The 2024 college softball season is underway. The juggernaut Oklahoma Sooners not only got that memo but are already in midseason form.
The reigning National Champions have left a dominant trail behind them, and they seem intent on doing the same in 2024. The Sooners opened the season on Thursday, softball’s 2024 opening day.
Freshman slugger Kasidi Pickering rang in the new softball season in an astonishing way. Pickering went deep off Utah Valley for an opposite field Grand Slam, the very first homer of her career in her very first at-bat!
“Welcome to the Show, KP!!” OU Softball posted. The Sooners posted the highlight video on X, the website formerly known as Twitter.
Pickering’s home run isn’t surprising when you consider just how dominant Oklahoma has been. The Sooners have won 53 games in a row. They’ve won the last three NCAA Softball Division I Championships at the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma. It might as well be the OU Invitational at this point, as they have shown no signs of slowing down.
Deploying a freshman slugger who smokes a Grand Slam in her first at-bat is just pouring it on at this point.
The dominant Sooners hope to be crowned this June as NCAA Softball Champions for the fourth consecutive season. Thus far, it seems clear why they’re the favorite. Again.
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