Bear Down Wildcats

Now we're just embarrassing them.

Oh well.

The fat lady is warming up her vocal chords.

Let's finish this ladies!

One more!

Welcome back to OKC!

Now let's get some revenge on Washington!

I love beating the SEC! Thanks ladies and congratulations!

Awesome. After going 0-7 in the supers in the last 8 seasons it's nice to be back.

Congrats ladies on breaking the SEVUN plus 2 year jinx!

Huck the Fuskies

Yes!!! Never gave up on this team. Knew they would make it to Oklahoma City. Give Candrea a life-time contract.

UCLA moves on. Two spots left.

Fucking awesome game today.

Crowd was fucking amazing.

Alyssa pitched a great game, especially when things got tight with runners on base.

Harper's defense was fucking golden. (Not that the rest of the team did poorly, Malia gloved a hell of a fast hit ball too for example)

Alyssa (APC), Malia, Deja all bat .500 and each bomb a homer. Bottom of the order didn't produce as big today obviously, but Carli did manage to get on base and later scored. In other words, Bats were fucking great too.

Still hyped up. On to OKC! Fuck yeah!

ByJoveByJingle wrote:

UAEebs86 wrote:There's no crying in softball!

And of course espn has to zoom in and linger on it. Give the girl her space you pack of jackals. ESPN blows.

Just wanted to chime on on this as I totally agree. No need for that bull shit. Fans gave her some good congrats after she made a good catch later in the game.

omg i just looked it up on the replay, those asshats at spn showed her like 4 fucking times on the field and then kept going when they were up to bat.

what the fuck

Newportcat wrote:Damn, feels like another promising year that won’t end in going to OKC

....feels like wheels are coming off and this team can’t beat strong teams which has been a disturbing long term trend

Only saw this post cause Irish quoted it.

PieceOfMeat wrote:

Newportcat wrote:Damn, feels like another promising year that won’t end in going to OKC

....feels like wheels are coming off and this team can’t beat strong teams which has been a disturbing long term trend

Only saw this post cause Irish quoted it.

That post aged well.

PieceOfMeat wrote:

Newportcat wrote:Damn, feels like another promising year that won’t end in going to OKC

....feels like wheels are coming off and this team can’t beat strong teams which has been a disturbing long term trend

Only saw this post cause Irish quoted it.

Is this before or after the post where Newport suggests Candrea should retire?

PieceOfMeat wrote:

Newportcat wrote:Damn, feels like another promising year that won’t end in going to OKC

....feels like wheels are coming off and this team can’t beat strong teams which has been a disturbing long term trend

Only saw this post cause Irish quoted it.

Lol I admit when Reyna went down I thought we were done. Big props to Hanah Bowen for being very solid in Reyna's stead and big up to Reyna for being a warrior and coming back to bat.

ChooChooCat wrote:

PieceOfMeat wrote:

Newportcat wrote:Damn, feels like another promising year that won’t end in going to OKC

....feels like wheels are coming off and this team can’t beat strong teams which has been a disturbing long term trend

Only saw this post cause Irish quoted it.

Lol I admit when Reyna went down I thought we were done. Big props to Hanah Bowen for being very solid in Reyna's stead and big up to Reyna for being a warrior and coming back to bat.

Boy was I fucking wrong!

I really thought they were done too after Reyna went down and got swept by UW.

Lets go get some revenge on UW in OKC!

Three teams from the PAC-12, two from the SEC, two from the Big-12, and one from the Big-10.

It’s sucks to see all 3 pac12 teams in the same half of the bracket

They should reseed

Frybry02 wrote:It’s sucks to see all 3 pac12 teams in the same half of the bracket

Yes, it does.

UAEebs86 wrote:They should reseed

Yes, they should.

Irish27 wrote:

Welp, let's go get a W on Thursday Morning!

oh and UW pitcher better not come close to hitting one of our girls again

Does the softball WS still do the crossover in the losers bracket?

prh wrote:Does the softball WS still do the crossover in the losers bracket?

I believe it's the same as last year. The losers of the winners game switches pods.

https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/softball/d1/2018" target="_blank

PieceOfMeat wrote:oh and UW pitcher better not come close to hitting one of our girls again

Especially after I watched UDub this weekend and there was pretty much complete control against UK. Not on purpose my ass... Oh, and nice kick save last night by the UDub Coach at third.

