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2025 WCWS Day 4

Two elimination games today. There's a new twist to the matchups at this stage. Essentially, UCLA and Oklahoma, yesterday's two losing teams, have switched brackets.
  • UCLA, who had been in a bracket with Texas Tech, Oregon, and Mississippi, now switches to the other bracket, playing Tennessee today, with the winner needing to beat Texas twice to advance to the championship round (Texas would need only one win).
  • Oklahoma, formerly in a bracket with Florida, Texas, and Tennessee, will next play Oregon, with the winner needing to beat Texas Tech twice to make the championship round (Texas Tech would need only one win).
Oregon-Oklahoma

B1, with one out, Duck 2B Kaylynn Jones possibly saves two runs with snare of hard line-drive with Sooner runners on second and third (video). Now two down... Walk to load the bases for Cydney Sanders... Foul pop to 3B-person ends threat... Still 0-0... T2, Dezianna Patmon, one of Oregon's postseason offensive heroes, drills a two-out, solo-shot to center (video), making it 1-0 Ducks... Ducks follow up with line-single to left... K ends threat... B2, Isabela Emerling answers for Sooners (video), 1-1 game... Oklahoma with runners at the corners and two outs... K to end threat... T3, back-to-back singles for Oregon to start the inning, runners on first and second... Sooner SS Gabbie Garcia with nice grab of bloop to short left, doubles off runner at second (video)... Walk to give Ducks first and second with two out... K to end threat... B3, two-run homer for Sanders (video), making it 3-1 Sooners... Infield error and HBP give Oklahoma a two-out threat to pad its lead... Foul-out to left ends threat... Sanders's second homer (B5) extends Oklahoma lead to 4-1... Ducks batting T6... No further scoring -- 4-1 Oklahoma is your final...

UCLA-Tennessee

UCLA (the visitors) and Tennessee are tied 2-2. The Vols' Laura Mealer delivered a two-out, two-run single in B1 (video) for a 2-0 lead, but Alexis Ramirez (video) and Sofia Mujica (video) hit solo shots in T2 to even the game 2-2... After Tennessee takes 4-2 lead in B5, UCLA stages two-out rally for two in T7 -- on a Jordan Woolery single and Megan Grant home-run (video) -- to tie it at 4-4... An unusual controvery erupted, as Grant appeared to miss touching home plate (here, here, and here). However, she was originally called safe and failure to touch home was deemed unreviewable (apparently something known as "Appendix G" of the rulebook)... B7, Tennessee had runners on first and second with one out, but hit into a line-out double-play (video)... T9, Bruins couldn't capitalize on bases-loaded, two-out situation... B9, Mealer's one-out single (video) drives in Taylor Pannell, who had led off with a double... Tennessee stays alive with 5-4 win...

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