Oklahoma Softball: Sooners Run-Rule Arizona

Jocelyn Alo's home run chase remains alive while Tiare Jennings hits two more bombs, including the walk-off shot in the fifth inning.

John E. Hoover|

Oklahoma Softball: Sooners Run-Rule Arizona

Hey, maybe Jocelyn Alo is just taking a little home run break.

Her teammates, on the other hand, are not.

Tiare Jennings hit two home runs, Jana Johns launched a three-run bomb, and Oklahoma run-ruled Arizona 10-2 on Saturday at the Mary Nutter Classic in Palm Springs, CA.

Jennings led off the game with a solo homer for the second day in a row, and in the fifth inning, she hit a two-run, walk-off, run-rule shot.

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Johns’ big ball broke a 1-1 tie and gave the No. 1-ranked Sooners (13-0) a 4-1 lead.

Arizona’s Carlie Scupin got some of it back when she mashed a Nicole May pitch over the wall in straightaway center field to make it 4-2.

But Oklahoma responded in the bottom of the fourth when Jennings walked, Grace Lyons was hit by pitch and Alo delivered a two-run double to the wall in right center. Kinzie Hansen followed that with a two-run home run that put the Sooners up 8-2.

May (5-0) finished strong, pitching a five-inning complete game and giving up just five hits and one earned run. She didn’t allow any walks and struck out 10.

The No. 10-ranked Wildcats fell to 10-4 on the season.

The Sooners have a 2:30 game scheduled against Tennessee Saturday afternoon before finishing play at the Mary Nutter Classic on Sunday with an 11 a.m. game against Utah.

Published Feb 26, 2022

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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