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OSU Softball: Cowgirls Defeat No. 4 Nebraska 2-1 in 11-Inning Home Opener with Walk-Off Homerun

To the OSU faithful that hung around for three hours on a school night, Rosie Davis said, “thank you.”

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Ruby Meylan is going to have to miss another extracurricular event.

No. 16 Oklahoma State defeated No. 4 Nebraska 2-1 in a lot of extra innings to break the seal on the Oklahoma State/Tulsa Invitational.

Meylan pitched a career-high 10 innings but allowed just one walk. RyLee Crandall moved to 5-0 on the season with her work in the 11th. Then Rosie Davis proved she doesn’t care how big a scoreboard they install.

Kenny Gajewski is not afraid of some competition. He suggested to Huskers head coach Rhonda Revelle that the two ranked squads meet three times this weekend instead of two, according to an anecdote by the ESPN crew. His squad took Round 1, even if it took over three hours.

It was an elite pitching duel between OSU’s Ruby Meylan and Nebraska’s Jordy Frahm, better known by her previous last name Bahl. Their closers also held strong, as we’ll see later.

Coming in, Meylan’s career-high performance was 8 2/3 innings back in 2024. She pitched 10 full innings and looked ready to go five more on Thursday. When pitching coach Carrie Eberle finally pulled Crandall from her bullpen, it was probably less to do with Meylan’s performance than it was the number of games still remaining this weekend.

Meylan skipped OSU Wrestling’s sold-out finale against Iowa on Sunday because she wanted to be ready for Nebraska. She was.

Meylan allowed eight hits and one run in 10 innings, throwing 135 pitches and striking out nine Huskers. Again, she issued just one walk. It should come as little surprise that the native Nebraskan had plenty in the tank Thursday night.

That one run came off the bat of Nebraska’s Lauren Camenzind whose single RBI put the Huskers up 1-0 in the top of the fifth.


Nebraska’s Frahm went seven innings before Revelle pulled her but she was tough, striking out nine Cowgirls and allowing just one walk herself and seven hits. But that one hit was a run.

Facing a full count and one out away from the L in regulation, Audrey Schneidmiller cranked one to right field to send Tia Warsop across the bag and tie the game in the bottom of the seventh.

The broadcast crew pointed out that this was the largest crowd for a home opener in OSU history and a top-five home crowd all-time. Plenty of them stayed for extra softball.

Ruby stayed in the circle and kept the Huskers off the board until she handed things off.


Nebraska went to Alexis Jensen who was also stingy in the circle. In three innings, she allowed just two hits and struck out six Cowgirls, but she did give up a homer in the bottom of the 11th.

To the OSU faithful that hung around for three hours on a school night, Rosie Davis said, “thank you.” She slugged a literal moonshot well over the largest scoreboard in NCAA softball.


With the win, the Cowgirls improved to 12-4 while the Huskers fell to 11-5. The Cowgirls might get to sleep in just a bit as they face Southeast Missouri State at 3 p.m. Friday.

 

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