Brad Keselowski ends drought for No. 22 Ford with last-lap pass

By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service

LONG POND, Pa. –- With a dramatic last-lap pass – the first of the season in the NASCAR XFINITY Series – Brad Keselowski won Saturday’s Pocono Green 250 at Pocono Raceway, ending a 46-race drought for the No. 22 Team Penske Ford.

Keselowski swept the stages in the 100-lap event but couldn’t get past leader Kyle Larson until he reached the Long Pond straightaway on the final circuit. Keselowski powered off the first turn, down-shifted and blew past Larson before the cars reached the Tunnel Turn.

Justin Allgaier followed Keselowski past Larson and finished second, .615 seconds behind the race winner. Larson came home third, followed by Elliott Sadler and Daniel Suarez.

Keselowski’s victory didn’t come without a fight. On a restart with 16 laps left, after caution for Brandon Jones’ blown left rear tire and frontstetch wreck on Lap 78, Keselowski was on the inside of the front row, taking the green flag beside race leader Cole Custer.

A push from Elliott Sadler got Keselowski to the front, but Sadler continued the shove into Turn 1. Keselowski sailed high in the corner, narrowly keeping the no. 22 Mustang off the wall.

"I got a good push, but the push didn’t stop, and I found myself in the third lane in Turn 1, which is somewhere you don’t want to be," said Keselowski, who fell back to 13th in the running order. "I got down there and my rear tires were off the ground and went straight, trying not to back it into the wall. With fewer than 16 laps to get back to the front, Keselowski began to bull his way through the field. He split the two cars of Brendan Gaughan and polesitter Kyle Benjamin, bouncing off both in the process.

By Lap 97 he had reeled in Allgaier, and when the No. 7 Chevrolet slipped slightly, Keselowski charged past and took off after Larson. Then came the winning pass in Turn 1.

"I drove by a bunch of cars and just pushed as hard as I could," Keselowski said of his closing. "It looked like Kyle's car was struggling just a little bit and he was getting tight in the middle, loose off. He was doing a really good job holding it low so I couldn't get a run. Just on the last lap, I got on his bumper and got him loose.

"He was trying to do the side draft thing down the backstretch and all the way down the apron. That had to look pretty cool. Hell of a race. Really happy for the 22 team. It's been a while."

When Keselowski dropped back on the final restart, Larson found himself in a surprising position.

"I was not expecting to get the lead on that restart," Larson said. "Elliott gave Brad too good a push in Turn 1, and then Elliott overshot the Tunnel Turn."

After charging past Sadler on the restart lap, Larson protected his position until the first corner of the last lap.

"I couldn’t get back to the gas as quick as I wanted to – my car was just plowing – and Brad got a great run off the corner," Larson said.

Allgaier was disappointed with second place, but he had the consolation of assuming the series lead by one point over Sadler. Those two drivers are light years ahead of their JR Motorsports teammate, William Byron, who stands third, 62 points behind Allgaier.

On the eve of his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series debut in the No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Ford, Darrell "Bubba" Wallace Jr. finished 11th in his last scheduled ride in the No. 6 Roush Fenway Racing Mustang.

Wallace finishes his stint with RFR fourth in the series standings, 88 points behind the leader.

Benjamin led 28 laps in his second NASCAR XFINITY Series race – one fewer than Keselowski’s 29 – but fell back to 16th at the finish after the late contact with the eventual racer winner.


