OKLAHOMA CITY — Kenny Gajewski felt his team had a “pretty good offensive performance,” even though it finished with just three hits and no scored runs.
Because No. 8 Stanford, which downed Gajewski’s five-seeded Oklahoma State squad 8-0 in six innings Friday night at the Women’s College World Series, didn’t hand the Cowgirls any easy opportunities.
And now OSU is headed home.
“The hardest balls we hit were caught,” Gajewski said. “We hit multiple balls hard… We had multiple opportunities; we just couldn’t make little things happen.”
The Cowgirls’ offense was quiet for the second straight day, as Stanford star pitcher and Collegiate Player of the Year NiJaree Canady pitched a complete-game shutout to leave OSU scoreless for the second straight game — a stunner to a team that scored six runs or more four times in regionals in super regionals.