The Sooners extend their home win streak with a 7-0 win against the Tulsa Golden Hurricane Wednesday night in Norman. The No. 11 ranked Sooners move up to 12-2 for the season while Tulsa falls to 7-8 for the year.

OU jumped out to an early lead with three runs in the first and added three more in the second, including back to back home runs registered by freshman Katie Norris and freshman pitcher Keilani Ricketts.

With her first start at home this season, Ricketts continued to dominate on the mound, allowing only three hits and one walk through seven innings.

Getting productive offense throughout the batting line up and getting great performances from the underclassmen helped lift the Sooners to another shutout win.

“We have some very outstanding athletes on the bench,” head coach Patty Gasso said. “It’s the most depth we’ve had in a long time. They’re a fun team to watch when they’re sticking it to someone.”

A win against Tulsa meant more than a ‘w’ in the win column for the upperclassmen. Tulsa ended the Sooners 2009 pursuit of a trip to the College World Series with a late rally in the regional hosted in Norman. Shutting out Tulsa was a revenge victory according to the team.

“It was a real important game for both of us,” senior second baseman Amber Flores said. “We wanted to come out and win.”

“Just a sweet little revenge.” senior catcher/third baseman Lindsey Vandever added.

Although the Sooners started out strong in the first two innings on offense, the team didn’t score again until Vandever scored in the sixth off of a single to left by Norris. Vandever reached third on a hit to the center field wall.

“We got complacent and left too many runners on,” Vandever said.

Both Norris and Vandever said the slump was due to a lackadaisical performance.

“We’re a confident team and you can see it in the way we play,” Vandever said. “It’s definitely one of the reasons why we will go far this year.”

The Sooners are back in action this weekend in The Preview featuring Bedlam in Oklahoma City. The Sooners will face Oklahoma State at 3 p.m. on Saturday and end the day against Louisville at 5:30 p.m.

“We feel like it’s our territory and we need to go out there and play some good softball.” Flores said.

Flores continues to be in search of the home run record set by Samantha Ricketts of 48 home runs last season. Flores hit her 46th home run in the game against Pacific this past weekend.

The Sooners next game is against Nevada at 6p.m. in Norman.