NASCAR XFINITY Series Race - Pocono Green 250

Pocono Raceway

Long Pond, Pennsylvania

Saturday, June 10, 2017

               1. (8) Brad Keselowski(i), Ford, 100.
               2. (4) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 100.
               3. (6) Kyle Larson(i), Chevrolet, 100.
               4. (18) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet, 100.
               5. (7) Daniel Suarez(i), Toyota, 100.
               6. (11) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, 100.
               7. (3) Cole Custer #, Ford, 100.
               8. (15) Ty Dillon(i), Chevrolet, 100.
               9. (2) Daniel Hemric #, Chevrolet, 100.
               10. (31) Matt Tifft #, Toyota, 100.
               11. (13) Darrell Wallace Jr., Ford, 100.
               12. (5) William Byron #, Chevrolet, 100.
               13. (21) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 100.
               14. (16) Ryan Reed, Ford, 100.
               15. (10) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 100.
               16. (1) Kyle Benjamin, Toyota, 100.
               17. (25) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 100.
               18. (14) Spencer Gallagher #, Chevrolet, 100.
               19. (26) JJ Yeley, Toyota, 100.
               20. (22) Dakoda Armstrong, Toyota, 100.
               21. (40) Casey Mears, Ford, 100.
               22. (20) Dylan Lupton, Toyota, 100.
               23. (19) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 100.
               24. (24) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 100.
               25. (32) David Starr, Chevrolet, 100.
               26. (23) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 100.
               27. (12) Blake Koch, Chevrolet, 100.
               28. (34) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 99.
               29. (29) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevrolet, 98.
               30. (30) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, 97.
               31. (9) Paul Menard(i), Chevrolet, 97.
               32. (36) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, 97.
               33. (37) Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, 97.
               34. (39) Mike Harmon, Dodge, 95.
               35. (35) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet, Engine, 85.
               36. (17) Brandon Jones, Chevrolet, Accident, 77.
               37. (27) Harrison Rhodes, Chevrolet, Clutch, 49.
               38. (33) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet, Handling, 16.
               39. (38) Carl Long, Dodge, Handling, 12.
               40. (28) Jeff Green, Chevrolet, Brakes, 7.

Average Speed of Race Winner:  135.583 mph.
Time of Race:  01 Hrs, 50 Mins, 38 Secs. Margin of Victory:  0.615 Seconds.
Caution Flags:  3 for 15 laps.
Lead Changes:  12 among 6 drivers.
Lap Leaders:   K. Benjamin 1-21; B. Keselowski(i) 22-28; C. Custer # 29-38; B. Keselowski(i) 39-56; K. Benjamin 57-61; B. Keselowski(i) 62-63; K. Benjamin 64-65; D. Suarez(i) 66; J. Allgaier 67-79; C. Custer # 80-83; B. Keselowski(i) 84; K. Larson(i) 85-99; B. Keselowski(i) 100;.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led):  B. Keselowski(i) 5 times for 29 laps; K. Benjamin 3 times for 28 laps; K. Larson(i) 1 time for 15 laps; C. Custer # 2 times for 14 laps; J. Allgaier 1 time for 13 laps; D. Suarez(i) 1 time for 1 lap.
Stage #1 Top Ten: 22,20,42,2,18,7,9,21,3,48
Stage #2 Top Ten: 22,20,00,42,7,48,6,16,19,62

Power wins wild IndyCar race at Texas under caution

By STEPHEN HAWKING
AP Sports Writer

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Will Power was trying to figure out how to hold off Scott Dixon for the lead as the two went side-by-side in the closing laps of the IndyCar race at Texas.

Instead, Dixon got taken out in one last crash to end a wild race at the repaved and reconfigured 1 1/2-mile track and Power won under caution. Only eight of the 22-car field actually crossed the finish line Saturday night.

Power, who led 180 of the 248 laps, was the leader when Dixon got wrecked by Takuma Sato, and finished ahead of Tony Kanaan, who other drivers and at least one owner blamed for a big crash earlier that led to a nearly 31-minute red flag.

"Apparently I got blamed for all of them," Kanaan said. "Got a penalty, paid a penalty, and we finished second."

The final caution came when Sato, driving the same car in which he won the Indianapolis 500 in two weeks ago and pushing for another win, got his left side slightly into the grass on the front stretch with five laps to go. That sent him spinning and also took out Dixon.

"It was a pretty intense battle there at the end with Scott," Power said. "I was kind of working out in my head how I was going to get him over the line because he was kind of able to side draft me and be ahead on some laps, so it was really going to be an interesting finish."

Power's 31st career victory, and second this season, was indeed interesting.

