NORMAN — Mariah Lopez struck out Kenna Wilkey in the fifth inning, and The Sign Guy sprang into action.
Mike Kertok of Norman is one of the OU softball fans who keep the spirit bubbling at Marita Hynes Field. Saturday, he was in the rotation of four fans who stood to their feet and sent their vocal chords into overdrive with yells of “Boomer!...”
Soon enough, Kertok’s lungs let him know he was done for the day, so he resorted to visual communication. After Lopez’s final pitch of what eventually became an 8-0 rout of Northwestern that put the Sooners in the Women’s College World Series for the fourth straight season, Kertok grabbed his Lopez sign and held it aloft.