Live Updates: Oklahoma Battles Oregon to Stay Alive in WCWS

OKLAHOMA CITY — Follow along as Ryan Chapman offers his real-time observations from Devon Park as the 2-seeded Oklahoma Sooners look to stave off elimination against the 16-seeded Oregon Ducks. Just keep the browser open and refresh for Chapman’s updates throughout the contest.

8:54 p.m.

Sam Landry closes down shop, and the Sooners are back in the WCWS semifinals.

Oklahoma takes down Oregon 4-1.

OU will have to beat Texas Tech twice tomorrow night to get back to the championship series.

The first game is slated to start at 6 p.m., and the if-necessary game would follow immediately after.

Basically, if things go to plan for the Sooners, bring your sleeping bags.

8:44 p.m.

Hannah Coor pops out to end the sixth.

She’ll stay in as a defensive substitution for Sydney Barker.

OU three outs away from a clash with NiJa Canady and Texas Tech tomorrow.

8:35 p.m.

The extra 60 feet didn’t mean much for Sinicki.

Landry stacked another strikeout and now the OU offense has one last chance to add some insurance.

Through 3 1/3 innings, Landry has thrown 50 pitches.

8:32 p.m.

Landry struck out Cox, but Sinicki swiped second.

The Ducks have a runner in scoring position with tow away for Patmon, who rocketed the homer in the second inning off of Deal.

8:23 p.m.

Grein fires one past Dayton to end the inning, but OU got an insurance run.

Sooners up 4-1 headed to the sixth, and the top of the order will be due up in the bottom of the sixth for Oklahoma.

8:21 p.m.

Another Sanders note: tonight’s bombs are her fourth and fifth long balls at the WCWS. She’s enjoyed all three of her trips to Oklahoma City with the Sooners.

8:16 p.m.

Today marks Sanders’ second two homer game of the year.

The first one came on April 3 against St. Thomas, where she homered twice in the same inning.

8:14 p.m.

Cydney Sanders has arrived.

She launches her second homer of the night, and this one went much further than the first.

Sooners on top 4-1 now in the bottom of the fifth.

8:06 p.m.

The shift worked, and Landry quickly got the final out of the frame.

Have to take care of business here first, but she’s thrown 31 pitches in 2 1/3 innings and will be called upon heavily tomorrow against Texas Tech if the current score stands.

8:01 p.m.

Patty Gasso is leaving no doubt with today’s shift.

After the Mike White of it all yesterday, she ensured that the umpires were aware of the shift before Kai Luschar steps into the box.

7:57 p.m.

Grein did a really nice job settling down there. After an adventure in the third inning, she sat OU down in order in the fourth.

Still 3-1 headed to the fifth.

7:46 p.m.

The last out of the inning sucked the air out of the Oklahoma faithful for a moment.

Stefini Ma’ake looked as if she might tie the game with a two-run shot of her own, but Dayton took a couple of steps away from the wall and hauled in the third out of the inning.

Ella Parker will start things for the OU offense, which needs to add some insurance for Landry in the bottom of the fourth.

7:40 p.m.

Well, that was anticlimactic.

Pickering pops out.

But OU got what it needed, a crushed ball by Sanders to nose in front 3-1 as the game rolls to the fourth.

7:37 p.m.

Dayton gets hit, and there’s now two on and two outs for Pickering.

Feels like a massive moment for Oklahoma to get some real separation for the first time at the 2025 WCWS.

7:32 p.m.

Cydney Sanders’ two-run shot puts OU in front for the first time tonight.

Oklahoma on top 3-1 and hunting for more.

7:17 p.m.

Landry immediately allowed a walk, but rebounded with a strikeout to end the frame.

Gabbie Garcia is due up for the Sooners in the bottom fo the third, with McEnroe-Marinas and Cydney Sanders to follow.

7:12 p.m.

Patty Gasso is making a change.

She’s turning to Sam Landry in the circle.

Assuming Deal doesn’t return tonight, her line will be 2 2/3 innings pitched with four hits and one run allowed. She issued no free passes, and struck out three Oregon batters.

7:10 p.m.

Agbayani’s foot did come off the bag, hut she got it back in time for the out.

That review was pretty quick, the call on the field was upheld, and there’s now two away with a runner on first for Deal.

7:08 p.m.

Gabbie Garcia, take a bow.

She covers a ton of range to make an over-the-shoulder basket catch on the edge of the infield, then fired back to second to double off the lead runner.

Regan Legg, the pinch runner at second, immediately signaled to the dugout to challenge the call because she thought OU second baseman Ailana Agbayani’s foot came off the bag. Review time.

7:06 p.m.

Pickering is unable to make a diving stop in left, but she didn’t let the ball roll past her. That’s two singles here by Oregon to start the third with nobody away.

The infield met Deal to talk things over in the circle while Oregon throws a pinch runner into the fray.

7:01 p.m.

Kasidi Pickering and Ella Parker strung together back-to-back two-out singles, but Sydney Barker watched strike three into the glove and OU has to settle for the game-tying homer as the game moves to the third inning.

6:51 p.m.

Isabela Emerling wasn’t instructed to swing the bat yesterday by Patty Gasso, instead laying down a pair of bunts and then getting pinch hit for.

In an elimination game, the OU catcher crushes a ball well into the left field bleachers to tie the game at 1-1. Massive swing, massive moment.

6:45 p.m.

Kaylynn Jones also got a two-out hit off Deal, this one a single, but the OU lefty was able to limit the damage to just the lone run.

Deal has had to throw 42 pitches to get the six outs, however.

6:38 p.m.

Oregon strikes first.

Dezianna Patmon takes Kierston Deal deep. Abby Dayton tried to make a leap at the wall, but the ball was too far over the fence for there to be a real shot at a robbery.

Deal had almost made it out of the second, as the bomb came with two outs, and until the homer she had looked to be in control.

6:31 p.m.

Nothing comes of Oklahoma's threat.

Ella Parker stole second base during Sydney Barker's at-bat. But Barker popped out, Gabbie Garcia lined out and Nelly McEnroe-Marinas popped out to end the inning.

The teams remained knotted 0-0.

6:22 p.m.

Kasidi Pickering logs the game's first hit, singling to center field. The leadoff single gives OU a runner on first base with no outs.

Ella Parker singles on the next at-bat, and Pickering advances to third.

6:19 p.m.

Kierston Deal got through her first inning with zero Oregon baserunners. Ducks Kedre Luschar and Rylee McCoy both popped out.

Oklahoma's first three batters are Kasidi Pickering, Ella Parker and Sydney Barker.

6:12 p.m.

Kierston Deal fires a ball on the first pitch, and the elimination game between the Sooners and Ducks is underway.

Oregon's Kai Luschar showed bunt on the first three pitches, ultimately striking out.

5:57 p.m.

Kierston Deal will start for Oklahoma, while Elise Sokolsky will take the circle for the Ducks.

The start is Deal's second of the 2025 postseason, as she earned the win in Oklahoma's 13-2 victory in Game 2 of the Super Regionals against Alabama. Deal is 10-2 on the season with a 3.45 ERA.

Sam Landry, who has started every other postseason game for the Sooners, allowed three earned runs in six innings in OU's 4-2 loss to Texas on Saturday.

Sokolsky is Oregon's ace, entering Sunday's game with a 2.07 ERA.

5:49 p.m.

After weirdness at the end of the game between UCLA and Tennessee, the Sooners' elimination game against Oregon will begin at 6:12 p.m.

The Bruins hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning to send the game to extras, but the Volunteers ultimately won 5-4 on a walkoff single in the ninth inning to advance to the WCWS semifinals.