Patty Gasso feels Sooners are handling the early season lessons well

Oklahoma head coach Patty Gasso is pictured during a softball game between the Oklahoma Sooners and Stanford in the Women’s College World Series at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in in Oklahoma City, Monday, June, 5, 2023.

The Oklahoma Sooners softball team is still rolling after winning five more games this past weekend in Lake Charles. Still, they haven’t put out their best performance yet.

That could be a scary sign for the rest of the softball world because they are still dominant even though they haven’t hit their full stride just yet. Now, they head into another five-game weekend. One of those games is against a ranked opponent, so it won’t be easy.

Patty Gasso talked about the different lessons her team has learned so far and how they’ve responded heading into the weekend. “Today was our first day back,” Gasso said. “They handled it well. They got pushed, and they responded. So, I’m excited about that. It creates momentum too. We need to have a good day tomorrow as well to prepare us for what we’re walking into. Mississippi State is very good.”

The Sooners will start their weekend slate at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic against Mississippi State. The Bulldogs have been one of the surprises of the early part of the season with top 25 wins over Louisiana, Clemson, and Utah.

While the bats haven’t fully woken up to this point, the pitching has been pretty dominant. The Sooners have allowed seven runs in nine games. Six of those happened in two games.

When the bats eventually get going like we’ve seen, Oklahoma will be in a great place to chase that illustrious four-peat.

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