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June 6, 2007

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• With Arizona's win, the WCWS Championship Series will go to a third and deciding game for the second time in three years. After losing Game 1 in 2005, Michigan beat UCLA in Games 2 and 3.

• Tonight's 10-inning game was the longest of the 2007 WCWS and just the second extra-innings contest at this year's event. Arizona was also involved in the other, a 2-1 Wildcats win over Baylor (9 innings) in the opening round.

• With 11 K's tonight, Tennessee's Monica Abbott set a one-year WCWS record for strikeouts with 68. The previous record was owned by Arizona's Alicia Hollowell who struck out 64 in 2006.

• Arizona's 10th-inning run ended Abbott's scoreless innings streak in the 2007 NCAA Tournament at 43.

• Tonight's win was the 41st of the season for Arizona pitcher Taryne Mowatt, tying Hollowell's Wildcat record set in 2004.

• Mowatt's complete game was her seventh of the 2007 WCWS, establishing a new WCWS record.

• With 11 strikeouts tonight, Mowatt broke the Arizona single-season record with 511. Hollowell held the previous record of 508 in 2004.

• Mowatt's 11 strikeouts moved her into second place in the WCWS record books for K's in a series (65). Abbott, who struck out 11 as well, holds the top spot with 68.

• Arizona's Kristie Fox logged her 10th hit of this year's event, the second-most all-time in a College World Series. UCLA's Natasha Watley recorded 11 hits in 2003.

• The Wildcats' Danielle Rodriguez scored the game's lone run in the 10th inning. Today is Rodriguez's 21st birthday.

• Arizona sophomore first baseman Sam Banister went 2-for-3 tonight for the second time in as many games. It marked her first back-to-back multi-hit performance of the year.

• This evening's crowd of 5,301 added to the record-breaking attendance at the 2007 WCWS. So far, 56,930 fans have passed through the gates at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium. The previous record for a WCWS event was 46,122 set last year.

• The final game of the 2007 WCWS will be played Wednesday at 7 p.m. (CDT). The game will be televised by ESPN2HD.