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Texas Captures Finale of OU Series, Handing Sooners First Loss

No NCAA women's softball team has ever completed a perfect season and, despite a 38-0 start, the 2022 Oklahoma Sooners will not become the first team to do so. Texas salvaged the final game of its three-game series with OU in Austin, winning 4-2 and taking the Sooners to 38-1.

Texas led 4-0 as Oklahoma came up for its final at-bats in the top of the seventh. The Sooners have shown some late-inning magic this season, so a Longhorn win was not automatic. Indeed, OU got a one-out two-run homer, before a pop-up and a foul-out ended the game

Which teams historically have won the Women's College World Series with the fewest losses in a season? The 1992 UCLA squad finished with a record of 54-2, whereas in 1994, Arizona was 64-3. Two Oklahoma teams had four-loss seasons (2013, 57-4, and 2021, 56-4). 

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