{"id":201011,"date":"2026-03-12T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/201011\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:06:12","slug":"stewarts-two-home-runs-lift-no-3-softball-past-east-texas-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/201011\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart\u2019s two home runs lift No. 3 Softball past East Texas A&M"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 Ignited off the bat of junior catcher Katie Stewart<\/a>, No. 3 Texas Softball (23-1) run-ruled East Texas A&M, 10-1 (five innings), Wednesday evening at McCombs Field.<\/p>\n

With the victory, Texas advanced its win streak to 21 games in a row \u2013 the second-longest win streak in program history and longest since winning a program-record 24-straight in 2006.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns improve to 23-1 overall and 11-0 at home. It marked Texas’ 12th run-rule victory of the season, including its fifth-consecutive at home. It was UT’s 12th game scoring 10-or-more runs on the season. Texas’ pitching staff has not allowed more than two runs in each of its last 12 games.<\/p>\n

Stewart notched her third career multi-home run game after launching a season-high two home runs on the night. Stewart smacked a solo shot to left in the fourth and followed with a grand slam in the bottom of the fifth for the walk-off, run-rule victory. The Frankfort, Ill., product has homered a team-high 14 times this season. Stewart’s five RBI were a season high as well. Senior second baseman Leighann Goode<\/a> finished 2-for-2 with an RBI single and walk. Junior center fielder Kayden Henry<\/a> reached in all three plate appearances after hitting an RBI single and reaching twice via walk. Senior right fielder Ashton Maloney<\/a> reached in all three of her plate appearances after laying down a bunt single and drawing two walks.<\/p>\n

Sophomore RHP Cambria Salmon<\/a> (4-0) picked up the win in her seventh start of the season. Salmon threw 3.0 scoreless innings, curtailing East Texas A&M to just one hit while punching out five. Salmon retired nine of 10 batters she faced. Sophomore LHP Brenlee Gonzales<\/a> entered the game in the third for 2.0 innings, giving up one run on one hit, striking out two and walking three. Salmon re-entered the game in the fifth and retired the side.<\/p>\n

In the bottom of the first, senior designated player Reese Atwood’s<\/a> sac fly to left scored Henry for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Texas tacked on two runs in the second frame. Henry drew a bases-loaded walk and then senior left fielder Kaiah Altmeyer<\/a> was struck by a pitch in the back to score a third run. In the third, Henry cracked a bases-loaded single to left field to score junior shortstop Viviana Martinez<\/a>, and Goode followed suit with an RBI single through the left side to increase the lead to 5-0.<\/p>\n

East Texas A&M cut the deficit to 5-1 with a two-out RBI single to right center in the top of the fourth. In the bottom half, Stewart connected on her first home run of the game \u2013 a solo shot \u2013 to give Texas a 6-1 edge.<\/p>\n

With two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the fifth, Stewart called game with a grand slam for the 10-1 run-rule win.<\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

The Longhorns host Ole Miss for a three-game series on March 13-15 at McCombs Field. Texas’ SEC home series opener vs. Ole Miss is set for 5:30 p.m. CT Friday, March 13, on SEC Network+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 Ignited off the bat of junior catcher Katie Stewart, No. 3 Texas Softball (23-1) run-ruled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-201011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}