Joe TanseyMay 27, 2024
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The eight-team Women’s College World Series field is set.
4 of the leading 5 groups in the nation advanced to Oklahoma City out of very local weekend.
The three-time ruling nationwide champ Oklahoma Sooners was among 3 groups to sweep their extremely local to enter the WCWS.
The top-seeded Texas Longhorns was among 5 groups that made it through the complete best-of-three series to reach the last week of the college softball season.
Just 2 upsets happened throughout incredibly local weekend and it would be difficult to call those outcomes real upsets.
The Alabama Crimson Tide beat among their greatest SEC competitors, the Tennessee Volunteers and the Duke Blue Devils, who lots of believed ought to have been a top-eight seed, downed the Missouri Tigers in the 2 series won by the lower seeds.
Super Regional Results
No. 1 Texas def. No. 16 Texas A&M, 2 video games to 1.
No. 8 Stanford def. No. 9 LSU, 2-1
No. 5 Oklahoma State def. Arizona, 2-0
No. 4 Florida def. Baylor, 2-1
No. 14 Alabama def. No. 3 Tennessee, 2-1
No. 6 UCLA def. No. 11 Georgia, 2-0
No. 10 Duke def. No. 7 Missouri, 2-1
No. 2 Oklahoma def. No. 15 Florida State, 2-0
The leading 2 seeds in the NCAA softball competition had much various extremely local weekends.
Texas fought through 3 video games with competing Texas A&M, a series that ended with a 6-5 triumph on Sunday.
The Longhorns needed to fight back from one video game down in the series versus the 16th-seeded Aggies to make their second-ever WCWS look in program history.
Oklahoma travelled previous Florida State in 2 video games on Thursday and Friday to go back to Oklahoma City for the 4th straight year.
The Sooners won the last 3 WCWS titles and they need to be preferred to win the occasion till a program shows it can beat them.
Oklahoma went 5-0 in the very first 2 weekends of the NCAA competition and outscored its challengers 33-10.
The Sooners will be compared with Duke to begin their title defense in Oklahoma City.
The ACC champ needed to go on the roadway to beat Missouri to reach its first-ever WCWS. Heaven Devils are the only novice WCWS individual headed to Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma, Alabama, the Florida Gators and UCLA Bruins are all previous nationwide champs. UCLA and Alabama will satisfy in the opening round of video games.
Texas deals with the Stanford Cardinal, who clinched the last WCWS berth on Sunday night with an 8-0 win over the LSU Tigers. The Oklahoma State Cowgirls deal with Florida because part of the bracket on Thursday.
The WCWS has a double-elimination format.
