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OU softball (19-2) rose to No. 6 in this week’s Softball America top 25 after a successful weekend where the Sooners went 6-0.

The Sooners are fifth of 11 Southeastern Conference teams in the poll. The poll goes as follows with SEC programs in bold.

• No. 1 Tennessee (19-0)

• No. 2 Texas Tech (22-1)

• No. 3 Texas (19-1)

• No. 4 Alabama (22-0)

• No. 5 Arkansas (19-1)

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• No. 7 UCLA (18-3)

• No. 8 Florida (23-1)

• No. 9 Nebraska (14-5)

• No. 10 Florida State (17-4)

• No. 11 Virginia Tech (16-2)

• No. 12 Georgia (17-5)

• No. 13 Oklahoma State (15-5)

• No. 14 Oregon (13-6)

• No. 15 Virginia (19-1)

• No. 16 LSU (17-4)

• No. 17 Mississippi State (18-2)

• No. 18 Arizona (17-5)

• No. 19 Texas A&M (15-7)

• No. 20 Grand Canyon (22-0)

• No. 21 Stanford (11-6)

• No. 22 Penn State (16-4)

• No. 23 UCF (20-4)

• No. 24 South Carolina (15-6)

• No. 25 Washington (15-6)

Next, the Sooners will play North Texas at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Lovelace Stadium on ESPN+.

This story was edited by Joshua McDaniel.

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