Some games are won with powerful hitting. Some are won with dominant pitching or defense.

Through two games at the 2025 Amegy Bank College Baseball Series – Weekend 3 in Arlington, Texas, Auburn has been relentless, picking up wins against Ohio State and Oregon State.

The distance from Waco, Texas, to the Dallas-Fort Worth area is about 100 miles, so any games Baylor plays at the 2025 Amegy Bank College Baseball Series – Weekend 3 basically are home games for the Bears.

The long ball got the job done for No. 19 Oregon in its top-25 showdown with No. 22 Missouri at the 2025 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Cathedral City, California, on Saturday.

Quack, quack, the Ducks are back.

Though the Pac-12 Conference is crumbling all around it, Oregon State—one of just two schools, along with Washington State, slated to stay in the league after this school year—is holding firm.

Mark Allister is the author of Women’s College Softball on the Rise: A Season Inside the Game. He will be writing on DIII softball this spring and would welcome story ideas and comments at allister@stolaf.edu