For the first time since 2019, OU softball's season has ended with a loss. Despite a miraculous seventh-inning, two-run home run from Sooners nine-hole hitter Abigale Dayton to tie the game,

Texas Tech, in its first trip to the WCWS, will play Texas in the best-of-three championship series starting Wednesday. The Longhorns reached the finals for the third time in the past four years. They lost to Oklahoma in 2022 and 2024. Oklahoma had won nine straight elimination games.