GAINESVILLE, Fla.\u00a0\u2014 Florida broke open a close game in the middle innings to rout Texas Tech 10-2 on Saturday afternoon and force a decisive third game in their NCAA softball super regional.<\/p>\n
The teams will play Sunday at a time to be determined for a berth in the Women\u2019s College World Series. Texas Tech (56-7) was last year\u2019s national runner-up, losing the championship series\u00a0to Texas.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the Gators (52-11)\u00a0jumped on Red Raiders starter Nijaree Canady two batters into the game. Taylor\u00a0Shumaker drew a leadoff walk and Jocelyn Erickson followed with a home run to left-center field for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The Gators then made it 3-0 in the third on Erickson\u2019s RBI single that scored Shumaker.<\/p>\n
The Red Raiders got that run back in the bottom of the inning on Jasmy Burns’ sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n
But Florida didn\u2019t let up, adding a two-run homer from Madison Walker in the fourth, chasing Canady. Then in the fifth. Florida got a two-run single from Kenleigh\u00a0Cahaln, an RBI hit from\u00a0Walker and capped the\u00a0spurt with Ella Wesolowski\u2019s RBI double for a 10-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Canady gave up five runs in 3 \u2154 innings to take the loss while Florida starter Keagan Rothrock went seven innings for the complete game, allowing two runs on five hits.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma scored seven times in the third inning and cruised past Mississippi State to force a third game in the super regional at\u00a0Norman,\u00a0Okla.<\/p>\n
Lexi McDaniel had a pinch-hit, three-run homer and Isabela Emerling, Gabbie Garcia and Kendall Wells also drove in runs for the Sooners (52-9). Kinley Keller drove in the lone run for Mississippi State (42-19) in the sixth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla.\u00a0\u2014 Florida broke open a close game in the middle innings to rout Texas Tech 10-2 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-282315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}