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2022 Women's College World Series -- Saturday

FLORIDA-OKLAHOMA STATE: Scoreless in first... Gators strand two in top half of inning... Cowgirls with one-out double in bottom half... Grounder for second out... Miranda Elish, formerly a star pitcher at Oregon and Texas and now mostly a designated-player at Oklahoma State, strikes out to end the inning... Cowgirls score single runs in the third and fourth innings -- without benefit of an extra-base hit in either inning -- and Kelly Maxwell allows only three hits, as Oklahoma State takes it 2-0... Cowgirls (2-0) remain undefeated at the WCWS, whereas UF (1-1) will face UCLA (1-1) in an elimination game on Sunday...

OKLAHOMA-TEXAS: The heavily advertised Oklahoma-Texas game on ABC is minutes away... Both teams are 1-0 in the WCWS, as are Oklahoma State and Florida, who will play at 6:00 pm Central on ESPN... Texas is the home team vs. Oklahoma... Sooners waste no time in threatening with leadoff double by Jayda Coleman to the wall in right-center... And Jocelyn Alo doesn't waste any time in slugging a two-run homer to left, 2-0 OU... Longhorns put one across in bottom of first on bunt single, steal, and double, now 2-1 Sooners... OU squanders two-on, none-out situation in top of fourth... Top 5: Coleman double to wall in right-center drives in a run to increase Sooners' lead to 3-1... Alo single up the middle makes it 4-1... After UT pitching change -- Sophia Simpson for Hailey Dolcini -- OU's Tiare Jennings socks a two-run homer to upper part of left-field bleachers (video)... The floodgates have opened, 6-1 Sooners... Tall task for Texas, as Longhorns bat in bottom of seventh, trailing 7-1... Janae Jefferson with one-out solo homer, now 7-2 OU... Fly to right for second out... Foul-out wide of 1B to end the game... Sooners (2-0) remain unbeaten in WCWS, whereas Texas (1-1) will play Arizona (1-1) in elimination game Sunday... 

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