Cydney Sanders blasted two home runs and the Oklahoma Sooners survived another day in the NCAA softball WCWS with a 4-1 win against the Oregon Ducks.

The Texas softball team left behind recent Women's College World Series heartbreak and experienced a new emotion Friday: championship euphoria. The Longhorns beat Texas Tech 10-4 in the winner-take-all third game of the WCWS finals in Oklahoma City to capture the first title in program history.

OU softball will face Oregon and former assistant coach Melyssa Lombardi in an elimination game at 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Oklahoma softball coach Patty Gasso called out the NCAA over the WCWS format for the "if necessary" game. "It's unfair for the athletes," Gasso said.

Tennessee softball made a second run to WCWS semifinal in last three years, proving it's closing the gap with perennial contenders Oklahoma and Texas.

Texas softball reaches the finals of the Women's College World Series after shutting out Tennessee. Up next? Oklahoma or Texas Tech.

Most of Gasso’s Sooners are new, but the returners can be forgiven for showing little emotion. The expectation is to make it to Wednesday’s championship series. But the 2025 Sooners extended the program’s streak of winning elimination games to nine, as Oklahoma still looms as the so far un-killable horror movie villain in OKC.