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Aggie softball have to be kicking themselves right now for getting dumped in their own regional by....Liberty.  

A total of 7 national seeds were eliminated from their regionals.  That seems unusually high.  At least one more (us) was nearly eliminated.  

More parity or just bad rankings?

Horns take game 1 of all Texas softball World Series

Both teams have shutdown pitchers. That's the only way you get to this level of the tournament. At this point, you're more looking at a collection of random events deciding the outcome.
By that, I mean Texas obviously got a bad beat last night when the refs correctly and consistently interpreted a very bad rule. It wouldn't have mattered, but then Tech followed it up with a rare base hit. Neither happens with much frequency, but then they happened right next to each other.
On the other side, Texas missed a game tying HR by about 2 feet foul. If that happens, then the sequence that led to Reese Atwood hitting an intentional walk for 2 runs doesn't happen, and the outcome is uncertain.
Texas gets two bites at the apple after last night.

I'm not sure how I feel about being able to use one dominant pitcher every single game.  I mean, it's great when you have one of course.  But it sucks when you don't.

I realize I'm just used to the paradigm in baseball, where the overall pitching staff matters and one dominant guy isn't going to win you every game by himself.

Perhaps it's time to expand the infield, or even the entire ballpark, for softball.

Yes.....Expand both.  Make them at least 225-250 ft.

I was playing T-ball on a filed that size at 5 years old.

Little leaguers were hitting homers by 10 years old on a field the same size.

By 12 we were moved back to 280 ft fields.

Men's slow pitch is played on 300 ft fields.