OSU Softball: Cowgirls Drop Big 12 Tournament Semifinal to Arizona State

The Sun Devils were able to do what not many have been able to this season: rough up Ruby Meylan.

Oklahoma State dropped its Big 12 Tournament semifinal to Arizona State on Friday night 11-7. The Cowgirls’ All-American ace drew the start but lasted just 1 1/3 innings before exiting having given up six runs (five earned) on six hits.

All six of those runs came in the second inning. With two runners on, Brooklyn Ulrich singled to center, scoring the game’s first run before a Tiare Ho-Ching single scored another.

Tanya Windle took the inning from bad to worse for the Cowgirls with a three-run home run to center to make it 5-0. Then a few errors later, it was 6-0 and Meylan headed to the dugout.

If anyone can be forgiven for having such an outing, it’s Meylan. The Cowgirls had won the past 16 games she had thrown in, with most of those being the full game. It’s the most runs she’s given up in an outing since allowing seven against Arizona on April 17. OSU won that game in 10 innings.

RyLee Crandall came out of the Cowgirls’ bullpen and initially held things steady, allowing OSU to creep back into the ball game, but then ASU started making solid contact on her, as well.

The fifth inning saw ASU plate four more runs and take a 10-2 lead.

But then the Cowgirls started truly fighting back. OSU matched the Sun Devils’ four runs in the fifth with RBIs from Karli Godwin, Lexi McDonald and Amanda Hasler (x2).

McDonald was good all evening, as the former Silo standout finished 3-for-4 at the dish with a run scored and an RBI. Godwin, Hasler and Audrey Schneidmiller each had two hits.

The Cowgirls entered the bottom of the seventh down 11-6 when Rosie Davis led the frame off with a solo shot, her 14th home run of the season.

Rosie’s 1⃣4⃣th long ball of the year gets one more back for the Pokes #GoPokes | @_RoseDavis2023 https://t.co/DW3rXtswOY pic.twitter.com/1vtPGzpZpE

— OSU Cowgirl Softball (@cowgirlsb) May 9, 2026

But that’d be all the Cowgirls got in the inning.

OSU coach Kenny Gajewski said after Thursday’s game he felt the Cowgirls had done enough over recent weeks to earn one of the 16 hosting spots in the NCAA Regional round. We’ll learn if Gajewksi is right in his assumption on Sunday when the selection show airs at 6 p.m. on ESPN2.