Huskies Softball Season May Not End Well

Published June 5, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

Well, this isn't exactly how this was supposed to go. The all-powerful UW softball team was supposed to go to Oklahoma City, tear up some other teams, and come back to Seattle with the national championship trophy for a second straight year because that shit is ours. Not so fast.

Thursday, the Huskies lost to Georgia 6-3 in their first game of the Women's College World Series. Now, for the second time in a week, the number-one ranked team for the whole season finds itself on the verge of elimination. Oh, cruel world of college softball.

The Dawgs opened up a 3-0 lead in the first inning, and that's usually when winner-of-all-awards-ever Danielle Lawrie takes over, mowing down opponents until they hate their lives.

Instead, the Bulldogs tagged Lawrie for 11 hits, including two home runs, and UW finds itself in a strangely convoluted loser's bracket, one loss from a severely depressing and premature flight home.

To defend their 2009 title, first they have to off Pac-10 rival Arizona on Saturday morning. The good news is they've already done that three times this season. More good news, the Huskies stood on that perilous do-or-die precipice against Oklahoma last week, and came back like freaking banshees.

The bad news - even if they win Saturday morning, they have to win again Saturday night, then again Sunday twice, and that's just to get back into the championship series, which is still best-of-three games. Only two teams in WCWS history have dropped their first game and come back to win it all, and none have done it under the current tournament format adopted in 2005. So after a pretty flawless season, a repeat national championship is now sadly a longshot.

Meanwhile the Mariners have a three-game win streak going. What the hell is going on??

UW vs. Arizona, Saturday 6/5, 11:30am PT // ESPN2

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