After a dominant run through NCAA Regional and Super Regional softball play that featured five run-rule wins, the No. 5 Arkansas Razorbacks will face No. 4 Nebraska in their first Women’s College World Series contest in program history on Thursday, May 28, at 8:30 p.m. inside Devon Park.
The game will be televised nationally on ESPN2. The winner will play Saturday at 6 p.m., while the loser of the matchup will play at 8:30 p.m. on Friday.
Arkansas is 47-11 this season with a program-record 26 wins coming by run-rule. Arkansas joined the 1995 Arizona Wildcats as the only teams in program history to run-rule its first five games in the NCAA tournament. The Hogs swept their way through Super Regionals by defeating Duke 14-5 in five innings in game one before punching their ticket to Oklahoma City with a 10-2 five-inning triumph over Duke on Saturday. The Razorbacks were the only team in the nation to go 3-0 with three run-rule wins in regional play after defeating Fordham 8-0 in six innings and USF twice by the scores of 9-1 and 10-2 in six. It marked just the eighth time in NCAA Tournament history that a team had gone undefeated while winning each of its games by run-rule since the Super Regional format was introduced in 2005. The Hogs are outscoring opponents 447-153 this season.
The Arkansas Razorbacks, one of the nation’s most successful programs in recent years, have been ranked in the Top 25 of the NFCA Coaches poll for a program-best 102 consecutive weeks dating back to the start of the 2020 season. Arkansas is one of five programs nationally to have appeared in the Top 25 of every NFCA Coaches Poll since the start of the 2020 season, joining Oklahoma, Florida, UCLA and Florida State. Arkansas is one of five SEC teams in the eight-team field, joining Mississippi State, Alabama, Tennessee and Texas.
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