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.

Quack, quack, the Ducks are back.

Mark Allister is the author of Women’s College Softball on the Rise: A Season Inside the Game. He will be writing on DIII softball this spring and would welcome story ideas and comments at allister@stolaf.edu

On game day, players arrive hours before warm up, headphones on opening the door to the softball sanctuary that awaits. Placing her bags in her locker, she glances at her favorite quote or mantra taped to the inside her locker. This is where I’m supposed to be. This is the place.

A refreshing and heart-warming story was lost amidst the drama and scandal that surrounded the South Snohomish team at the Little League Softball World Series this past week.

A team from Snohomish, Washington- that had all but dominated the Little League Softball World Series in Portland, Oregon- got an almost instant dose of Karma after being eliminated today for game-fixing.

It was another exciting year of high school softball across the nation going back to the fall when states like Georgia, Missouri and Oklahoma competed for state championships.

Addison Faye with the Explosion at the 2015 Boulder Independence Day Tournament. I did a live blog from Stazio Fields in Boulder, Colo., for the final day of pool play games in the 18U Boulder Division of the Boulder Independence Day Tournament. I’ll have live blogs on Saturday and Sunday for the single-elimination bracket play. Here’s how it all went down on Friday.

In its 30th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, the Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA TODAY High School Sports, today announced its honorees for the 2015 Softball State Players of the Year.

If you watched the Super Regionals over the weekend, you no doubt saw the horrifying scene of a line drive off the bat of a UCLA hitter strike Missouri pitcher Tori Finucane in the face.

The National Fastpitch Coaches Association has announced the top-10 finalists for the NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year award, which will be presented prior to the start of the 2015 NCAA Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City, Okla.

UT Arlington’s Foster; UCF’s Turnier Named Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I National Pitcher and Player of the Week

The Judi Garman Classic continued Saturday with seven of the Top 25 teams in the country taking the field… you can see the scores from those games below.

Today’s standout in the spotlight comes from a powerhouse club team that already had two players committed to a Pac-12 elite team and now has a talented 2018 Hot 100 candidate in the fold as well!

On Saturday, January 10 it was a gray, somewhat gloomy day in Southern California for the Surf City Winter Showcase but I drove about 20 minutes to watch Pat Moore, the 2017 pitcher from Oregon guest pitch.