The schedule for the final day of the 2025 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Cathedral City, California, may include fewer games, but if the early contest between No. 4 UCLA and No. 14 Duke is any indication of what’s to come, the day won’t be boring.

The UCLA softball team did something Saturday afternoon that no other team has been able to do in 2025 – beat Arkansas.

The long ball got the job done for No. 19 Oregon in its top-25 showdown with No. 22 Missouri at the 2025 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Cathedral City, California, on Saturday.

The Arkansas softball team is on a torrid pace to start the 2025 season, and the Razorbacks picked up another win Friday night at the 2025 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Cathedral City, California, defeating Loyola Marymount 6-2.

A second-inning home run by junior Bella Bacon nearly was enough to secure a victory for the No. 15 Nebraska softball team against Baylor at the 2025 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Cathedral City, California.

Through four innings in the Arkansas vs. Rutgers game Thursday at the 2025 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Cathedral City, California, it looked like the difference in the contest might be one third-inning swing from Arkansas.

Long Beach State is so close to the host venue for the 2025 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic – at least compared to most teams (120 miles) – that the Beach might feel like the home team for each of their five games at the prestigious event.

One of the storylines tied to the California softball team heading into the 2025 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic is the recent success the Golden Bears have had at the event, which includes string of 11 consecutive wins that began in 2020.

Among the handful of contests that will be part of the final day of the 2025 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic will be a battle between Washington and Fresno State.

The Nebraska softball team opened the 2025 season with three consecutive wins, before running into a couple of ranked buzzsaws to close out the opening weekend of play.

One cool thing about softball on the West Coast is that fans on the other side of the country can climb into bed and wind down their days watching some of the best teams in the nation do battle at the prestigious Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic.

Tennessee and UCLA are two of the premier collegiate softball programs in the country, and they’re going to square off at the 2025 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic.

Now that the Duke softball team has been to the NCAA Women’s College World Series, anything less than another trip might feel like a letdown for the Blue Devils.

Duke has been a rising star in the collegiate softball world since bursting onto the scene in 2018, and this is the first time in their history the Blue Devils are looking to improve on a season that ended at the NCAA Women’s College World Series.

The BYU and University of Hawai’i at Manoa softball teams may not get much time in the national spotlight, but they’ll have the stage to themselves when they face off at the 2025 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, one of the most prestigious events of the collegiate season.