Well we know UDub wants to pitch us in to offset our power so some slight adjustments might help in the box. That said, I feel pretty good about this first game. They may have confidence in beating us 3 at home but we just didn’t get the timely hit. I also think with UCLA that next week we didn’t play them one at a time

We played all the other 7 WCWS teams this year.

PieceOfMeat wrote:We played all the other 7 WCWS teams this year.

And went 4-7.

azgreg wrote:

PieceOfMeat wrote:We played all the other 7 WCWS teams this year.

And went 4-7.

Lost to Florida, Oklahoma, UCLA, and UW (once) by 1. The other 3 losses was a 5 run loss to Bama when we were still figuring out our lineup, 2 run loss to UW after trying to figure out our offense after Reyna was out, and then a 3 run loss to UW where the bats figured it out, but pitching failed us.

ChooChooCat wrote:

azgreg wrote:

PieceOfMeat wrote:We played all the other 7 WCWS teams this year.

And went 4-7.

Lost to Florida, Oklahoma, UCLA, and UW (once) by 1. The other 3 losses was a 5 run loss to Bama when we were still figuring out our lineup, 2 run loss to UW after trying to figure out our offense after Reyna was out, and then a 3 run loss to UW where the bats figured it out, but pitching failed us.

Exactly.

Our team isn't going to be wowed or scared by any of the other teams out there. We know what to expect, we know what to do. We're playing really well.

We can do this.

ChooChooCat wrote:

azgreg wrote:

PieceOfMeat wrote:We played all the other 7 WCWS teams this year.

And went 4-7.

Lost to Florida, Oklahoma, UCLA, and UW (once) by 1. The other 3 losses was a 5 run loss to Bama when we were still figuring out our lineup, 2 run loss to UW after trying to figure out our offense after Reyna was out, and then a 3 run loss to UW where the bats figured it out, but pitching failed us.

There's no doubt that we are playing our best ball right now and it's nice that Dunham pitched here best two games in her last tow games.

Bit of a delay in getting to OKC

Who in the world was first team AA at SS? Hard to imagine a girl better than Harper

azcat49 wrote:Who in the world was first team AA at SS? Hard to imagine a girl better than Harper

Sis Bates from Washington

https://nfca.org/index.php?option=com_z ... Itemid=301" target="_blank

Justified? Leading college softball in HR’s is only one stat but she hits for average and seems to be a decent fielder

azcat49 wrote:Justified? Leading college softball in HR’s is only one stat but she hits for average and seems to be a decent fielder

They give 1st team spots for at large positions too, so hard to imagine how Harper wasn't included there at least. Sis Bates is the superior fielder and has a better batting average, but Jess has 28 HRs to Sis's 0, has 69 RBIs to Sis's 29, and Jess has even scored more runs. Sis has 2 more doubles and 2 more triples, but yeah that point is absolutely moot when you consider the HR differential. I'd argue they both deserve 1st team, but outside of a gold glove type award there's no business for Sis to win the spot outright over Jess.

Nearly time for the game.

Let's GOOOoooooo

1 inning in the books, 0-0.
Let's go Cats!

Whew! 2 strikeouts to get out of a jam

after 2, 0-0 still.

seeing some nerves out there right now. just need to settle in and get this done

go cats!

Nothing doing. We need to figure this pitcher out or we have no chance here

peanut getting that high strike called on her was bullshit.

fuck you ump.

let's go Taylor!

PieceOfMeat wrote:peanut getting that high strike called on her was bullshit.

fuck you ump.

let's go Taylor!

This ump is definitely not calling strikes evenly

84Cat wrote:

PieceOfMeat wrote:peanut getting that high strike called on her was bullshit.

fuck you ump.

let's go Taylor!

This ump is definitely not calling strikes evenly

Yeah.

Taylor with a nice quick inning. I like it

after 3, 0-0.

Let's go Bats!

Dang Malia was what, 3 feet? from a HR there.

We're starting to get the bat on the ball, getting the timing down on this pitcher. We can do this!

Let's go Taylor!

Malia was so damn close to getting us the lead. This game is going to come down to one big swing from the looks of it.