Oklahoma softball has won the last four national titles. But it'll have to beat Topeka native and Texas Tech star NiJaree Canady twice to make it five.

Patty Gasso and the OU softball team looks to continue their WCWS run when they take on Oregon in an elimination game Sunday night at Devon Park. Follow our live coverage here:

Most of Gasso’s Sooners are new, but the returners can be forgiven for showing little emotion. The expectation is to make it to Wednesday’s championship series. But the 2025 Sooners extended the program’s streak of winning elimination games to nine, as Oklahoma still looms as the so far un-killable horror movie villain in OKC.

There’s no better way for the fate of the 2025 Sooners’ season to be settled than in a showdown between the pitcher they could’ve had and the pitcher they got.

OU softball coach Patty Gasso called her team's victory over Oregon and Melyssa Lombardi "bittersweet." Lombardi played for the Sooners and was a longtime Gasso assistant.