The good news for Oklahoma fans: it was a much closer game than on Monday night. The bad news: It still wasn’t good enough to prevent UCLA (56-6) from winning its 12th Women’s College World Series championship.
The Sooners fought hard and made a game of it, unlike the previous night, but the brutal reality is, UCLA was a team of destiny and was clearly the better team in this series, hammering eight home runs in successive days. The Bruins 10 home runs in this year’s Women’s College World Series was the third most in WCWS history.
With UCLA leading 4-3 and the Sooners down to their final out in the top half of the seventh inning, senior Shay Knighton hit a dramatic home run, her 11th of the season, to tie the score and give OU life.