Live Updates: Oklahoma Battles Cal for Spot in Regional Final

NORMAN — Follow along as Ryan Chapman offers his real-time observations from Love’s Field as the 2-seeded Oklahoma Sooners take on the California Golden Bears. Just keep the browser open and refresh for Chapman’s updates throughout the contest.

3:06 p.m.

Lowry closed the game out with a strikeout, and the Sooners will now await an opponent for tomorrow’s regional final at 1 p.m.

2:57 p.m.

Freshman left-hander Audrey Lowry is entering the game to close it out in the circle.

2:52 p.m.

Have a day, Kasidi Pickering.

She hits a grand slam, her second bomb of the day, to put OU up 11-2 in the fourth.

This contest is headed for a run rule.

2:39 p.m.

Oklahoma’s freshmen get it done again to start the fourth.

Barker drew her second walk of the day, then Gabbie Garcia brought her home with her 17th homer of the year.

OU extends its lead to 7-2.

2:31 p.m.

Landry nearly had her first 1-2-3 inning of the day… and now the bases are loaded.

Lagi Quiroga singled with two outs to bring up the top of the order, then Landry walked Butler.

Mika Lee singled to center, and had it not been for an on-target throw to the plate by Dayton, Cal would have added another.

Instead, the Golden Bears held the runner, and Landry was able to get Anders to bounce out to third.

OU heads to the bottom of the fourth still up 5-1.

2:20 p.m.

Reimers got a couple of nice plays from her defense in the third, otherwise OU would have added to its tally.

Pond laid out in foul territory to make one out, then Cal almost turned a double play.

After resetting, Reimers was able to strike Parker out, and the Sooners strand a pair.

OU still on top 5-2 as the game moves to the fourth inning.

2:09 p.m.

Huge moment there for the Oklahoma defense.

Landry had loaded the bases by hitting a batter, but McEnroe-Marinas got things rolling on a 5-4-3 double play to get out of the jam. OU carries a 5-2 lead into the bottom of the third.

2:02 p.m.

Cal opened the third with three straight singles. Anders’ single brought home Elon Butler to cut OU’s lead to 5-2.

1:57 p.m.

Reimers finally gets out of the inning by striking out McEnroe-Marinas and Sanders.

Four runs on three hits, OU drew two walks and had two batters hit in the second to go up 5-1.

1:50 p.m.

Reimers hit Garcia to bring McEnroe-Marinas up.

Sooners now up 5-1. Death by 1,000 cuts for Cal in the second inning.

1:48 p.m.

Barker’s turn for a blooper. She gets the ball to fall in the grass just beyond the outstretched glove of Cal shortstop Acacia Anders. It plated another run, and the Sooners still have the bases loaded for Garcia.

Three straight singles have OU up 4-1.

1:45 p.m.

The march continues. Parker singles through the right side, just like Pickering, and she adds another.

Sooners up 3-1 with the bases loaded and one out. Cal is going to the bullpen to bring in right-hander Anna Reimers. Sydney Barker will be the first batter she faces.

1:43 p.m.

Pickering adds another RBI. She looped a single to right field, and the ball took a favorable bounce for Cal, otherwise OU would have plated a pair. Parker’s turn.

1:41 p.m.

Ouch. Dayton wears one on the shoulder to load the bases for Pickering. Dayton tried to celebrate it, but you could tell that stung.

1:39 p.m.

Both Cydney Sanders and Isabela Emerling have drawn walks.

Cal wants to talk things over in the circle with Teperson. Abby Dayton is stepping into the box with one out for the Sooners, then the top of the lineup will follow.

1:25 p.m.

Cal left fielder Kaylee Pond bounces a home run off the foul pole in right field. All knotted up in Norman.

1:22 p.m.

Sydney Barker drew a one-out walk, but Teperson got out of the inning with just the single run allowed after striking out Gabbie Garcia and getting McEnroe-Marinas to fly out.

1:15 p.m.

Well, that didn’t take long.

Pickering hammers the third pitch of the frame into the bleachers in left field. That’s her 15th home run of the year, which is now good for second on the team behind Gabbie Garcia. Nelly McEnroe-Marinas also entered today with 14 home runs.

1:11 p.m.

Butler advanced to third on a groundout, but she wasn’t able to make it home.

Landry fired a pair of strikeouts to end the top of the first.

The Sooners will get going with Kasidi Pickering, Ella Parker and Sydney Barker in the bottom half of the inning.

1:06 p.m.

Sam Landry threw two quick strikes, but Cal right fielder Elon Butler doubled down the left field line to get things going today.

12:58 p.m.

Today marks the first time Landry has pitched on back-to-back days for OU since the Arkansas series.

She appeared in all three games against the Razorbacks on both March 15 and March 16. She totaled 11 1/3 innings for that series.

Landry did pitch in both contests against Mississippi State on April 20, but severe weather meant the teams had an off day. She threw 150 pitches total in that pair of games against the Bulldogs.

Fatigue shouldn’t be much of an issue, though. She was not taxed at all yesterday against the Terriers.

12:42 p.m.

A minor surprise with how Oklahoma is going to start this game.

Sam Landry gets the start again. She only threw just 34 pitches in three innings yesterday against Boston University.

Sydney Barker stays in the starting lineup, but she moves to right field to make room for Cydney Sanders’ return at first. Hannah Coor will be on the bench, otherwise the lineup is as expected.

Cal is rolling with Annabel Teperson in the circle again. She pitched a complete game shutout yesterday against Omaha.