OU Softball: Oklahoma Adds Home Game on Monday

With a rainout this weekend in Starkville, OU needed another tune-up before taking on the No. 5-ranked Seminoles on Tuesday.

John E. Hoover|

OU Softball: Oklahoma Adds Home Game on Monday

No. 1-ranked Oklahoma has added a home game to the schedule — and it’s q quick turnaround.

The Sooners will play South Dakota State on Monday at Marita Hynes Field, with first pitch at 6 p.m.

OU’s game Sunday against Omaha in the Mississippi State Bulldog Invitational was canceled due to expected inclement weather in Starkville, MS, so Patty Gasso and her staff put together a replacement game for Monday.

The Jackrabbits (13-9) had their own weather issues over the weekend, with two games at the Kansas Jayhawk Invitational wiped out by rain. SDSU plays KU on Sunday at noon before continuing south to Norman to meet the Sooners (20-1) on Monday night.

OU throttled the competition at Mississippi State — including the Bulldogs twice — by an aggregate three-game score of 29-3 and have now won 12 in a row.

The Sooners are also back home on Tuesday night (6 o’clock) for a highly anticipated showdown with No. 5-ranked Florida State.

The Sooners are 4-0 home so far this season, outscoring the competition 39-1.

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Published Mar 12, 2023

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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