Anissa Urtez (UTAH).
Team USA features eight Pac-12 athletes Ali Aguilar (WASHINGTON), Valerie Arioto (CALIFORNIA), Ally Carda, (UCLA), Rachel Garcia (UCLA), Dejah Mulipola (ARIZONA), Bubba Nickles (UCLA), Janie Reed (OREGON), Delaney Spaulding (UCLA).
Team USA took the lead in the third inning on an Aguilar RBI single, on their way to a 2-0 victory, their third straight.
Team USA and Japan are the two remaining undefeated softball teams in the Games. If Team USA wins a gold medal this year it will be their first Olympic gold since 2004, a dominant performance in which they went 9-0 and broke eighteen Olympic records.
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