Auburn's Kasey Cooper walks off the field in the ninth inning as Florida players celebrate after the Gators scored the winning run in the teams' Women's College World Series semifinal game on Sunday in Oklahoma City. Zach Bland/Auburn Athletics
On Saturday, Auburn played 17 innings of combined softball — 10 innings against UCLA and seven against Tennessee — and on Sunday, Auburn faced yet another extra-inning affair, this time against top-seeded Florida in a win-or-go-home game for the Tigers.
It wasn’t that Auburn ran out of gas, it just ran out of at-bats and chances.
In the ninth inning, Florida’s Nicole DeWitt drove in Justine McLean from second base, giving Florida the 3-2 victory and berth in the WCWS championship series.