Finally, after the 22nd inning, the coaches and WAC Deputy Director Margie McDonald came to a consensus. If the game was still knotted in the 25th, the tiebreaker rule would go into effect. The WAC had one of the few league tournaments that didn’t use the tiebreaker, which has each team opening an inning with a runner on second base. Prior to the postseason, conference coaches had voted against using the tiebreaker. Creighton’s Higgins had cast a vote to use it, while Utah’s Evans was one of those opposed.

And so, in the top of the 25th, Utah’s Christina Freeman took her spot at second base to open the inning. She would come around to score on a Creighton error. In the bottom of the 25th, the Bluejays had their runner thrown out while she tried to move to third. The game ended when Brookhart flied out to left.