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Behind the scenes coverage of the WCWS - May 28, 2009 | 11:19:50
posted by: Ryan Powell
DAY 3 REWIND Saturday's elimination games Alabama 6, Arizona State 2: Pinch-hitter Jazlyn Lunceford hit her first career grand slam, lifting the Crimson Tide past defending champion Arizona State. Georgia 7, Michigan 5: Georgia's Taylor Schlopy became only the fourth player in World Series history to homer twice in one game, and the Bulldogs set a Series record with four home runs in a game. Saturday's early games Alabama 14, Arizona 0: Alabama scored eight runs in the second inning and set records for the most runs scored in a World Series game and the most lopsided victory in the event's 27-year history ints win over Arizona. Georgia 5, Missouri 2: Georgia knocked Missouri out of the Women's College World Series with a 5-2 win in today's first game.
The Youth Education through Sports (YES) Clinics, the NCAA's premier outreach to youth across the country, are designed to teach girls and boys the "fun" in fundamentals of sports and life. Read the full story Night of records The WCWS set another attendance record tonight -8,475 showed up for tonight's session. Georgia's Taylor Schlopy became only the fourth player in World Series history to homer twice in one game. Georgia also set a Series record with four home runs. Alabama set records for the most runs scored in a World Series game (14) and the most lopsided victory (14) in the event's 27-year history. Arizona's loss was the worst in school history, surpassing a 15-3 defeat to Cal State-Fullerton in 2003. Photo galleries It's a hot day in Oklahoma City. Fans are doing what they can to stay cool! Watch a couple of fans try to run the bases after spinning around 10 times. DAY 2 REWIND Day 2 of the WCWS is in the books. A record crowd of 8,323 fans were on hand for today's session. The old record was 8,230 (Session 3, 2008 Texas A&M def. La.-Louisiana, 2-1; Arizona State def. UCLA, 4-0). Saturday is elimination day. The games are Georgia vs. Missouri at 11 a.m. (CT) ESPN, and Arizona vs. Alabama at 1 p.m. (CT) on ESPN. Friday's games Washington 1, Arizona State 0 - eight innings: The Huskies knocked off defending champion Arizona State in a battle of Pac-10 teams. Morgan Stuart singled home the winning run and Danielle Lawrie didn't walk a batter and retired 15 straight at one point for the win. Today's moment Washington's Morgan Stuart singled home the winning run to lead the Huskies past defending champion Arizona State 1-0 in eight innings. Listen to the crowd erupt after her game-winning hit. Can you feel the heat? It's a hot day in Oklahoma City. Sunscreen is a must and floppy hats are the accessories of choice for fans. At 7:30 p.m. (local time) it's still 81 degrees ... but much cooler in the shade. Saturday will be warmer. Fans on the first base line:
Fans on the third base line:
Photo galleries WCWS notebook The gates opened at 5 p.m. (local time) and fans poured into the stadium. The first 1,000 fans received WCWS key chains. 
CommentsDoes anyone know if they are flipping teams to other brackets like in years past? In your twit you post gametime as noon, espn has it as 1pm ET. I turned on ESPN and no game. I wonder what the east coast game time is for the start of the tournament. Also anyone twitting about starting times should keep in mind the nation wide and possibly out of this country interest and try to be more specific on the timezones posted. Thanks Thanks MWM for pointing out the mistake. It's been corrected. All game times are local (Central time).
Does anyone know the name of the songs being played on the big screen during team features? One of the songs talks about being somebody or something like that? Post a Comment |
  
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