Sometimes it's not about you, but who stopped you … as Teagan Kavan stopped the Sooners

OKLAHOMA CITY — Tip your cap.

Just tip your cap to Texas’ Teagan Kavan because she did it.

She just did it.

Two runs in the second inning and no more runs.

She went three up, three down only once, in the third, but no more runs.

She struck out eight but not 12 or 13. She wasn’t THAT dominant.

But no more runs.

“The biggest issue that is circled on the paper,” Sooner coach Patty Gasso said with a copy of the boxscore in her hand,” is nine runners left on base and that cannot happen against a good team like that.”

Nine base runners that might have come around to score.

But no more runs.

Finally, in the seventh, the inning in which Oklahoma has destroyed so many dreams so many times through the years and through this season, all the way up to Thursday’s three-run game-ending Volunteer-crushing blast from Ella Parker … well, surely there would be more runs.

Kavan struck out Kasidi Pickering to begin the frame, itself an achievement most mere mortals can’t manage, only for what appeared to be a very Sooner reality to then set in.

Kavan plunked Ella Parker on a 1-0 pitch.

Uh oh.

She gave up a bloop single into short right field to Nelly McEnroe-Marinas.

Uh oh.

Gabby Garcia followed, owner of 20 home runs, more than all her Sooner teammates.

Uh oh.

Struck her out on four pitches.

Then Hannah Coor.

Struck her out, too.

Just like that, Texas had the victory it had never won before, the victory so many other programs have never won before, beating OU in Oklahoma City for the very first time, 4-2.

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