A 53-game successful streak and a 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐲! 🤩
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— NCAA Softball (@NCAASoftball) June 9, 2023
With a 3-1 win over Florida State in Recreation 2 of the best-of-3 Girls’s Faculty World Collection Finals, No. 1 Oklahoma secured its third straight nationwide title whereas extending its record-setting successful streak to 53 video games.
Within the series-clinching win, Oklahoma trailed briefly after Florida State’s Mack Leonard popped a solo residence run to present the Noles a 1-0 lead within the backside of the fourth inning.
However the Sooners shortly responded with back-to-back solo homers by Grace Lyons and Rylie Boone to flip the sport and take a 2-1 lead within the fifth inning. An inning later, Alynah Torres grounded right into a fielder’s alternative that scored one other runner and put OU up 3-1 within the sixth inning.
These two runs had been greater than sufficient for Jordy Bahl, who pitched the final three innings simply in the future after throwing a whole sport shutout within the first sport of the championship collection. Bahl continued her dominant postseason as she didn’t permit a baserunner throughout her three innings of labor.
With the win, Oklahoma turned the primary staff to three-peat as nationwide champions since 1988-90 when UCLA pulled off the feat. That is the seventh nationwide title in program historical past and the sixth previously 10 years for Patty Gasso’s Sooners.
