Patty Gasso

NORMAN — OU coach Patty Gasso hasn’t offered much in the way of specifics when asked about the status of freshman pitcher Jordy Bahl. “She is doing some movement, and we’re just going to remain hopeful that she is going to be ready to go,” Gasso said of Bahl after Sunday’s 20-0 blowout of...

NORMAN, Okla. — Things are going just according to the script. The Sooners have won their first two games and moved into the regional final after holding off the Texas A&M Aggies 3-2 Saturday afternoon at Marita Hynes Field. They now need only one more victory to advance into...

NORMAN, Okla. — Never have the Sooners won a game by more in the NCAA Softball Tournament. Never has a team won a game by more in the NCAA Softball Tournament. The Sooners obliterated the Texas A&M Aggies 20-0 in a five-inning massacre Sunday afternoon in the Norman Regional Championship to win by the largest margin in the postseason in the sport’s history.

NORMAN, Okla. — The top-seeded Sooners are off and running in the postseason. Nicole May and Hope Trautwein teamed up for a no-hitter, a quartet of Crimson and Cream hitters crushed round-trippers, and they pounded the Prairie View A&M Lady Panthers 14-0 Friday evening in the NCAA Tournament opener at Marita Hynes Field.

NORMAN, Okla. — Make some room for Patty Gasso. The Sooner legendary head coach is set to be inducted to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in the 2022 Class, it was announced Thursday evening. Gasso joins seven other inductees as part of the eight-person group that will be formally...

Oklahoma head coach Patty Gasso was announced as one of the eight inductees to be named to the 2022 Oklahoma Hall of Fame class on Thursday. Gasso was already inducted into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame in 2019 and National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2012. In 27 seasons coaching the Sooners, Gasso has won five national championships and appeared in the Women’s College World Series 14 times.

Gasso is in the midst of her 28th season coaching the Sooners, with the NCAA Tournament beginning on Friday.

Oklahoma freshman standout Jordy Bahl has been out of commission and, on Tuesday, Sooners head coach Patty Gasso talked about her young star’s status for the remainder of the postseason. Initially described as suffering “soreness”, Bahl did not pitch in the Big 12 tournament, a weekend that saw the...

University of Oklahoma softball coach Patty Gasso, trailblazing U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and the late Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell are among the luminaries who will be inducted this year into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.   The Oklahoma Hall of Fame's 95th class was revealed Thursday at a...

NORMAN, Okla. — For the third year in a row, the Sooners are the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. This time around, they'll take on Prairie View A&M in the first round, also welcoming Minnesota and Texas A&M to Marita Hynes Field. “Yeah, I'm excited to...

Patty Gasso is ready to bounce back. After falling to No. 7 Oklahoma State in the Big 12 Championship game on May 14, Oklahoma’s coach has pushed her team more than ever to get back on track. That theme is even more important offensively for the Sooners’ lineup, which has struggled as of late.

Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso gave an update on freshman pitcher Jordy Bahl's status on Tuesday. Bahl missed the entire Big 12 Championship last weekend due to arm soreness. Gasso noted on the Oklahoma Breakdown with Ikard and Lehman podcast that Bahl sustained the injury before the Oklahoma State matchup on May 7 in pregame warmups against after she was fielding a ground ball. Once the freshman pitcher threw the ball, she felt immediate pain and couldn’t lift her arm.

NORMAN — OU softball coach Patty Gasso didn’t have much of an update on freshman pitcher Jordy Bahl after Bahl missed last weekend’s Big 12 Tournament with arm soreness. “Still day to day,” Gasso said. “The goal is to get her pain free, and we’re still working in that direction. Lot of different things that we’re trying for her. Doctors are involved as well. So if it’s do-able, it will be done, but we’re not going to do it if it’s (not) comfortable enough for her to do it.”

During postseason softball, it’s important for players to enter competition with experience in big moments. With freshman phenom pitcher Jordy Bahl out for the entire Big 12 Championship due to arm soreness, Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso saw a perfect opportunity to give sophomore Nicole May the nod in the circle. May had started just 13 games this season entering Saturday’s conference title bout with No. 7 Oklahoma State while redshirt senior right-handed pitcher Hope Trautwein, who relieved May in the fourth inning, had started just 15.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Hope Trautwein fanned a season-high 14 batters, and the top-ranked Sooners sent the Iowa State Cyclones packing in a 5-0 decision Friday afternoon in the Big 12 Tournament Semifinals at Hall of Fame Stadium. Now, they’ll take on No. 2 seed Oklahoma State—who defeated No. 3...

Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso told the ESPN broadcast that freshman pitcher Jordy Bahl is expected to return to action for the NCAA Tournament. The Big 12 Freshman Player of the Year missed the Big 12 Championship as she was dealing with some soreness, Gasso said on Friday. “Jordy, right now,...