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OU Softball:
Patty Gasso Looking to ‘Fine Tune’ Oklahoma at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic
The top-ranked Sooners are still unbeaten, but Patty Gasso accepts there’s much more to come out of her group as OU proceeds to develop into the 2024 season.

NORMAN — Patty Gasso was precious stone clear this week.

She needs to see more from her top-ranked Sooners.

Oklahoma (9-0) has been “good sufficient to win” in Gasso’s summation, but she has much higher guidelines for her group.

Tuesday, Gasso said she needed to see her group work harder in for all intents and purposes each range.

“I am trusting it’s reaching to see more grounded, speedier, force building, forceful, hustling, blue collar,” she said. “All those things that this program was built off of is what we got to bring back to this group

The Sooners have a affinity for raising their diversion another level when the lights are brightest, be that as it may, which is precisely what will happen this end of the week.

Oklahoma flies west for the 2024 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, an yearly softball grandstand.

In a long time past, the Sooners have played in profoundly expected beat 10 matchups, counting final year’s best two fight between OU and UCLA, bringing the finest out of Gasso’s group.

This end of the week Oklahoma needs a genuine marquee matchup, but the Sooners have bounty of quality resistance to see forward to.

Previous Sooner Sam Ricketts’ No. 25 Mississippi Sate group enters the Mary Nutter new off solid positioned triumphs over Clemson and Utah.

Wisconsin pushed Oklahoma State last weekend, and San Diego State is trying to find a shocking disturbed over the Sooners on Saturday as the Aztecs trust to capitalize off final year’s dream NCAA Competition run.

“Mississippi State is very good,” Gasso said. “… And that’s our to begin with diversion (on Friday). So it’s getting to be a intense one right out of the chute. Wisconsin could be a great group. A really forceful group. They’re the press, the swing-and-miss, take. They attempt to form things to keep you off adjust protectively. And great pitching as well. So we’ve got our hands full the primary day.”

Sunday OU will near the end of the week against Seattle and Loyola Marymount, adjusting out a stuffed five-game slate.

As continuously, the swarm will be a major calculate for Oklahoma to explore as well.

In a long time past, the Sooners’ taking after at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic has drawn Gasso to compare her group to the Beatles, as the stands are overwhelm with fans running to see OU take the field.

“It’s chaos out there,” Gasso said. “It is fair individuals all over. We attempt to urge — we bring chairmen to move us around. We bring security to move us around since you’ve got to walk through swarms to induce there. So it’s planning to be quite diverse for a parcel of these athletes that were on the other side sitting it the stands watching.”

Sophomore pitcher Kierston Deal remembers final year’s end of the week in Palm Springs well, as it opened her eyes to the environment that encompasses Oklahoma softball.

“It unquestionably gives you a small bit of taste of what the World Arrangement is like for sure,” she said on Tuesday. “Just the sum of individuals that are encompassing the diversions and stuff, but you truly learn how to control the diversion together with your partners and everybody and moderate the diversion down when you’re in a sort of environment like that so I’m energized to see what it looks like this year.”

Fortunately for Gasso, the Sooners have bounty of veterans to depend on.

Tiare Jennings, Kinzie Hansen, Jayda Coleman, Rylie Boone, Alyssa Brito and Nicole May have battled through their reasonable share of fights at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, and Kelly Maxwell has experienced the Women’s College World Arrangement in full impact on different events.

But for exchanges and first year recruits alike, it will be the first experience within the rowdy air wearing the Crimson and Cream, which brings a distinctive level of desire.

The Sooners will get each opponent’s best shot, with groups attempting to conclusion OU’s 62-game winning streak. But the fans too trust to catch a see of the show — one Oklahoma will trust to put on over each outing.

OU’s solid California unexpected, featured by Jennings, Hansen, May and Brito but counting genuine first year recruit Ella Parker as well as Quincee Lilio, Hannah Coor and Cydney Sanders, knows what to anticipate. They grew up dreaming of enormous minutes in Palm Springs, something Gasso trusts they’ll provide once once more this end of the week.

“Now you’re within the center and usually like their dream come true,” Gasso said. “Because it’s a California player’s dream. This can be Mary Nutter. It’s the chief competition. And as awful as the areas are they do not care. They w