Live Updates From Oklahoma's Battle Series Opener

Follow along throughout Oklahoma’s first Battle Series contest. Just keep refreshing this page for live updates from the scrimmage at Love’s Field.

End of Game

Ailana Agbayani ends (???) the game with a walk-off (???) two-RBI double.

Bottom of the Ninth

Parker hurts Lowry for another run with an RBI-double of her own. Runners on second and third wiht one out for Lowry.

Bottom of the Ninth

Lowry is running into a bit of trouble here.

First, she allowed a run with the bases loaded on a wild pitch.

Then Chaney Helton doubled to the wall to plate another.

Ella Parker stepping up with a pair of runners in scoring position and one out.

Middle of the Ninth

Guachino issued a leadoff walk, but otherwise stayed clean. Three more outs!

End of the Eighth

Lowry closed the eighth with a nice bounce-back.

Barker reached with a two-out single, but Lowry fanned a pair and kept the offense off the board.

Middle of the Eighth

Guachino quickly sat her side (Agbayani-Emerling-Helton) down in order.

End of the Seventh

Lowry rolls Tia Milloy into a grounder.

My guess is we technically play nine innings. Each pitcher has thrown three, and Guachino and Lowry both have tossed one. We'll see (the scoring has been whacky with three teams and my brain is not big enough to truly keep score in JT Gasso's wild fall ball ways).

Bottom of the Seventh

Gabbie Garcia adds to the growing home run tally. She smashed a two-out, two-run shot off Lowry, cashing in on Abby Dayton's single.

Then Kendall Wells got on the board with a solo shot to go back-to-back with Garcia.

Middle of the Seventh

Guachino bounces back with a quick groundout and strike out to get out of the frame. Looks like it's about to be Audrey Lowry time in the circle.

Top of the Seventh

Sydney Barker just welcomed Ole Miss transfer Miali Guachino with a towering solo shot that just stayed inside the foul pole in left field. Instant bomb.

End of the Sixth

The inning ends with a really nice double play turned by Barker and Garcia up the middle.

Bottom of the Sixth

Ailana Agbayani led the bottom of the sixth off by hammering one of Allyssa Parker’s pitches for a double.

Two batters later, Pickering commits an error at first to allow Agbayani to round third and score with one out.

Middle of the Sixth

Wells singled with a pair on and two outs, but Chaney Helton gunned Dayton down from left field to keep Berkley Zache clean in the sixth.

A Zache fielding error and a walk put the runners on.

End of the Fifth

Allyssa Parker sat the side down in order. A quick pair of groundouts by McDaniel and Riley Zache, then got Minor to line out to center.

Middle of the Fifth

Zache’s second trip to the circle was pretty straightforward.

She issued a two-out walk to Ella Parker, but otherwise got three popups to roll through the side.

End of the Fourth

Tia Milloy singled off Allyssa Parker, then Pickering popped out of her stance a half second early and Garcia was able to reach via an error and plate Milloy.

Allyssa Parker, like Zache, is showing off high velocity and a wicked changeup. Parker sat Wells down to end the frame.

Middle of the Fourth

Sydney Barker almost launched a two-run shot, but Abby Dayton was there to end the inning with an out at the wall.

Wouldn’t classify it as a robbery since there was no climbing necessary, but Dayton was pressed all the way up against the pad on the wall.

Either way, to the bottom of the fourth we go with Allyssa Parker entering the circle.

Top of the Fourth

Riley Zache won the first Zache v. Zache battle. She crushed a no-doubter off her sister for the Sooners’ second run of the night. Berkley’s head immediately dropped into her glove, then she laughed and gave her sister a little clap.

OU’s infield seemed to have some fun with Berkley after that one.

Berkley has a really impressive off-speed, though. She’s hammering the left edge of the plate. Power plus an effective offspeed is everything Jen Rocha could want in a pitcher and more.

End of the Third

McEnroe-Marinas drew a two-out walk against Berzon.

Agbayani laid down a perfect bunt, but McEnroe-Marinas got caught stepping too far off second and she got thrown out.

Freshman Berkley Zache is about to enter the circle to mark OU’s first pitching change today.

Middle of the Third

Through 10 batters faced, Deal has only allowed a single at the hands of Ella Parker.

Gasso has recruited a lot of speed in her OU career, but Minor looks as fast in the outfield as any of Gasso’s burners over the years. The true freshman is gonna be fun to watch.

End of the Second

Riley Zache doubled off the top of the wall with one out to put a runner in scoring position. That was by far the hardest hit ball of Berzon tonight.

Minor advanced Zache to third to bring up Pickering with two outs.

Berzon tried to jam Pickering in a 2-2 count, but the junior powered the bal back toward second and Ailana Agbayani was unable to make the play. Zache scored, but Barker then grounded out to third to end the inning.

Middle of the Second

Deal returned for the top of the second.

Ella Parker hammered a single back up the middle, then in perhaps the best sign of the fall, she looked like her freshman self stealing second.

Agbayani rocketed a hard-hit ball in toward the gap in left, but Kai Minor played the ball perfectly off the bat to ensure it was an out.

Nice work all around, still no runs though.

End of the First

Sydney Berzon made quick work of that half inning.

She struck out Allyssa Parker, then induced quick groundouts from Gabbie Garcia and Kendall Wells.

Berzon should feel pretty comfortable feeding ground balls to OU’s defense in 2026.

Middle of the First

Got our first look at freshman Kai Minor to lead things off.

She had a few good cuts, but ultimately popped out to foul territory due to a really nice grab by Gabbie Garcia.

Deal then struck out Pickering looking, and Sydney Barker grounded out to Garcia.

First Inning

Kierston Deal is the first pitcher in the circle tonight. We're about to get rolling in Norman.

6:14 p.m.

The three teams have taken the infield and the outfield for fielding drills.

The Sooners will split into three squads for the Battle Series scrimmage, the first of four intrasquad exhibition series in the fall. Each team will have five batters, while the squads will combine with each other while in the field.

Team 1 features Kai Minor, Kasidi Pickering, Sydney Barker, Lexi McDaniel and Riley Zache. Team 2 consists of Allyssa Parker, Gabbie Garcia, Kendall Wells, Tia Milloy and Abby Dayton. Ella Parker, Nelly McEnroe-Marinas, Ailana Agbayani, Isabela Emerling and Chaney Helton headline Team 3.

We'll see what pitchers Patty Gasso decides to roll out tonight.