OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma might prolong its document run of consecutive nationwide titles to 5 at this yr’s Ladies’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 sequence beginning June 4.
Gasso, who will coach the USA on the 2028 Summer time 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 within 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 document 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 gained nationwide titles in 2014 and 2015 and misplaced to Oklahoma within the semifinals final yr.
Texas has reached the best-of-three championship sequence 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 yr’s USA Softball Collegiate Participant of the 12 months, led Stanford to the nationwide semifinals two straight years earlier than transferring to Tech. She led the Crimson Raiders to their first Huge 12 regular-season and event titles.
Ole Miss is the one unseeded staff 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 Huge Ten this yr.
Oregon, the Huge 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 right down to its final out towards South Carolina in Sport 2 earlier than successful, then took Sport 3. The Bruins might add to their document 12 World Sequence titles.