Author’s note: I want to apologize for a mistake in how I had read the bracket. I had thought the 8 teams at the WCWS were split into two entirely separate 4-team pods, with the winner of each pod moving to the finals. That’s not correct. The bracket is a more traditional 8-team double elimination bracket. What does this mean? Well, if you go 1-1 in your first two games, as Washington and a few others did, you still play an elimination game, but you play a team from the other half of the bracket that went 1-1 in the opposite order.
Backs against the wall: Husky softball battles UCLA in elimination game (game thread)
