With one swing in the bottom of the fourth inning, Mack Leonard gave Florida State a lead as her team looked to force a Game 3 in the Women’s College World Series.
It lasted all of two batters.
Reflecting the dominance it has shown all season, Oklahoma led off the top of the fifth inning Thursday with back-to-back homers. The Sooners then tacked on an insurance run in the sixth to beat Florida State, 3-1, and win a third straight national title in front of a partisan crowd of over 12,000 at a packed stadium in Oklahoma City. The Sooners also beat Florida State in 2021.
Only one other program, U.C.L.A. from 1988 to 1990, had won three straight titles. But the Sooners’ run extends beyond the 2020s. They’ve won six national championships in the past 10 years, and seven in program history, all under Coach Patty Gasso. Only U.C.L.A. and Arizona have more.
Pick just about any statistic, and the Sooners figure to be toward the top of the list.
Home runs? Yes. Slugging percentage? Naturally. Runs per game? Of course.
What about pitching? They lead in E.R.A., too.
It all adds up to 53 straight wins, besting the 47-game streak Arizona pieced together in 1996 and ’97 for an N.C.A.A. Division I record. Oklahoma’s lone blemish was a 4-3 loss to Baylor in February.
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