The Women's College World Series is about to get underway, with the first game pitting No. 11 seed Texas Tech vs. unseeded Mississippi State. The Bulldogs shocked No. 3 seed Oklahoma in their super-regional series. ARKANSAS-NEBRASKA T6, Razorbacks (visitors) batting in a 2-2 tie (Arkansas with a pair in the second, Nebraska with a pair in the fourth). Per ESPN commentators, Husker pitcher Jordy Frahm, who has gone the distance thus far, has retired 11 straight Arkansas hitters at this point... Difficult dribbler down the first-base line gives Hogs a runner at first with one out (ruled a hit, but runner might have been out if 1B-person could have held onto throw)... Grounder back to Frahm leads to double-play, retiring Arkansas... B6, Payton Burnham pitching for Hogs, having replaced Robyn Herron midway through fourth inning... Huskers down 1-2-3... T7,... Tianna Bell leads off for Arkansas... Hard single to left (pinch-run for)... Dakota Kennedy up... 3-0 count... Now full count......

ESPN.com has a nice preview of the WCWS, with a lot of interesting stats. Here's one: Of this year's eight WCWS programs, only two -- Texas and UCLA -- have won the national championship in the past 10 years. Here's the link .

Today's action will feature three super-regional series that have gone to a decisive Game 3. Interestingly, the top three teams in some of the preseason polls -- Texas, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma -- are all playing today. The Red Raiders are facing Florida in today's first game, whereas the Longhorns will face Arizona State, and the Sooners will face Mississippi State... Arizona State-Texas Sun Devils and Longhorns (home team) getting underway... The red-hot Kenzie Brown pitching for ASU, Teagan Kavan for UT... B1, Texas with a runner on first and no outs... Nothing comes of it... Still scoreless, as Horns come up in B3... Texas with two in the third, one in the fifth, and two in the sixth lead 5-0, B6... Sun Devils coming up for their final chance to keep their season alive... No further scoring, as the Longhorns win 5-0 and advance to another WCWS... Mississippi State-Oklahoma Bulldogs off to a quick 2-0 lead in T1... Sooners with a threat in B2 off of Delainey Everett, with ru...

Today will feature play in seven series, with one team in each series a game away from reaching the Women's College World Series and the other team trying to force a decisive Game 3 tomorrow. Tennessee, whose series with Georgia started Thursday, has already qualified for the WCWS. I'll be live-blogging as many of the games as I can and updating the chart below, so please check back in during the day... UCLA-UCF Central Florida (the home team) leads UCLA 1-0 on Aubrey Evans homer leading off B1, as the Knights fight to stay alive... T3, Bruins load the bases with none out for Megan Grant, who currently has an NCAA single-season record 40 home runs (with Oklahoma's Kendall Wells just behind at 39)... Count goes to 3-1 on Grant... Called strike for 3-2 count... Grant with deep sac-fly to left, tying game 1-1... Other two runners stay put at first and second, Jordan Woolery (with 34 homers this season) coming up... Easy pop to 2B-person for second out... Aleena Garcia up next....

The big story of today's games is the precarious status of two leading contenders -- Texas and Oklahoma -- in their two-out-of-three super-regional series...  Here's where things stand in tabular form... Teams Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Alabama (1)-LSU (16) Alabama --- --- Texas (2)-Arizona St Arizona St --- --- Oklahoma (3)-Mississippi St Mississippi St --- --- Nebraska (4)-Oklahoma St (13) Nebraska --- --- Arkansas (5)-Duke (12) Arkansas --- --- Florida (6)-Texas Tech (11) Texas Tech --- --- Tennessee  (7)-Georgia (10) Tennessee Tennessee --- UCLA (8)-Central Florida  UCLA --- --- Specifically, we had Arizona State defeating No. 2-seed Texas 4-1 and Mississippi State outslugging No. 3-seed Oklahoma 11-9 (see below for detailed live-blogging of the Bulldogs-Sooners game)... Other games were blowouts such as No. 1-seed Alabama over LSU 7-0 and No. 8-seed UCLA over UCF 9-1... Below are summaries today's other games... Oklahoma State-Nebraska (Game 1 resumption from Thursday nigh...

This year's super-regionals get underway tonight with the beginning of two of the eight series (Tennessee-Georgia and Nebraska-Oklahoma State). As most readers would know, each series is two-out-of-three, with the winners advancing to the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City. The following chart shows all the matchups, with the teams' national seedings in parentheses. Oklahoma State-Nebraska Cornhuskers' Jordy Frahm, who has appeared in relief many times lately, starts tonight... OSU gets one runner on via infield hit in T1, but no runs. With two outs, Cowgirls' Lexi McDonald fouls off pitch after pitch, but finally swings and misses on Frahm change-up... Ruby Meylan pitching for OSU... Frahm bats leadoff for Nebraska with .421 average and 1.364 OPS... Frahm singles up the middle... Infield grounder gets Frahm at second, but throw to first not in time for double play... Lightning delay... Tonight's weather evidently never becomes conducive to resuming p...