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Oklahoma Softball: Sooners Pound Houston

Jana Johns stayed hot at the plate and Nicole May dominated in the circle as No. 1 OU improved to 7-0 on the season.
John E. Hoover|
Oklahoma Softball: Sooners Pound Houston
Oklahoma Softball: Sooners Pound Houston

Oklahoma third baseman Jana Johns must feel right at home in Houston.

The Sooners’ senior from Calhoun, GA, was on fire at Cougar Stadium on Friday, slamming her second home run of the day in Oklahoma’s 8-0 victory over the host Cougars.

The No. 1-ranked Sooners improved to 7-0 on the season in their second game of the Houston Classic and are scheduled for two more games Saturday and one on Sunday.

Earlier in the day, Johns went 2-for-4 with five RBIs and a three-run homer in a 15-1 victory over McNeese State. She smashed another big ball in the nightcap against the Cougars, this one a two-run shot past the scoreboard with one out in the top of the first inning.

Later in the game, Johns ended a threat by throwing out a Houston batter while still on the ground.

OU added two more runs in the first to make it 4-0 as Grace Lyons and Jayda Coleman scored unearned runs on a wild pitches. Lyons reached on a fielding error and Coleman drew a walk. They both advanced on Kinzie Hansen’s walk.

The Sooners stretched it to 6-0 in the third when Johns walked, Lyons hit a sharp single to right and Grace Green walked. Jayda Coleman then smacked a two-run single up the middle to score Johns and Lyons. Mackenzie Donihoo scored Green from third with a sacrifice fly to make it 7-0.

Coleman came across with the eighth run in the fifth inning when she scored for the second time on a wild pitch.

Meanwhile, sophomore Nicole May (2-0) pitched efficiently again, going the distance and allowing only one hit and two walks with six strikeouts. May hasn’t given up a run yet in 10 1/3 innings this season while piling up 17 strikeouts with just three hits and three walks.

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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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