'I’m ready to start coaching again': As Patty Gasso gears up for OU softball 'rebuild,' Sooners' young core holds promise for future June 6, 2024 video courtesy of the NCAA.

For the first time since 2019, OU softball's season has ended with a loss. Texas Tech walked off the Sooners with a sacrifice fly for a 3-2 win in the WCWS semifinals.

USA's NiJaree Canady (24) lines up with her team after a game between the USA Softball Women's Elite Team and Great Britain at Devon Park in Oklahoma City, Saturday, June 29, 2024.

Monday is the final day softball players can enter the transfer portal. On Saturday, a pair of Kansas TV stations, with Topeka's KSNT citing an unnamed family member of NiJaree Canady, reported ...

The Oklahoma Sooners' record run of consecutive NCAA softball championships is over at four. NiJaree Canady and Texas Tech survived for a 3-2 win to reach the WCWS finals.

Stanford's NiJaree Canady (24) celebrates during a Women's College World Series softball game between the Stanford Cardinal and the UCLA Bruins at Devon Park in Oklahoma City, Sunday, June 2, 2024.

The 2-seeded Sooners get one of the nation’s best pitchers, NiJaree Canady, and her 12-seeded Texas Tech Red Raiders. And OU has to win twice at Devon Park on Monday. “Yeah, JT (Gasso’s) got ...