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Florida 3, Michigan 2: Lauren Haeger gives Gators a lead, and Delanie Gourley saves it

Florida looked like it could blow open the first game of the WCWS championship series. By the end, the Gators just had to not blow it — and they didn't.

Thanks to its best player, Florida had a 3-0 lead before its first game of a best-of-three Women's College World Series championship series was three innings old. It carried that lead into the sixth inning.

Then all hell broke loose.

And yet the Gators still won, by a 3-2 count, and now stand one win from a national title — thanks largely to Michigan's best player.