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The first NCAA Division I softball team to win four straight Women’s College World Series national titles was the University of Oklahoma Sooners, who defeated the Texas Longhorns Thursday night. After winning Game 2 of the best-of-three series 8–4, Sooners players hurried to the pitching circle. At Devon Park in Oklahoma City, the spectators applauded the players as th
The team’s achievement is “unbelievable,” according to Sooners head coach Patty Gasso, who is currently tied for the most national titles won by a head coach in NCAA Division I softball.
Following an infield hit by third baseman Mia Scott to cut the score to one run, the Longhorns slowly rallied after taking a 5-3 lead in the bottom of the fourth inning. But in the bottom of the sixth, Jayda Coleman, an outfielder for the Sooners, singled in a run to increase the lead to two. Ella Parker completed the scoring with a two-run single later in the inning.
Kelly Maxwell, a pitcher from Oklahoma, ended the game in the top of the seventh inning. In order to secure the Sooners’ historic fourth consecutive NCAA championship, she got Katie Stewart of the Longhorns to ground out to third and retired all three batters.
Gasso attributed the program’s success to its diligent approach. “We approach it in a blue-collar manner,” Gasso said during the ESPN broadcast. We quarrel and get down. We go out and just play freely because we believe we can overcome anything. Without a doubt, this was the most difficult of all, and given the scope of what these men have accomplished, it will likely be the one that is remembered the most. It is “impossible to fathom” that the program has won four titles in a row, Gasso continued.
It is “impossible to fathom” that the program has won four titles in a row, Gasso continued. With the victory, the second-seeded Oklahoma team ties the University of Arizona for the second-most championships in program history and earns its eighth championship. With 12 titles, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is the current record holder.