Simon Pagenaud was third, ahead of defending race champion Graham Rahal, who was coming of winning both races at Detroit last week to become the first IndyCar driver this season with multiple victories. Gabby Chaves finished fifth and Marco Andretti in sixth was the only other driver to finish all 248 laps at the 1 1/2-mile track.

"It was pretty nerve-wracking out there," Pagenaud said.

With a full moon looming over the track, the red flag came out after an accident involving eight other cars that was blamed on Kanaan, who recovered from the ensuing penalty for his runner-up finish.

James Hinchcliffe got loose on lap 154 after making contact with Kanaan, who appeared to move up the track into him. That put Hinchcliffe in the middle of three-wide, and he made contact with his Schmidt Peterson Motorsports teammate Mikhail Aleshin.

While calling Kanaan someone he trusts on the track, Hinchcliffe said Kanaan drove from inside along the white line and up into him, and pushed him into Aleshin.

"He wasn't driving smart, or respectfully," Hinchcliffe said.

That led to a spark-spraying chain reaction that took out both Dale Coyne Racing drivers, Tristan Vautier and Ed Jones, and sent driver-owner Ed Carpenter and his teammate JR Hildebrand to the garage. Carlos Munoz and Ryan-Hunter Reay were knocked out of the race.

Carpenter, who took his repaired car back on track 12 laps down, also blamed Kanaan. Car owner Dale Coyne went up to Kanaan's car while it was lined up on pit road during the red flag, then leaned into the cockpit and said something.

After the race resumed, IndyCar penalized Kanaan for avoidable contact, holding him in his pit for 20 second during green-flag conditions.

All drivers involved in the crash were evaluated and released from the infield care center.

IndyCar enforced two mandatory stops under caution after that for tire changes after 30 green-flag laps on each set. There was blistering of some tires on the fresh pavement of the track, including Helio Castroneves wrecking out earlier in the night.

The series said in a statement after the race that, after consulting with Firestone, those extra stops were added "out of an abundance of caution as race conditions presented different conditions than seen in earlier tests."

Polesitter Charlie Kimball and Alexander Rossi were already out of the race before then.

Rossi, the 2016 Indy 500 winner as a rookie, spun and made hard contact with the wall after getting pinched between Dixon and Kanaan, then bouncing of both of the Chip Ganassi Racing cars while coming off the backstretch on lap 37.

During stops on the ensuing caution, Sato got pinned into the wall during a pit road collision that damaged the front wing of his car. Hinchcliffe got loose coming out of his pit, then swerved into Castroneves at the same time Sato was pulling out of the first stall.

Hinchcliffe was penalized for avoidable contact.

Before the green flag came out again, polesitter Charlie Kimball's car was pushed to the garage because of an oil leak and done.

Castroneves, a three-time Indianapolis 500 winner who was the runner-up to Sato this year, was running third behind Team Penske teammates Power and Pagenaud when his front right tire gave and his car veered into the wall coming out of the second turn on lap 91. Castroneves went hard into the wall and eventually came to rest on the inside of the third turn.

UP NEXT

After three races in two weekends since the month of May at Indianapolis, the IndyCar Series takes a week off before its next race June 25 at Road America, the four-mile, 14-turn road circuit in Wisconsin.

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Standout Oregon State pitcher has molestation case in past

By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Luke Heimlich, a standout pitcher for Oregon State’s top-ranked baseball team, pleaded guilty to a single count of molesting a 6-year-old girl when he was a teenager.

Heimlich’s criminal history was reported by The Oregonian/OregonLive (http://bit.ly/2s0uFD8) on Thursday, a day or two before he’s slated to pitch in this weekend’s regional final against Vanderbilt. The winner advances to the College World Series.

The left-hander from Puyallup, Washington, is projected to be an early round pick in next week’s Major League Baseball draft. MLB spokesman Michael Teevan said the league had no comment.

In an editorial accompanying the article, the newspaper said it learned about Heimlich’s 2012 conviction while doing a routine background check before running a profile on him.

