It was far from a perfect weekend for Oklahoma State softball, as a program with national championship aspirations is far from content with a 3-2 record at the 2025 Clearwater Invitational.
A 6-4 loss to fourth-ranked UCLA on Friday started things off on a sour note, but the Cowgirls rallied to finish the right way with ranked wins over Kentucky and Texas A&M.
Auburn outlasted the Pokes on Saturday in a 2-1 rock fight, leaving Sunday’s game against No. 12 Alabama as the deciding factor in whether Oklahoma State would enter Week 3 with a record above or below .500.
Well, fast forward to Monday morning, and OSU is 5-4 and feeling pretty good about their direction after some late-night heroics from the top of the lineup.
Things looked bleak entering the bottom half of the seventh inning, as Alabama had build a 3-1 lead and had kept the Pokes’ bats off track all game long, with OSU’s only run to that point being unearned.
However, things turned around in the eleventh hour, as Tallen Edwards’s RBI double to left center cut the Crimson Tide’s lead to one run., letting the table for sophomore second-baseman Rosie Davis.
Down their her final strike, and with no outs to give, Davis squared up a 2-2 pitch and drove it into right field, bringing Megan Delgadillo and Edwards home to secure a 4-3 win.
The victory gives Oklahoma State three wins against five ranked opponents this past weekend and has the Cowgirls headed in a positive direction with several tune-up games ahead of them this week.
