Ou softball keeps South Carolina out in the back and forth SEC opener

Norman-Ou Softball coach Patty Gasso said earlier this week she was looking forward to seeing how her second-ranked Sooners would respond to adversity with the SEC game beginning.

OU succeeded with the first test that fought from behind and then stopped late to beat 11. South Carolina ranked 10-9 ahead of 4,140 on Love’s Field.

“I didn’t know what to expect tonight,” Gasso said. “I didn’t expect so many races to be scored. But there is something special that this team showed me tonight that we can do a lot of good things with. “

OU fell behind 5-1 in the other, and then had to withstand a three-run Homer in the seventh to pull gamecocks within one before Isabella Smith got the last out to secure the victory.

With Soon After 5-3 in the third, Kasidi Pickering and Nelly McEnroe-Marinas with back-to-back singles started.

Gasso then delivered a sign to beginner Gabbie Garcia.

Whatever the sign was – neither Gasso nor Garcia would reveal after the game – it was missed.

“I just couldn’t find it on my card,” Garcia said of the sign. “I’m not lying. I guessed a little. “

Gasso interacted.

“You guessed right,” Gasso said, laughing. That was the exact signal I gave you. “

Ailana Agbayani was 3 for 3 with a walk and three races scored to help OU improve to 20-0 overall and 1-0 in SEC games.

Earlier before Quincee Lilio was 0 for 4 in her return to Love’s Field with Gamecocks (20-1, 0-1).

Lilio came into the second game in SEC to only hit Ella Parker.

Parker ended 0 for 2 with a few trips.

The series ends with a doubleheader that begins at 1 p.m. 13:30 Sunday due to expected weather conditions on Saturday, forcing the series plan to be adjusted.

Here are three takeaways from Sooners’ victory:

Isabela Emerling had a hard top of the other round behind the plate.

Emerling was unable to handle three Kierston Deal Wild seats, and was then accused of a field error that allowed a runner to move on.

But emerling more than compensated for it.

“Just has a gold fish mentality and next game, the next pitch and really just has my team’s back,” Emerling said of his mentality in the middle of the second.

At the bottom of the lap, Emerling jumped on a 1-1 tone height and delivered a rough 230-foot two-run home drive down the left field line to cut Gamecocks’ lead in half and make the game 5-3.

“It was huge,” Gasso said. “Watching Bela swing bats recently has been – she has worked really hard, done some things with JT (Gasso) and made adjustments. It’s like seeing another level when she swings. “

So in the fifth, Emerling delivered again, this time a 1-0 course drove out to the right field for a 217-foot two-run home drive to loosen the game after South Carolina added a race to tie it in the top half of the lap.

It was Emerling’s seventh home drive of the season, ties the team’s lead and gave her his first multi-home run game as a before.

OU’s defense has mostly been impeccable this season, with only six errors in its first 19 games.

But The Sooners’ defense looked shaking in the conference opener.

Deal had no wild seats for 27 2/3 laps that came into the game but made three in the second round alone.

With runners on the first and second and one out and the game tied, South Carolina’s Natalie Heath hit a tough grumble to the first that OU’s Cydney Sanders couldn’t handle, which helped Gamecocks take the lead.

The error helped South Carolina score three undeserved races in inning.

Emerling’s error came later in the round, but did not hurt the Sooners on the scoreboard when Deal followed it by knocking Arianna Rodi out to finish the inning.

“I was a little worried about it,” Gasso said of the other immediate defensive matches.

Deal committed a throwing error in the fourth for OU’s third error in the game.

Gasso first considered defense when she filled out her lineup card on Friday and inmate Hannah Coor in the middle field with Kasidi Pickering in the Left, Abigale Dayton in the right and park as the designated player.

In the sixth lap alone, Coor Gasso’s decision took wages.

The junior, who has struggled with injuries throughout his college career, including missing 16 consecutive matches this season with an ankle injury, deprived of former teammate Lilio with a diving catch to lead the sixth.

“She’s our best outfielder right now,” Gasso said. “So it was like, yes, we want to …” I don’t know what her offense will look like, but we need defense out there. ”” ”

Gasso Knighting Hit Tia Milloy to Coor earlier in the game, but after Coor’s diving catch, stuck with Coor in a crucial situation at the bottom of the sixth.

Coor delivered a two-out, two-run double down the right field line to set up Sooners 10-6.

“Coor has been waiting for his entire career for these moments, and I couldn’t be more fond of anyone than her,” Gasso said.

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