Florida Gators Softball Season Ends in Heartbreaking Loss to Oklahoma Sooners
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To lead off the bottom of the eighth inning, Oklahoma Sooners' Jayda Coleman got an outside fastball fromFlorida Gators' freshman standout Keagan Rothrock. It was her 154th pitch of the outing.Coleman took the fastball and aired it into left field, just barely sneaking over the left field wall. It was a walk-off home run, putting Oklahoma into the Women’s College World Series Finals against the Texas Longhorns.OKLAHOMA WALK-OFF HR TO ADVANCE TO THE #WCWS FINALS @OU_Softball pic.twitter.com/2KmbEYt2yBIt sent the Gators back to Gainesville. Florida’s season came to an end at the hands of the Sooners, falling6-5in the national semifinal."I'm proud,” Gators head coach Tim Walton said. “None of my players made any excuses or blamed anybody. They went out there and had fun.”UF had its chances throughout and was leading for the majority of the game. But timely hitting from Oklahoma, the three-time defending national champions, was enough to send them to their fifth consecutive WCWS Final.It w...