highest score in the NCAA this season. This is the fourth time in six weeks the Morton Grove, Illinois senior has taken Gymnast of the Week honors, the seventh of her career.
She didn’t say the Sooners were this good.
OU opened the 2021 season on Thursday at the Miner Invitational with an historic 29-0 rout of host UTEP, then pummeled Abilene Christian 9-0 in their second game.
The Sooners bashed an NCAA record 13 home runs against UTEP, including three each from
Grace Lyons and freshman
Kinzie Hansen and
Jocelyn Alo, Jayda Coleman and Mackenzie Donihoo also homered as OU raced out to a 13-0 lead in the first inning.
Jennings finished with six RBIs, while Lyons and Mendes each drove in 5.
Gisele Juarez started and pitched three perfect innings with six strikeouts.
Oklahoma softball embarks on its quest for a fifth national championship this week.
The Sooners, ranked No. 4 in USA TODAY/NFCA and ESPN.com/USA Softball preseason polls to start the season, finally released their 2021 schedule on Tuesday.
OU will face 10 programs who made the 2019 NCAA tournament in 2021. Twenty-one contests will take place inside the friendly confines of Marita Hines Field in Norman.
The first battles of the 2021 season will take place on Feb. 11-12 in the Wildcat Invitational, which was originally scheduled to take place in Abilene, TX, but has been moved to El Paso, TX, due to the freezing temperatures sweeping the nation this week. OU will play the UTEP Miners and Abilene Christian University twice each over the course of the invitational, with the seasons’ first pitch coming on Thursday at 11 a.m. against the Miners.