Tuesday, April 11
Stillwater, OK
6 PM
Tulsa
at
Oklahoma State
Golden Hurricane Plays at Oklahoma State and Welcomes UCF This Week
4/10/2023 5:33:00 PM | Softball
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TULSA, Okla. – The University of Tulsa softball team travels to No. 2/2 Oklahoma State on Tuesday for a midweek rematch before welcoming UCF to the Collins Family Softball Complex for a conference weekend series.
First pitch against the Cowgirls is set for 6 in the evening. Tulsa will face UCF for the first time on Friday evening at 5. The teams will meet again at 2 p.m. on Saturday before a finale on Sunday at noon.
Each game of the series will air on ESPN+. Bruce Howard will bring fans the action. TJ Eckert will join him as a color analyst for Friday's action. Michelle Montaine will work as a sideline reporter for Saturday and Dan Hawk will take Sunday.
The Golden Hurricane (16-20, 2-4 The American) enters the week after getting swept at South Florida over the weekend. Oklahoma State (35-3, 6-0 Big 12) has gone 5-1 since beating Tulsa earlier in the season with its lone loss coming at the hands of The American opponent No. 22/25 Wichita State on Tuesday. UCF (24-18, 4-2 AAC) had the weekend off for its conference bye. The Knights most recently swept East Carolina in conference play and are winners of five straight.
The Cowgirls and Hurricane will meet for the second time this season after Tulsa gave the highly ranked OSU all it could handle in the earlier meeting on March 29 in Tulsa. TU trailed 1-0 entering the seventh before tying the game on a Rylee Keith single. The Cowgirls eventually emerged victorious 3-1 in nine innings to take a 34-22 lead in the all-time series. In Stillwater, OSU holds an 18-9 advantage and has won the past five games.
Tulsa has the lead in the series against the Knights, taking 27 of the 51 prior games. The Hurricane has been fantastic at home, going 20-7 against UCF in games played at the Collins Family Softball Complex and winning seven of the past 10.
Tulsa is hitting .286 as a team this season with 31 doubles, 18 home runs and 139 RBI. Defensively, the Hurricane is one of the best teams in the nation at turning two. Entering the week, Tulsa turns 0.56 twin killings per game, which is fourth best in the NCAA and tops the American Athletic Conference.
Haley Morgan is the team's leader in batting average, hitting .407 with three doubles, three triples, four home runs and 21 RBI. She missed the final two games of the series at South Florida after crashing into the fence nearly robbing a home run. One of the top hitters in the conference, Morgan is also tied for the nation's lead with six sacrifice flies this season.
Kailyn Bearpaw leads the team with 27 RBI and has helped raise her average to .301 for the season. Rylee Keith has homered three times in the past six games and now has four long balls for the season alongside five doubles and 10 driven in.
Maura Moore has tossed 10 complete games and four shutouts this season, including two no-hitters. She is holding a team-low 2.74 ERA with a 10-7 record, and 78 strikeouts while holding opponents to a .223 batting average.
TULSA, Okla. – The University of Tulsa softball team travels to No. 2/2 Oklahoma State on Tuesday for a midweek rematch before welcoming UCF to the Collins Family Softball Complex for a conference weekend series.
First pitch against the Cowgirls is set for 6 in the evening. Tulsa will face UCF for the first time on Friday evening at 5. The teams will meet again at 2 p.m. on Saturday before a finale on Sunday at noon.
Each game of the series will air on ESPN+. Bruce Howard will bring fans the action. TJ Eckert will join him as a color analyst for Friday's action. Michelle Montaine will work as a sideline reporter for Saturday and Dan Hawk will take Sunday.
The Golden Hurricane (16-20, 2-4 The American) enters the week after getting swept at South Florida over the weekend. Oklahoma State (35-3, 6-0 Big 12) has gone 5-1 since beating Tulsa earlier in the season with its lone loss coming at the hands of The American opponent No. 22/25 Wichita State on Tuesday. UCF (24-18, 4-2 AAC) had the weekend off for its conference bye. The Knights most recently swept East Carolina in conference play and are winners of five straight.
The Cowgirls and Hurricane will meet for the second time this season after Tulsa gave the highly ranked OSU all it could handle in the earlier meeting on March 29 in Tulsa. TU trailed 1-0 entering the seventh before tying the game on a Rylee Keith single. The Cowgirls eventually emerged victorious 3-1 in nine innings to take a 34-22 lead in the all-time series. In Stillwater, OSU holds an 18-9 advantage and has won the past five games.
Tulsa has the lead in the series against the Knights, taking 27 of the 51 prior games. The Hurricane has been fantastic at home, going 20-7 against UCF in games played at the Collins Family Softball Complex and winning seven of the past 10.
Tulsa is hitting .286 as a team this season with 31 doubles, 18 home runs and 139 RBI. Defensively, the Hurricane is one of the best teams in the nation at turning two. Entering the week, Tulsa turns 0.56 twin killings per game, which is fourth best in the NCAA and tops the American Athletic Conference.
Haley Morgan is the team's leader in batting average, hitting .407 with three doubles, three triples, four home runs and 21 RBI. She missed the final two games of the series at South Florida after crashing into the fence nearly robbing a home run. One of the top hitters in the conference, Morgan is also tied for the nation's lead with six sacrifice flies this season.
Kailyn Bearpaw leads the team with 27 RBI and has helped raise her average to .301 for the season. Rylee Keith has homered three times in the past six games and now has four long balls for the season alongside five doubles and 10 driven in.
Maura Moore has tossed 10 complete games and four shutouts this season, including two no-hitters. She is holding a team-low 2.74 ERA with a 10-7 record, and 78 strikeouts while holding opponents to a .223 batting average.
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