Friday Dots: 1 Down, 2 To Go

Washington Softball advances to the Pac-12 Tournament semis to play Utah tonight

By Max Vrooman@UWDP_maxvroom May 12, 2023, 7:32am PDT

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Ruby Meylan threw a complete game shutout and Jadelyn Allchin hit a solo homer. That was enough for #2 seed Washington to open up with a 1-0 win over Oregon State in their first game in the inaugural Pac-12 tournament.

Solo blast @jadelynallchin opens up the scoring for @UWSoftball! pic.twitter.com/giOjrHkdo1
— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) May 11, 2023

The Huskies now play #3 seed Utah in the semifinals in a game that happens this afternoon at 4:30p PT and will be televised on ESPNU. So far there have been no upsets with #1 seed UCLA taking on #4 seed Stanford in the other semifinal.
In case you missed it, Mike Vorel wrote about Kalen DeBoer and his other job: softball dad.

Vorel also wrote about Husky corner Elijah Jackson and his athletic journey to appearing as a front-runner to lock down one of the starting gigs next fall.
The Athletic talked to several Group of 5 and lower tier P5 schools about tampering but no one was willing to talk on the record so...what good does that do these coaches?
One of UW’s top targets at WR, Kwazi Gilmer, has got 5 official visits set up including a trip to UW the weekend of June 16th, and talks about each school.
The Husky coaching staff was busy yesterday extending a ton of offers including ones to: