WOMEN'S COLLEGE WORLD SERIES: BRUINS TAKE CARE OF CAT, AGAIN UCLA FRUSTRATES ALL-AMERICAN OSTERMAN, ELIMINATES TEXAS.Byline: RAMONA SHELBURNE Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer 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 -- Cat Osterman Catherine ("Cat") Leigh Osterman (born April 16, 1983) is an American athlete and was one of the pitchers on the USA Women's Softball Team which won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. may have an Olympic gold Olympic Gold is the official video game of the XXV Olympic Summer Games, hosted by Barcelona, Spain in 1992. It was released for the Sega consoles, Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System, and Sega's handheld, Game Gear. medal and three National Player of the Year awards, but she will not win a national championship. 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 ended Osterman's remarkable collegiate career with a 2-0 victory over her Texas Longhorns Saturday night in 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. behind a sparkling performance from sophomore pitcher Anjelica Selden Anjelica "Jelly" Selden is an American athlete who was born in Vacaville, California and attended Vanden High School from 2001 to 2005. She is the starting pitcher for the UCLA Bruins women's softball team, and she has recorded 65 wins and 893 strikeouts in her NCAA Division I , who struck out 12 in a three-hit shutout. UCLA eliminated Texas in all three of Osterman's WCWS WCWS Women's College World Series (softball) WCWS Window Circulating Water System appearances. Osterman, the NCAA's all-time strikeout leader, had nine strikeouts in her final game, but she was felled by an unorthodox inside-outside combination. Inside the park, outside the park that is. UCLA leadoff batter Andrea Duran led off the third inning with an inside- the-park home run to right field. One inning later, UCLA catcher Emily Zaplatosch hit a solo shot over the left field fence to account for all of the Bruins' scoring. ``I was just trying to make contact,'' Duran said of her inside-the-park shot. ``I wasn't trying to do anything special.'' Top-seeded UCLA (50-8) advances to play No. 5 seed Northwestern (49-13) today at noon. The Bruins lost their opening-round game to No. 8 Tennessee on Thursday and will need to beat the Wildcats twice in order to advance to the best-of-three national championship series starting Monday against either Arizona or Tennessee. Earlier on Saturday, UCLA eliminated No. 4 Alabama, 4-1. Duran led the Bruins in that game as well, going 2 for 4 with a triple, home run and two runs scored. Selden (35-6) picked up the victory in the Alabama game. She has thrown every inning of every game for UCLA in the postseason. Only two teams in the 25-year history of the WCWS have come back through the losers' bracket to win a national title after dropping their opening game: Texas A&M in 1983 and UCLA in 2003. Duran, Zaplatosch and fellow UCLA seniors Caitlin Benyi and Alissa Eno were freshman on that 2003 national title team. Zaplatosch said that experience has given the team confidence that it can be done again. ``It helps a lot having to go through what we did our freshman year, losing the first game and coming back,'' said Zaplatosch, who was 3 for 3 with a double, home run and single against Texas. Northwestern beat UCLA 3-2 on March 26 at Easton Stadium. No. 2 Arizona and No. 8 Tennessee will play in the other semifinal beginning at 10a.m. Tennessee eliminated Arizona State with a 3-1, nine-inning victory. ramona.shelburne@dailynews.com (818) 713-3617 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: UCLA's Anjelica Selden, left, Jaisa Creps and Andrea Duran (2) celebrate the Bruins' win over Texas on Saturday. Nate Billings/Associated Press |
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