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College Softball Weekly Recap: Oklahoma & Florida Capture Conference Titles

College Softball Weekly Recap: Oklahoma & Florida Capture Conference Titles

Oklahoma completes first perfect Big 12 season and Florida captures another SEC title. SEC, Big 12, and ACC prepare for conference tournaments.

May 7, 2018 by Chez Sievers
On The Field With Oklahoma

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The NCAA postseason field is less than a week from being set, and that means it’s conference tournament time. Every Power Five league has wrapped up its regular season aside from the Pac-12 (which doesn’t have a conference tournament anyway). 

But before we move on to conference tourney madness, let’s recap the standout moments from the second-to-last weekend before NCAAs.

OU completes school’s first perfect Big 12 season

A Paige Parker no-hitter on Wednesday set the tone for the third-ranked Sooners’ weekend against in-state rival and No. 23 Oklahoma State, as Oklahoma swept the series to complete a perfect 18-0 run in conference play in 2018. The Sooners clinched their seventh straight Big 12 crown and 11th overall with their win over the Cowboys on Wednesday.

Check out highlights from Parker’s no-no:

That undefeated Big 12 campaign was at least partially threatened in game two of the Bedlam Series on Friday in Stillwater, OK, as the Sooners squeaked out a 3-2 win. It was only their second one-run conference game in 2018, as OU mostly crushed its competition this season. Among Oklahoma's 18 Big 12 wins, eight were won by run-rule.

These Sooners will be awfully tough to beat this postseason.

Jessie Warren homers in three straight against NC State, moves into 11th on NCAA home run list

Florida State senior slugger Jessie Warren mashed homers in each of the No. 10 Seminoles' three wins against NC State this weekend, moving into 11th all-time on the NCAA home run list with 78th career dinger. Warren hit her 16th bomb of the season on Sunday and now is just one away from tying Washington’s Kristen Rivera at 10th all-time with 79 home runs. 


NDSU home run robbery

North Dakota State may have been swept in two games at Minnesota early last week, but this grab by Katie Shoultz in center nearly made up for it. 

And hey, NDSU won the Summit League title later on in the weekend.

No. 5 Florida wins fourth straight SEC title

The Gators became the second SEC program to win four straight conference titles as they clinched on Friday by beating Missouri 4-2. Florida (47-8, 20-4) joined LSU (1999 -2002) as the only other program to win four consecutive conference crowns. The Gators went on to sweep the three-game set in Columbia, MO—the site of this week’s SEC Tournament—with the help of a four-run seventh inning to finish Sunday's 7-4 victory with six unanswered runs. Kayli Kvistad’s three-gun blast broke the game wide open and broke poor Mizzou’s heart.

Top-seeded Florida will have a first-round bye at SECs and will play the winner of Alabama-Auburn on Thursday evening.

UCLA, Oregon remain tied atop Pac-12

Nobody’s budging in the race to the top out west. Top-ranked UCLA and No. 2 Oregon both swept their competition over the weekend—the Bruins handled Cal on the road, while the Ducks crushed Utah in Eugene, OR—leaving both squads knotted up at 18-3 with just one series remaining.

The Bruins went back-to-back on Sunday:


The Ducks brought their bats to Senior Day:

Both UCLA and Oregon have an excellent shot to sweep their upcoming series, with the Bruins facing Arizona State at home next weekend while the Ducks travel to Cal. If that happens, Oregon would take the title via tiebreaker by virtue of its series win over UCLA back in March. Oh, the drama!

Ole Miss sneaks into SEC Tournament by winning series against No. 6 Georgia

It was a dramatic weekend in Oxford, Mississippi, as the Rebels took two out of three from sixth-ranked Georgia to punch their ticket to the SEC tournament. Ole Miss entered the weekend desperately needing to take the series and have Florida sweep Missouri, as the Tigers held 1 1/2-game lead over the Rebels. 

And that’s exactly what happened, as freshman Amanda Roth set the tone for the series against the Bulldogs by walking off game one with a dramatic dinger to win 4-3.

Ole Miss won game two 5-0 on Saturday behind a gem from Kaitlin Lee in the circle, which put the pressure on Missouri to beat Florida on Sunday or miss out on the SEC Tournament being held in its backyard in Columbia, MO. The Tigers couldn’t hold their 4-3 lead and saw their season come to a nightmarish close as they surrendered four runs in the top of the seventh. 

The Rebels are happy to take their place:

Ole Miss will play LSU on Wednesday at 5 PM ET. Ole Miss won the last time the two teams faced each other in April. 

Michigan captures 10th Big Ten title in the last 11 seasons