Heimlich failed to renew his registration as a sex offender in Oregon within 10 days of his most recent birthday and was cited in Benton County on a misdemeanor charge that was dismissed last month, according to court records reviewed by the AP. Heimlich’s attorney, Stephen Ensor, said that as a Washington resident who is a student in Oregon the requirement did not apply.

That citation led The Oregonian to the Washington state case, and it obtained those records using a public information act request.

Heimlich did not respond to requests for comment from the newspaper. Beavers coach Pat Casey could not comment on the case. At practice Thursday, Casey told reporters that Heimlich was available to pitch, but he did not announce the rotation for the weekend.

“Luke has conducted himself as a model student-athlete since the day he walked on to campus,” the attorney, Ensor, said Friday.

Oregon State spokesman Steve Clark declined to say when Oregon State became aware of Heimlich’s status as a registered sex offender or to answer any questions about the case, citing federal laws that protect student privacy.

The state police provide the school with a list of registered sex offenders who are affiliated with the campus on a regular basis, Clark said, and the school then interviews each person and puts safeguards in place to protect other students and staff.

He declined to say if Heimlich’s name had been provided to the school by the Oregon State Police.

“We’re not able to discuss the specifics of this case, when we knew, what we knew or any other student information specific to this student or other students. It’s a federal law,” Clark told the AP.


“What I would offer to you is we’re very aware of this matter now and we take this very seriously.”

OSU President Ed Ray called the account “disturbing” in a statement released Thursday and said the school “does not condone the conduct as reported.”

“But we also understand that this case involves a criminal matter that was previously addressed by the judicial system in the state of Washington,” he wrote.

Students who are registered sex offenders are not allowed to live in student residence halls or work with minors, he said.

The school also released a statement that said Oregon State follows the U.S. Department of Education’s recommendation that universities not allow past criminal history to disproportionately hinder a student’s access to higher education.

Prosecutors initially charged Heimlich with two counts of molestation for abuse that began when the girl was 4, The Oregonian said.

Heimlich ultimately pleaded guilty to one count of molestation between February 2011 and December 2011, a period during which he was 15. Prosecutors dismissed the other charge as part of a plea bargain.

He entered a diversion program, received two years of probation and was ordered to attend sex offender treatment for two years, according to court records. He was sentenced to 40 weeks of detention at Washington’s Juvenile Rehabilitation authority. But that sentence was suspended and he served no time, according to court records, because he successfully completed probation.

Heimlich was classified in Washington state as the lowest-level sex offender with little risk of repeating the behavior. He finished his probation and court-ordered classes in fall 2014, around the time he moved to Corvallis, Oregon, to attend Oregon State.

Clark, the OSU spokesman, said he didn’t know if publicity about the case would lead to any changes in this weekend’s pitching line-up.

Heimlich is the top pitcher on Oregon State’s No. 1-ranked baseball team, compiling an 11-1 record with a 0.76 ERA.

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Oklahoma defends softball title with 5-4 win over Florida

By CLIFF BRUNT
Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Even as defending champions, it seemed for most of the season that Oklahoma was unlikely to repeat.

The Sooners earned just a No. 10 seed in the NCAA Tournament. They lost their NCAA opener to North Dakota State before rallying, then had to go to Auburn and win a super regional.

Even when they recovered at the Women’s College World Series and reached the championship round, they faced No. 1 seed Florida and its two All-American pitchers.

In the end, Oklahoma found a way, including a 17-inning win in Game 1. On Tuesday night, Shay Knighten hit a three-run double in the second inning, and the Sooners defeated Florida 5-4 to win it all again.

The Sooners (61-9) took both games from Florida in the best-of-three series to earn their third NCAA title in five years.

“I still cannot believe that this happened, with where we started and where we finished,” Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso said.

“There’s so many stories. The journey was unbelievable. I think if you looked at us in February and March, even parts of April, you would never imagine us sitting here right now with trophies in front of us.”

Knighten, who hit a three-run homer in the 17th inning on Monday, was selected the World Series’ Most Outstanding Player.

