The Sooners’ winning streak ended with a loss to Missouri.
The streak is over.
After 31 straight wins, the Oklahoma Sooners finally lost a softball game. The Sooners had started the season 28-0, plus three wins that carried over from last year after winning their fourth national title in a row.
The Sooners had been the last undefeated team still standing in Division-I softball this season for two weeks.
In what seemed like an impossible feat, it was the lackluster Missouri Tigers who beat OU 3-1 on Saturday in Columbia, Missouri. The Sooners run-ruled Mizzou 8-0 the night before to start the weekend series. Now, OU will have a rubber game for the first time this season.
As Missouri tallied its first conference win after starting SEC play 0-4, the Sooners suffered their first loss ever in SEC play after beginning 7-0 with sweeps over South Carolina and Arkansas.
The Sooners could never get their bats going, though. OU didn’t even score until Nelly McEnroe-Marinas hit a home run over left field in the seventh inning.
The Tigers put up two quick in the first inning, then added another in the fourth.
Of the teams ahead for the Sooners, Missouri seemed like the least likely to scrap together a win against them. The Tigers were the only SEC opponent on OU’s schedule that’s not ranked with a now 18-14 record.
The Sooners will now have to bounce back after a loss for the first time since last year’s Women’s College World Series. However, that obviously didn’t rattle Patty Gasso & Co. much since they recovered with 31 straight wins afterward.
OU and Mizzou will play Game 3 at noon CT Sunday.