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Published May 15, 2008 11:41 pm - Plenty of softball has been played since Oklahoma fell to Oregon Feb. 23 in the Palm Springs Classic. Most of a season has gone by and the two teams are set to go at it again at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the first round of the Norman Regional at Marita Hynes Field. Both teams have gone through a lot. Most importantly, though, the Sooners have changed from a team struggling to find its identity into a team ready to make a run for the Women’s College World Series. A new ballgame for Sooners, Ducks Jeff Johncox The Norman Transcript • Sooners believe they’ve improved since losing to Oregon
Plenty of softball has been played since Oklahoma fell to Oregon Feb. 23 in the Palm Springs Classic. Most of a season has gone by and the two teams are set to go at it again at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the first round of the Norman Regional at Marita Hynes Field. Both teams have gone through a lot. Most importantly, though, the Sooners have changed from a team struggling to find its identity into a team ready to make a run for the Women’s College World Series. Back then, the Sooners were still getting used to new hitting coach Tripp MacKay’s style. They were still trying to find a leadoff hitter to replace graduated All-American Norrelle Dickson. They were playing without pitcher Lauren Eckermann, who was away from the team at the time. And they had one big problem. “We just couldn’t hit,” OU first baseman Samantha Ricketts said matter-of-factly. The 1-0 loss to Oregon came in the middle of OU’s 3-2 weekend in Palm Springs. The Sooners fell to No. 12 Stanford 3-2, beat Pacific 14-5, but also picked up a 1-0 victory over No. 25 San Diego State and a 3-0 win over No. 18 Georgia. “We were working on a lot of things,” Ricketts said. “We were still figuring out what kind of team we were.” In the loss to the Ducks, OU managed six hits off Alicia Cook, but as was the case in many of their 12 losses this year, the Sooners couldn’t bring anyone around to score. They left 11 runners on base. And while Jadyn Smith and D.J. Mathis combined on a three-hitter, the Ducks were able to scratch across the game-winning run on a solo homer from Monique Fuiava. 
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