Oklahoma softball: Remembering Memorial Day weekend 20 years ago

Ordinarily at this time, the Oklahoma softball team would be in contention for if not a participant in the Women’s College World Series.

But these are far from ordinary times as our country continues to fight a battle with an invisible enemy that has taken over 60,000 American lives and infected hundreds of thousands more.

The ASA Softball Complex in Oklahoma City, annual site of the WCWS, sits unnaturally idle this Memorial holiday because of the cancellation of all college spring sports as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the last 20 seasons under head coach Patty Gasso, the WCWS has become virtually an annual event. The Sooners have made it to the WCWS 13 times since their first…