How Oklahoma won Game 1 of the Women’s College World Series Championship

The best team in college softball is now just one win away from a national championship.

No. 1 Oklahoma beat unranked Texas, 16-1, at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in a game reminiscent of so many Sooner wins this season. It featured six home runs, including a two-run shot by Jocelyn Alo in the bottom of the first inning and a solo shot in the bottom of the fifth.

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Oklahoma beat UCLA by 15 runs on Monday.

Oklahoma just beat Texas by 15 runs tonight.

The Sooners are now just one win away from another national title.

Hope Trautwein really settled down after the first inning when she allowed a run and a hit and walked three. She gave up one more hit and walked one more the rest of the way and lasted five full innings in the circle for the Sooners.

Jocelyn Alo and Tiare Jennings have 63 home runs this season. Closing in on Texas, which has 67 as a team.

Oklahoma is up to six home runs tonight, which feels fitting for a team that lives (and does not die) by the long ball. What a performance. What power.

34 home runs for Alo this season

Oklahoma sets a new NCAA for runs scored in the WCWS with 50.

Coming into the championship series, Texas’ Janae Jefferson was hitting .400 with 12 runs, five doubles and four homers in the last 10 games and reached base consecutively in her last nine.

Tonight, OU’s Hope Trautwein has shut down the Longhorns’ leadoff hitter, keeping her off base in her first three at-bats.

Tiare Jennings catches air in the fourth inning.

Make it FOUR home runs and it's the third inning. And it's 10-1.

Loud boos at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium after Jocelyn Alo got hit by a pitch.