Arizona State, Arizona lead Pac-10 WCWS trio.Byline: The Register-Guard The two teams that have won the last three NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association national softball championships will be back in Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm when the Women's College World Series The Women's College World Series (WCWS) is the final portion of the NCAA Women's Softball Tournament for college softball in the United States. The tournament is conducted in an eight-team, double-elimination format. begins on Thursday. Defending national champion Arizona State and Arizona, winner of the 2006 and '07 titles, will be joined by Washington to give the Pac-10 three representatives in the eight-team, double-elimination tournament A double-elimination tournament is a competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost two games or matches. that opens with four games starting at 10 a.m. PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT . Neither California nor UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX could join the other three Pac-10 qualifiers after the Golden Bears and Bruins each lost two Super Regional games Sunday. At Gainesville, Fla., California was swept by top-ranked Florida, 2-0 and 2-1, to put the Gators in the WCWS WCWS Women's College World Series (softball) WCWS Window Circulating Water System for the second straight year. And at Los Angeles, Missouri walloped No. 2 UCLA 9-1 in the third game of their Super Regional to advance to its fourth College World Series as the only unranked team among the final eight. Third-ranked Washington, which beat Georgia Tech twice on Saturday to win its Super Regional, begins Thursday's action with a 10 a.m. game against No. 6 Georgia. The Bulldogs eliminated Ohio State in two games on Saturday. Then No. 10 Arizona State, which blanked North Dakota State twice on Saturday to advance, faces Missouri at noon. The third game pits fifth-ranked Michigan, which swept Baylor in its Super Regional, against No. 4 Alabama, which took a pair of 9-0 victories from Jacksonville State on back-to-back no-hitters by sophomore Kelsi Dunne. The Crimson Tide advanced for the second straight year and the fourth time in their 13-year history. Finally, ninth-ranked Arizona, which rallied for two Super Regional wins after dropping its opener against Stanford, will make its 21st WCWS appearance at 6 p.m. against No. 1 Florida. The double-elimination format continues through the weekend until the two finalists meet in a best-of-three series starting June 1. All four games on Thursday will be televised by ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network . 2009 Women's College World Series Thursday's Games (all times PDT) Game 1: Washington (46-11) vs. Georgia (44-10), 10 a.m. Game 2: Arizona State (46-17) vs. Missouri (50-10), noon. Game 3: Michigan (46-10) vs. Alabama (52-9), 4 p.m. Game 4: Florida (60-3) vs. Arizona (46-15), 6 p.m. |
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