Nebraska Shut Out by No. 1 Oklahoma

Nebraska  0 6 OKLAHOMA
Box Score

Inning-by-Inning
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7		R	H	E
Oklahoma	0	5	0	0	0	0	1		6	6	0
Nebraska	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	4	3

Pitching
	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
W - Lowary (1-1)	2.1	2	0	0	0	3
L - McLeod (0-1)	2.0	3	5	0	4	1
S - None	0.0	0	0	0	0	0

Individual Leaders
	AB	R	H	RBI	2B	HR
Alexis Perry	3	0	2	0	0	0
Laura Barrow	2	0	1	0	0	0

Game Notes

Nebraska fell to 3-14 all-time vs. the No. 1 team, including 1-3 vs. No. 1 Oklahoma...the game marked Rhonda Revelle's 1,400th game as Nebraska head coach...freshman Alexis Perry singled in the bottom of the second inning to mark her first career hit...Perry also singled in her next at bat to produce her first career multi-hit game and the first multi-hit game by a Husker in 2017...Kaylan Jablonski threw 5.0 innings of relief, allowing only one run on three hits.

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - The Nebraska softball team competed pitch-for-pitch with the defending national champion and top-ranked Oklahoma Sooners on Friday, but a pair costly errors were too much for the Huskers to overcome in a 6-0 loss.

Oklahoma (2-1) used two errors to plate five unearned runs in the second inning in the only scoring of the game. The Sooners also scored two of their six runs on bases-loaded walks and only out-hit Nebraska, 6-4. With the loss, the Huskers fell to 0-2 on the season heading into a second game on Friday with No.2 Auburn.

Freshman left-hander Sydney McLeod (0-1) took the loss for Nebraska (0-2). McLeod, making her first game appearance in more than a year after missing her final high school season and last summer and fall due to an elbow injury, was hurt by walks and errors. She did not allow an earned run in her 2.0 innings of work, surrendering five unearned runs on a trio of singles, while striking out one and walking four with one hit batter.

McLeod worked out of a jam in the top of the first inning, stranding the bases loaded following a single, a walk and a hit batter.

Nebraska's defense then faltered in the top of the second, extending the inning with two errors which led to five unearned runs. A leadoff walk and back-to-back errors gave the Sooners the bases loaded with one out. The second walk of the inning forced in the game's first run. McLeod then recorded the second out before OU All-American Shay Knighten - the younger sister of Husker All-American MJ Knighten - won a 10-pitch at bat with a second bases-loaded walk. Leading 2-0, the Sooners picked up their first hit of the inning with an RBI single from Nicole Pendley. That was followed by a two-run single from Sydney Romero that stretched the lead to 5-0, but the Huskers were able to get out of the inning on the play, as junior Taylor Otte threw out Romero at third base, after Romero overslid the base.

Nebraska picked up two hits in the bottom of the second on singles from freshman Alexis Perry and junior Laura Barrow, but the Huskers were unable to turn the hits into runs.

Junior right-hander Kaylan Jablonski relieved McLeod to start the third inning and promptly retired the Sooners in order. Jablonski shut down the OU offense by retiring 12 of the 13 batters she faced in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth innings. In her fifth inning of relief, Jablonski ran into some trouble as Oklahoma plated a run in the top of the seventh on three consecutive singles but she fought back to strand the bases loaded, finishing the frame with three strikeouts. In her 5.0 innings of relief, Jablonski allowed only one run on three hits, while adding three strikeouts.

Offensively, Perry finished 2-for-3 against the Sooners. An Oklahoma City native, Perry produced the first two hits of her career against her home state school.

Left-hander Paige Lowary (1-1) earned her first win as a Sooner, as the Missouri transfer tossed 2.1 innings of scoreless two-hit relief. Ace Paige Parker entered in relief with a Husker on first base and one out in the bottom of the sixth inning. Parker retired all five batters she faced to wrap up the Sooners' victory.

Box Score 2017 Nebraska Softball #1 Oklahoma vs Nebraska Feb 10, 2017 at Puerto Vallarta, Mex (Almaraz Stadium)

Oklahoma 6 (2-1)

Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB ------------------------------------------------------ Dalton, Alissa lf........ 4 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 Clifton, Caleigh 2b...... 2 2 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 Aviu, Fale dp............ 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rogers, Raegan pr....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knighten, Shay 1b........ 2 1 1 2 2 0 8 0 0 Pendley, Nicole cf....... 4 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 Romero, Sydney 3b........ 3 0 1 2 1 0 0 3 3 Hatfield, Macey rf....... 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 Mendes, Nicole pr/rf.... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Wodach, Lea c............ 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 Lundberg, Kylie ph...... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sparks, Hannah ph/c..... 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 Arnold, Kelsey ss........ 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Taukeiaho, Vanessa ph... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lopez, Mariah p.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Lowary, Paige p......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Parker, Paige p......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals................... 29 6 6 6 5 4 21 7 8

Nebraska 0 (0-2)

Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB ------------------------------------------------------ MJ Knighten 3b........... 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 0 Kaylan Jablonski dp/p.... 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 Austen Urness lf/dp...... 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Tristen Edwards rf....... 3 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 Alexis Perry 1b.......... 3 0 2 0 0 1 6 0 0 Laura Barrow 2b.......... 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 Haley Donaldson ph...... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bri Cassidy c............ 3 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 1 Rindy Bryant ss.......... 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 Taylor Otte cf........... 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 Sydney McLeod p.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Gina Metzler lf......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Totals................... 24 0 4 0 1 5 21 8 4

Score by Innings R H E ----------------------------------------- Oklahoma............ 050 000 1 - 6 6 0 Nebraska............ 000 000 0 - 0 4 3 -----------------------------------------

E - Barrow 2(2); Bryant(1). LOB - Sooners 8; Huskers 4. HBP - Clifton, C..

Oklahoma IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP -------------------------------------------------- Lopez, Mariah....... 3.0 2 0 0 1 0 10 11 44 Lowary, Paige....... 2.1 2 0 0 0 3 9 9 34 Parker, Paige....... 1.2 0 0 0 0 2 5 5 23

Nebraska IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP -------------------------------------------------- Sydney McLeod....... 2.0 3 5 0 4 1 10 15 59 Kaylan Jablonski.... 5.0 3 1 1 1 3 19 20 73

Win - Lowary, P. (1-1). Loss - McLeod (0-1). Save - None. HBP - by McLeod (Clifton, C.). Pitches/strikes: Lopez, M. 44/30; Lowary, P. 34/24; Parker, P. 23/15; McLeod 59/30; Jablonski 73/50. Umpires - Start: 11:00 am Time: 2:29 Attendance: 350 Game: NEB2