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Schedule Announced for Oklahoma-Washington Softball

The No. 1 overall seeded Sooners host the Huskies this weekend in an NCAA softball super regional at Marita Hynes Field in Norman.
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Schedule Announced for Oklahoma-Washington Softball
Schedule Announced for Oklahoma-Washington Softball

As Oklahoma continues to make NCAA softball history, game times were announced Monday for this weekend's Norman Super Regional.

The top-seeded Sooners host No. 16-seed Washington starting Friday at 2 p.m. Saturday's game also starts at 2  p.m.

OU fans who have lodged complaints all season about not seeing their team on broadcast television won't have any excuses this weekend: Friday's game is on ESPN2, while Saturday's is on ABC.

A third game (if necessary) would be played Sunday at 3 p.m. and will be carried by ESPN.

The Sooners (48-2) are coming off a record-setting offensive performance at the Norman Regional over the weekend, scoring an NCAA regional record 50 runs. That includes Sunday's 24-7 elimination of 2-seed Wichita  State.

Facing elimination, Washington (45-12) beat Michigan twice on Sunday night in Seattle, including 10-5 in the finale.

Both OU and Washington have finalists for the NFCA National Player of the Year Award. The Sooners' Jocelyn Alo leads the nation with 28 home runs and 78 RBIs (tied with teammate Tiare Jennings) and ranks sixth with a .473 batting average.

Washington pitcher Gabbie Plain ranks third nationally with 314 strikeouts, 14th in the country at 10.3 strikeouts per 7 innings and 16th with an earned run average of 1.18.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

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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