The Wolverines will face the winner of UCF and Eastern Illinois in an elimination game in the Austin Regional.

The Wolverines were crushed by Texas in Game 2 of the Austin regional of the NCAA tournament, but they're not eliminated yet.

AUSTIN - Hitting, since the beginning of time, has always been known to be contagious, and the display that the Texas softball team put on Saturday afternoon was, well, downright sick. Now home run hitting?

Michigan’s softball team was on the losing end of a slugfest in an NCAA regional elimination game Saturday night, falling 10-8 to Central Florida in Austin, Texas.

U-M’s NCAA tournament run under third-year coach Bonnie Stoll came to an end with a disastrous fourth and fifth innings in which Hoehn gave up a combined seven runs in the rematch with UCF, falling 10-8 at McCombs Field in Austin, Texas, in the Austin regional. That followed a 16-4 loss to Texas in which U-M was run-ruled by the overall 6-seed.

Texas started scoring and never stopped on Saturday in a blowout win over Michigan that set program records for runs and home runs.

Following a solid win to start the NCAA Tournament, the Michigan Wolverines get set to take on the host Texas Longhorns on Saturday afternoon. Both teams are in the winner’s bracket thanks to picking up wins on the opening day of the national tournament.

Michigan threatened again when Michigan's top two offensive weapons, Conway and Putz, worked their way aboard via single and walk. Vega, charged with all three runs allowed in the sixth inning Friday, induced a pair of infield popups and a harmless flyout to center to escape with the lead.