Softball
Razorbacks top Wichita State to advance to Super Regional
Arkansas turned the program’s first-ever NCAA Regional host duties into the program’s first-ever trip to the NCAA Super Regionals.
Arkansas will play two-time defending national champion Oklahoma in the best-of-three NCAA super regional round beginning either Thursday or Friday in Norman, Okla. The winner will advance to the Women’s College World Series the following week in Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma (53-3) is the No. 4 national seed and swept its home regional with wins of Missouri, Tulsa and Boston by a combined score of 24-0.
Oklahoma defeated Missouri 7-0 in the regional final Sunday to advance to the super regionals for the ninth consecutive season.
The Razorbacks rallied past Wichita State for a 6-4 win Sunday afternoon in front of 2,142 fans at Bogle Park to clinch the team’s spot into the next round of the NCAA Tournament.
Mary Haff picked up her third win of the weekend while fellow freshman Hannah McEwen and senior Autumn Buczek each had two hits.
The Razorbacks trailed twice in the game but McEwen’s two-run shot in the bottom of the fourth put the home team up for good. Buczek’s diving play on a pop up in foul territory closed the door on the Shockers.
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As winners of the NCAA Fayetteville Regional, the Razorbacks await the advancing team out of the Norman Regional.
SEC mate Missouri and familiar NCAA foe Oklahoma are currently playing in that region’s final.
Sunday’s crowd of 2,142 is the third-largest home crowd in program history and one of three top-six attendance figures set during the weekend.
Overall, the Razorbacks played in front of 6,138 fans during its regional run at Bogle Park.
NCAA Fayetteville Regional Attendance (Arkansas games)
Friday vs DePaul – 1,985
Saturday vs Wichita State – 2,011
Sunday vs Wichita State – 2,142
NCAA Fayetteville Regional | Tournament Central
Arkansas: 3-0
Wichita State: 2-2
Oklahoma State: 1-2
DePaul: 0-2
Friday, May 18
Game 1: Wichita State 8, Oklahoma State 2
Game 2: Arkansas 2, DePaul 0
Saturday, May 19
Game 3: Arkansas 5, Wichita State 0
Game 4: Oklahoma State 6, DePaul 0
Game 5: Wichita State 5, Oklahoma State 4
Sunday, May 20
Game 6: Arkansas 6, Wichita State 4
