OUDaily.com | OU softball: Sooners make no excuses for national championship loss

You can blame the Oklahoma softball team’s national title loss on the 12-minute rain delay that happened in the fourth inning, when the Sooners were ahead 3-1, citing the teams should have never been played due to weather conditions. You can blame the defeat on four wild pitches and passed balls that let Alabama runners trot around the base paths into scoring position.

But making excuses has never been a part of coach Patty Gasso or her Sooners’ game plans this season, and they weren’t going to deviate from that plan following the 5-4 loss to Alabama in the 2012 national championship game.

“It just wasn’t our time,” Gasso said... Read full story: OUDaily.com | OU softball: Sooners make no excuses for national championship loss

We've got a soft spot for Alabama's softball national champions | al.com

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - He didn't say hello. He didn't even say good morning. Not right away.

It was half past daybreak Thursday morning at Shoal Creek, and the first words out of Mike Thompson's mouth weren't a greeting but a question.

Did my girls win?

There was no need to ask him to be more specific.

The Shoal Creek president is a big Alabama fan, and only one Alabama team was playing for a national cham­pionship late Wednesday night when sleep overtook him.

It was the Alabama team that had done everything but... Read more: We've got a soft spot for Alabama's softball national champions | al.com

Let It Rain: Alabama Wins National Championship

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Jackie Traina threw a five-hitter and delivered a key RBI single, and Alabama became the first Southeastern Conference team to win a NCAA softball title, beating Oklahoma 5-4 in the final game of a best-of-three series that ended early Thursday. Traina gave up three home runs -- two to Lauren Chamberlain, including one in the seventh inning -- but fanned her Oklahoma counterpart, Keilani Ricketts, to end the game. Read more: Let It Rain: Alabama Wins National Championship > SEC > NEWS

Alabama Crimson Tide Softball - 2012 National Champions