The game will now be played at 8 p.m. CT Saturday. The winner will advance to the championship game later that day. It'll face either No. 4 Chinese Taipei or No. 6 Canada at 11 p.m.

Patty Gasso, USA TODAY's Women of the Year honoree from Oklahoma, at Marita Hynes Field at the University of Oklahoma Softball Complex in Norman on Dec. 1, 2022.

Head coach Patty Gasso and the United States Women’s National Team are set to compete in the World Games beginning Wednesday in Chengdu, China.  Team USA will l ...

The Patty Gasso statue is pictured during a statue dedication of Oklahoma head softball coach Patty Gasso at Love's Field in Norman, Okla,, Friday, Sept., 13, 2024.

Patty Gasso, head coach of the University of Oklahoma softball team, talks during a conversation with Jana Gridley, right, during the September Polished-Oklahoma City luncheon at the restaurant ...

FILE - Oklahoma head coach Patty Gasso during an NCAA softball Women's College World Series game against Tennessee, Thursday, May 29, 2025 in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Vera Nieuwenhuis, File) (Vera ...

Patty Gasso and Oklahoma softball pulled off the first-ever four-peat in the Women's College World Series on Thursday. The No. 2 overall Sooners defeated top-overall seed Texas 8-4 to sweep the ...

Oklahoma softball head coach Patty Gasso was named the head coach of the USA Softball Women’s National Team ahead of the 2028 LA Olympics. Gasso has coached the Sooners since 1995 and is ...

You have Patty Gasso’s attention. Stanford and California broke college softball’s single-game attendance record last week by packing 13,207 fans into Stanford Stadium on April 19.

PATTY GASSO: I've seen a lot of far home runs, but that was elevated to allow her to really get underneath it and get her power in it. So it was definitely another momentum builder for the team.

Her mother taught young Patty that women can be good at sports, too. “My mom was a very good athlete as well, but she just didn’t have the same opportunities as maybe even I did,” Gasso said.