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The complete 2013 NCAA Division I softball tournament schedule:

Opening Day for baseball coincided with the unofficial start of the 2013 National Pro Fastpitch season. The professional softball league's four teams won't play their first games until June 5, but the college draft starts to bring the rosters into focus.

Several returning starters and a well-regarded freshman class have Oregon on the trail back to the Women's College World Series.

Keilani Ricketts and Jessica Shults were on the wrong side of Jackie Traina in last month's WCWS championship series, but the trio now finds itself playing for a common cause while wearing the red, white and blue.

It was an atmosphere of heightened excitement that a tourism bureau salivates over. Earlier this month, Oklahoma City aroused the jealousy of even the country's premier metropolises. On one side of the city, you found the Oklahoma City Thunder hos...

Andrea Hawkins just finished her senior season at Bay City (Texas), and she also plays for Texas Impact Gold. The center fielder has signed to play at Alabama. She will blog for ESPNHS throughout the 2012 season. I just want to start off with a b...

An impromptu party in front of the dugout during a fourth-inning rain delay turned into a celebration that will last a long time for Alabama's softball team.

Alabama hasn't been around long, but it's come close to softball's big prize a few times. Wednesday was its breakthrough as the Crimson Tide won the WCWS title over Oklahoma.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Jackie Traina and Amanda Locke each had three-run doubles and Alabama forced a decisive third game in the Women's College World Series finals by beating Oklahoma 8-6 on Tuesday night. Traina laced a double to the warning track in...

Oklahoma refused to quit but it was not enough. Alabama held off a late rally from the Sooners to earn a 8-6 win in Game 2 of the championship series of the Women's College World Series at Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City on Tuesday night. Th...

Jackie Traina and Amanda Locke each had three-run doubles and Alabama forced a decisive third game in the Women's College World Series finals by beating Oklahoma 8-6 on Tuesday night.

For the first time since 2007, there will be a winner-take-all Game 3. Alabama saw to that with an 8-6 win against Oklahoma.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Keilani Ricketts struck out 12 in a five-hitter and Oklahoma beat Alabama 4-1 on Monday night in Game 1 of the Women's College World Series final. Jessica Shults drove in two runs, tying the game at 1 with a sacrifice fly in the f...

National championship No. 2 is within reach for Oklahoma. The Sooners opened the championship series of the Women's College World Series with a 4-1 victory over Alabama at Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City on Monday night. OU won its first sof...

Jessica Shults got to the Women's College World Series once before. An illness kept her from being the power-hitting, run-producing menace Oklahoma knows her to be.

It was billed as a duel of pitchers Keilani Ricketts of Oklahoma and Jackie Traina of Alabama. Yet both pitchers batted cleanup, and produced, for their respective teams.