Oklahoma freshman Mariah Lopez (18-1) got the win in relief of Paige Parker. Though Parker has an 8-0 career World Series record, she struggled on Tuesday and lasted just 1 2-3 innings. She threw 108 pitches in the 5½-hour game on Monday night.

“I think Paige probably could tell you she didn’t have her best stuff, but she is the reason why we’re sitting here right now, and she knows that. I know she knows that,” Gasso said.

“To be able to give Mariah (Lopez) the ball, a freshman who’s been waiting patiently, and for her to step up and do what we asked her to do in that setting was another reason why we’re sitting here with a trophy. It’s another reason why we’re here, period.”

Paige Lowary stepped in and threw two innings of perfect relief for her nation-leading 11th save. With a one-run lead, she retired Florida’s Nos. 2-4 hitters in order in the seventh. On Monday night, ESPN announcers said one of her pitches reached 75 mph on the radar gun.

“Paige Lowary came in, and she was hot,” Gasso said. “She was ready. I don’t know how hard she was throwing, but it looked like 100 miles an hour. The adrenaline was there and she was hitting her spots just so confident.”

Florida (58-10) did not allow an earned run in three games to reach the championship series, but the Sooners were able to break through against what statistically was the nation’s best pitching staff.

Florida pitcher Kelly Barnhill, USA Softball’s National Collegiate Player of the Year, did not play Tuesday. Florida coach Tim Walton went with No. 3 pitcher Alesia Ocasio (8-2), and she got the loss. Delaney Gourley allowed the double to Knighten in relief.

“It just wasn’t our tournament,” Walton said. “You look at the statistics, it’s eerie how close the games were statistically. So I think that you’ve got two evenly matched teams. One just found a way to hit the ball over the fence more than we did, and give them a lot of credit.”

Oklahoma’s Nicole Mendes homered on Ocasio’s third pitch of the game to give the Sooners a 1-0 lead. Sophia Reynoso responded with a solo shot for Florida in the second.

With the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the second, Ocasio singled to knock in Justine McLean, then Kayli Kvistad walked with the bases loaded to score Amanda Lorenz and make it 3-1.

Knighten’s big hit in the bottom of the second put Oklahoma up 5-3.

“Being in those moments, I’ve just got to keep myself calm, just stay relaxed and just kind of not think about what if, just kind of go for it,” she said. “And it paid off.”

Florida’s Chelsea Herndon came back with a solo blast in the third to cut Oklahoma’s lead to 5-4. The pitchers took over from there.

“Just a hard-fought two games,” Walton said. “Wish we could have pushed it to a third, and give us a chance. But I thought overall our players — really proud of our team.”

Oklahoma had just one senior in its lineup and has no senior pitchers. Gasso said her team will be focused again next season.

“We learned a lesson,” she said. “We are good at learning lessons. We’re not going to let this get in our way.”

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Box Score

2017 Oklahoma Softball
#1 Florida vs #10 Oklahoma
Jun 06, 2017 at Oklahoma City, Okla. (USA Softball Stadium)

Florida 4 (58-10)
Player	ab	r	h	rbi	bb	so	po	a	lob
Lorenz lf	2	1	0	0	2	1	2	0	1
DeWitt 2b	3	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	0
Ocasio p/3b	4	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0
Kvistad 1b	2	0	0	1	1	0	7	0	0
Wheaton c	3	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	5
Reynoso ss	3	1	1	1	0	0	1	4	0
Clemens dp	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
J. Roberts ph	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Voss pr/cf	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Herndon rf/dp	3	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	0
McLean cf/rf	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hoover 3b	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gourley p	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	26	4	6	4	3	5	18	5	6
Oklahoma 5 (61-9)
Player	ab	r	h	rbi	bb	so	po	a	lob
Mendes, Nicole rf/p	4	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	1
Clifton, Caleigh 2b	2	1	2	1	1	0	1	1	0
Knighten, Shay 1b	3	0	1	3	0	1	8	0	1
Aviu, Fale dp/rf	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pendley, Nicole cf	3	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	3
Romero, Sydney 3b	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
Hatfield, Macey lf	3	1	1	0	0	1	4	0	0
Wodach, Lea c	2	1	0	0	1	1	5	0	0
Arnold, Kelsey ss	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	0
Parker, Paige p	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lopez, Mariah p/dp	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lowary, Paige p	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Totals	26	5	8	5	2	5	21	7	5

