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The 2021 Women's College World Series was the final stage of the 2021 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, held from June 3-10 at the USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It marked the 39th edition of the tournament and the first time the event was held since 2019 due to the cancellation of the 2020 tournament due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The tournament featured 8 teams in two double elimination brackets with two winners meeting in a best of three championship series. The event concluded with #1 seeded Oklahoma defeating #10 seeded Florida State by winning two out of three matches in the championship.

Background
After having restrictions on the number of fans at matches for the majority of the season due to COVID-19, USA Softball announced on May 21, 2021 that there would be 100% capacity at the event.

During the 2020 offseason, a new upper deck was added to the USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium, increasing the seating capacity from 9,000 to 13,000.

Teams
A total of 8 teams qualified for the Women's College World Series by winning their respective regional and super-regional matches. Six of the teams were national seeds at the time of the tournament (#1 Oklahoma, #2 UCLA, #3 Alabama, #5 Oklahoma State, #10 Florida State and #11 Arizona) and two teams were unseeded (Georgia and JMU). The tournament was the first time since 2012 that unseeded teams made the final eight, and was JMU's first-ever Women's College World Series appearance.

† = From NCAA Division I Softball Championship Results

Bracket
Seeds below indicate national seeds only CWSBracket

Game One
James Madison recorded their first-ever Women's College World Series win by upsetting #1 seeded Oklahoma in Game One, breaking their ten game win streak. After a scoreless first two innings, JMU's Sarah Jubas hit a 3-run homer to give the Dukes a 3-0 lead in the top of the third inning. Oklahoma came in the bottom of the third with a 3-run homer from Tiare Jennings, tying the game at 3-3. The game went to extra innings after it was still tied 3-3 at the end of the 7th, before a solo home run by Kate Gordon in the top of the 8th inning secured the 4-3 win for JMU. Gordon was 0 for 13 in at-bats before her home run.

Game Two
The game was scoreless until the bottom of the third inning, where a single by Avery Hobson made way for a two-run homer by Cheyenne Factor to give OSU a 2-0 lead. In the fifth inning, Georgia had runners on first and second with one out, but Oklahoma State prevented them from scoring after tagging out Georgia's Sydney Chambley at home plate. Hits from Sydney Kuma and Sara Mosley drove in a run for Georgia in top of the sixth, before hits from Kiley Naomi and Alysen Febrey, as well as a sacrifice bunt from Factor, put the Cowgirls at 3-1 at the end of the inning. A drive from Georgia's Ellie Armistead brought Jaiden Fields home at the top of the seventh, but the Bulldogs were unable to make a comeback after a pop-out and a groundout secured a 3-2 victory for Oklahoma State.

Game Three
Alabama's Montana Fouts pitched a career-high 16 strikeouts with zero walks and two hits. The Tide started with a 2-0 lead due to a run off of a fielding error in the first inning and a solo home run by Bailey Hemphill in the third. An RBI double by Maddie Morgan and a two-run homer by pinch-hitter Abby Doerr gave them three more runs. Arizona's Jessie Harper hit a solo home run to bring the Wildcats their only run in the top of the seventh inning, but the game finished as a 5-1 win for Alabama.