Oklahoma City, OK (AHN) - The Arizona softball team rallied from a one-game deficit to beat Tennessee on Wednesday for its eighth NCAA title.

The Lady Wildcats won the best-of-three championship series with a convincing 5-0 victory over Monica Abbott and the Lady Vols.

Taryne Mowatt (42-12) led the way on the mound for the top-seeded Wildcats. Mowatt pitched every inning of every game in the World Series, breaking the previous innings-pitched record set in 2005 by Michigan's Jennie Ritter.

"I can't remember seeing a gritty performance by an athlete as this young lady gave us because everything was on her shoulders and she did it," said Wildcats coach Mike Candrea.

The Wildcats scored all five of their runs off Abbott in the fifth inning. Jenae Leles hit a two-run single and Chelsie Mesa added a three-run homer. Abbott, who pitched a no-hitter earlier in the tournament, had a 43-inning scoreless streak before Arizona scored on an error to win 1-0 in Game 2.

The left-handed Abbott leaves Tennessee as NCAA's strikeout queen, but without a national title.

"One of the things that really bothers me is that sometimes a pitcher is judged on whether or not she wins a national championship," Tennessee co-coach Ralph Weekly said. "I think anybody that saw the game last night knows that she pitched well enough to win a national championship."

"I just think that Monica's as good as any pitcher that ever threw in this game, and that's the way that I feel about it."

Arizona won consecutive titles for the first time since winning five in a row from 1993-97.