Score by Innings R H E ----------------------------------------- Florida............. 031 000 0 - 4 6 1 Oklahoma............ 140 000 X - 5 8 1 -----------------------------------------

E - DeWitt(3); Hatfield, M.(2). DP - UF 1. LOB - UF 6; OU 5. 2B - Knighten, S.(13). HR - Reynoso(3); Herndon(5); Mendes, N.(7). HBP - Kvistad. SH - DeWitt(6). SB - Aviu, Fale(6); Arnold, K.(10).

Florida	ip	h	r	er	bb	so	wp	bk	hbp	ibb	ab	bf	fo	go	np
Ocasio L,8-2	1.1	4	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	9	0	4	42
Gourley	4.2	4	1	1	1	5	0	0	0	0	18	19	5	3	69
Oklahoma	ip	h	r	er	bb	so	wp	bk	hbp	ibb	ab	bf	fo	go	np
Parker, Paige	1.2	4	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	8	12	2	3	44
Lopez, Mariah W,18-1	2.1	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	8	9	4	1	28
Mendes, Nicole	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	1	2	20
Lowary, Paige S,11	2.0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	6	6	1	2	29

Win - Lopez, M. (18-1). Loss - Ocasio (8-2). Save - Lowary, P. (11). HBP - by Lopez, M. (Kvistad). Inherited runners/scored: Gourley 3/3; Lopez, M. 3/1; Lowary, P. 1/0. Pitches/strikes: Ocasio 42/25; Gourley 69/46; Parker, P. 44/23; Lopez, M. 28/21; Mendes, N. 20/11; Lowary, P. 29/22. Umpires - HP: Terry Holt 1B: Scott Thomas 3B: Erin Peterson Start: 7:07 pm Time: 2:21 Attendance: 8507 Weather: Clear, 89F, N 6mph Mendes, N. faced 1 batter in the 6th.

Play-by-Play

2017 Oklahoma Softball
#1 Florida vs #10 Oklahoma
Jun 06, 2017 at Oklahoma City, Okla. (USA Softball Stadium)

Florida starters: 18/lf Lorenz; 23/2b DeWitt; 8/p Ocasio; 21/1b Kvistad; 25/c Wheaton; 74/ss Reynoso; 28/dp Clemens; 19/rf Herndon; 52/cf McLean; 9/3b Hoover;

Oklahoma starters: 11/rf Mendes, N.; 20/2b Clifton, C.; 17/1b Knighten, S.; 34/dp Aviu, Fale; 1/cf Pendley, N.; 2/3b Romero, S.; 6/lf Hatfield, M.; 15/c Wodach, Lea; 3/ss Arnold, K.; 8/p Parker, P.;

Florida 1st - Lorenz walked (3-0 BBBB). DeWitt out at first 3b to 2b, SAC, bunt (0-0); Lorenz advanced to second. Ocasio popped up to 1b (0-1 K). Kvistad walked (3-0 BBBB). Wheaton grounded out to 1b unassisted (0-1 K). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.

Oklahoma 1st - Mendes, N. homered to left field, RBI (2-1 BKB). Clifton, C. singled to right field (2-1 KBB). Knighten, S. reached on a fielder's choice to shortstop (1-2 KFB); Clifton, C. out at second ss to 2b. Aviu, Fale grounded out to 2b (1-2 BFF); Knighten, S. advanced to second. Pendley, N. reached on a fielder's choice to shortstop (2-2 BBFK); Knighten, S. out at second ss unassisted, interference. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.

