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HISTORY & RECORDS PROGRAM TIMELINE 1975-76 SOONERS MARCH 19, 1975 MAY 29, 2000 The University of Oklahoma plays its first intercollegiate softball Oklahoma wins it first-ever national championship. It’s also the contest. The home team downed Oklahoma Baptist, 3-1. first national title for a women’s program at OU. APRIL 7, 1979 MAY 12, 2001 Oklahoma and Texas Woman’s University battle in the longest The Sooners win their second Big 12 Championship title with a 6-0 game in OU softball history. TWU won 1-0 in 20 innings. The win over archrival Oklahoma State. tournament final started in Springfield, Mo., and was completed later that day in Norman. APRIL 22, 2003 The program records its 1,000th win with an 8-0 victory at Tulsa. MAY 4, 1979 Oklahoma defeats Stephen F. Austin 4-3 in 15 innings at Reaves APRIL 24, 2004 Park, the longest home game in OU history. The field at the OU Softball Complex is dedicated and named Marita Hynes Field, in honor of Oklahoma’s longtime former senior MAY 20-21, 1982 woman administrator. Hynes was also the second softball coach in Oklahoma hosts the final AIAW Softball Championship in Norman. Oklahoma’s history and responsible for hiring Patty Gasso. MAY 21, 1994 FEBRUARY 27, 2007 The Sooners end the season with 58-15 record for its first ever 50- Mariee Mena becomes the first Sooner to sweep the national win season and reach the postseason in Jim Beitia’s lone season awards in the same week. Mena was named National Player of the as head coach. Oklahoma has not missed the postseason since. Week by both USA Softball and the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. OCTOBER 24, 1994 Oklahoma names Patty Gasso the fifth head coach in program MAY 12, 2007 history. The Sooners drop Missouri, 7-1, and Texas Tech, 6-3, to win their third Big 12 Championship title. MARCH 17, 1996 Casey Dickson becomes the first Oklahoma player to be named APRIL 30, 2009 Big 12 Player of the Week. The Sooners win the Big 12 regular season title outright, their fourth, after beating Oklahoma State 6-2 in Stillwater. MARCH 30, 1996 Oklahoma gets its first Big 12 conference win — a 5-2 victory at MAY 16, 2010 home over Iowa State. Oklahoma wins the Big 12 Championship title game, defeating Missouri, 9-0, in six innings at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in MAY 11, 1996 Oklahoma City. Oklahoma wins its first Big 12 Championship with a 1-0 win over No. 18 Nebraska. Earlier in the year, the Sooners captured their MAY 27, 2010 first-ever regular season title. Amber Flores sets a school record with three home runs in a 6-1 victory over No. 3 Washington in Game One of the Super Regional. MARCH 9, 1997 All three home runs come against Danielle Lawrie, who would be Sooner pitcher Jill Most throws the first perfect game in Oklahoma named the USA Softball Player of the Year. softball history as OU defeats No. 24 Baylor 3-0 in Oklahoma City. MAY 28, 2011 MARCH 6, 1998 Oklahoma wins its first NCAA Super Regional since the format Oklahoma defeats top-ranked Arizona, 4-3 in Tucson for the was introduced in 2005, sweeping Arizona in Tucson in two games Sooners’ first-ever win over the nation’s No. 1 team. to advance to the program’s sixth Women’s College World Series. APRIL 30, 1999 MAY 12, 2012 Oklahoma polishes off its second Big 12 regular season title with a Oklahoma claims its ninth outright Big 12 title and freshman 6-2 win at Oklahoma State. Lauren Chamberlain sets the Big 12 single-season home run record with a 12-1 win at Iowa State. Chamberlain finishes the season with APRIL 30, 2000 30 home runs. The Sooners capture their third Big 12 regular season title with a 6-2 win over Kansas. 74 2019 OKLAHOMA softball history & records PROGRAM TIMELINE MAY 29, 2012 be taken with the first two picks when they are selected by the Keilani Ricketts is named the 2012 USA Softball Collegiate Player USSSA Pride. of the Year by the Amateur Softball Association, the first player in program history to win the prestigious award. APRIL 26, 2015 Oklahoma becomes the first team in Big 12 history to win four JUNE 4, 2012 consecutive league titles with a 7-4 victory at Kansas. It’s OU’s Oklahoma reaches the finals of the Women’s College World Series eighth regular season Big 12 title and 12th overall. for the first time since the best-of-three format was established in 2005. The Sooners lose in three games to Alabama. APRIL 30, 2015 Lauren Chamberlain sets the all-time NCAA home