Impossibly, Sooner Magic strikes on diamond
Cleveland's mound brilliance, Tockey's mammoth shot propel Sooners to Supers
I can’t do this one justice.
I can’t describe how unlikely Oklahoma’s rise was Sunday and Monday in Atlanta, where it shocked No. 2 national seed Georgia Tech, first to keep its season going and then to eliminate the Yellow Jackets on their home field, punching its ticket to the Lawrence Super Regional.
Because standing outside it all the previous five weeks, watching the Sooners drop SEC series to Auburn, Florida, Arkansas and Tennessee, only to then be bounced out of the conference tourney by No. 14-seed LSU, the odds against appeared incalculable.
Now they’ve done it.
Once 27-12 overall and 10-8 against SEC foes, the Sooners fell to 32-20 and 14-16 by regular season’s end.
Now they’re 36-22 after winning four of five on the Yellow Jackets’ diamond, having come back from a six-run deficit three innings into Sunday night’s 15-8 victory and from a four-run deficit through six innings in Monday afternoon’s 8-7 victory.
You know what the problem is?
Sooner baseball doesn’t have its very own fan base.
Softball’s had one forever.
For not quite as long, women’s gymnastics has had one.
There’s one coming back around for women’s basketball.
Not yet baseball.
Had it, fans would have met OU at the airport chanting “Sooner Magic” for what it had just done to the ACC’s regular-season and tournament champions.
