SATURDAY NIGHT The surprise elimination game between No. 7 seed Missouri and Washington (resulting from both teams losing to Nebraska-Omaha) is now underway. Mizzou (as the home team in this game) leads 1-0 in the top of the third... Jenna Laird's solo shot increases the Tigers' lead to 2-0, B3... T5: Back-to-back two-out singles (the second one fairly deep) give the Huskies their first run, cutting deficit to 2-1... Fly out to right ends threat... B5 Mizzou rally increases its lead to 4-1... Huskies down to their final three outs as they bat in the top of the seventh... A quick 1-2-3 half-inning sends U-Dub back to Seattle... No. 13 Louisiana-Lafayette, having lost earlier today to Baylor, is in a struggle to stay alive, tied 1-1 with Princeton, who is batting in the bottom of the seventh... A triple and a sac-fly put ULL ahead 2-1 in the top of the eighth and Princeton goes quietly in the bottom half... Ragin' Cajuns survive... No. 12 Arkansas and Villanova are only in th

With the NCAA women's softball brackets being announced last Sunday night, I'm back once again with my annual geospatial maps of the 64 teams' assignments to the 16 four-team regional sites. Each site is hosted by one of the 16 nationally seeded teams, with three outside teams coming in. These are depicted in the maps below (each map shows only a few different regionals, to reduce clutter). Starting times for all games are available by clicking here and then scrolling down when the new page comes up. This year's No. 1 seed is Texas, which will have three northern teams (Northwestern, St. Francis [Pennsylvania], and Siena [New York]) coming to Austin. This is the Longhorn program's first time ever as the national top seed. No. 2 is three-time defending Women's College World Series winner Oklahoma, also with three northern teams coming in (Oregon, Cleveland State, and Boston University). The Longhorns (23-4 in conference) edged out the Sooners (22-5) for the Bi

Oklahoma State took two-of-three from Bedlam rival Oklahoma in Norman this weekend to close out the regular season. It was OSU's first series win at OU since 1993 ! The Cowgirls won the first two games of the series by scores of 6-3 and 6-2 , respectively, before the Sooners salvaged the finale, 8-2 . Jilyen Poullard, Karli Godwin, and Micaela Wark swatted homers for OSU in Friday's series-opener, with Poullard and Wark repeating as home-run hitters on Saturday. Caroline Wang and Claire Timm also homered for the Cowgirls in Game 2. OU's series loss allowed Texas to squeeze by the Sooners for the Big 12 regular-season title (UT finishing 23-4, OU 22-5, and OSU 21-6). --- Tennessee won its second straight SEC regular-season title this weekend, with the Vols (19-5) sweeping Kentucky .   ... Per the SEC Network/ESPN baseball/softball show "Rally Cap," Alabama's 10-14 conference record marked the first time the Crimson Tide has ever had a losing conference recor