run record MARCH 12, 2013 with a grand slam at North Texas in OU’s 6-2 victory. Her 91st For the first time in program history, Oklahoma is the consensus career home run breaks the 13-year record held by UCLA’s Stacey No. 1 team in the nation. One week later, OU is the unanimous No. 1 Nuveman. Chamberlain finishes her career with 95 home runs and for the first time ever. an NCAA record .960 slugging percentage. MAY 11, 2013 MAY 3, 2015 Oklahoma captures its 10 Big 12 title (sixth in the regular season) Freshman Paige Parker ties an NCAA record by throwing her with a 4-0 win over Bedlam rival Oklahoma State on Senior Day. fourth perfect game of the season in OU’s 14-0, five-inning win against Utah Valley. Parker would go on to be named Big JUNE 3, 2013 12 Freshman of the Year, Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and NFCA In game one of the WCWS finals, Oklahoma rallies from a 3-0 hole Freshman of the Year. with two outs in the bottom of the 11th and Lauren Chamberlain wins it with a two-run walkoff home run in the 12th as the OU MAY 5, 2016 defeated Tennessee, 5-3. Oklahoma wins the Big 12 outright for the fifth straight season with a 10-1, five-inning win over Texas Tech. It’s the program’s ninth JUNE 4, 2013 regular season crown to go with four tournament titles. Behind a three-hit shutout from Michelle Gascoigne and four runs batted in from Keilani Ricketts, Oklahoma wins its second national JUNE 8, 2016 championship by defeating Tennessee, 4-0. Oklahoma defeats Auburn, 2-1, to win Game 3 of the Women’s College World Series Championship and claim the third national FEBRUARY 28, 2014 championship in program history, joining UCLA and Arizona as the Lauren Chamberlain breaks the Big 12 and Oklahoma all-time only programs with more than two titles. Paige Parker is named career home run record by hitting the 62nd of her career in game Most Outstanding Player. one of a doubleheader against Arkansas-Pine Bluff. The record was set the previous year by former teammate Jessica Shults, who JANUARY 31, 2017 hit 61 homers. Oklahoma is No. 1 in the preseason poll for the first time in history, FEBRUARY 28, 2014 MAY 3, 2017 Oklahoma defeats Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 35-1, in game two of a A 3-0 shutout of Oklahoma State gives the Sooners their 10th doubleheader. In the win, OU sets single-game program records Big 12 regular season title. Ten days later, OU wins its fifth Big 12 for runs, runs in an inning (17), RBI (31) and margin of victory Tournament title. (34). The Sooners also tie single-game school records for home runs in an inning (4), hits (24) and doubles (6). Shelby Pendley JUNE 5, 2017 sets the school RBI single-game RBI record with 10, while Lauren In the longest game in WCWS Championship Series history, OU Chamberlain ties single-game marks for runs scored (5) and walks outlasts Florida 7-5 in 17 innings to win Game 1. Shay Knighten’s (4). 3-run HR in the top of the 17th proved to be the difference. MAY 4, 2014 JUNE 6, 2017 Oklahoma becomes the first team in Big 12 history to win three For the second straight season, Oklahoma wins the national straight league titles after a 13-0, five-inning win over Texas Tech. championship with a 5-4 win over Florida. Shay Knighten is named It’s the Sooners’ seventh regular season Big 12 title and 11th overall. WCWS Most Outstanding Player. MAY 25, 2014 MAY 2, 2018 Five home runs, including two from Lauren Chamberlain, help Senior Paige Parker throws a no-hitter as the Sooners run-rule Oklahoma win the decisive game three of the Super Regionals Oklahoma State 8-0 in five innings to clinch OU’s seventh straight over Tennessee to reach the Women’s College World Series for the Big 12 regular season title. The Sooners claimed its sixth Big 12 ninth time in program history. Tournament crown just 10 days later. MARCH 14, 2015 MAY 5, 2018 Freshman Paige Parker throws her third perfect game of the Behind a 7-0 shutout of Oklahoma State, OU finishes 18-0 in season and senior Shelby Pendley ties a school record with three Big 12 play for its best conference performance in program home runs in an 11-0, five inning win over East Carolina. history, becoming just the second team in Big 12 history to finish undefeated in league games. MARCH 15, 2015 Head coach Patty Gasso wins her 1,000th game at Oklahoma and JUNE 2, 2018 the team hits a program-record eight home runs in a 23-1, five Facing Florida on Elimination Saturday of the WCWS, NFCA inning win over East Carolina.