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The Women's Softball World Cup is a fastpitch softball tournament for ... [20] with the USA's most recent victory being a 3–2 win over Japan in the finals in 2022. ...
The softball competition at the 2022 World Games took place from July 9–13, 2022, [1] in Birmingham in United States, at the University of Alabama Birmingham.Originally scheduled to take place in July 2021, the Games were rescheduled for July 2022 as a result of the 2020 Summer Olympics postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]
The no-hit win proved something extra special in this case, as Tincher had previously tried out and failed to make the 2008 US Olympic softball team. [3] In 2022, the World Games featured a softball tournament for the first time, giving the Americans a chance to avenge their olympic loss in Japan.
During the 2022 season, in her redshirt junior year, she appeared in 35 games with 28 starts, and posted a 21–5 record with a 1.22 ERA, 313 strikeouts, 20 complete-games and 12 shutouts in 189 + 2 ⁄ 3 innings. She earned Big 12 Pitcher of the Week honors on four occasions in 2022, the most by any pitcher in the conference.
On June 9, 2022, the World Baseball Softball Confederation awarded hosting rights for the inaugural U-15 Women's Softball World Cup to the Japan Softball Association (JSA) following its Executive Board meeting. The first edition of the new World Cup would be played in Tokyo in October 2023 with the best players in the world from 12 countries.
Softball was introduced as a World Games sport at the 1981 World Games in Santa Clara and discontinued after the 1985 games in London.It was reintroduced as a women's invitational sport in 2009 in Kaohsiung after it had been removed from the Olympic Games programme, and from 2022 it was again part of the official programme.
The Women's College World Series does, in fact, have a run-rule in the final event held annually in Oklahoma City, with the mercy rule being utilized in multiple games the past few seasons.
The team competed at the 2002 ISF Women's World Championship where they finished eleventh. [5] [6] The team competed at the 2010 ISF Women's World Championship where they finished eighth. [7] They have won the Women's Softball European Championship eleven times, second most to only Italy. Their latest European title came in 2022.