WCWS Notes: Missouri 4, Oklahoma 1
6/4/2011 12:00:00 AM | Softball
June 4, 2011
- Missouri (53-9) won its second WCWS game in school history (last win came in 1991) with its 4-1 victory over Oklahoma (43-19). The Tigers had lost all five of their WCWS games over the last three years. They are 2-11 all-time in the WCWS and 37-31 in the NCAA tournament.
- The Tigers' four runs were their most ever in a WCWS game.
- Missouri has won three straight over the Sooners (all this season) and closed the gap in the overall series record, which stands at 49-40 in favor of OU.
- Missouri senior Rhea Taylor picked up her 70th hit of the season today in the fourth inning. Taylor has recorded at least 70 hits in each of her four years at Missouri.
- Missouri sophomore Nicole Hudson hit her 14th double of the year, which is tied for 10th most in a single season at Missouri.
- Missouri sophomore pitcher Chelsea Thomas notched her 32nd win of the year (against seven losses), tying her for the MU single-season record (Teresa Wilson won 32 games in 1981). The complete game was her 30th of the year, ranking her seventh on the Tigers' single-season list. Thomas allowed six hits and two walks while striking out six. Four of Oklahoma's hits came in the seventh inning.
- Oklahoma sophomore pitcher Keilani Ricketts took the loss, finishing the year with a 29-15 record. She gave up four runs (only one earned) on six hits and one walk while striking out five.
- Oklahoma senior Dani Dobbs made her first career start at catcher for the Sooners, replacing an injured Katie Norris. Dobbs homered to lead off the seventh inning, her ninth of the season and 15th of her career.
- Oklahoma sophomore Brianna Turang went 2-for-4 at the plate to extend her hitting streak to eight games (all in the NCAA tournament). She went 16-for-30 (.533) during the postseason.
- OU freshman Destinee Martinez ended the season with 230 at-bats, third most on the Big 12 single-season list. Martinez had one hit in four plate appearances today.
- The Sooners committed a season-high four errors today. OU's previous high was three, which occurred six times.
- OU fell to 7-10 all-time in the WCWS and to 57-35 all-time in the NCAA tournament. This was the Sooners' sixth WCWS appearance.
- Today's attendance of 8,161 represented a WCWS Session 4 record and marked the eighth largest single-session crowd in event history. Through four sessions, this year's WCWS total attendance is 32,220 (8,055 average). The current record for per-session attendance for an entire WCWS is 6,724 (set last year).
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