This post was updated May 23 at 11:33 p.m.

No one has more home runs – with 200 – in a single season. 

Now, no one has more runs in a single season – with 651 – than the Oklahoma City-bound Bruins.

“I wanted one thing for the seniors this year,” coach Kelly Inouye-Perez said. “All I wanted (was) for them to have a great, enjoyable senior year. I would have never imagined it would get to this, but I wasn’t surprised, as we started, because you could feel it.”

No. 8 seed UCLA softball (52-8, 20-4 Big Ten) defeated UCF (41-19-1, 14-9-1 Big 12) 14-4 Saturday night at Easton Stadium in the NCAA Los Angeles super regional. UCLA advanced to its 34th Women’s College World Series with the series win.

Senior pitcher Taylor Tinsley set a season high with 11 strikeouts on the night. 

UCF coach Cindy Ball-Malone – who will coach Tinsley with the Utah Talons in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League this season – said it is difficult to pitch against Tinsley.

“She’s a true competitor,” Ball-Malone said. “(I’m) looking forward to coaching her during the summer, but being against her is not fun. She’s good, and she got better, and she kept going.”

Tinsley allowed a home run to the leadoff batter, giving the Knights their only lead of the super regional. But she recorded two strikeouts and induced a groundout to end the inning. The Bruin ace matched those outs in the second, racking up four strikeouts early. 

Tinsley recorded another three-up, three-down outing in the third, then allowed two singles in the fourth – with a strikeout sandwiched between. 

Infielder Sierra Humphreys – who hit a home run off Tinsley on Friday night – loaded the bases with a hard-hit ball to sophomore second baseman Kaniya Bragg, who could not transfer the ball for a throw to first base in time.

Tinsley recorded her second strikeout of the inning and induced a groundout to get out of the jam unscathed.

UCF loaded runners on the corners in the fifth inning. When the runner on first stole second and redshirt junior catcher Alexis Ramirez’s throw went past infielders redshirt freshman Aleena Garcia and Bragg, UCF scored a run. 

The Knights added another on a sacrifice fly sophomore outfielder Rylee Slimp caught in foul territory. 

The Knights went on to load the bases with two singles and a walk, and Tinsley walked a run home on a full count, bringing the score to 6-4.

Tinsley allowed one on base in the seventh but struck out two and induced a flyout to Garcia for the win.

“It comes down to how Taylor once again did a great job,” Inouye-Perez said. 

UCLA went hitless throughout the first two innings until junior utility Soo-Jin Berry hit a single to kickstart the third. 

Two walks loaded the bases for senior utility Megan Grant, who worked the count full. Grant’s hit went far, but not quite beyond the outfield fence, plating the Bruins’ first run on a sacrifice fly.

A single from Garcia brought home a second run, giving the Bruins a 2-1 lead. 

Ramirez – who had yet to record an RBI in the NCAA tournament – hammered UCLA’s first home run of the night on a first-pitch solo shot to left field in the fourth inning.

With two walks and a single from senior infielder Jordan Woolery in the fifth, Knights pitcher Tori Payne allowed the Bruins to load the bases again in the fifth inning, this time for freshman infielder – and the UCLA single-season freshman home-run record holder with 24 four-baggers and counting – Bri Alejandre. 

After Payne hit Alejandre to push a run home, she was replaced in the circle.

Ramirez sent home two more runs with a double, her second and third RBIs of the contest. 

The Bruin Bombers – Grant and Woolery – both reached base in the sixth, and Garcia – who had a UCLA postseason record seven RBIs on the night – sent three runs home with her 20th home run of the season. 

The Bruins added five more runs – and two home runs – in the top of the seventh to mount a 14-4 lead, becoming the first team ever to reach the 200 home run threshold in a single season.

Home run No. 199 was Garcia’s second of the game.

“Honestly, I didn’t even realize that I even hit two home runs,” Garcia said. “I do a really good job at separating at-bat to at-bat. Our coaches preach that all the time.”

UCLA’s 14 runs allowed insurance for Tinsley, who has now pitched 215 innings so far this season.

The Bruins will begin their WCWS campaign May 28 in Oklahoma City.