Washington defeated top-ranked Florida, 3-2, Tuesday night to sweep the best-of-three finals in the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City.

Washington, 51-12, rode the right arm of pitcher Danielle Lawrie for most of its tour across America in which it traveled to Massachusetts for regional play and then to Atlanta to take on Georgia Tech in the super regional. In all, the Huskies traveled 6,899 miles en route to the national championship.

For more on the championship, see the Double-A Zone.

Lawrie threw all 44⅔ innings of Washington’s stay in Oklahoma City, capping things off by striking out Florida’s Ali Gardiner with the tying run on second base in the top of the seventh inning. The junior pitcher’s WCWS-leading 49th strikeout put the Huskies into celebration mode.

“I knew when we recruited Danielle Lawrie’s class that we were going to have the potential to do this,” said Washington coach Heather Tarr, who also played for the Huskies when the program started in 1993. “We have an amazing group of women who went through the toughest road as anyone had to hoe to get here.”

ESPN2’s broadcast crew said the third-seeded Huskies were required to travel because their home field doesn’t have lights. It was also mentioned that a fund-raising campaign will be initiated to attempt to rectify that situation.

The loss was a bitter one for the Gators, who finished the season 63-5, with three of the losses coming to Washington.

“This will go down as one of the best teams in the sport of softball without winning a championship,” said Florida Coach Tim Walton. “But this is a great team, and to win 132 games with only 10 defeats in two seasons, is tremendous.”

Florida, which dropped Game 1 of the championship series 8-0 on Monday, jumped out to a two-run lead in the first inning against Lawrie.

Aja Paculba led the game off with a triple and scored and passed ball. Megan Bush added a sacrifice fly later in the inning to give the Gators the early momentum.

Washington responded quickly as a run-scoring single by Lawrie, the tournament’s most outstanding player, and a wild pitch tied the score at 2.

Washington’s Kimi Pohlman scored what proved to be the winning run in the bottom of the third when Florida pitcher Stacey Nelson was unable to handle a dribbler near the mound.

Lawrie had to endure some tense moments in the final inning after giving up a double by Francesca Enea.

“I thought for a second it might have been out,” Lawrie said. “But when they just had a runner on second, I was just thinking, ‘No, no, no. We have worked too hard for this to happen right now. I like to keep it interesting.”

After the final out, the Huskies were able to enjoy the last part of their cross-country odyssey.

Game No. 1

Georgia           000 100 0 – 1 6 1

Washington     000 201 x – 3 7 0

Christie Hamilton and Kristyn Sandberg; Danielle Lawrie and Alicia Blake. W – Lawrie. L – Hamilton. HR – Niki Williams (W).

Game No. 2

Missouri          001 001 1 -- 3 4 2

Arizona St.      330 100 x  -- 7 13 1

Chelsea Thomas, Stacy Delaney (3) and Megan Christopher; Hillary Bach and Kaylyn Castillo. W – Bach. L – Thomas. HR -- Marla Schweisberger (M).

Game No. 3

Michigan         011 103 0 -- 6  8 1

Alabama          000 000 1 – 1 3 2

Nikki Nemitz and Amanda Chidester; Kelsi Dunne and Ashley Holcombe. W – Nemitz. L – Dunne. HR – Amanda Chidester (M).

Game No. 4

Arizona           000 000 0 – 0 2 0

Florida             210 000 x – 3 5 0

Lindsey Sisk, Sarah Akamine (2) and Stacie Chambers; Stacey Nelson and Kristina Hillberth. W – Nelson. L – Sisk. HR – Francesca Enea (F); Megan Bush (F).

 Game No. 5

Arizona St.      000 000 00 – 0 2 0

Washington     000 000 01 – 1 8 0

Hilary Zach and Kaylyn Castillo; Danielle Lawrie and Alicia Blake. W – Lawrie. L – Zach.

Game No. 6

Florida            000 001 0 – 1 5 0

Michigan        000 000 0 – 0 1 0

Stacey Nelson and Kristina Hilberth; Jordan Taylor, Nikki Nemitz (5) and Roya St. Clair. W – Nelson. L – Nemitz. HR – Megan Bush (F).

Game No. 7

Missouri        000 002 0 – 2 5 0

Georgia         100 220 0 – 5 3 0

Chelsea Thomas, Stacy Delaney (5) and Megan Christopher; Christie Hamilton and Kristyn Sandberg. W – Hamilton. L – Thomas. HR – Megan Sandberg (M).

