Postgame Notes: #2 Florida 4, #3 Michigan 1
6/4/2015 12:00:00 AM | Softball
June 4, 2015
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• Michigan has advanced to two WCWS championship series since the format's 2005 inaugural season and has twice gone to a third game, posting a 3-3 series record. The Wolverines fell to 13-22 in all-time WCWS games -- in 11 appearances dating back to 1995.
• Tonight's Florida win marked the first time -- in four instances -- that the WCWS championship series game-two winner did not also claim the third game.
• U-M fell to 9-8 in the all-time series against Florida. The Gators claimed four of five meetings between the programs this season -- two by one-run margins and two by three-run margins.
• The attendance for the contest was 7,680 -- a session-10 record -- bringing the cumulative total for the event to 78,078. It is the highest seven-day total in WCWS history, surpassing the total attendance of 75,960 in 2012.
• The 2015 WCWS All-Tournament Team included: Carlee Wallace and Branndi Melero (Auburn); Ally Carda (UCLA); Abby Ramirez, Haylie Wagner, Kelsey Susalla, Sierra Romero and Kelly Christner (Michigan); and Nicole Dewitt, Aubree Munro, Kelsey Stewart and Lauren Haeger (Florida).
• A WCWS-record nine batters were hit by pitches in tonight's game, while Florida's six hit batters tied a WCWS record for a single team.
• Sophomore Abby Ramirez led the Wolverines at the WCWS with a .500 (8-for-16) batting average. Freshman Tera Blanco hit .417 (5-for-12), while junior Kelsey Susalla batted .389 (7-for-18). Susalla headlined U-M's offense during all NCAA Tournament games with a .419 average (11-for-27).
• Junior Sierra Romero drove in the Wolverines' lone run in the fifth inning to up her own single-season RBI record to 83 and her career RBI record to 226.
• Junior LHP Haylie Wagner ended her collegiate career with a 100-18 record, 518 strikeouts, 20 complete-game shutouts and a 1.82 career ERA.
