OKLAHOMA CITY ? Quietly, very quietly, went Kansas University’s softball team Thursday in the Big 12 Conference tournament.

First, Texas edged the Jayhawks, 1-0, in eight innings, then Oklahoma posted a 5-0 triumph that sent the tourney’s No. 6 seed packing in the double-elimination meet.

Kansas had won 10 of its last 11 games and 11 of its last 13, but the Jayhawks’ bats went silent at Hall of Fame Stadium.

In the first game, right-hander Meagan Denny, the Longhorns’ No. 2 pitcher, silenced the Jayhawks on three singles. KU freshman Christina Ross was the hard-luck loser.

Tina Boutelle started UT’s game-winning rally by coaxing a leadoff walk after being down 0-2 in the count. Chez Sievers followed with a bunt that went for a single when the Jayhawks left first base uncovered.

Minutes later, the two runners were sacrificed to second and third, and Boutelle scored when Megan Willis struck a sacrifice fly to center.

The Jayhawks came back about 30 minutes later and, apparently disheartened by the narrow defeat, promptly surrendered four runs in the first inning to the Sooners, a team they had swept a few weeks earlier in Lawrence.

OU scored the four runs on three singles, an intentional walk and errors by third baseman Nettie Fierros and center fielder Jackie Vasquez.

Texas' Tina Boutelle touches home plate with the winning run before Kansas University catcher Elle Pottorf, left, can apply the tag. Boutelle scored in the eighth inning on a sacrifice fly by Megan Willis, and the Longhorns won, 1-0, Thursday in a Big 12 Conference tournament game in Oklahoma City.

Kansas, meanwhile, again managed just three hits — singles by Ashley Frazer and Nicole Washburn and a double by Serena Settlemier. Frazer and Washburn also had singled in the first game. KU’s other hit against OU was a Vasquez single.

Ross pitched the first two innings of the second game and was saddled with the loss. OU’s Kami Keiter struck out only two Jayhawks and surrendered four walks, but inflated her record to 28-5.

The two losses left Kansas (30-22) with only a remote chance of earning an NCAA Tournament bid.