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STILLWATER – Oklahoma State is a regional host site for the 2021 NCAA Softball Championships, it was announced today. OSU hosts Mississippi State, Boston U, and Campbell at Cowgirl Stadium from Friday, May 21 to Sunday, May 23.

The Stillwater regional is one of 16 held across the country this weekend, each of which involves four teams.

The schedule for the Stillwater regional:

Friday, May 21
Game 1 – Oklahoma State vs. Campbell
Game 2 – Mississippi State vs. Boston U

Saturday, May 22
Game 3 – Winner G1 vs. Winner G2
Game 4 – Loser G1 vs. Loser G2
Game 5 – Winner G4 vs. Loser G3

Sunday, May 22
Game 6 – Winner G3 vs. Winner G5
Game 7 – Winner G6 vs. Loser G6 (if necessary)

Due to the NCAA's limited capacity guidelines, tickets will go on sale one hour prior to each game at the stadium. The only seats available for purchase are tickets that go unused from the team allotments.

The champion of each regional will advance to the super regionals that will be held at campus sites from May 27-30. The eight teams that advance through the super regional round will participate in the 2021 Women's College World Series played in Oklahoma City.

This is the ninth time overall and the second time in as many seasons that the Cowgirls have hosted an NCAA regional. Previous years were 1982, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998 and 2019. OSU also hosted a super regional in 2011.

All games from the Stillwater regional will be broadcast on the ESPN family of networks.

NORMAN — The nine-time defending Big 12 champion Oklahoma softball team (45-2, 16-1 Big 12) has earned the No. 1 overall seed in the 2021 NCAA Division I Softball Championship and will host the NCAA Norman Regional at Marita Hynes Field beginning Friday, May 21.

Oklahoma has been a national seed for each of the past 14 seasons and will host a regional for the 10th year in a row. This is the third time in program history that the Sooners have been the top-seeded team, also earning the No. 1 spot in 2013 and 2019.

The four-team, three-day event features Wichita State (39-11-1, 18-5-1) facing Texas A&M (31-21, 8-16 SEC) at 5 p.m. CT Friday on ESPN2 before the Sooners take on Morgan State (24-15, 14-5) at 7:30 p.m. CT Friday on ESPN3.

Friday's winners will square off in the first of three games Saturday, while Friday's losing teams will face off in an elimination game for game two of Saturday's tripleheader. The loser of Saturday's first game will take on the winner of the day's second game in an elimination game later Saturday night. The winner of Saturday's final game will take on the winner of the day's first game on Sunday with an if-necessary rematch scheduled for later on Sunday.

The winner of this weekend's regional will advance to the NCAA Super Regional round against the winner of the Seattle regional, hosted by Washington, the following weekend with the ultimate goal of reaching the 2021 Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma has made the NCAA Tournament 27 straight seasons overall and every year of head coach Patty Gasso's tenure since 1995 (tournament was not played in 2020).

                   


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2021 Women's College World Series: Schedule

Thursday, June 3

          Game 1: Oklahoma vs. James Madison | 12 p.m. ET | ESPN
          Game 2: Georgia vs. Oklahoma State | 2 p.m. | ESPN
          Game 3: Arizona vs. Alabama | 7 p.m. | ESPN
          Game 4: Florida State vs. UCLA | 9 p.m. | ESPN

Friday, June 4

          Game 5: Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner | 7 p.m. | ESPNU
          Game 6: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner | 9:30 p.m. | ESPNU

Saturday, June 5

          Game 7: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser | 12 p.m. | ESPN
          Game 8: Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 loser | 2:30 p.m. | ESPN
          Game 9: Game 6 loser vs. Game 7 winner | 7 p.m. | ESPN
          Game 10: Game 5 loser vs. Game 8 winner | 9:30 p.m. | ESPN

Sunday, June 6

          Game 11: Game 5 winner vs. Game 9 winner | 1 p.m. | ESPN
          Game 12: Game 6 winner vs. Game 10 winner | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN
          Game 13: Game 11 teams (if necessary) | 7 p.m. | ESPN2
          Game 14: Game 12 teams (if necessary) | 9:30 p.m. | ESPN2

Championship Finals

          Game 1: 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 7| ESPN
          Game 2: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 8 | ESPN
          Game 3 (if necessary): 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 9 | ESPN

Conference makeup:  Big XII - Two, Pac XII - Two,  SEC - Two,  ACC - One, CAA - One

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Go James Madison!

                   


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Oklahoma takes down JMU 6 - 3.  A rubber match is scheduled for 3 p.m., or 6 p.m.  It will decide who goes into Championship Monday.

Quote from: TylerBGoode on June 03, 2021, 03:32:01 PM
Go James Madison!

2021 Women's College World Series Attendance Figures:

Official capacity of the revitalized Hall of Fame Stadium is 12,300.

Total attendance for the entire Women's College World Series registered at 115,514, and averaged out to 11,551 people per session.

Link - Justin's World:  https://justinsworldsb.com/womens-college-world-series-sets-numerous-attendance-records/ (https://justinsworldsb.com/womens-college-world-series-sets-numerous-attendance-records/)

The 2019 edition of the Women's College World Series set an all-time record for fan attendance, according to numbers confirmed by the NCAA.

A total of 78,361 fans watched the WCWS in-person at Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, with an average of more than 8,700 fans in attendance per game. Hall of Fame Stadium's official sell-out figure is 8,400.

WCWS by the numbers:  115,514 - 78,361 = 37,155

         With both state universities in the final eight team tournament; Oklahoma City out-of-state economic impact wasn't as robust as it would have been had this been an all out-of-state elite eight.


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