Observations from Week Eight of the Faculty Softball Season

Photograph courtesy Oklahoma State Softball

Week eight of the school softball season offered loads of pleasure and highlights, together with Oklahoma State getting two shutouts from Lexi Kilfoyl to earn a sequence victory towards Texas.

Oklahoma State head coach Kenny Gajewski stored a powerful streak alive with the sequence win over the Longhorns. Beneath his route, the Cowgirls have by no means dropped a daily season dwelling sequence to Texas. Kilfoyl, and the Oklahoma State pitching workers, held the excessive powered Texas offense with out an additional base hit within the three video games and Gajewski improved his dwelling file to 10-2 towards the Longhorns.

With the sequence win, Oklahoma State slid into second place tie within the Large 12 standings with Texas. Prime-ranked Oklahoma opened up a three-game lead within the standings over the Cowgirls and Longhorns following a three-game sweep of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan.

It was one other typical weekend within the SEC as league heavyweights traded punches.

Tennessee defeated Auburn on Friday and Saturday to enhance to 8-0 within the convention, which marked its best-ever begin in SEC play, solely to drop a 4-1 resolution to the Tigers on Sunday. Regardless of the loss, the Woman Vols sit on high of the SEC with an 8-1 league file, whereas Florida is 7-2 within the SEC and in second place. Georgia is presently third with a 6-2 mark with a sport towards Arkansas slated for Monday.

The Large Ten is proving to be a wide-open race as Michigan currents sits in first place within the convention with a 6-0 mark. The Wolverines opened Large Ten play with a sweep of Purdue and swept Indiana over the weekend. Nebraska is 5-0 within the convention, whereas Penn State is 6-1 and Northwestern is 5-1.

Duke took a giant step in direction of a attainable ACC title because the Blue Devils swept Virginia Tech to enhance to 10-2 in convention play. Florida State is 7-2 within the ACC and is presently second, whereas the Hokies dropped to 3rd with a 9-3 mark.

Stanford suffered its first Pac-12 lack of the season to Arizona, however nonetheless received the sequence behind the pitching of NiJaree Canady. Canady pitched shutouts in video games one and three and for good measure additionally added a house run within the 7-0 victory in sport three. Washington improved to 9-3 within the Pac-12 following a three-game sweep of Oregon State, whereas UCLA is third within the convention after posting a pair of wins over Oregon in a sequence shortened by climate.

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Courtney Wyche Delivers Particular Ok’s

Photograph courtesy Maryland Softball

Maryland’s Courtney Wyche turned in one of many high pitching performances of the season within the Terps three-game sequence towards Penn State. Led by Wyche, the Terps opened the sequence with a 2-0 victory in 9 innings handing the Nittany Lions their first Large Ten lack of the 12 months. Wyche went all 9.0 innings and allowed simply two hits and struck out 19 batters, which is the NCAA excessive so far this season. In sport two, Wyche pitched the ultimate two innings and added two extra strikeouts within the Terps loss. Sport three of the sequence featured one other Wyche gem as she went 11.1 innings, allowed six hits and struck out 17 batters. For the weekend, Wyche pitched 22.1 innings, allowed 11 hits and struck out 38 hitters.