The Sooners improved to 8-1 and should hold on to their No. 3 ranking nationally.
OU opened the tournament with wins over Bryant, 8-3, and Northern Iowa, 10-2, on Friday.
In the first game of a Saturday doubleheader, Shannon Saile came on in relief after 4.1 innings of a one-run, three-hit performance by freshman starter Olivia Rains, but surrendered four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning that erased a 4-1 deficit and gave Long Beach State a 5-4 victory over last year’s Women’s College World Series runners-up.
The Sooners rebounded in the second game of the Saturday twin bill, against an even better team than LBS.