Box Score (Game 1)
Box Score (Game 2)
BETHANY, Okla. — Tere Weber now sits atop the school's list of all-time wins as the eighth-year head coach notched win 198 to move past Jimmy Knight with a doubleheader split with No. 3 Oklahoma City.
The Crimson Storm (3-4, 1-1 SAC) dropped the first game 10-2, before notching the split with a 14-12 win in the nightcap.
Allison Fields had banner opening to the Sooner Athletic Conference season as the senior went 3-for-5 with three RBIs, three runs scored a pair of triples.
In the second game of the doubleheader, the Stars took the first lead of the game with one in the first, but SNU answered with a two-run shot to right by
Amy Madden before
Aubrey Jones singled through the left side to make it 3-1. Allison Field then tripled to right field to clear the bases and put SNU on top 6-1. A
Kylie Lang single made it 7-1 for the Storm before a past ball gave SNU an 8-1 lead heading into the second inning.
The Stars cut it to 8-3 in the third with a two-run shot to left field, but the Storm got one back in the third when Madden hit soft line drive to center to score Fields and then Madden came around to score on a double to right center by
Katie Turner to put SNU up 10-3. Jones added two more with a double to the wall in left center to score Forest and Turner.
The Stars got four runs back with one swing when Lily LaVelle ripped a grand slam to center to cut it to 12-7 in the top of the fourth. The Storm though picked up two more in the bottom of the fourth on an OCU error to give SNU the 14-7 lead.
OCU answered with four in the fifth to cut the lead to 14-11, including a three-run shot to center by LaVelle, and then scored one more in the seventh. The Stars put a runner on second when LaVelle laced a one-out double to center and then came around to scored in a two-out single to center by Angela Lovelady.
Kaci Crawford (2-1) though got a long fly ball to left to secure the win and a split for SNU.
Crawford pitched the final two and one-thirds innings and allowed just one run on four hits. Madden went 2-for-4 with four RBIs and two runs scored while Jones went 2-for-4 with three RBIs and a run scored. Fields was a perfect 3-for-3 with three RBIs and three runs scored.
In the opener, Oklahoma City scored two in the first on two outs with a bloop single to left that the wind took away from
Jill Clemence and a Storm error.
The Crimson Storm got one back in the bottom of the second when Jones laced a double to right to score
Kristina Forest who doubled in the previous at bat.
The Stars added another in the third with a double to left to take a 3-1 lead before LaVelle made it 4-1 in the fourth as OCU scored six in the inning to lead 9-1. SNU got one back in the fifth on a Clemence double, but OCU answered in the top of the sixth to lead 10-2 and shut the Storm out in the sixth to pick up the run rule.
Crawford (1-1) took the loss after throwing the first three and one-thirds innings. Clemence went 3-for-3 with an RBI while Jones went 1-for-3 with an RBI.
The Crimson Storm now get set to head to Farmers Branch, Texas, for the Saint Gregory's Farmers Branch Invitational Friday and Saturday.
