Texas Tech University Athletics
Raiders Drop #9 Oklahoma
June 21, 1999 | Softball
May 14, 1999
Oklahoma City, OK - The Texas Tech softball team rallied in the sixth inning to defeat top-seeded and ninth-ranked Oklahoma during Friday morning action at the 1999 Big 12 Softball Championship in Oklahoma City.
Texas Tech (33-28) will take on Texas tonight at 6:00 p.m. in the tournament semifinals.
The Red Raiders became the first team in tournament history to eliminate the number one seed. Oklahoma fell to Nebraska 2-0 on Thursday for their first loss of the tournament. The Sooners were the regular season champions in the Big 12 Conference.
The hero of the day for Texas Tech was sophomore Amanda Renfro. Renfro struck out nine batters and gave up just five hits in Techs 2-1 victory. Along the way, Renfro set two Texas Tech single season records in number of starts (37) and complete games (35).
Oklahomas Lynette Velasquez, the 1999 Big 12 Player-of-the-Year, got things going for the Sooners in the bottom of the fourth inning when she slapped a homerun over the centerfield fence to give OU the 1-0 lead. Tech answered in the sixth after OU shortstop Lisa Carey had an error off an Aimee Weather shot to leftfield that scored Eva Harshman. The game remained tied into extra innings until Sandy Butler hit a leftfield single that scored Eva Harshmans second run of the game.
