Oklahoma earns SEC championship with Saturday sweep of the Aggies

The Oklahoma Sooners secured their second straight regular-season SEC championship on Saturday, sweeping their doubleheader with the Texas A&M Aggies . Oklahoma won game one playing small ball in the fourth inning, breaking a scoreless tie on Kasidi Pickering's RBI single. Pickering's RBI came after the Aggies opted to walk NCAA home run leader Kendall Wells with a runner on first.

After Pickering's single put runners on the corners, Abby Dayton brought Wells in on a squeeze play where Wells just beat the throw at the plate with a perfect slide. Freshman Lexi McDaniel came through with a pinch-hit RBI single to give the Sooners a 3-0 lead. Miali Guachino was good through four innings, but ran into trouble in the fifth, giving up back-to-back home runs to surrender three runs and the lead.

Audrey Lowry came in and recorded the final two outs of the inning and threw a total of 2. 2 scoreless innings of relief to earn the win. Kai Minor was clutch in the sixth, coming up with an RBI triple to give Oklahoma a one-run lead, and Lowry made it hold up for the first win of the day.

Lowry moved to 22-2 with the relief appearance win. Oklahoma's offense had just five hits but recorded six walks in the game. In game two, Sydney Berzon got the ball for the Sooners and was staked to a 4-0 lead right out of the gate when Kai Minor hit a lead-off home run to open the game, and Kasidi Pickering hit a three-run home run with two outs in the inning.