“It was just kind of a blackout moment,” Grant said. “I know going into that at-bat I just wanted to keep my mind right, stay aggressive. And honestly, after the swing, I did black out indeed. After the fact, I just kind of trusted God with everything. The tensions were high and everything, and that’s just where I just laid my pressure on.”

But the Bruins still had to win the game.

UCLA turned a double play to send the game to extra innings after Taylor Pannell narrowly missed a walk-off home run foul.

Pannell doubled off the top of the wall to start the ninth. The Bruins intentionally walked Sophia Nugent, then Taylor Tinsley issued another walk to load the bases.

Shortstop Laura Mealer then singled through the left side, and Tennessee won at Devon Park.

The No. 7-seeded Volunteers (47-16) advanced to today’s semifinal against sixth-seeded Texas, which upended second-seeded Oklahoma on Saturday. The ninth-seeded Bruins finish at 55-13.

“I want to congratulate Tennessee. Just a great battle to the end, and wish them the best of luck moving forward,” UCLA coach Kelly Inouye-Perez said. “For us, though, I could not be more proud. Period. Just the ability for us to be able to fight. The ability for us to come back. The epic ‘just down to the last pitch.’

“There’s something about what UCLA softball can do with your backs against the wall and rise to the occasion to create amazing memories.”

Until the seventh-inning heroics, the Bruins struggled to convert baserunners into runs against Pickens.

UCLA put two aboard in the first inning, but a mental mistake after an infield fly ended the inning.

Jessica Clements, who walked off Oregon in the Bruins’ WCWS opener, thought she had to race to third base after Mealer dropped the infield fly.

The Volunteers threw over to try and gun down Clements even though there was no longer a force out at the bag. But Clements thought she was out. As she headed back to the dugout, she was called out for leaving the field of play, which ended the inning.

Before her seventh-inning bomb, Grant had a chance in the fifth with two on and two outs, but Weekly intentionally walked the first baseman to pitch to Alexis Ramirez. Pickens needed just four pitches to end the threat with a strikeout.

“I love that we were in that situation,” Inouye-Perez said. “We’re facing some of the best arms … We hit them well. So it’s the game. I wish they could have all been perfect and score 20 runs, but to get runners in scoring position is the name of the game.

“Quality at-bats puts you in that position, and everybody wants to come through in those big moments.”

Mealer put Tennessee on top with a two out, two-RBI single in the first inning.

UCLA struck back with solo homers by Ramirez and Sofia Mujica off Pickens in the second to tie it at 2-2.

Pannell did take Kaitlyn Terry deep in the fifth inning. She turned on the first offering from the Bruin starter to give the Volunteers a 4-2 lead.

Tinsley, who took over in the circle for UCLA in the sixth, worked around a pair of walks to get out of the seventh, and she stranded a pair of Volunteers in the eighth.

Pickens induced a ground ball by Ramirez with the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the ninth to give her offense one last bite at the apple.

The Bruins tallied 11 hits off Pickens, but she was able to total seven strikeouts.