June 1, 2007
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NCAA WOMEN'S COLLEGE WORLD SERIES
May 31- June 6, 2007
ASA Hall of Fame Stadium
Oklahoma City, Okla.
POSTGAME NOTES
Game 4: Arizona 2, Baylor 1 (9 Innings)
· Thursday saw record-breaking attendance at the Women's College World Series. The second session drew a crowd of 6,812, marking the second-highest Session 2 attendance in WCWS history (The 2000 games between Oklahoma and California and Southern Mississippi and Arizona drew 6,856 fans). It also ranked as the fifth largest crowd to ever see a WCWS session. The total attendance for the day (Sessions 1 and 2) of 12,107 was the highest first-day figure in the event's history. The crowd was the largest to watch a Baylor game in school history.
· Thursday night's nine-inning contest was the 77th in WCWS history and the first in 2007. Four games went extra frames in 2006. Only the 1996, 1998 and 2000 College World Series saw no extra-innings games.
· Arizona's Kristie Fox hit the game-winning home run to lead off the ninth inning. Fox also had the game-winning hit in the Wildcats' nine-inning 3-2 win over Oregon State in the team's WCWS opener last year.
· The Wildcats improved their record in WCWS extra-inning games to 11-5.
· Arizona's fourth-inning run snapped a 21.1-inning scoreless streak by Baylor pitcher Lisa Ferguson.
· Ferguson's seventh-inning strikeout of Arizona's Laine Roth gave the senior 600 career K's. Ferguson struck out seven in the game and stands third on Baylor's career list with 602.
· The Wildcats' Kristie Fox walked with one out in the sixth inning, ending Ferguson's streak of 23 innings without surrendering a base on balls.
· Arizona catcher Arizona catcher Callista Balko surrendered three passed balls against the Lady Bears. Coming into the game Balko had given up just three passed balls all season.
· Taryne Mowatt's second-inning strikeout of Baylor's Chelsi Lake moved her into second place on Arizona's single season list with 447 K's. She fanned 15 in the game, giving her a 2007 strikeout total of 461.
· The Wildcats came into the game with an 8-6 mark over this years' WCWS teams in 2007. The only team Arizona did not hold a winning record against was Baylor. The `Cats were 1-2 versus the Lady Bears this season.
· Arizona is making its 19th appearance in the College World Series. The `Cats hold an all-time mark of 52-23 in the WCWS.
· Baylor is making its first appearance in Oklahoma City. The Lady Bears defeated Michigan in the Waco Super Regional to advance to the program's first WCWS.
