OU softball rolls past Long Beach State to wrap up Puerto Vallarta College Challenge

Alyssa Brito hit two home runs as top-ranked OU beat Long Beach State 11-3 Saturday to wrap up a sweep at the Puerto Vallarta College Challenge in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

With a 4-0 opening weekend, the Sooners extended their NCAA-record winning streak to 57 consecutive games.

The game was tied 3-3 in the top of the fourth when Cydney Sanders hit a deep fly to left-center.

The Long Beach State centerfielder stretched out to try to haul the ball in but it bounced off her glove and over the wall to give Sanders a homer.

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Then the Sooners blew the game open in the sixth with six more runs, starting off with Brito’s solo homer to lead off the inning.

Tiare Jennings wrapped up the inning with a two-run homer.

The Sooners added an unearned run in the seventh.

OU got off to a quick start with a three-run homer in the first after Jennings drew a walk and freshman Kasidi Pickering singled to left before Brito blasted a three-run homer.

The Dirtbags tied it in the second with three runs off Sooners’ starter Kierston Deal. Karlie Keeney came on in relief and shut things down from there, throwing 4 ⅓ scoreless innings before Paytn Monticelli threw a scoreless seventh.

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Late Friday: OU 4, Washington 3

An inning after sitting down for a pinch-hitter, Rylie Boone came up big for OU on Friday night against Washington at the Puerto Vallarta College Challenge in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Boone delivered an RBI single to left in the eighth to help give the top-ranked Sooners a 4-3 come-from-behind extra-inning victory over the seventh-ranked Huskies.

“They punched back when we punched and we punched back when they punched,” Boone said on the FloSoftball broadcast. “It felt like a World Series game.”

The victory stretched OU’s NCAA-record winning streak to 56 and improved the Sooners to 3-0 this season after starting the season with wins over Utah Valley and Duke on Thursday.

This one was a nail-biter, though, with the Sooners needing a sixth-inning run to tie it and a strong performance from Kelly Maxwell down the stretch in the circle to keep the game alive.

Boone came through the hit after Cydney Sanders advanced Kasidi Pickering — who was placed on second to start the inning as part of the international tiebreaker rule — to third with a groundout.

Pickering broke for third after Washington pitcher Ruby Meylan didn’t look her back to second before throwing to first to get Sanders.

After Alynah Torres’ flyout to right, Boone delivered what proved to be the game-winner.

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