When one game changes everything?

The way it went, Sooners may have gained more than they lost against their Bedlam rivals at the best possible time … just as the postseason begins

Note: As some of you may know, I continue to write two columns each week for my old newspaper, The Norman Transcript, running on Wednesday and Sunday. This week, because it was pertinent, that column was about coach Patty Gasso’s Oklahoma Softball team on the eve of the Big 12 tourney, which began Wednesday and begins for the Sooners on Thursday. Basically, it was the same ideas I explored in my last post here, the “WEEK 14 SOONER SOFTBALL REPORT,” but in a strictly column format. Thus, good chance, you know where I’m going in this column. Nevertheless, if you’re curious exactly what The Norman Transcript’s readers received in their Wednesday sports section, here it is. Enjoy.

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Oklahoma pitcher Karlie Keeney, left, receives congratulations following an outing at Love’s Field. Keeney was the Sooners’ most effective pitcher at last weekend’s Bedlam series. (OU Athletics Photo)

Topping their Bedlam rival so thoroughly Friday and Saturday of last week, coach Kenny Gajewski’s Cowgirl softball team milked about all it may have dreamed from its final conference series against the Sooners.

Taking two of three from Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, though a top-five team already, can now look at itself and say, ‘Why not us?”

Why not go win the Big 12 tournament after dang near sweeping the nation’s best team over the last four years?

Why not go win a national championship after dominating a band of Sooners that’s claimed three straight Women’s College World Series crowns?

It was huge.

It was defining.

Also, ultimately, it was a favor to that same Bedlam rival that’s had its way with it for so many years.

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