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 ). 

ESPN.com has a nice profile article on Oklahoma pitcher Jordy Bahl. In only her first year as a collegian, Bahl has been dominant in the circle. The article talks about how, after some initial difficulties in a game at Kentucky earlier this season, Bahl turned things around on a dime and finished with 12 strikeouts and no walks allowed .  In the Sooners' opener of a three-game series at Texas last night -- a bit of which I caught on the Longhorn Network -- Bahl did a similar thing. With OU leading 3-0 as UT batted in the bottom of the sixth, a single and a double gave the Horns runners at second and third with no outs. Bahl then roared back and struck out the next three batters. The pitch sequences for the three strikeouts (according to the play-by-play sheet ) were as follows: Foul/foul/ ball /swinging strike Swinging strike/swinging strike/swinging strike Looking strike/swinging strike/swinging strike Nine strikes, one ball, and nothing put in play. Bahl went the distance, endin

Following a February 20 extra-inning loss to Florida State, UCLA held a 7-3 record. The Bruins than ran off 25 straight wins, including three-game sweeps of leading conference rivals Arizona (without allowing a run all weekend) and Washington, and a series-opening win this past Friday at Stanford . This winning streak vaulted UCLA up to No. 2 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll. Stanford bounced bounced back on Saturday , however, defeating UCLA 1-0 on a walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh and ending the Bruins' win streak at 25. Showing it was no fluke, the Cardinal shut out UCLA again on Sunday by a 1-0 score (the run coming in the bottom of the third). As this article from the Stanford athletics website noted, "UCLA (32-5, 10-2 Pac-12) entered this weekend having not been shut out once all season but suffered back-to-back shutouts at the hands of the Cardinal (26-10, 5-4 Pac-12)." With the two losses, UCLA dropped from No. 2 to No. 5 in the ESPN.com/USA Softbal