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NORMAN — Oklahoma softball continues its Battle Series — fall intersquad matchups — at Love's Field on Friday after taking on Oklahoma Christian on Wednesday.
Follow along for Ryan Aber's observations throughout the night. Just keep refreshing this page for live updates from Love's Field:
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Sixth Inning
Team Ricketts
Emerling hit her second home run of the night, this one off Deal, to lead off the sixth to give Team Ricketts its fourth run of the night.
But a few batters later Emerling’s counterpart behind the plate, Wells, gunned down Minor trying to steal second to end the inning.
Team Chamberlain
Minor turned in perhaps the defensive play of the night, tracking into the gap in right center field to chase down McEnroe-Marinas’ liner at the wall.
McEnroe-Marinas had a double and single earlier in the game.
Lowry then struck out Barker before getting Dayton to pop out to short to end the frame.
Team Alo
Minor did it again.
This time, Minor tracked into the gap in left center to track down Agbayani’s drive at the wall for the second out of the inning.
After an error, Deal escaped without allowing a run to end the game with Team Chamberlain winning with 10, Team Ricketts finishing with four runs and Team Alo with three.
Fifth Inning
Team Ricketts
Emerling blasted a two-run home run to left center off Zache to give Team Ricketts its second and third runs of the night.
McDaniel started the inning with a hard single up the middle of Zache before Emerling blasted her home run.
After a walk and an out, Zache gave way to Kierston Deal, who got Garcia to fly out to right and McDaniel to fly out to center to end the frame.
Team Chamberlain
Finally someone has retired Wells.
After the freshman reached on each of her first five at-bats of the night, Deal got Wells to pop out to first for the first out of the fifth.
That didn’t stop Team Chamberlain from adding to its lead, though.
McEnroe-Marinas looped a single to right to score Milloy from second after Milloy stole the base moments before.
McEnroe-Marinas advanced to second on the late throw home, then stole third on a pitch where Barker walked to put runners on the corners.
Later in the inning, with runners on second and third, Deal struck out Wells to end the frame.
Team Alo
One-two-three innings have been a rarity tonight but Lowry delivered one to end the fifth.
She got Agbayani to fly out high to third, then got Helton to ground out to short and Ella Parker to foul out to third to end the frame.
Fourth Inning
Team Ricketts
It looked like Zache had battled out of a tough spot, coming on to replace Berzon after Berzon loaded the bases with no outs.
Garcia started the frame with a double to right center before Berzon walked McDaniel and Emerling to load the bases.
Zache then was brought on to face Team Ricketts and got a quick out before Minor hit a fly to shallow left.
Alyssa Parker, running for Garcia, tagged up somewhat surprisingly and looked like she was thrown out easily by Dayton at the plate.
But umpires ruled obstruction at the plate, allowing Parker to score and get Team Ricketts on the board.
Zache then got Garcia to ground out to first unassisted to end the threat without further damage.
Team Chamberlain
Wells continued her torrid fall — and torrid night — with a laser of a two-run homer to left-center with one out to score Milloy.
The home run was the sixth of the fall for Wells, who also had two doubles and a single on the night to go with her two home runs.
Team Chamberlain leads 9-3 (Alo)-1 (Ricketts).
Team Alo
Sophomore Audrey Lowry made her first appearance in the circle of the night and worked a fairly quick inning, retiring Agbayani, Ella Parker and Pickering around Helton reaching on a one-out error by Barker.
Third Inning
Team Ricketts
Berzon started the third frame with an extended battle against Emerling, but finally got Emerling looking on a changeup.
She then struck out Alyssa Parker before getting Minor to ground out to first.
Team Chamberlain
Wells stayed hot in the frame, delivering a one-out double to right.
The hit initially looked like a single off the bat but Wells didn’t slow down and easily beat the throw in before Guachino bounced back to get McEnroe-Marinas to fly out to right and Barker to ground out to short to end the frame.
