Nebraska’s run at the Women’s College World Series hit a wall Saturday in Oklahoma City. The No. 1 team lost 5-1 to No. 3 Alabama, a result that snapped the longest win streak in the country and sent the Huskers into an elimination game.
The loss left Nebraska at 52-7 and turned a tournament opener into a sudden test of survival. Hannah Camenzind supplied the only hit for Nebraska, a solo home run to center field in the fourth inning, but it never got the offense moving against Alabama’s early surge.
Alabama changed the game in the bottom of the first inning with a three-run home run, then added another run in the third before Camenzind answered. Nebraska briefly had something to build on after her homer cut the deficit, but Alabama pushed the margin back to four on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth and closed the door from there.
The numbers tell the rest of it. Jordy Frahm took the loss after allowing three runs on three hits in two innings, while Alexis Jensen worked the final four innings, struck out six and gave up two hits and two unearned runs. Nebraska finished with one hit total, a startling finish for a team that entered the day as the nation’s top-ranked program and riding a 27-game win streak that was the longest in school history and the longest anywhere in the country.
That is what made the defeat sting beyond the score. Nebraska had looked like a team built for a deep postseason run, but Saturday’s game showed how thin the margin can be at the WCWS, where one swing can erase weeks of momentum. The next step is even sharper: Nebraska will face No. 2 seed Texas in an elimination game on May 31 at 2 p.m. CT, with the season now on the line.
That matchup will be televised on ABC and heard across the Huskers Radio Network or on B107.3 FM. For Nebraska, there is no middle ground left. The response against Texas will decide whether this trip continues or ends the moment after a streak that seemed to carry the Huskers here finally broke.
