Executive Sports Editor
Last Modified: Friday, May 22, 2015 at 10:09 p.m.
Sometimes a small puncture turns into a major wound.
Alexis Osorio, the University of Alabama softball team's freshman ace pitcher, was untouchable through five innings Friday night against the Oklahoma Sooners in the opening game of the Tuscaloosa Super Regional.
Pinch hitter Callie Parsons poked a single up the middle to lead off the sixth, and poked a hole that opened things up for Oklahoma's powerful offense.
Lauren Chamberlain and Kady Self followed with home runs to turn that sixth inning into a five-run outburst that propelled the Sooners to a 5-2 victory in front of a crowd of 3,043 at Rhoads Stadium.