Team Alo
Pickering delivered a towering two-run homer to center to get Team Alo back into the game after Ella Parker began the inning by working a walk off freshman pitcher Berkley Zache.
Pickering’s home run wasn’t quite as far as Wells’ earlier in the game but still went over the shrubs in center.
Zache then settled in, getting Agbayani to ground out, Helton to fly out to left.
Ella Parker extended the inning with another infield single — this one off Zache's gloves, before Pickering hit a soft liner to third to end the inning.
Second Inning
Team Ricketts
Alyssa Parker worked a quick second, getting Minor and McDaniel to fly out around Garcia’s ground out to short.
Team Chamberlain blew the game open in the second thanks to back-to-back home runs off of Sydney Berzon.
After a relatively innocuous start to the inning — Barker drawing a leadoff walk before Dayton grounded into a fielder’s choice and Milloy’s fly out, the fireworks began.
Wells continued her hot fall, with a towering home run that landed over the seating area beyond the batter’s eye area in center.
McEnroe-Marinas then delivered a homer to center of her own, just clearing the wall.
Then Barker blasted Berzon’s pitch over the right-field wall to make it 7-0-0 in favor of Team Chamberlain.
Team Alo
Team Alo got on the board against Guachino in the second, thanks to Ella Parker’s RBI infield single that scored Agbayani from second.
Agbayani reached on a bunt down the first-base line before advancing to second during Halton’s at-bat and then racing around to score on Parker’s grounder up the middle that was stopped, but didn’t halt Agbayani racing around to score.
Agbayani was later hit by a pitch in the inning to load the bases before Guachino got Helton to ground out to end the threat.
First Inning
Team Ricketts
Freshman Alyssa Parker had a strong start to the night, allowing a one-out single to right by Gabbie Garcia before retiring Lexi McDaniel on a fly ball to left and Isabela Emerling on a grounder to third.
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Team Chamberlain
In the next part of the inning, LSU transfer Sydney Berzon started off strong, firing a series of pitches in the high 60s to strike out Tia Milloy.
Freshman catcher Kendall Wells followed with a single to left before Nelly McEnroe-Marinas delivered a doublle into the right-field corner to score Wells to give Team Chamberlain a 1-0-0 lead.
McEnroe-Marinas was cut down stealing on a strong throw from Emerling before Sydney Barker's single and Abigale Dayton and Milloy's back-to-back walks.
Well's then delivered an RBI double into the left-field corner to put Chamberlain up 3-0, though a quick play from Kasidi Pickering kept another run for scoring.
McEnroe-Marinas then flew out to right to end the frame.
Team Alo
Ole Miss transfer Miali Guachino faced Team Alo in the first, starting with slugger Ella Parker.
Parker looped one to \short left but it was caught. Kasidi Pickering then grounded out to the right side before Ailana Agbayani was hit in the hand with a pitch.
Agbayani shook her hand a few times once she reached first but didn't appear to be hurt by the pitch. She stole second on Guachino's 2-1 pitch to Chaney Helton. Helton eventually drew a walk.
Parker then grounded out to second to end the inning.
Ryan Aber has been covering Oklahoma football for more than a decade continuously and since 1999 overall. Ryan was the OU beat writer for The Oklahoman from 2013-2025, covering the transition from Bob Stoops to Lincoln Riley to Brent Venables. He covered OU men's basketball's run to the Final Four in 2016 and numerous national championships for the Sooners' women's gymnastics and softball programs. Prior to taking on the Sooners beat, Ryan covered high schools, the Oklahoma City RedHawks and Oklahoma City Barons for the newspaper from 2006-13. He spent two seasons covering Arkansas football for the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas before returning to his hometown of Oklahoma City. Ryan also worked at the Southwest Times Record in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and the Muskogee Phoenix. At the Phoenix, he covered OU's national championship run in 2000. Ryan is a graduate of Putnam City North High School in Oklahoma City and Northeastern State University in Tahlequah.