Wednesday, March 25
Tulsa, Okla.
5 p.m.
Tulsa
vs
Oklahoma State
Tulsa Set to Host OSU in Mid-Week Contest
3/24/2026 12:34:00 PM | Softball
TULSA, Okla. — Coming off the team's first American Conference series win of the season, Tulsa hosts No. 21 Oklahoma State in a mid-week game on Wednesday at the Collins Family Softball Complex.
Date: March 25
First Pitch: 5 PM
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Venue: Collins Family SB Complex
TV: ESPN+
Series History vs OSU : 23-37
Record in Tulsa: 13-11
Last Meeting: March 2, 2025 in Stillwater (L, 9-0)
QUICK HITS
Date: March 25
First Pitch: 5 PM
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Venue: Collins Family SB Complex
TV: ESPN+
Series History vs OSU : 23-37
Record in Tulsa: 13-11
Last Meeting: March 2, 2025 in Stillwater (L, 9-0)
QUICK HITS
- Tulsa earned its first American Conference series win last weekend over South Florida. The bats came to life in a 15-0 win on Saturday before Maci Cole's two-out, sixth-inning home run broke a tie for a 3-2 win on Sunday.
- Head Coach Crissy Strimple earned her 141st win as the head coach at Tulsa on Saturday, passing James Pinkerton for the second most wins in program history.
- Starting pitcher Maura Moore was brilliant, throwing 12.0 innings in the circle and striking out eight. She allowed just one earned run and earned American Conference Pitcher of the Week honors for the second time this season. She is the only pitcher in the league so far to earn multiple POTW honors.
- Claira Skaggs is heating up in conference play. She is hitting .469 with four home runs and a league-high 13 RBI through nine conference contests. She is second in OPS at 1.466.
- Tulsa has played in five extra inning games in 2026, the team's most since playing five games in 2019. They are 2-3 this season in those games.
- The Tulsa bats have come to life in conference play. The team is hitting .282 overall and scored 46 runs the fourth most in the American. The team's 12 home runs only trail Wichita State's 14, with 11 of them coming at the Collins Family Softball Complex.
- Tulsa did damage last weekend with two out, going 14-for-31 (.452) at the plate and scoring 16 runs.
- Oklahoma State leads the all-time series 23-37 but Tulsa is 13-11 at home.
- Tulsa won the last meeting in Tulsa, 3-0, back in 2024 behind 7.0 shutout innings by Maura Moore to upset the No. 4 ranked team in the country. Claira Skaggs had an RBI double in the fourth before two runs scored in the sixth on an error.
- That win is the highest ranked win by Tulsa in the Crissy Strimple era.
- Tulsa is second in the American and 39th in the country with 50 doubles as a team.
- Last season, Tulsa only had 51 in 54 games.
- Sophomore Amber Turner leads the way with 10, last season she only had four in 145 at bats.
- Seven players have five or more doubles this season for the Golden Hurricane.
- The Golden Hurricane are patient at the plate, working 102 walks, while being hit by a pitch 30 times.
- Their 30 hit by pitches rank 18th in the country and lead the American.
- The team's 102 walks are fourth in the league and 94th in the NCAA.
- As a team, Tulsa is 77-for-202 (.382) to lead off an inning with 10 doubles, a triple, and five home runs.
- Maci Cole is 15-for-35 (.429) when leading off an inning and has been the lead off hitter in 19 games this season.
- The senior is batting .292 (19-for-65) as the leadoff hitter in the order in 2026.
- Claira Skaggs is 10-for-15 (.667) and Amber Turner is 9-for-18 (.500) leading off an inning for the Golden Hurricane.
- Maura Moore has been an ace this season for the Golden Hurricane. She has 5 wins, 7 complete games, 83.2 innings in the circle, 80 strikeouts, and pitched to a 3.93 ERA.
- She shutdown the USF lineup last weekend, earning American Conference Pitcher of the Week honors for the second time this year. She threw 12.0 innings and allowed just one earned run to hand USF its first two conference losses of the season. It was her third Pitcher of the Week award of her career.
- She enters the week second in the American in strikeouts and tied for third in complete games.
- Moore earned American Conference Pitcher of the Week on Monday, February 23. It was the second time in her career earning the award. She went 3-0, with wins over Tarleton State, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, and Pitt, pitching 18.1 innings with 24 strikeouts and a miniscule 1.15 ERA.
- Moore also leads the league in strikeouts per 7 innings at 6.7.
- Tulsa is outscoring opponents 31-11 in the second inning.
- Opposing pinch hitters are just 2-for-16 (.125) against Tulsa this season.
- Tulsa is 2-3 in extra inning games this season.
- The Golden Hurricane have three walk-off wins this season.
- Tulsa's win over Pitt was the team's first meeting and win over an ACC program since an 11-3 win over Syracuse in 2019.
- Tulsa heads to Memphis for a three-game weekend series.
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