Sooner fans know all too well that trap games happen. We experience a trap game at least once per football season. Last year we got off to a hot start only to be ambushed by K-State in Norman…no one and I mean no one saw that one coming. Same goes for our softballers this past weekend.
As expected the Sooners were off to a hot start blistering the competition along the way. Everyone was talking three-peat for the softball team. Then it happened…on the way to the podium, we stubbed our toe against Baylor. Baylor used solid pitching, timely hitting and a short seven inning game to pull off the stunner.
Trap games occur in the middle of a schedule at just the right point where a team gets lulled into a false sense of security and before they know it, the game is over. That was the case last Sunday. The Sooners had won their previous three games by a combined 32-0 score. What many fans had forgotten was that the opponents during thas stretch were essentially high school teams. Then we played a good Baylor team, and the wheels came off.
That’s the bad news…the good news is that softball has an even longer season than football so recovering from such a loss is very doable. And like football, we only have to wait one week to make amends…we play top ranked UCLA next Sunday and beating the Bruins will go a long way in erasing last weekend from our memory bank.
Boomer Sooner…
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