AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 No. 1 Texas Softball utilized a 3-2 victory vs. No. 15 Texas A&M to clinch the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown Saturday afternoon at McCombs Field. Texas won Friday night’s series opener, 9-8.<\/p>\n
Following the victory and the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown trophy presentation, the Athletes Unlimited Professional Softball league presented Texas seniors Reese Atwood<\/a> and Leighann Goode<\/a> with a “golden ticket”, which represents official selections into the AUSL College Draft pool.<\/p>\n Texas improves to 31-1 overall, 8-0 in Southeastern Conference play, 16-0 at home and moves to 11-1 against ranked opponents. Texas is on a program and national best win streak of 29 games.<\/p>\n Senior catcher Reese Atwood<\/a> shined behind the dish and at the plate, going 2-for-3 with two RBI off a solo home run and single. At catcher, Atwood threw out two would-be base stealers at second and pulled off a no-look pickoff at third base.<\/p>\n Senior shortstop Viviana Martinez<\/a> accounted for Texas’ other run on an RBI single in the first. Junior center fielder Kayden Henry<\/a> and freshman pitcher\/designated player Hannah Wells<\/a> both connected on base hits.<\/p>\n Freshman RHP Hannah Wells<\/a> received the win after going 5.2 innings in the circle, limiting Texas A&M to just two runs on seven hits while striking out three. Wells worked around three walks and two hit batters. Junior RHP Teagan Kavan<\/a> picked up her second save of the season after tossing 1.1 innings of relief. Kavan retired all four batters she faced with one punchout.<\/p>\n Texas A&M got an early 1-0 lead in the first on a sacrifice fly. Martinez and Atwood smashed back-to-back RBI singles in the bottom half to give Texas a permanent lead at 2-1.<\/p>\n A&M tied the game at 2-2 in the third on a single to right, and then Atwood fired a solo home run in the bottom of the third for the 3-2 edge.<\/p>\n Up Next<\/p>\n No. 1 Texas and No. 15 Texas A&M meet at 1 p.m. CT for Sunday’s series finale. The game will broadcast on ESPN with Matt Schumacker and Amanda Scarborough on the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 No. 1 Texas Softball utilized a 3-2 victory vs. No. 15 Texas A&M to clinch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-225195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225195","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=225195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}