NCAA softball: Stanford’s season ends in walkoff loss to former Pac-12 rival

The Stanford softball team got two home runs and seven RBI from freshman first baseman Joie Economides in the deciding game of the Eugene Regional against 16th-seeded Oregon.

But it wasn’t enough to put the Cardinal in the NCAA Super Regionals.

The Ducks chipped away at a four-run Stanford lead and tied the game in the bottom of the sixth. Then, with runners on the corners and one out, senior Dezianna Patmon hit the first pitch she saw from freshman left-hander Zoe Prystajko deep...