Stanford pitching ace NiJaree Canady has reportedly entered the transfer portal ( link ), having completed two seasons in the circle for the Cardinal. Stanford has made the WCWS in both of Canady's seasons on the team. Another school hit hard by the transfer portal is the University of Washington, with an exodus of eight Huskies . This list of the top ten players in the portal includes four from UW. Today is the final day of the 30-day window for players to enter the portal.

Jayda Coleman, Tiare Jennings, Kinzie Hansen, Rylie Boone , and Nicole May. ESPN.com refers to them as Oklahoma's "core" seniors in a nice  retrospective  profile the day after the Sooners won their fourth Women's College World Series in a row and eighth in program history.* These five were not the only seniors on the team, but are distinguished by playing their entire college careers with OU. Other key seniors, such as Kelly Maxwell and Alyssa Brito, were transfers from other schools. The hitters among the core five -- Coleman, Jennings, Hansen, and Boone -- all put up gaudy offensive statistics and were the foundation that gave OU, in ESPN's apt characterization, "a lineup that had no easy outs." May, though not serving as the Sooners' pitching ace (think Jordy Bahl or Maxwell over the years), appeared in 106 games and compiled a 2.22 ERA. Whether OU's title streak ends anytime soon is anybody's guess. Even with Oklahoma's proven abilit

We likely are three outs away from the end of the college softball season, with Texas batting in the top of the seventh, trailing Oklahoma 8-4... Pop to shallow left for first out... K for second out... Ground-out to third gives Sooners their fourth straight WCWS national title... Whereas the Longhorns scored single runs tonight in the second, third, fourth, and sixth innings, OU was coming up with multiple-run innings in the second (2 runs), fourth (3), and sixth (3). Cydney Sanders's bases-clearing double with three aboard in the fourth is but one example of the Sooners' big plays, in this case converting a 3-2 UT lead into a 5-3 OU advantage.  The Sooners showed some vulnerability this season, including an elimination game in the WCWS semifinals in which OU trailed Florida 5-2 . In the championship round, however, Oklahoma raised its game to a new level, which Texas couldn't come close to matching.

Oklahoma off to a 5-1 lead, as Texas bats in B3. Longhorns with runners on first and second with two out and star hitter Reese Atwood at the plate... Atwood grounds right back to OU pitcher Kelly Maxwell, who tosses to first for the third out... UT starter Teagan Kavan, who pitched so well against Stanford in the semifinals, lasted only 2 2/3 innings tonight, allowing all five Oklahoma runs... 8-3 OU is your final...

Oklahoma has kept its quest for a fourth straight WCWS title alive with a 6-5 eight-inning win over Florida to advance to the championship round. The Sooners will take on Texas in a two-out-of-three series beginning Wednesday night. Florida held a 5-2 lead after three innings and looked well on its way to beating OU for the second straight day, which would have eliminated the Sooners and taken the Gators to the final round. However, UF scored no further runs, whereas Oklahoma chipped away with two in the fourth, one in the sixth, and one in the eighth. The final run came via Jayda Coleman's opposite-field walk-off home run to lead off the bottom of the eighth.  Sooner starter Kelly Maxwell went the distance, allowing only four hits. Three of those hits were home runs within the first three innings; the only other Gator hit was an infield single in the top of the sixth. Maxwell also walked five and struck out eight. Florida starter Keagan Rothrock also went the distance, allowing 1

Texas and Stanford are scoreless B3 (with the Cardinal as the home team), as the Longhorns -- with no losses in the WCWS -- try to advance directly to the championship round. The one-loss Cardinal would need to beat Texas tonight and tomorrow to make the finals... UT center-fielder Kayden Henry with a great catch on Stanford's leadoff hitter. Nothing for the Cardinal in B3... Longhorns' Katie Stewart with a one-out double to the wall in right-center T4... Two-out HBP gives Texas two runners on base... NiJaree Canady strikes out UT hitter to end the threat... T6, still scoreless in this pitcher's duel between Canady and UT's Teagan Kavan... One-out single for Longhorns' Reese Atwood... K for second out... UT pinch-runner Adayah Wallace steals second and advances to third on overthrow into center-field...  Grounder to second ends the threat... B6, Stanford comes up, having gotten only one hit so far (to UT's four)... Cardinal goes quietly, the third out coming on

Two elimination games on the slate today. UCLA up on Stanford 1-0 T2 on an opposite-field solo-shot by Megan Grant... Grant had a great freshman season at the plate a year ago, but came down a notch this year. The Bruins will need everything they can offensively to possibly come back and win the WCWS... T3, UCLA looking to expand its lead with runners at the corners (after singles by Janelle Meono and Jadelyn Allchin) and two out... Ground-out ends threat... B3, Taryn Kern with a one-out double to the wall in left-center for Stanford to drive in Emily Jones, who had reached on an infield single. All-square at 1-1. UCLA pitching change, with Taylor Tinsley replacing Kaitlyn Terry... After second out recorded, Ava Gall laces a hard line single to right , driving in Kern for 2-1 Cardinal lead... Ground-out ends threat... UCLA down 1-2-3 in T4... B5, Stanford with two straight bunt singles to start off... The power-hitting Kern at the plate... Kern fouling off pitches with a 3-2 count..

All winners' bracket action today, with Oklahoma taking on UCLA in the opener and Texas vs. Florida in the nightcap... Texas with a B1 five-spot vs. Florida, culminating in this three-run clout by Alyssa Washington... Longhorns add another five runs in the fourth for a 10-0 run-rule victory in five innings. Gators get only one hit... Bruins and Sooners, showing on ABC television, are scoreless, with OU batting in the bottom of the second... Oklahoma opened B1 with a walk and a single, and later got a walk to load the bases, but couldn't score... Kelly Maxwell in the circle for Oklahoma, Kaitlyn Terry for UCLA... T3, HBP and walk give Bruins a no-out threat... K for first out... Runners later advance to second and third, but don't score... B3, OU's Tiare Jennings leads off with a homer to straightaway center , just over the fence... T4, one-out single for Bruins, their first hit of the afternoon... Nothing comes of it... Four innings complete, still 1-0 Sooners... T5, l