No. 2 Oklahoma 1, Tulsa 0
Emily Watson recorded five strikeouts and allowed just three hits, but Jocelyn Alo's solo homer was enough as No. 2 Oklahoma slipped past Tulsa, 1-0, in front of the largest home crowd (1,300) in program history on Tuesday night at Collins Family Softball Complex. Julia Hollingsworth, Morgan Neal and Mikayla Whitten each had hits for the Golden Hurricane, while Watson held the high-scoring Oklahoma offense to its second-lowest output of the season. Meanwhile, Alo's 19th homer of the season allowed the Sooners to extend their NCAA-leading winning streak to 30 games. Mariah Lopez improved to 13-0 after she allowed two hits and struck out five in 5.1 innings, while Paige Lowary had three strikeouts in 1.2 frames of relief to pick up her seventh save of the spring.
Locked in a pitchers' duel, Watson and Lopez matched each other through two no-hit innings before Alo put the Sooners on the board with her two-out solo homer in the top of the third. Hollingsworth picked up Tulsa's first hit with a single up the middle to start the home-half of the fourth, but she was retired trying to go from first to third on Shelby Estocado's bunt. An inning later, Whitten singled and moved to scoring position following a sacrifice bunt, but Lopez was able to get out of the inning with a grounder. With one out in the sixth, Lopez was lifted for Lowary and she got a pair of grounders to end the inning. Tulsa had one last chance in the bottom of the seventh and Neal started the frame with a single to left-center, putting the tying run on base. However, Lowary closed out the contest by striking out the next three batters to end the contest at 1-0.
UCF 2, FAU 1
The Knights sealed a 2-1 victory over FAU with a bases-loaded 4-2-3 double play in the top of the seventh to kill the Owls rally and grab their 30th win of the season Tuesday night at the UCF Softball Complex. Erin Emanuel went 2-for-3 with an RBI, while Brooke Barlow went 1-for-1 with the go-ahead RBI in the sixth to secure the win for the Knights. Cierra Word picked up her third win of the season coming in for Kamryn Toney in the fourth. Alea White picked up her third save of the season entering the game in the seventh. The Owls came out of the gate collecting three walks and one hit for one run to go up 1-0 on the Knights. Emanuel tied the score at one-all with an RBI single in the sixth before the Knights took the lead on Barlow's sacrifice and Esparza beat the throw home to go up 2-1. FAU loaded the bases in the top of the seventh after three walks and an error by the UCF defense. With one out, and three runners on for FAU, the Knights turned a game-ending double play when Tatum Buckley hit a grounder to Johnson at second who went home for one out and Brewer tossed it over to first for the third.
No. 22 Mississippi State 3, Memphis 1
Memphis outhit the No. 22 Mississippi State Bulldogs Tuesday evening but fell by a score of 3-1 in Starkville, Miss. Mississippi State put up two runs in the second and one in the third to take an early lead over the Tigers. Memphis wasn't going down without a fight and proved that by outhitting the No. 22 ranked Bulldogs, 8-5. The Tigers scored one run in the top of the fifth in an attempt at a rally, but stranded a pair of runners at second and third. In the contest, Memphis had a total of eight runners left on base compared to just four by the Bulldogs. Molly Smith picked up the loss against Mississippi State after putting in 3.0 innings of work in the circle. Mariah Nichols came in relief and hurled three hitless innings for Memphis. Kyler Trosclair Klatt moved within two of matching the all-time hits record at Memphis with a game-high three hits. The one-two-three hitters for the Tigers combined for six hits. Baylee Smith was responsible for the RBI-single in the fifth to score Trosclair Klatt.