Tom Brady’s niece can’t lift UCLA past Oklahoma
Maya Brady actually did all she may to maintain UCLA in it on Monday afternoon.
But her heroics in the first game weren’t enough to get the Bruins previous top-seeded Oklahoma on the Ladies’s School World Collection.
Oklahoma cruised to a 15-0 blowout win within the second sport on Monday afternoon in Oklahoma Metropolis, which bounced UCLA out of the event and despatched the Sooners into the championship sequence.
Brady, who is definitely Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady’s niece, hit a pair of residence runs within the first sport of the afternoon — including a clutch homer in the seventh inning to push them to a 7-3 win.
And, in true Brady household trend, she celebrated identical to her uncle has numerous instances earlier than.
“I feel I simply actually had an emphasis on exhibiting out for my group,” Brady mentioned on ESPN after the primary win. “I simply actually needed to get the job executed as a result of Holly and Megan pitched an important sport. That’s an important group, so we knew that we had been going to should get runs on the board and simply ring it up at this level. There’s nothing to lose, so it actually helps that our backs towards the wall.”
Although that stored them alive and compelled an elimination sport simply half-hour later, Oklahoma rallied rapidly. Tiare Jennings obtained issues began with a three-run residence run within the first inning, after which Jocelyn Alo almost hit a three-run blast out of the stadium within the second inning.
Identical to that, the Sooners had a 6-0 lead.
Alo hit one other RBI within the fourth, after which the Sooners scored eights runs in a large fifth inning that had a grand slam from Alo that put them up 15-0.
That ended the sport there within the fifth inning, and formally despatched Oklahoma into the championship sequence. They will tackle both Oklahoma State or Texas in one of the best of three sequence later this week.
