For the second year in a row, UCLA beat Cal to take the NCAA women's softball championship. Freshman Kristen Dedmon, who had a disappointing season, was the hero with a two-run single in the fifth to give the Bruins the 3-1 lead.

"I'd been waiting for it the whole weekend," Dedmon said. "I just knew if I went up there and swung the bat like I knew how, if I put the ball in play, the worst thing was they could get me out, but good things could happen."

The win gave UCLA its tenth softball title.