Oklahoma rolls past Northwestern 13-2, Texas next

• Oklahoma moved past No. 9 seed Northwestern 13-2 out of five innings Thursday on season of the Women’s College World Series.
• Tiare Jennings and Jana Johns hit huge homeruns and negative.
• The safeguarding public top dog Sooners hammered out 11 hits.
• Northwestern’s Danielle Williams (31-5) — a first-group NFCA All-American pitcher — endured only three innings and assumed the misfortune.
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Oklahoma (55-2) high level to play rival Texas on Saturday in their very first World Series meeting.

Texas is answerable for one of Oklahoma’s misfortunes this season, however the Sooners won two of the three gatherings. Saturday’s victor would be only one triumph from a spot in the best-of-three title series.

Oklahoma mentor Patty Gasso thinks of it as an or more that the Sooners are know about the Longhorns.

“I think it’s a benefit,” Gasso said. “We know what we’re dealing with. We know what to work on. We’ve seen it three times.”

North (45-12) will play UCLA in an end game Friday.

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Northwestern’s Rachel Lewis’ performance impact over the left field wall in the third inning opened the scoring. It was her 23rd homer of the time.

That was the main hit Oklahoma starter Hope Trautwein (19-1) permitted. She struck out seven and strolled five out of 4 2/3 innings to guarantee the success.

“This is the biggest stage that anyone will ever play on, so I really stuck to my process,” Trautwein said. “Deep breaths. Slowing my heart rate down. Really focus on the game.

Lynnsie Elam had told me some advice before I came in — look at the crowd once, and don’t look at them again. That’s what I did.”

Oklahoma took over in the lower part of the third. The Sooners tied it up on a RBI single by Johns that scored Rylie Boone.

Williams strolled Jocelyn Alo — the double cross USA Sotball Collegiate Player of the Year — to raise Jennings with the bases stacked.

Jennings, likewise a first-group All-American, put Williams’ most memorable contribute over the wall community field to give the Sooners a 5-1 lead and control for good. It was Jennings’ 25th homer of the time.

“I kind of just stuck to my timing like I did, and I kind of had a feeling that it was going to come first pitch, so I saw the ball up in the zone and just went from there.” Jennings said.

Alo didn’t get the success in the inning, yet she conversed with the group in advance and made herself clear.

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“Jocelyn Alo jumped in,” Gasso said. “And that gets very stern and gets to a place where I need to walk away because … we have a pretty strait-laced program, but when Joce jumps in, she’ll say it the way she means it.

I just step out so she can be herself. The response was through the roof.”

Johns’ huge homerun in the fourth put the Sooners up 13-1.

Jordy Bahl triumphed when it’s all said and done the last out in help for Oklahoma.

The NFCA Freshman of the Year hadn’t contributed about a month due to an arm injury.

She surrendered two hits however discovered what being in the circle in Oklahoma City is like.

“It was a victory just seeing her being able to pitch because truly I didn’t think she would be able to come back,” Gasso said.

“She’s done everything right, and she’s done it 24 hours a day every day since it happened. To see this going on is a victory.”