NORMAN — Patty Gasso didn’t sleep well Thursday night.

Her players had to figure out the logistics of playing at Love’s Field on the fly.

But still, OU softball came through the hubbub of the opening doubleheader at the Sooners’ shiny new stadium — still under construction in a lot of ways — with a pair of walk-off victories.

First, Kinzie Hansen belted a two-run walk-off homer in the seventh to give OU a 9-7 win over Miami (Ohio) in the opener, then the Sooners opened the floodgates against Liberty in the nightcap, winning 8-0 in five innings against Liberty.

“It was a lot,” Gasso said. “It felt like a lot of chaos. Good chaos, but I don’t know that we knew that it would drain us that much.

“The team made a comment that it felt like we were playing at an away field. But it just felt so different.”

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The Sooners’ NCAA-record winning streak now stands at 69.

Without any time to get settled in on the field before opening day, the Sooners didn’t fully get a sense of the playing surface at the new stadium until Friday’s warmups.

“We definitely felt like we were the visiting team for a second,” Alynah Torres said. “We had to throw the balls against the wall and the nets and kind of feel it out, which is really not a home team thing. Once we got comfortable, as you can see, we were just fine.”

In the opener, the Sooners fell behind 3-0 in the first before clawing back to tie it, then took a 7-3 lead in the sixth before a single and back-to-back-to-back RedHawks home runs off Karlie Keeney stunned the program-record crowd of 4,450.

But those dramatics set the stage for Kinzie Hansen to pull more heroics that have become the norm for her.

In the final game at Marita Hynes Field in last season’s Super Regionals, Hansen hit a dramatic three-run game-tying homer in the seventh to deliver one of that stadium’s signature moments.

Friday, she delivered the first at Love’s Field, blasting a 2-2 pitch over the left-field wall to give the Sooners the win.

“I don’t know why I always gotta be in two strikes,” Hansen said. “So that kind of was frustrating. … But going up I was just thinking about Karlie and thinking she came in to close the game so I’m going to have her back right here and I’m going to do my job and get it done.”

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Gasso didn’t want it any other way.

“I felt that we were very tight in the first game. It took us a while to get going,” Gasso said. “The Lord made that game to be the way it was to break in the stadium. It was a thriller. Fans were in it. There was a lot of hitting, a lot of dramatics. We were much more ourselves in the second game, but it took us a little time to get this figured out.

“It was a little overwhelming really.”

There weren’t any such dramatics in the nightcap, as Kelly Maxwell controlled the game from the circle.

The Sooners took the lead on Kasidi Pickering’s second-inning home run, broke through for five in the fourth, then walked it off on Torres’ two-run double in the fifth.

Thursday night, Gasso brought the team over to check out the stadium, though they couldn’t do much more than look, as the field was tarped due to rainy weather.

Gasso went to the area on the concourse where coaches’ families sit to see what the view was like from there.

She ran into Sarah Zeinalpour, OU’s senior project manager on the Love’s Field Project.

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“We’ve gone through a lot together, going through different questions, answers, pichings things out — things like that,” Gasso said. “For the first time, when I saw her we both kind of hugged and we both kind of cried. Because I was looking up at the lights on the stadium and it was just a ‘Wow’ moment.”

Gasso hoped that that emotional moment might take a bit of the edge off Friday, with the stadium dedication ceremony and then the doubleheader.

It didn’t.

“It’s been a tough week to be honest just personally because I’ve been the one standing here longer than anyone else and maybe that’s why,” Gasso said. “Once we got into today and we got that ceremony over I was like, ‘I’m over this now, let’s go.”Eventually, OU softball will get settled into their new home and things will start to feel normal here.

Maybe that process takes another step forward Saturday when the Sooners (16-0) take on Louisiana at 11 a.m., followed by another matchup with Liberty at 1:45 p.m.

But for now, the Sooners are soaking in their new digs.

“I think it’s kinda awesome,” Torres said. “Your fans, we feed off of that and the momentum so I just think it’s pretty cool that they’re that close.”

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