The No.11 OU softball team swept its two-game series against Texas A&M over the weekend.
The Sooners posted a 6-0 shutout against the Aggies on Saturday, followed by a 9-4 victory Sunday afternoon.
With the pair of wins, OU moves to 31-9 for the season and 5-2 in Big 12 action.
Freshman pitcher Keilani Ricketts struck out 15 batters in Saturday’s game, a season high and the first time an OU pitcher has accomplished the feat since 1995 when Brea Moore recorded a school record of 17 strikeouts.
Ricketts struck out the first eight Aggie batters during her 17th complete game and eighth shutout for the season. Ricketts now occupies the No. 8 spot on OU’s single-season strikeout list.
Senior catcher Lindsey Vandever led the Sooners in scoring in Saturday’s game.
Vandever then hit her seventh home run of the season to score three runs and stretch the Sooners’ lead to 4-0.
Vandever ended the day 3-4 with three runs driven in. A second fielding error by the Aggies in the top of the fourth scored two runs after freshman Brianna Turang and Jones hit singles to get on base and extend the lead to 6-0 over the Aggies.
The Sooners returned to action at noon Sunday to face the Aggies in the second game of the series.
The Sooners jumped out to an early 4-0 lead in the first two innings, after a walk and two wild pitches loaded the bases for the Sooners.
Two more runs were added in the second inning with a home run by Flores, her 11th for the season. The home run by Flores brought in Turang who reached base off of a walk. Flores, after already taking the top spot in OU’s home run category, is five home runs shy of tying the Big 12 home-run record.
The Aggies threatened to come back in the third and fourth innings, but the Sooners scored five runs in the top of the sixth after Flores drove in two runs off a long hit off the center-field wall, and Shults and Vandever recorded singles that drove in two runs.
Ricketts recorded three innings in relief, while freshman pitcher Michelle Gascoigne started on the mound for the Sooners.
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