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It is pretty amazing how quickly Wells passed up everyone on the pitching staff not named Kavan in just her true freshman year. That's part a testament to her talent and part how non-elite the rest of the staff is. It's a good thing Kavan is one of the top 5 pitchers in college.

Is Wells that good? Frahm is elite and basically carries Nebraska.

Bats need to pick it up and put some runs in, should be done in 5 innings like all the other top seeded teams.

Stanford getting knocked out in the regionals would not upset me. Same for a few others, like aggy lol.

So far the big upset of the day. No more they deserved to host over UCLA, though they did have to travel across the US so probably a little tired with the time difference.

As CDC said in one of his town halls, and Sark has said as well, Austin and the University of Texas is a strong advantage for recruiting.

Texas' highly ranked teams need to at least hold serve - Softball being #2 rank is a lot of estimated points, same with baseball at #6.

That's fair; so the regional is Wagner, Baylor and Wisconsin. Based on what you said, I could see it going like this (assuming the bats produce plenty of runs) Game 1 against Wagner - Cam or Wells with the other spelling Game 2 against either Baylor or Wisconsin - Citlaly or Gonzales with the committee to finish Game 3 against the loser bracket - TK Assumption is that Texas wins game 1; regardless of what happens in game 2, TK throws game 3. If it gets to a game 4 for whatever reason, it's probably TK again or a mix of Citlaly and TK.

Likely, you want that first win done and don’t want to take chances; additionally, it lets her keep her rhythm. Then if you for some reason lose game 2, you still have Kavan for game 3 through the losers bracket elimination game.

Going to come down to who's got it on race day.

What's the quote . . . winners focus on winning, losers focus on the winners

Top 8 seeds are tough, anyone one of them can win it all, Texas plays like they did in the SEC tourney and they have a legit shot at repeating as champs.

Almost a guarantee they’ll host a super assuming they get out of the regional as well.

It's a different team this year; more weight on Kavan's shoulders because the pitching depth isn't as good as a year ago - Mac Morgan, while not elite, was good enough as a #2. On offense, they lose some of the power with the loss of Jolie Mitchell and Mia Scott; Jaycie Nichols is a speedster who is more the wreck havoc on the bases type. LF is where they are really looking for something; last year it was Katie Stewart in left field, so this year you gain some on defense with more speed there, but you lose out on offense because you're not getting the same offensive output from that position. This team has the potential to win it all or lose in the super regionals, but looks like they are starting to get in sync for the post season, so hoping for a deep run again.

My guess is he'll go with one of the other pitchers and bring Kavan in if needed. The softball throwing motion allows repeated use, though the arm does get tired, it's not like baseball where you need multiple days rest to be effective.