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2025 Super-Regionals Day 4

We have four games today, all decisive Game 3's, to determine the remaining teams in the Women's College World Series...

Georgia-Florida

Gators' (home team) run in first inning -- from three singles -- continues to hold up... UF continues to lead 1-0 after three and a half... Gators with eight hits in three innings but only one run!... This game has been in a weather delay for a while, but has resumed... B4, Florida with two walks to open the half-inning, but doesn't score... Bulldogs batting T5... B5, Gators with two-out, two-run homer by Rylee Holtorf (video) to get a cushion, leading 3-0... Florida now up 5-0 T6... T7, Georgia down to final at-bats... Infield error and UGA homer cut Bulldogs' deficit to 5-2... Next two batters retired... Line single up the middle... Force at second ends it, Gators advance to WCWS...

Mississippi-Arkansas

Now underway... Ole Miss with four in T1, but Arkansas with bases loaded on three walks, one out, in B1... K for second out...  Another walk to give Hogs a run (now 4-1 Rebels), but then foul out to end the inning... Arkansas scores three in B2, to even things up at 4-4... Rebels now batting T4... Ole Miss rallies for a run in T4 to lead 5-4... T5, Rebels threatening again with runners on first and second and one out... Line single to left drives in runner from third (6-4 Ole Miss), runner advances from first to third and batter takes second, as throw to plate gets away... Arkansas pitching change... After K for second out, Hogs get out of the inning on great play by 2B-person Karlie Davison, who dives to snare one-hopper and throw batter out at first (video)... Crunch time for Arkansas, coming up in B7 trailing 7-4... Easy fly to left for first out... Walk to Bri Ellis (looked like pitcher wasn't giving her anything to hit)... Strikeout looking for second out... Another K for final out... First trip to WCWS for the Rebels... Since entering with one out in the second inning and going the rest of the game, Ole Miss pitcher Aliyah Binford compiled an impressive stat line (2 H, 2 BB, 1 R, 4 K). Per ESPN, Binford retired 16 of the last 17 Arkansas batters she faced!

Nebraska-Tennessee

Tennessee makes single run in the first inning -- an Ella Dodge homer -- stand up in a 1-0 win... Odd situation with Dodge homer. Unclear if ball went over the fence or hit the top of it (video).  Nebraska throws ball to third, getting tag on Dodge who was on home-run trot. Originally ruled out, but review shows ball left the park... Nebraska had bases loaded in the fifth with two out, but Vol pitcher Karlyn Pickens got key strikeout (video)... Classic pitchers' duel between the Vols' Karlyn Pickens (2 H, 1 BB, 10 K) and Huskers' Jordy Bahl (4 H, 0 BB, 4 K)...

UCLA-South Carolina

The Bruins scored single runs in the first and fifth innings, and their 2-0 lead has stood up as the Gamecocks come up in B6. SC's offense, having scored a combined 13 runs in the first two games, has only two hits today through five innings (with the Nos. 1-4 hitters in the lineup 0 for 8, per ESPN)... HBP for Gamecocks to start of B6... Fly-out to warning track in right for first out... A second fly-out to almost the same spot... UCLA taking out pitcher Kaitlyn Terry in favor of Taylor Tinsley... Infield hit (tough grounder to left side of infield, throw to first not in time), giving SC runners on first and second with two out... 3-1 count on next batter... Called strike... Strikeout swinging... On to the seventh... Leadoff single for Bruins... Double gives UCLA runners at second and third... Foul pop by 1B for first out... IBB to Megan Grant, loading bases... Rylee Slimp (today in an 0-for-3 slump) comes up... 2-0 count... 3-0... High strike for 3-1 count... Another called strike, full count... Apparent foul grounder, but initially called fair. Being reviewed to see if ball touched a tiny bit of chalk on the third-base-line, but final call is foul... Still 3-2 on Slimp... Another foul... Slimp indeed breaks out of slump, singles to right, bringing in two, now 4-0 UCLA. Runners on second and third with one out... Next batter's bloop to CF falls in, 5-0 Bruins, runners on corners... Infield hit (hard grounder to P, who has no play), loading bases... SC pitching change... K for second out... Foul out to left, ending UCLA rally... Gamecocks come up in B7, needing at least five runs to stay alive... Hard single to right to lead things off... Great jumping snare by UCLA SS Kaniya Bragg on hard liner (video), one down...  Full-count strikeout for second out... Easy pop to SS for final out, Bruins on to WCWS...

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