College softball power rankings: Oklahoma asserts its dominance, Oklahoma State on the rise
The sun is setting on the regular season, and you know what that means, college softball fans: It’s almost time for the selection show to tell us the exact route teams will be taking to get to Oklahoma City. The Women’s College World Series is beckoning, and teams have only a few chances left to answer the call. In this penultimate week, the stars on the diamond were really giving us everything: home run races, record chases, slugfests, conference battles, and — my favorite part — lots and lots of senior days.
Let’s break down the most notable happenings. What is this, McGwire vs. Sosa?
If you’ve been keeping score at all, you know that Oklahoma and UCLA have each broken the NCAA team single-season home run record of 161. If you haven’t, the Sooners lead the country with 167, and the Bruins aren’t far behind at 162 … and counting. To put things in perspective, the next-closest team is Ohio State at 116.
The two stars of the show? Oklahoma’s Kendall Wells and UCLA’s Megan Grant — who, as you may remember, already scored a championship ring as a member of the UCLA women’s basketball team as well — are giving us flashes of MLB’s madness in 1998. With a laser to right field in the first inning of Game 2 vs.
Georgia — a series the Sooners would end up sweeping — Wells tallied long ball No. 36 on the season, just one away from Laura Espinoza’s mark of 37 set in 1995. If Wells stays at this pace, she’ll have a really good chance at making history this weekend against Texas A&M.
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