How many innings does college softball have? Does softball play 6 or 7 innings?

Softball is a baseball-like sport played with a larger ball of 11 to 16 inches or 28 to 40 cm circumference on a field with 60-foot base lengths, a pitcher’s mound 35 to 43 feet away from home plate, and a home run fence 220–300 feet away from home plate, depending on the type of softball played

Softball is played competitively at the club, college, and professional levels. In a typical college softball game, each team plays seven innings except for youth softball, which has six innings. Each team bats and plays defence on the field during an inning. The visiting team gets to bat first.

An inning usually finishes when the home team gets three outs during their turn at-bat.
If the home team is ahead at the end of the visiting side’s batting turn in the seventh inning, the game is over and no further play is required.

If the teams are deadlocked, play continues until one team has a greater score at the end of an inning. As of 2011, the longest recorded college softball game was 31 innings, played on May 11, 1991, between Creighton and Utah.