AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 No. 1 Texas Softball (31-2) fell to No. 15 Texas A&M (24-11), 9-7, in Sunday’s series finale at McCombs Field. Despite Sunday’s loss, the Longhorns end the weekend with a Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown series win after winning game one on Friday, 9-8, and game two on Saturday, 3-2.<\/p>\n
Texas moves to 31-2 overall and 8-1 in Southeastern Conference play, suffering its first conference and home loss of the season. The Horns are 17-1 at home and 11-2 against ranked opponents. Texas’ program and national best win streak of 29 games was snapped.<\/p>\n
Finding themselves down 9-3 in the bottom of the seventh, Texas rallied with a four-run frame, highlighted by back-to-back solo home runs by Reese Atwood<\/a> and Katie Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Longhorns combined for seven runs on seven hits. Five of Texas’ seven hits were for extra bases.<\/p>\n Junior shortstop Viviana Martinez<\/a> drove in a team-high three RBI and finished 1-for-3 at the plate with a double, walk and stolen base. Martinez scored Texas’ first run of the game on a delayed steal from third in the first. Senior catcher Reese Atwood<\/a> went 2-for-4 with a towering solo home run in the seventh \u2013 her 14th home run of the season. Junior first baseman Katie Stewart<\/a> smashed a solo home run in the seventh \u2013 her team-leading 17th of the season. Junior center fielder Kayden Henry<\/a> had a 2-for-4 day with two doubles and two runs scored.<\/p>\n Junior RHP Teagan Kavan<\/a> (13-1) suffered her first loss of the season in the start. Kavan went 5.2 innings, surrendering eight runs (six earned) on 11 hits with six punchouts. Freshman RHP Hannah Wells<\/a>, who started the game at DP, tossed 1.1 frames of relief. Wells did not give up an earned run and limited the Aggies to two hits.<\/p>\n Up Next<\/p>\n No. 1 Texas travels east to face No. 7 Alabama on April 2-4 at Rhoads Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Thursday’s series opener is slated for 6 p.m. CT on SEC Network+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 No. 1 Texas Softball (31-2) fell to No. 15 Texas A&M (24-11), 9-7, in Sunday’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-226302","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\/226302","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=226302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}