Bedlam softball on the table in 2025 for OU, OSU
Bedlam softball is going to be some sort of weekend in Norman between OU and Oklahoma State. The three-game series features the No. 2 Sooners and No. 4 Cowgirls, starting Friday.
The Big 12 title is on the line. But is this it? Maybe not. Possible you won’t see a three-game set in the future. But a one-game deal? Definitely sounds like it’s in the plans, said OU head coach Patty Gasso.
“Our sport administrator reached out to theirs,” said Gasso on Tuesday afternoon. “We came up with a mutual date, I don’t know what it is. But the plan is to play at the Hall of Fame Stadium. There’s been rumblings that I don’t know about, except I do know that we reached out to them & sounds like it’s happening.”
That’s 2025, though, as OU enters the SEC and OSU remains in the Big 12. There is plenty at stake this weekend at Love’s Field.
And atmosphere that might rival anything you find in Oklahoma City for the Women’s College World Series.
“First of all, I’m expecting an outrageous, chaotic atmosphere,” Gasso said. That’s what we’re hoping for. Sooner fans come for this. They’re gonna be as ready as we are to play, so I expect that.”
The state of Oklahoma has, in a way, become a huge center of the softball world. Nobody would know that more than Rylie Boone, the Owasso native.
One last Bedlam, time to end in style.
“It’s pretty cool because no one really looks at Oklahoma softball-wise, recruiting-wise or anything, like everyone looks at Cali or Texas,” Boone said. “But we’re both ranked teams in the top five and it’s happening in Oklahoma, so I think it’s just a pretty cool thing to know that Oklahoma represents the top five, whatever, teams in the country.
“But just knowing that, I think it’s pretty cool. It’s pretty awesome knowing this is the last one, it’s like the final and we get to be a part of it. It’s pretty dope.”
The three-game set begins Friday at 6:30; Saturday at noon; Sunday at 3 p.m.
