2015 NCAA Softball Tournament

[flyingMoose]

Indiana State heads to the Columbia Regional where they play Missouri, the #10 national seed, on Friday. Kansas and Louisville are also in this Regional. Florida is the #1 national seed.

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Columbia Regional

Indiana State 0-7 Missouri

A Sycamore error in the fifth inning led to five unearned runs as the Tigers allowed only two hits. Lockwood and Alvarez split the innings for Indiana State.


Louisville 0-1 Kansas

Alicia Pille allowed only one hit by the Cardinals, and the Jayhawks used two singles sandwiched around a ground out to score their run.

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Columbia

Game Three

Kansas 3-5 #10 Missouri

After both teams scored a pair in the first, the Tigers bunched together three hits and a walk to score three in the fifth and overtake the Jayhawks.


Game Four

Indiana State 2-1(8) Louisville

Taylor Lockwood scattered six hits and the Sycamores did their thing in the eighth, manufacturing two runs out of not-much (three hits in the game, two of them in the eighth).

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Game Five

Kansas 2-0 Indiana State

The Jayhawks had a two-run double in the sixth, one of their four hits, to down the Sycamores and Yvette Alvarez. Indiana State was held to two hits by Alicia Pille.

[isu87]

We're happy about the results, ISU has never been in the NCAA's and to go in and win a game shows the program, LONG a doormat, is making strides.

Shoulda had the Kansas game, if we bring in Lockwood in the 6th instead of the 7th I don't think KU scores those 2 runs and it may have been a different outcome.

[WuDrWu]

I'm sorry I should let this go.....Not bringing down the accomplishment of your team at all, but they did finish 8th in a fairly crappy conference.

The tourney win was impressive going 4-0, but it's a stretch to say you "shoulda" beat KU when your team didn't score a single run. And believe me, nobody outside Terre Haute wanted to see you beat KU more than I, and I'm glad the girls got a win and more than just a cup of coffee.

[flyingMoose]

Super Regionals

Kentucky at 1 Florida

9 Florida State at 8 Tennessee

12 Arizona at 5 LSU

13 Louisiana-Lafayette at 4 Auburn

14 Georgia at 3 Michigan

11 Oklahoma at 6 Alabama

10 Missouri at 7 UCLA

North Carolina State at 2 Oregon

[WuDrWu]

The SEC must be fairly solid in softball. 8 of the 16 teams and 6 hosts. To be #1 in that league.....Tim Walton must be pretty good.

[flyingMoose]

The SEC must be fairly solid in softball. 8 of the 16 teams and 6 hosts. To be #1 in that league.....Tim Walton must be pretty good.

The SEC has used their football and television contract money to get serious about softball (coaches, facilities) starting about the time Tim left. A couple of years ago, Auburn recruited the coach from Arizona State, and he had won two National Championships with the Sun Devils. The talent pool is more spread across the nation now (from this area, Kelsey Stewart is at Florida and Emily Griggs is at LSU, both starting and doing quite well), but the SEC schools get plenty of kids from California, too. LSU and Georgia had to win twice Sunday to make it to the Supers, but they did it. And who's counting, but the SEC only has five host schools, Oregon, Michigan and UCLA being the others.

[flyingMoose]

The top eight National Seeds advanced from Super Regionals to the WCWS beginning Thursday in Oklahoma City, although Alabama had to beat Oklahoma twice after losing their opening game.


WCWS

1 Florida v 8 Tennessee

4 Auburn v 5 LSU


2 Oregon v 7 UCLA

3 Michigan v 6 Alabama


The WCWS plays two double-elimination brackets with a loser crossing over to the other bracket. The two bracket winners then play a best-two-of-three to determine the champion.

[WuShock16]

Gotta love the parity in women's athletics.

[rrshock]

So that looks like the sec tourney