No. 4 Texas A&M turned ncaa softball scores into a rout with a 17-3 win over UConn in the College Station regional. The Aggies scored 13 runs in the bottom of the second inning and moved into the winners' bracket with a game that ended after they piled up five home runs on 14 hits.
Texas A&M's 13-run second
Ariel Kowalewski hit a grand slam in the second, and Mya Perez added a two-run home run in the fourth as Texas A&M kept stretching the margin. UConn never got close after the second-inning burst, and the Aggies finished with five homers overall.
That result sat alongside another one-sided regional win as No. 1 Alabama beat USC Upstate 8-0. Alabama scored six runs on six hits in the bottom of the second, then rode home runs from Audrey Vandagriff and Marlie Giles to a shutout from Kaitlyn Pallozzi.
Georgia Tech and Wisconsin squeeze through
Georgia Tech needed a different kind of finish. Madalyn Johnson worked seven innings, struck out seven, allowed three hits and threw 102 pitches in a 2-1 win over No. 7 Texas State in the Gainesville regional, with Addison Leschber scoring from third on a passed ball in the top of the sixth. The Yellow Jackets protected that edge and advanced after a game decided by one run.
Wisconsin also won by one. The No. 8 Badgers beat Baylor 2-1 in extra innings in Austin, with Alivia Bark delivering a squeeze play in the bottom of the sixth to score Claire Calmes before Baylor tied it 1-1 in the top of the seventh on back-to-back doubles. Hannah Conger then ended it with a walk-off shot in the bottom of the ninth.
Ole Miss and Stanford hold on
No. 6 Ole Miss survived the most volatile finish of the day in Lubbock, beating Boston 8-6 after leading 8-2 in the third frame. Boston closed within reach with a run in the fifth and then three in the top of the seventh on two homers and an RBI double, but Ole Miss escaped with a 1-3-4 double play for a program-record 29th double play of the season.
Stanford was steadier in Stillwater, where it beat Princeton 8-2 behind four runs in the second inning. River Mahler went 3-for-3 with a double and two singles, and Stanford finished with 12 hits. Stetson added the final ranked upset of the day, beating No. 3 Florida State 8-3 in Tallahassee after building a 5-1 lead in the top of the third.
Those wins pushed Ole Miss, Stanford, Wisconsin, Texas A&M, Georgia Tech and Alabama into the next stage of regional play, with each team carrying a different kind of momentum: Texas A&M's power surge, Georgia Tech's pitching edge, Wisconsin's late-game finish, and Ole Miss's narrow escape. The bracket path gets sharper from here, and every one of these high seeds now plays with advancement on the line.
