OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma may lengthen its report run of consecutive nationwide titles to 5 at this 12 months’s Girls’s School World Sequence.
Patty Gasso’s second-seeded Sooners will face No. 7 seed Tennessee of their WCWS opener. Oklahoma beat Alabama on Saturday to win the Norman Tremendous Regional.
Motion within the eight-team double-elimination bracket begins Thursday at Devon Park. The ultimate two groups will play for the title in a best-of-three collection beginning June 4.
Gasso, who will coach america on the 2028 Summer season Olympics, has led the Sooners to eight nationwide titles, together with six of the previous eight and 7 of 10. This was Oklahoma’s first season as a member of the Southeastern Convention.
In different opening-day matchups, third-seeded Florida will play No. 6 seed Texas, No. 9 seed UCLA meets No. 16 seed Oregon and No. 12 seed Texas Tech will face unseeded Mississippi.
Oklahoma will face Tennessee star pitcher Karlyn Pickens, who broke her NCAA report by throwing a 79.4 mph pitch throughout Saturday’s win over Nebraska. Pickens then shut out the Cornhuskers 1-0 on Sunday.
Nebraska’s loss means Oklahoma will not be dealing with former Sooners pitcher Jordy Bahl, who transferred to her home-state Cornhuskers after being named the Most Excellent Participant of the 2023 World Sequence with Oklahoma.
Though No. 1 general seed Texas A&M was knocked out in regional play, the SEC has 5 groups within the discipline — Oklahoma, Tennessee, Florida, Texas and Ole Miss.
Florida beat Georgia in three video games to advance. The Gators received nationwide titles in 2014 and 2015 and misplaced to Oklahoma within the semifinals final 12 months.
Texas has reached the best-of-three championship collection in two of the previous three seasons, with each losses coming to Oklahoma. The Longhorns are additionally of their first season within the SEC.
Texas Tech and Ole Miss are first-time qualifiers.
Texas Tech beat host Florida State in an excellent regional. Pitcher NiJaree Canady, final 12 months’s USA Softball Collegiate Participant of the Yr, led Stanford to the nationwide semifinals two straight years earlier than transferring to Tech. She led the Crimson Raiders to their first Large 12 regular-season and match titles.
Ole Miss is the one unseeded group remaining. The Rebels beat Arizona twice to win the Tucson Regional and beat Arkansas in tremendous regionals.
UCLA and Oregon will meet in a matchup of former Pac-12 groups that moved to the Large Ten this 12 months.
Oregon, the Large Ten regular-season champion, defeated upstart Liberty to advance. Liberty shocked Texas A&M in regional play, however could not get previous the Geese.
UCLA was all the way down to its final out towards South Carolina in Sport 2 earlier than successful, then took Sport 3. The Bruins may add to their report 12 World Sequence titles.
