| SOFTBALL: OU defends home field
Editor's Note: Due to a predicted storm in the Norman area, the times for the conclusion of the softball tournament on Sunday have been moved up one hour. The following article reflects those changes. Single-day tickets are still available for spectators wanting to attend the second day.'s gamesNo. 9 OU erupted in its most impressive offensive outing of the year against Memphis, Saturday with a 17-0 shutout in the one-sided win. "It's a great feeling to be able to never let up like we did," head coach Patty Gasso said. "The story of the second game was a lot of clutch and a lot of execution plays that we've been working on." The game concluded after five innings, due to the NCAA Run-Rule. The Sooners were on fire from the start, tearing the game wide open in inning one with a compilation of eight runs, and going through the lineup one and a half times.
TABLE TENNIS: China stars gear up for pre-Olympics blitz
GUANGZHOU: China�s all-conquering army of stars are determined to blitz the field at the world team table tennis championships as they gear up for the Olympics on home turf. With six months to go until the Games, China are eyeing the championships starting here Sunday as the last major warm-up before Beijing where they plan a clean-sweep of the table tennis gold medals. But Guangzhou is also set to be a battleground for two of China�s top paddlers in the men�s and women�s teams � Wang Liqin and Wang Nan � still desperately seeking Olympics selection. China is so dominant in the sport that reigning world men�s singles champion and world number three Wang Liqin is in danger of missing out on an Olympics berth. While team-mates Wang Hao and Ma Lin, as world numbers one and two respectively, have been guaranteed places, Wang must produce here before battling through a qualifier in Hong Kong next month to secure a coveted third spot.
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