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Key players to watch for each team in the Women’s College World Series

As the eight teams descend on Oklahoma City, here are some of the key players to watch in the Women’s College World Series.

This week, the eight teams who qualified for the Women’s College World Series will descend upon Oklahoma City to crown the 2023 national champion. While the Oklahoma Sooners are the favorite to win the title, they’ll be challenged along the way.

Each of the eight teams in the Women’s College World Series is bringing some serious talent with them to USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium.

While there are certainly a lot of talented players worth mentioning from each team, here’s a look at some of the key players in this year’s WCWS field.

NCAA Tournament super regionals set after a wild weekend of college softball

A look at the super regional matchups, which includes the Oklahoma Sooners welcoming the Clemson Tigers to Norman.

The first weekend of the NCAA Tournament was fantastic. There were a pair of big-time upsets, fantastic back-and-forth action and most of the top softball teams advanced to what should be a great slate of super regional action next weekend.

There were big offensive outbursts and even a perfect game in a winner-take-all matchup on Sunday afternoon that highlighted a fabulous weekend for the sport of collegiate softball.

Three of the top 16 went home early. No. 2 UCLA, No. 10 LSU, and No. 11 Arkansas were unable to make home field hold up, and were sent home early. UCLA didn’t even get a chance to play Los Angeles Regional winner San Diego State because the Bruins were beaten by Grand Canyon and Liberty before the regional final.

With one more leg before the Women’s College World Series, here’s a look at each of the super regionals and what those teams had to do to advance.

Alabama softball continues hot start, defeats Louisiana 9-1

Team 26 continues to dominate the competition!

The Alabama softball team is off to a blazing hot start here in 2022. On Thursday, the ladies made the trip to Louisiana to take on the Ragin’ Cajuns in a matchup of top-25 teams. Alabama run-ruled Louisiana, cruising to a 9-1 victory in just five innings of work.

Kaylee Tow gave the Tide an early lead thanks to a two-run home run in the first inning. Thanks to a walk and a hit-by-pitch in the third inning, Alabama would plate two more runs before Lexi Kilfoyl knocked in a two-run double to give the ladies a 6-0 lead. By the time the third inning was completed, Alabama held a commanding 9-0 lead. Louisiana would knock in a run in the bottom of the fourth to avoid the shutout. Kilfoyl got the start on the mound and improved her season record to 3-0.

Alabama has now run-ruled six opponents on the young season and improves to 4-0 against ranked opponents.

The Crimson Tide will remain in Lousiana for the “Mardi Gras Mambo” tournament which is being held in Youngsville, LA.

Alabama’s tournament schedule will include, Nicholls, Southeastern Lousiana, Northwestern State, Louisiana Tech, and once again a meeting with the Ragin’ Cajuns.

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Alabama’s Montana Fouts named SEC Softball Pitcher of the Week

Montana Fouts receives weekly SEC honor

The expectations for Team 26 heading into the 2022 season were extremely high. Part of the reason was the return of star pitcher Montana Fouts. Fouts and the Tide are off to a hot start here at the beginning of the season and that has earned the fan-favorite Fouts SEC honors.

It was announced Monday that Fouts was named the SEC Softball Pitcher of the Week.

Fouts went 2-0 over the weekend including a complete-game shutout of top ten ranked Virginia Tech. Fouts allowed just one run on six hits while striking out 24 batters in her 13.1 innings pitched.

Fouts and the Crimson Tide will return to the diamond on Thursday, Feb. 24, when Alabama travels to Louisana to take on Ragin’ Cajuns.

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Alabama softball voted preseason favorites in the SEC

This is my shocked face

Patrick Murphy and the Alabama softball team will get their season started in less than two weeks and already the anticipation is building. Along with the anticipation are expectations for this 2022 bunch.

To add even more expectations it was announced yesterday that for the third straight season, Alabama was voted in the SEC Softball Preseason Coaches Poll as the favorite to win the SEC.

The expectations are not surprising considering the Tide will return college softball’s most dominant pitcher in Montana Founts along with a plethora of other talented players.

Alabama will get the 2022 season started on Feb. 11 against Southern Utah.

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Alabama Softball is preseason No. 2 according to D1 Softball

Alabama Softball is preseason No. 2 according to D1 Softball

The college softball season is just around the corner and there aren’t many teams in the country with higher preseason expectations than the Alabama Crimson Tide.

As the season draws near, publications begin to release their preseason rankings and as you can imagine, the Tide is not too far down the list. In fact, Alabama came in at No. 2 in the country according to D1 Softball.

The ladies from Alabama came in just behind the reigning NCAA champions in the Oklahoma Sooners.

Head coach Patrick Murphy and star pitcher Montana Fouts will look to win the second College World Series in the program’s history.

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WATCH: Alabama softball releases hype video before start of 2022 season

Who else is ready to see Team 26 in action?

We are now less than a month away from the first pitch of the 2022 Alabama softball season.

Expectations are high for Patrick Murphy and the talented ladies of the diamond. Alabama will return star pitcher Montana Fouts who finished the 2021 season with the most strikeouts in the NCAA with 349.

The Tide will also return several other talented players such as Bailey Dowling, Kaylee Tow, Savannah Woodard, and Lexi Kilfoyl just to name a few.

Alabama will get the 2022 season started on Feb. 11 against Southern Utah. As the anticipation builds, the Alabama softball official Twitter account released a preseason hype video to ensure the Crimson Tide faithful are ready.

As you can see there is plenty to be excited about when it comes to the 2022 Alabama softball team.

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