OU Softball Freshman ‘Went Back Home,’ No Longer With Team

Oklahoma freshman pitcher Sophia Bordi was a long way from home.

The New Jersey native reclassified to join the Sooners in 2025. She has not appeared in a contest this season and isn’t with the team.

She’s not here on campus, she went back home,” head coach Patty Gasso said during her weekly press conference on Tuesday. “And that’s something that I don’t have the privilege to talk about, it’s more of a personal situation. So she did not finish the season out with us.”

Bordi’s path to Norman was abnormal. Bordi, the No. 1-ranked pitching recruit in the 2025 class, graduated early. She planned to train with her club team, the OC Batbusters, in California and get a job for a year before joining the Sooners, but Gasso got her into school early.

Gasso never planned to feature Bordi in the rotation this season, so she maintains all four years of eligibility.

Bordi was a two-time Gatorade New Jersey Player of the Year and led Haddon Heights High School to two state titles and earned tournament MVP honors.

OU will make its SEC Tournament debut Thursday at 10 a.m. on the SEC Network.

Landry threw a season-high 144 pitches and allowed five runs on nine hits and five walks, but struck out six.

Dayton drove in the game’s first run in the top of second inning, doubling to right center and scoring Ailana Agbayani. Kasidi Pickering doubled the lead in the second with a solo shot to left.

Ella Parker tied the game in the sixth, and Tia MIlloy gave the Sooners their lead back with an RBI-single. Hannah Coor drove in another run to extend the OU lead to 5-3.

Parker finished 3-for-5 for the Sooners while Pickering, Agbayani, Dayton, and Coor added two hits each

A two-run homer from Florida’s Mia Williams tied the contest again, but it was OU who found the timely hits in extras to take Game 1.