Oklahoma beat Florida in dramatic trend on Tuesday to punch its ticket to the Ladies’s School World Collection finals.
Middle fielder Jayda Coleman blasted a solo dwelling run within the eighth inning, and the Sooners accomplished a comeback from 5-2 all the way down to stroll off with a 6-5 win.
The WCWS finals begin Wednesday (8 p.m. ET, ESPN), and Oklahoma performs longtime rival Texas within the groups’ remaining head-to-head assembly as Large 12 members.
The 2 colleges will stay convention rivals after the season, albeit within the SEC. The Sooners and Longhorns are set to affix the convention on July 1.
The Oklahoma-Texas rivalry has been the bedrock of the Large 12 since its 1996-97 growth, and the winner will give the convention a pleasant parting present with one other NCAA championship.
Oklahoma goals to turn into the primary program in NCAA historical past to four-peat as Ladies’s School World Collection champion. Supervisor Patty Gasso is looking for her eighth nationwide title at Oklahoma, which might put her in a tie for many all-time (Sharron Backus, Mike Candrea).
The Sooners declare 43 nationwide championships in all sports activities, and their athletics web site notes, “Oklahoma at the moment boasts a streak of ten consecutive years with no less than one nationwide championship (not together with the COVID-shorted 2019-20 season).”
Texas misplaced to Oklahoma within the 2022 finals and is looking for its first softball championship. The Longhorns have been on a sizzling streak in ladies’s sports activities. They’re the reigning NCAA champs in three, together with volleyball, rowing and out of doors observe, which holds its 2024 finals from June 5-8.
Since leaving the Southwestern Convention for the Large 12 in 1996, Texas has 31 NCAA championships general, together with 11 during the last 4 years.
By means of their first three video games of the 2024 WCWS, the Longhorns have outscored their opponents 15-0 and have allowed three hits in 19 innings.
