"They're a very good team," Coach Jenny Allard said. "They're very strong on the mound and they can hit the ball."
The Sooners earlier in the season boasted the best overall win percentage in the country. They were the Big 12 regular season champions, but a 9-6 loss to Texas A&M and a 3-1 loss to Nebraska knocked them out in the Big 12 playoffs.
The complete seedings for the double-elimination regional are as follows: 1. Oklahoma (56-8), 2. Oregon State (37-19-1), 3. Arkansas (41-28), 4. Cal St. Northridge (26-24), 5. Northwestern (28-24) and 6. Harvard (19-19).
The winner of the Regional Tournament advances to the College World Series in Oklahoma City.
Six-team double-elimination tournaments are a complicated lot. They don't run as smoothly as eight or four team-tournaments, which can maintain separate winners and losers brackets until the very end.
With a victory over Oklahoma, the Crimson would next play the loser of the Arkansas-Cal St. Northridge - that's right -the loser.
With a loss to the Sooners, the Crimson would take on the loser of the Oregon State-Northwestern game. The team failing to win that game would be eliminated.
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