One swing changed everything, and it belonged to the team few have solved all season.
With two outs in the fifth inning and Oologah finally threatening to keep it within reach, Lone Grove detonated the Class 4A semifinal with a 3-run surge, the kind of ruthless momentum kill only a No. 1 team could deliver.
The Lady Longhorns proved they are every ounce of a No. 1.
Lone Grove, which went 26 games without allowing a run and surrendered just 37 total runs in 42 games this year, eliminated the No. 5 Lady Mustangs 8-0 Friday afternoon on OGE Field at Devon Park to advance to the state title game.
The Lady Longhorns [39-3] finished the job Saturday, blanking No. 2 Blanchard 2-0 to complete a championship run in which they outscored state-tournament opponents 13-0.
And the scary part? It looked exactly like this Oologah game the whole way.
Jentri Burch reached base twice and Kamryn Crenshaw opened the game with a ringing double for the Lady Mustangs, but Lone Grove ace Braylee Spence was untouchable when it mattered, striking out 13 while allowing just 2 hits.
Oologah's own ace Jocelyn Leak battled fearlessly in the circle, navigating multiple jam-saving plays from her defense early -- including a flashed glove on a pop-out from second baseman Emery Edmondson to strand two runners in the first.
But the dam began to crack in the bottom of the second.
A two-out RBI double from leadoff hitter Hunter Gardner made it 2-0 Lone Grove, and from there the top-ranked Lady Longhorns never eased their foot off the gas.
A sacrifice fly in the fourth pushed it to 3-0, and then came the death blow -- a 3-run fifth inning ignited by a pair of Lady Mustang defensive errors and a scorched RBI single from Natalie Shrader that cleared the bases on a throwing sequence gone wrong.
Suddenly it was 6-0, and Oologah [28-8] was out of runway.
Lone Grove added two more across the fifth and sixth, including another RBI swing from Gardner -- her third hit of the day -- to seal it.
Crenshaw's opening double, Burch's seventh-inning walk and scattered strong defensive execution were the lone bright spots for a Lady Mustangs team that finishes just shy of 30 wins, its deepest postseason run since 2019.
Oologah walked into the storm and swung -- but the Lady Longhorns, historically good and terrifyingly composed, simply never allowed a mistake.
This was a buzzsaw, and on the biggest stage, it never even slowed.