Tennessee softball made a second run to WCWS semifinal in last three years, proving it's closing the gap with perennial contenders Oklahoma and Texas.

More than a decade before Tennessee's Karlyn Pickens fired the fastest softball pitch ever recorded, Dana Fussetti discovered an elementary school-aged pitcher and foretold a prophecy. Fussetti, a Greenville,

Tennessee survived a late comeback by UCLA as it defeated the Bruins 5-4 in nine innings in a Women’s College World Series elimination game.