This year was a great reminder that there really ought to be rebalanced brackets by seed. Having the 4 strongest teams in the same bracket is very silly.
At least they let a team swap over to the other bracket, which the men's tournament doesn't do.
"Fundamental" should be something that you coudn't have softball without.
Softball would be practically unchanged with a rule change here — hardly foundational.
It worked. But is that the right call with UCLA being the top half of the inning and your pitcher struggling with control?
Luckily, their batter bails us out first pitch. So great call in hindsight. :)
Maybe that's how it called, but should it be called that way? If the defender is jumping through their legal defending space, it should be on the ball handler to not jump into the defender, foul baiting.
Makes sense to me in a position where a homer woud net several runs that you'd sit on a changeup and hope she misses the zone high with her rise?
Maybe coud've done that insted of bunting when we had runners on 1st and 2nd...
Spearman's team won game 1, 14-11 score.
Games 2 and 3 ar today at 12:25 and then 5:15 (edit: PACIFIC time)
It says the games were livestreamed, but I can't find their archive...