High school softball: States with most players in the Women's College World Series championship series
By Thomas Frey
Jun 6, 2024, 11:30am
Sooners have six players from the Lone Star State.
Game 2 of the Women’s College World Series championship series is tonight as Red River rivals Oklahoma and Texas battle for the title in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma took down Texas 8-3 in Game 1 last night and can put the finishing touches on a fourth straight crown with a win tonight.
Of the 42 total players on the Texas and Oklahoma rosters, 19 of them played high school softball in the Lone Star State. That includes Jayda Coleman, a star for the Sooners. Five batters in the Texas starting lineup played their high school softball in-state.
Atascocita (Humble, Texas) is the only high school with two players as Kasidi Pickering plays for Oklahoma and Katie Cimusz wears burnt orange.
California is second with eight players, all of which are at Oklahoma. The Golden State unit is led by Ella Parker, who had two hits for the Sooners in Game 1 yesterday.
The Sooner State has just one player and that is Rylie Boone, who played high school softball about two hours away from Oklahoma City at
Owasso.
Texas - 19Bella Dayton,
Wylie, Longhorns
Kasidi Pickering, Atascocita (Humble), Sooners
Alyssa Washington,
Abilene, Longhorns
California - 8
Kinzie Hansen,
Norco, Sooners
Arizona - 2
Illinois - 2
Missouri - 2
Arkansas - 1
Florida - 1
Hawaii - 1
Iowa - 1
Kentucky - 1
North Carolina - 1
Oklahoma - 1
Tennessee - 1
Wisconsin - 1