Game No. 8

Alabama        282 02 – 14 16 1

Arizona          000 00 – 0  5 1

Charlotte Morgan and Ashley Holcombe; Sarah Akamine, Jennifer Martinez (4), Lindsey Sisk (4) and Stacie Chambers. W – Morgan. L – Akamine. HR – Charlotte Morgan (AL).

Game No. 9

Michigan        300 020 0 – 5 10 0

Georgia          140 101 x – 7 9 0

Nikki Nemitz, Jordan Taylor (3) and Roya St. Clair; Sarah McCloud, Christie Hamilton (2) and Kristyn Sandberg. W – Hamilton. L – Nemitz. HR – Roya St. Clair (M); Taylor Schlopy  2 (G); Brianna Hesson (G); Ashley Pauly (G).

Game No. 10

Arizona St.      000 200 0 – 2 4 1

Alabama          000 420 x – 6 4 0

Hilary Bach and Kaylyn Castillo; Kelsi Dunne and Ashley Holcombe. W – Dunne. L – Bach. HR – Katie Crabb (AS); Jazlyn Lunceford (AL).

Game No. 11

Washington      031 040 000 – 8 13 4

Georgia            022 400 001 – 9 9 0

Danielle Lawrie and Alicia Blake; Sarah McCloud, Taylor Schlopy (2), Christie Hamilton (5), Erin Arevalo (6) and Kristyn Sandberg. W – Arevalo. L – Lawrie. HR – Nikki Williams 2 (W); Kristin Schnake (G); Alisa Goler (G).

Game No. 12

Alabama         001 040 0 – 5 9 1

Florida            000 200 4 – 6 7 2

Kelsi Dunne and Ashley Holcombe; Stacey Nelson, Stephanie Brombacher (6) and Kristina Hilberth. W – Brombacher. L – Dunne. HR – Kelsey Bruder (F); Ali Gardiner (F).

Game No. 13

Georgia        003 000 3 – 3 5 0

Washington  411 003 x – 9 11 0

Erin Arevalo, Christie Hamilton (2) and Emily Herren; Danielle Lawrie and Alicia Blake. W – Lawrie. L – Arevalo. HR – Danielle Lawrie (W); Morgan Stuart (W).

Championship Series

Game No. 1

Washington      004 022 0 – 8 7 0

Florida              000 000 0 – 0 2 2

Danielle Lawrie and Alicia Blake; Stacy Nelson, Stephanie Brombacher (6) and Kristina Hilberth. W – Lawrie. L – Nelson. HR – Ashley Charters (W).

  Game No. 2

Florida                          AB  H   R  RBI

Aja Paculba 2b               4    1     1   0

Kristina Hilbreath c        4    1     2   0

Lauren Heil pr                0   0     0    0

Francesca Enea lf           3   0      2   0

Brooke Johnson pr         0   0      0    0

Kelsey Bruder rf         2    0      0    0

Megan Bush ss            3    0      0    1

Ali Gardiner 1b           3   0       1    0

Danyell Hines  pr        0   0       0    0

Corrie Brooks 3b         2   0       0     0

Michelle Moutrie cf     3   0       1    0

Kim Waleszonia dp      3   0       0    0

Stacey Nelson  p           0   0      0    0

Totals                            27  2      7    1

Washington                 AB   H   R   RBI

 Ashley Charters 2b       3     1     1    0

Kimi Pohlman lf            3     2     1    0

Jenn Salling ss               3     0     1    0

Danielle Lawrie p         3     0     2    1

Morgan Stuart 3b          3     0     0    0

Alicia Blake c               2     0     0    0

Marnie Koziol pr          0     0      0   0

Ashlyn Watson dp        3     0      0    0

Lauren Greer rf             3    0       1    0

Bailey Stenson rf          0     0       0   0

Amanda Fleischman rf 0     0       0   0

Niki Williams 1b           1    0       0    0

Alyson McWherter cf   0     0       0    0

Totals                            24   3       6    1

Florida                200 000 0 – 2 7 2

Washington       201 000 x – 3 6 3

E – Moutrie; Nelson; Salling; Lawrie, Stuart. DP – Washington. LOB – Florida 10; Washington 5. 2B – Enea. 3B – Paculba. SH – Enea; Brooks; Williams. SF – Bush. SB – Hilberth; Enea; Moultrie; CS – Koziol.

Florida                  IP H R ER BB SO

Stacey Nelson       6    6  3  2    1     5

Washington         IP   H  R ER BB SO

Danielle Lawrie   7      7   2  1    3    8

W – Lawrie. L – Nelson. WP – Nelson; Lawrie. PB – Blake. Umpires – Keith Kearney, Sally Walker, Kevin Davis. T – 2:28. A – 5,807.