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LOS ANGELES - Mizzou beat UCLA 9-1 in 5 innings to win the best of three Super Regional 2-1. They will play in the College World Series for the first time in 15 years.
A fifth inning walk off home run by redshirt junior Gina Schneider granted Missouri the upset win, 9-1, over No. 2 seed UCLA and directs the Tigers to their first Women’s College World Series presence in 14 years, while giving UCLA its first loss of the season by run rule. This is the fourth time in 34 years that Missouri will head to Oklahoma City, OK for the WCWS. Of the eight teams that will play in the 27th annual WCWS, the Tigers are the only unseeded team.
For only the second time in 11 years, Missouri’s win forced UCLA out of the WCWS bracket and etched the third straight week in which the Tigers walked away with a Championship title.
Senior pitcher Stacy Delaney threw a two hitter, full game on the way to her 17th victory of the year. Delaney allowed only one earned run and struck out four UCLA batters.
Missouri will take on Arizona State at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 28 on ESPN.
Edited by: Olivia Wilmsen
Published: Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Last Updated: Monday, May 25, 2009 at 9:43 PM |
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