Florida 2nd - Reynoso homered to left field, RBI (1-2 BFFF). Clemens flied out to cf (3-2 BBKBK). Herndon grounded out to ss (0-0). McLean singled, advanced to second on a fielding error by lf (1-2 SKB). Lorenz intentionally walked (3-1 BKBBB). DeWitt singled to left field (1-2 BKF); Lorenz advanced to second; McLean advanced to third. Ocasio singled to right field, RBI (3-2 BBKFB); DeWitt advanced to second; Lorenz advanced to third; McLean scored. Lopez, M. to p for Parker, P.. Kvistad hit by pitch, RBI (1-1 KB); Ocasio advanced to second; DeWitt advanced to third; Lorenz scored. Wheaton fouled out to lf (0-1 K). 3 runs, 4 hits, 1 error, 3 LOB.

Oklahoma 2nd - Romero, S. grounded out to ss (2-2 KKFBB). Hatfield, M. singled through the left side (1-2 FFBF). Wodach, Lea walked (3-1 BBKBB); Hatfield, M. advanced to second. Arnold, K. singled to catcher (2-2 BFBF); Wodach, Lea advanced to second; Hatfield, M. advanced to third. Ocasio to 3b. Gourley to p for Hoover. Mendes, N. struck out swinging (0-2 FKFS). Clifton, C. walked, RBI (3-2 BKSBBB); Arnold, K. advanced to second; Wodach, Lea advanced to third; Hatfield, M. scored. Knighten, S. doubled to right center, 3 RBI (0-0); Clifton, C. scored; Arnold, K. scored; Wodach, Lea scored. Aviu, Fale singled through the left side (0-2 KFF); Knighten, S. advanced to third. Aviu, Fale stole second. Pendley, N. flied out to rf (1-1 KB). 4 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.

Florida 3rd - Reynoso lined out to lf (1-0 B). Clemens struck out swinging (1-2 KSBFS). Herndon homered to center field, RBI (0-0). McLean grounded out to ss (1-2 KKBF). 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.

Oklahoma 3rd - Romero, S. flied out to rf (0-0). Hatfield, M. grounded out to ss (0-0). Wodach, Lea flied out to lf (1-2 BKFF). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.

Florida 4th - Lorenz flied out to cf (2-2 KBKBF). DeWitt flied out to lf (0-0). Ocasio struck out swinging (0-2 KKS). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.

Oklahoma 4th - Arnold, K. grounded out to ss (2-1 BBK). Mendes, N. flied out to lf (1-0 B). Clifton, C. singled to right field (1-1 BK). Knighten, S. struck out swinging (1-2 BKFS). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.

Florida 5th - Mendes, N. to p. Aviu, Fale to rf. Lopez, M.. Kvistad popped up to 3b (3-1 BKBB). Wheaton grounded out to 3b (1-1 BK). Reynoso grounded out to ss (2-2 BBKSF). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.

Oklahoma 5th - Aviu, Fale grounded out to 1b unassisted (3-2 BBKBK). Pendley, N. singled to left field (3-0 BBB). Romero, S. lined into double play 1b unassisted (0-1 K); Pendley, N. out on the play. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.

Florida 6th - J. Roberts pinch hit for Clemens. J. Roberts singled through the left side (3-2 BKFBB). Voss pinch ran for J. Roberts. Mendes, N. to rf. Aviu, Fale to dp. Lowary, P. to p for Lopez, M.. Herndon grounded out to 2b (1-2 BFF); Voss advanced to second. McLean lined out to lf (0-2 KFFFF). Lorenz struck out swinging (2-2 KBBFS). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.

Oklahoma 6th - Voss to cf. Herndon to dp. McLean to rf. Hatfield, M. struck out swinging (2-2 BKBKS). Wodach, Lea struck out swinging (1-2 KBKFS). Arnold, K. reached on a fielding error by 2b (2-2 BSFB). Arnold, K. stole second. Mendes, N. struck out swinging (1-2 BSFS). 0 runs, 0 hits, 1 error, 1 LOB.

Florida 7th - DeWitt struck out swinging (2-2 FSFBBS). Ocasio struck out swinging (1-2 FBFFS). Kvistad grounded out to p (1-1 BF). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.