Sophomore pitcher/outfielder Kaitlyn Terry celebrates as she she trots home after hitting a home run. (Aidan Sun/Assistant Photo Editor)
After winning back-to-back games to clinch the Columbia super regional, No. 9 seed UCLA softball (54-11, 17-5 Big Ten) will face No. 16 seed Oregon (53-8, 19-3) on Thursday in the first round of the Women’s College World Series at Devon Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Jackie Robinson Stadium will remain the Bruins’ home for at least two more games.
No. 15 seed UCLA baseball (42-16, 22-8 Big Ten) was selected to be an NCAA tournament regional host Sunday evening and will return to Westwood for the double-elimination portion of the tournament, which begins Friday.
This post was updated May 26 at 10:10 p.m.
Thousands of red-clad spectators stood and cheered as Cornhusker right-hander Ty Horn started toward home plate with two outs and runners on second and third in the bottom of the sixth.
The Bruins have proven they can come back all season.
In conference tournament pool play alone, UCLA was down two runs to Illinois on Tuesday and a run to Michigan on Wednesday before winning both games.
This post was updated May 24 at 2:41 p.m.
With two outs and a runner on first in the bottom of the seventh, Jordan Woolery – who was 0-for-6 at the plate in the super regional up to that point – stepped up to the batter’s box.
For the second inning in a row, the Bruins had tying runs on base.
But this time around, third baseman Jordan Woolery and first baseman Megan Grant were on deck – a junior tandem that broke UCLA’s single-season record for combined RBIs on Sunday.
Payton Brennan’s fifth RBI of the Big Ten tournament evened the Bruins and Wolverines for the second time Thursday, when the redshirt sophomore center fielder’s second hit of the day drove home sophomore third baseman Roman Martin in the bottom of the eighth.
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