Lauren leads off the fifth with a double to left, scores on a Parsons single. Self homers to center. It's now 14-6. Still batting.
Lauren's 87th was a grand slam that brought her to second place. Still needs three to tie for first.
18-6 in fifth.
OU leads the country in:
Batting average- .388
OBP- .440
Scoring- 9.8
Slugging- .707
I hold my breath every time Lauren steals. With her back, concussion, possibility of tearing her hand like Casey! She's too much of a competetor to keep her wraped in featherts but she scares me.
I thought that Nicole could slap along with her other outstanding abilities. Or maybe her hitting is too valuable to slap, but I would think that would depend on the situation.
Looks like Patty is moving Lauren back to leadoff. At least she did on Sunday. Maybe to keep her from getting walked so much. Good to see her get back to hitting especially the home run. She was stuck at 86 for quite a few games. Nicole is a great hitter. It's amazing how well she sees the ball. Anxious to see how they do against better pitching but they certainly hit the ball well the past weekend. Pitching definitely needs to improve.
They have actually hit really well against the best pitching. For instance, they creamed Nunley from Kentucky who just beat LSU. Even that one night in Louisiana, OU hit the ball hard just right at people. They hit the pitcher three times that night and LSU got the perfect ricochets. Lauren hit a laser to right that would have scored a run but the RF hardly had to move to get it. It happens sometimes. Lauren hit the ball hard and came up with no hits for five games. On Friday, she hit a laser to the left field wall that would have been gone sans the 20-25 mph wind. I think leadoff actually relaxes Lauren.
That being said Nicole went 1-9 to start the Tech series including an 0-5 on Friday. The one hit was a line drive home run that was never more than 10 off the ground. However, she was 4-4 with two doubles and a HBP including another line drive laser to CF that hit the top of the wall at about 7 feet - it never got higher than 10 feet either. I thought it was gone.