JMU to face Oklahoma in Women’s College Softball World Series
Fred Jeter | 6/3/2021, 6 p.m.
James Madison University has ridden the powerful and tireless right arm of Odicci “Ci Ci” Alexander to the Women’s College Softball World Series.
The Dukes, 39-2, will face No. 1 seed University of Oklahoma at noon Thursday, June 3, in Oklahoma City. The series will be televised by ESPN.
A senior right-hander from South Hill, “Alexander the Great,” as Alexander has come to be known, has emerged as one of the nation’s elite performers.
In defeating host University of Missouri 7-2 last Sunday in the finals of the Columbia Super Regional, Alexander pitched the full seven innings, throwing 104 pitches.
She added two hits on offense with an RBI and a run scored on a daring duck and dodge head-first slide into the plate.
In the best-of-three match in Columbia, she threw 269 pitches. JMU won Game One but lost Game Two.
On the season, Alexander is 16-1, with a 1.14 earned run average and 186 strikeouts in 117 innings.
