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2024 Super-Regionals -- Friday

All eight super-regional series are in action today (see table below). Oklahoma and UCLA will be looking to close out their respective series after each taking a 1-0 lead last night.

Oklahoma leading Florida State 4-2, as Seminoles down to their final at-bats B7... Two down... Game over, sending Sooners to Women's College World Series.

UCLA leading Georgia 1-0 T1. After scoring their run, Bruins had bases loaded with one out but couldn't pad their lead... Bulldogs with runners on first and second with one out in B1... With two out, UGA singles to right-center with ball just eluding Bruin 2B-person, tying game 1-1. No further scoring in the inning... UCLA back up, 2-1, T2 on some small ball (single, runner bunted to second, single)... Bruin lead up to 4-1 on Sharlize Palacios two-run dinger in T4... Now 5-1 UCLA T5... Your final is 6-1, as the Bruins return to the WCWS.

LSU leads Stanford 3-1 after one complete... Now 6-1 Tigers in T5 after Ali Newland three-run blast... Maci Bergeron immediately follows with solo shot, now 7-1 LSU... The game ends as an 11-1 LSU run-rule win after five innings.

Oklahoma State run-rules Arizona, 8-0, in five innings.

Texas and Texas A&M just getting started... Aggies jump out to 3-0 lead T1 on three-run homer by Trinity Cannon... T5, Cannon adds a two-run shot to make it 5-0... A&M increases lead to 6-0 in T6... Longhorns score four in B6 on pinch-hit grand-slam by Victoria Hunter, and one in B7, but fall short as Aggies win 6-5 (video of final out).

Alabama off to a 2-0 lead over Tennessee, T2... Bama fails to score with runners on second and third in T3... Vols put up three B5 to lead 3-2... Crimson Tide could have gotten out of the inning without allowing any runs, but two-out infield error gave Tennessee its first run and set the stage for a two-run blast from Laura Mealer to give the Vols their second and third runs... T6, Bama had one runner thrown out at third and another stranded at third, keeping the score 3-2 Tennessee... Tide down to final out in T7... Fly-out to left ends it... Tennessee wins 3-2...

Duke and Missouri showing the early offense... Blue Devils have the bigger hits -- a homer and triple --whereas Tigers doing it more with "small ball." Tied 3-3 B2, as the Tigers have a runner on second with two outs... A walk puts runners on first and second... Blue Devil pitching change: Cassidy Curd in for Jala Wright... Easy infield pop ends the second inning... Mizzou with runners on first and second B3 on infield error and HBP (Duke requests review of HBP but original call upheld)... Fly to left for second out... K swinging to end the third... T5, Duke back on top, 4-3, as Aminah Vega doubles in Claire Davidson, who had singled... Aleyah Terrell, who pinch ran for Vega, scores on Gisele Tapia infield single, now 5-3 Duke (Terrell initially called out at the plate, but call overturned)... Marissa McCann replaces Laurin Krings in the circle for Mizzou... Ground-out ends Duke rally... T7, Duke adds a run on the first-and-third double-steal play, to up its lead to 6-3. In other words, the Blue Devil runner on first starts to steal second, hoping to get into a rundown so that the runner from third can score before the runner from first is tagged out... As Mizzou gets ready to bat in B7, per an ESPN graphic Curd has retired 11 straight Tiger batters up to now... No sooner do we see the stat on Curd retiring so many consecutive batters than Missouri gets a leadoff walk... Fly to left and K for two outs... Fly to right-center for final out, Duke wins 6-3...

One game underway so far. After five complete, Florida leads Baylor 4-2... A two-run double to the wall in the bottom of the first by Katie Kistler (video) and a solo blast by Korbe Otis in B5 are among the Gators' key hits... No further scoring, as UF takes Game 1, 4-2.
 

Game 1 Game 2 Game 3
 Texas (1) vs. Texas A&M (16)  A&M
 Oklahoma (2) vs. Florida State (15)* OklahomaOklahoma---
 Tennessee (3) vs. Alabama (14) Tennessee
 Florida (4) vs. Baylor (-) Florida
 Oklahoma State (5) vs. Arizona (-) Okla. St.
 UCLA (6) vs. Georgia (11)* UCLAUCLA---
 Missouri (7) vs. Duke (10)  Duke
 Stanford (8) vs. LSU (9)  LSU
*Series began Thursday (all others begin Friday). Seed numbers in parentheses (dash = unseeded).

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