Oklahoma City, Okla. – Day one of the Sooner Athletic Conference tournament was not kind to the Oklahoma Panhandle State University softball, dealing the team a pair of pool–play losses. The Aggies (29-21) lost their opening game, 1-0, to Mid-America Christian University and then fell, 10-2, to NAIA No. 3-ranked Oklahoma City University in the evening game.
 
Game one was pretty much all pitching, except for MACU taking advantage of an early walk issued by starter Lindsay Jacobs (12-7). After permitting her only hit allowed in the first inning, but retiring the side unscathed, Jacobs walked the leadoff batter in the second. A stolen base, sacrifice bunt and RBI ground out gave the Evangels what would end up being the only score of the afternoon.
 
In the bottom of the fourth, Jacobs retired two batters but walked three to load the bases. OPSU Head Coach Meghan Mulcahy summoned Kaylor Battiest to the circle and the junior got a strikeout to get the Aggies out of the jam.
 
Battiest would allow just one hit during her 2.1 innings of relief. Battiest struck out four Evangels, while Jacobs booked three "K's".
 
MACU hurler Regan Martin went the complete game and matched the Aggie duo with seven strikeouts of her own. Martin did not allow Panhandle a hit until the sixth inning, when OPSU pick up all two of its three hits in the game.
 
Panhandle catcher Haley Neal led off the sixth with a single to right. Then with two out, Abby Gregory legged out an infield single, with pinch runner Lindsey Harris stopping at third. Jewell Lee then milked a walk from Martin to loads the bases. That brought up the Aggies' hottest hitter, Kayli Grove, who drove the ball to left field, but it was playable to end the threat.
 
OPSU had one last gasp in the seventh when Brittany Thomas cranked a one-out single. With two out and Neal at the plate, Thomas moved into scoring position on a wild pitch. But Thomas was stranded there when Neal popped out to second to end the game.
 
In game two versus nationally-ranked OKCU, the Aggies tallied first but it was the Stars that tallied most in the night cap.  Karah Ortiz drew a one-out walk in the top of the first. That brought up Kayli Grove, who worked an eight-pitch at-bat that allowed Ortiz to wind up at third after a wild pitch and passed ball, before Grove eventually struck out swinging. Jaylinn Reyes then cued a shot just fair along the rightfield line for a double that drove in Ortiz.
 
The Stars responded with four runs in their half of the first and added to that total the rest of the way. The Aggies got one back in the second when Jena Konieczka drew a leadoff walk and came home on Chrislyn Dovers' one-out, RBI triple that made it 4-2 in favor of OKCU.
 
The host Stars added one in the second, two in the third, one in the fifth and two in the sixth to end the game on the run-rule.
 
Thomas (1-3) took the loss for OPSU, pitching to just two batters with a walk and hit batter before being lifted. Battiest took the circle and went 5.0 innings. However, after throwing earlier in the day, Battiest did not have her usual control and walked eight, while striking out five Stars.