Oklahoma Softball: Jordy Bahl Follows Baker Mayfield With Nearly Perfect Game

After the Sooners' QB legend throws out the first pitch, OU's fabulous freshman mows through Iowa State to complete the series sweep.

John E. Hoover|

Oklahoma Softball: Jordy Bahl Follows Baker Mayfield With Nearly Perfect Game

After Baker Mayfield threw out the ceremonial first pitch, Jordy Bahl had little choice but to be great.

Realistically, that’s what she’s been so far anyway.

As the Oklahoma campus celebrated the unveiling of Mayfield’s Heisman Trophy statue and the football team commemorated the end of spring practice with a game that drew 75,000 fans to Memorial Stadium, the Sooner softball team continued it’s meteoric run with a 9-0 victory over Iowa State at Marita Hynes Field.

No. 1-ranked OU completed its Big 12 Conference series sweep over Iowa State with yet another five-inning run rule.

OU improved to 42-1 on the season, 11-1 in Big 12 play, and recorded its 34th run-rule victory.

Bahl was exceptional, twirling a perfect game through four innings before surrendering a walk and hit in the fifth inning.

Iowa State fell to 21-24 and 2-10 largely because Bahl was unhittable: no runs, one hit, one walk and six strikeouts. It was her sixth individual shutout of the season.

Meanwhile, senior Jocelyn Alo hit her 110th career home run and 22nd of the season.

Senior Grace Lyons went 2-for-3 and scored twice, while Alo and fellow seniors Jana Johns and Lynnsie Elam each drove in two runs.

Oklahoma hits the road Thursday at Kansas City before a three-game conference series at Kansas Friday through Sunday.

Published Apr 24, 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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