The Bulldog magic continues in Oklahoma City.

Sixth-seeded Georgia outlasted third-seeded Washington 9-8 in nine innings in a must-win game for Georgia in the Women’s College World Series.

The powerful Georgia lineup left the national player of the year, Washington pitcher Danielle Lawrie, stunned after she walked home the winning run on a full-count to sophomore Brianna Hesson in the bottom of the ninth inning.

The unanimous first-team All-American pitcher gave up nine runs to the Bulldogs on over 150 pitches in the losing effort, after allowing only one run in her previous two WCWS games.

Four different pitchers took the mound for Georgia, including centerfielder Taylor Schlopy entering the circle on two occasions, to face the win or go home situation.

Erin Arevalo, a pitcher from Lathrop Calif., came on in the fifth to earn the most important victory in Georgia softball history by shutting out the Huskies in the final four innings. The freshman hurler had pitched just 12 total innings the entire season, and the win was just the second of her collegiate career and her first since March 21 versus South Carolina.

In similar fashion to their elimination game against Michigan, Georgia fell behind by three runs early in the game on a three-run home run by No. 9 hitter Niki Williams in the second inning.

Williams, who hit a homer off of Georgia in Game 1 of the WCWS, went on to have a historic day for the Huskies. The freshman first baseman hit two homers and seven RBIs for Washington, setting a WCWS record for RBIs in a single game.

After answering with two runs in the bottom of the second inning off the bats of freshmen Kristyn Sandberg and Tori Moody, Georgia botched a two-out fly ball to allow Lawrie to score from second base.

With the 4-2 lead, Washington sophomore Morgan Stuart hit a towering shot over the right field wall that was ruled a ball on a close call. The hit appeared to have landed within the extension of the foul line past the fence, which would have given the Huskies a commanding 6-2 lead, but was ruled a foul to keep the lead at two runs.

Georgia capitalized on the fortunate ruling, as first-team All-American Alisa Goler sent a home run over the right field fence to knot up the score at 4-4.

Lawrie continued to struggle in the fourth, as Georgia put up four runs on an RBI single by sophomore Taylor Schlopy and a three-run blast by senior shortstop Kristin Schnake. Schlopy’s hit set a WCWS record with ten RBIs in just four tournament games.

Georgia’s seemingly commanding 8-4 lead would disappear the very next inning thanks to Washington’s surprising slugger. Georgia senior pitcher Christie Hamilton went after Williams with the bases loaded, only to watch the ball fly over the left field fence on a game-tying grand slam.

Three scoreless innings would ensue, characterized by neither team being able to produce a key hit as Lawrie and Arevalo shut down both lineups to hold the 8-8 score.

Georgia would finally break through to load the bases on Lawrie in the bottom of the ninth with one out. After a pop out, Hesson entered the batter’s box in the most pivotal at-bat of the season for the Bulldogs – the first baseman would draw the walk on nine pitches to send in Lisaira Daniels for the winning score.

The Bulldogs, who had never been to the WCWS before, are now one game away from the final three-game series on college softball’s biggest stage.

Georgia will need to face off against Washington later this evening to decide who advances to the WCWS final.