June 4, 2005

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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -

• Arizona advances to play fourth-seed Texas in Game 9 today at 6 p.m. CT.

• Cal is eliminated from the WCWS after two games, marking just the second time the Golden Bears have lost their first two WCWS games in 10 total appearances. The other time Cal was eliminated after two games was in 2000.

• The 2005 WCWS championship game will not include Cal for the first time in three years. The Golden Bears won the title in 2002 against Arizona and lost in the championship game to UCLA in 2003 and 2004.

• Arizona improved to 6-0 this season when it hits two home runs in a game. Arizona has three multi-home runs games in the postseason (it also had three in the regular season).

• Arizona has hit eight home runs in the postseason, which is 24 percent of its season total of 33. The Wildcats hit 25 home runs in 49 regular season games, but they have erupted for eight homers in seven postseason games.

• Arizona's pitching staff has allowed 10 runs this postseason. Only one of those runs - Cal's initial score in the fifth inning - has been earned. Cal shortstop Chelsea Spencer scored the Bears' first run and snapped Arizona's postseason unearned run streak at 45.1 innings.

• Of Arizona second baseman Callista Balko's 23 runs batted in this year, 18 have come with two outs. Balko drove in UA's second run on a solo home run in the second inning.

• Arizona right fielder Alysson Von Liechtenstein's game-winning hit drove home her fourth run of the season.

• The home team, which was Arizona in today's contest, has scored the winning run in its final at bat 40 times in WCWS play. Arizona has accomplished the feat four times, while it was the first time that Cal has given up a final-at-bat game-winner. The last time UA won a WCWS game in its final at bat was in a 2-1 victory over UMass on May 22, 1997.

• Arizona center fielder Caitlin Lowe has gone hitless in her last eight at bats, which is the second longest drought of the season for the NCAA's second-ranked hitter in terms of batting average. Lowe went 10 at-bats without a hit against Cal (two games) and Arizona State from April 2-6.

• Cal catcher Haley Woods went 2-for-4, marking her first multi-hit game since April 6 against St. Mary's (Calif.). Cal LF Lindsay James extended her hitting streak to seven games and hit safely in eight of 10 NCAA Tournament games.