Oklahoma’s Jocelyn Alo breaks NCAA home run record with 96th career blast

Jocelyn Alo grew up wanting to be softball’s most prolific home run hitter.

Goal accomplished.  

Alo broke Lauren Chamberlain’s NCAA record Friday with her 96th career home run, a sixth-inning blast to center against Hawaii in Honolulu in the Rainbow Wahine Classic.

“Ever since I was young, I’ve kind of had this in my head for a while,” Alo said earlier this season. “When I got to college, and just started taking off, I was like, ‘OK, let’s do it.’ I told my dad the other day, he believed in me from when I was at a young age and just kind of instilled in my head for a while and then I started to believe it and then I got here and now it’s actually happening.”

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She hit an RBI double to right in the first inning, then walked in her next two at-bats before singling up the middle in the fifth.

Then in the sixth, she came up with no outs and a runner on third.

On a 2-1 pitch, Alo blasted Ashley Murphy’s offering to about halfway up the net above the center field wall to set the record in her home state.

As Alo rounded first base, she raised her left arm and index finger skyward and picked up her pace, racing first toward Sooners coach Patty Gasso, who slapped Alo’s hand as she neared home, and then to her waiting teammates, who mobbed around Alo.

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