No. 3 Alabama handed No. 1 Nebraska a 5-1 loss on Saturday at the NCAA Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City, ending the top-ranked Huskers’ 27-game win streak and pushing them into an elimination game. Nebraska had not lost since March.
For one inning, Hannah Camenzind gave Nebraska something to build on. She drove a solo home run to center field in the fourth inning, producing the team’s only hit of the day and cutting Alabama’s lead to 4-1 before the Crimson Tide answered with a sacrifice fly in the bottom half to make it 5-1. That was the only run Nebraska scored.
The result carried real weight because Nebraska entered as the nation’s No. 1 team and had put together the longest win streak in the country and in program history. Instead, Alabama erased that run with a three-run home run in the first inning, added another in the third and never gave the Huskers a clean path back into the game. 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.
That early deficit mattered as much as the final score. Nebraska never had more than Camenzind’s homer to show for a day when the bats never caught up to the moment, and the mismatch between the team’s ranking and its offense was the sharpest line in the game. The loss dropped Nebraska to 52-7 and turned a dominant season into a test of recovery in the bracket.
Next comes a date Nebraska could not avoid: a May 31 elimination game against No. 2 Texas at 2 p.m. CT. The winner stays alive; the loser goes home. For Nebraska, the question is no longer whether the streak was real. It is whether the No. 1 team can answer its first setback at the Women’s College World Series in time to extend the season one more day.
