Baylor shocks No. 1 Oklahoma softball behind 4-run inning

Last season, it took 39 video games for Oklahoma softball to lose its first sport of the season. In 2023, it took simply 10 days and 9 video games. Behind a four-run third inning, Baylor held off a late Sooner comeback try to shock the nationwide champions and No. 1 workforce in a 4-3 win on Sunday in Waco, Texas.

Down 1-0 within the backside of the third, Baylor knotted the rating at one with an RBI single from Amber Toven. That introduced up cleanup hitter Shaylon Govan to the plate with two runners on. On a 1-1 depend, she blasted a fastball over the fence to provide the Bears a three-run lead.

HYPE US UP SHAY ?‍?#SicEm | @shaylongovan pic.twitter.com/N0xbhz4l6K

— Baylor Softball (@BaylorSoftball) February 19, 2023

It was all of the cushion Baylor wanted because the pitching duo of Darlana Orme and Aliyah Binford held the Sooners’ bats simply quiet sufficient. Orme accomplished 4 innings, the one run allowed happening as unearned. Binford completed the job with three innings in reduction, stopping a sixth-inning rally to keep up the lead and her save alternative.

The win is Baylor’s first in opposition to Oklahoma since 2017, a streak of 16 consecutive losses to the Sooners and simply the eleventh win all-time in opposition to OU (11-48). Though it will not depend towards both workforce’s convention report, this one-off sport as a part of the Getterman Classic definitely will increase the intrigue after they meet once more for a three-game sequence in Waco in late April.