Scott 4 for 4 as Texas 最高の，を越すs UCLA 7-2 in softball WS opener
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Texas freshman Mia Scott is so shy that she hasn't spoken at a news 会議／協議会 all season.
There was nothing timid about the way she swung the bat on Thursday. She went 4 for 4 and helped the Longhorns （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 No. 5 seed UCLA 7-2 in the 開始 game of the Women's College World Series.
Her 業績／成果 was bolder than her 最近の ones.
"The story behind the story there is in 最高の 地域のs, she really struggled," Texas coach マイク White said. "She had a 堅い one. It was in her 長，率いる."
She 人物／姿／数字d it all out against UCLA. She had a ３倍になる, a 二塁打 and two （テニスなどの）シングルス for the Longhorns (44-19-1), who hadn´t won a World Series game since a semifinal run in 2013.
Texas´ Hailey Dolcini (23-10) held the Bruins to six 攻撃する，衝突するs in a 完全にする game victory, the 肉親，親類d of gritty 成果／努力 that got the シードされていない Longhorns to Oklahoma City.
Texas' Mia Scott (10) 攻撃する，衝突するs against UCLA in the third inning of an NCAA softball Women's College World Series game on Thursday, June 2, 2 022, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
"Do they have a 半導体素子? Yeah, I think they do," White said. "It´s been a 堅い year. Not a lot of things have gone our way, to tell you the truth, but they´ve kept their 長，率いる about them. It´s not an excuse. It´s one of our mantras - no excuses, no 悔いるs, and we´re here to play. It´s fun."
UCLA´s Megan Faraimo (22-5), a second-team NFCA All-America 投手 who 行方不明になるd last year´s World Series with a 手渡す 傷害, took the loss.
"This moment is something I was looking 今後 to for a long time," a disappointed Faraimo said. "I was just trying to 焦点（を合わせる） on 存在 where my feet are."
Texas 前進するd to 直面する defending 国家の 支持する／優勝者 and No. 1 seed Oklahoma in the first-ever World Series matchup between the 競争相手s on Saturday. Texas 手渡すd Oklahoma one of its two losses this season, but the Sooners won two of the three games.
UCLA (48-9) will play an 排除／予選 game against Northwestern on Friday.
Texas broke through in the 最高の，を越す of the third, 最高潮の場面d by a two-run ホームラン by Mary Iakopo that chased Faraimo and put the Longhorns up 4-0.
Texas' Bella Dayton 攻撃する，衝突する a two-run ホームラン in the sixth that chased Holly Azevedo. It was just Dayton's fifth ホームラン of the season, and it put the Longhorns up 7-0.
Dayton said Texas 証明するd it is a much different team than the one UCLA （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 2-1 on Feb. 19.
"I think that we just 除去するd what happened in the beginning of the season and we just kept playing the game that we´ve been playing so far, and I think we just had 信用／信任 in what we brought," she said.
UCLA's Delanie Wisz broke up Dolcini's shutout with a two-run ホームラン in the sixth. Coach Kelly Inouye-Perez hopes her Bruins carry that 勢い into Friday's game.
"We didn´t やめる," she said. "I think that´s something that is important that we didn´t やめる. We continued to try to fight and find a way to be able to の近くに the gap. And, yeah, that was a 抱擁する at-bat. That´s UCLA softball. Lanie h as done it for us all year, and I love that she´s doing it here on this 行う／開催する／段階."
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Texas' Mary Iakopo (33) smiles after hitting a ホームラン in the third inning of an NCAA softball Women's College World Series game against UCLA on Thursday, June 2, 2022, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
Texas catcher Mary Iakopo (33) is 迎える／歓迎するd by her team at home plate after hitting a ホームラン in the third inning of an NCAA softball Women's College World Series game against UCLA on Thursday, June 2, 2022, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
Texas outfielder Isabella Dayton (6) slides into second base in the second inning of an NCAA softball Women's College World Series game against UCLA on Thursday, June 2, 2022, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
Texas starting 投手 Hailey Dolcini (27) pitches in the second inning of an NCAA softball Women's College World Series game against UCLA on Thursday, June 2, 2022, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
UCLA starting 投手 Megan Faraimo (8) pitches in the first inning of an NCAA softball Women's College World Series game against Texas on Thursday, June 2, 2022, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
Texas infielder Mia Scott (10) slides 安全に at third base before UCLA infielder Thessa Malau'ulu (24) can make the tag in the first inning of an NCAA softball Women's College World Series game against UCLA on Thursday, June 2, 2022, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
Texas' Mia Scott (10) 紅潮／摘発するs out her 注目する，もくろむ before going to bat against UCLA in the third inning of an NCAA softball Women's College World Series game on Thursday, June 2, 2022, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
Oklahoma 明言する／公表する's Brianna Evans, 権利, slides 安全に into third base as Texas third baseman Mia Scott (1) waits for the throw in the sixth inning of an NCAA softball game in the Big 12 tournament Friday, May 13, 2022, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/告訴する Ogrocki)
