{"id":283983,"date":"2026-05-08T05:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283983\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:37:09","slug":"texas-will-face-georgia-next-after-ou-stunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283983\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas will face Georgia next after OU stunned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/softball\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas softball<\/a>\u00a0won&#8217;t play archrival Oklahoma in the SEC Tournament after all.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia, the tournament&#8217;s No. 9 seed, stunned the top-ranked Sooners 10-5 in Thursday&#8217;s final quarterfinal game at John Cropp Stadium in Lexington, Ky. That means the Bulldogs will face fourth-seeded Texas (40-10) in an SEC Tournament semifinal Friday at approximately 6:30 p.m. The winner of that game will face either second-seeded Alabama or third-seeded Florida in Saturday&#8217;s SEC championship game.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia (38-17) trailed Oklahoma 5-0 after two innings but exploded for five runs in the fourth and five more runs across the sixth and seventh innings to knock off the tournament favorites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Texas opened the SEC Tournament with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/softball\/article\/texas-longhorns-softball-score-today-ole-miss-22240042.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 6-0 win over\u00a0Ole Miss<\/a> (34-24) Thursday behind ace pitcher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/softball\/article\/texas-longhorns-mike-white-teagan-kavan-21849641.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teagan Kavan,<\/a> who gave up just two hits and struck out nine batters in her fourth shutout win of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/softball\/article\/texas-longhorns-softball-score-today-georgia-22203301.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas beat Georgia 2-1<\/a> in an SEC series in Athens, Ga. The Longhorns outscored Georgia by a cumulative 15-12 in the tightly contested series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas softball\u00a0won&#8217;t play archrival Oklahoma in the SEC Tournament after all. Georgia, the tournament&#8217;s No. 9 seed, stunned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46014,782,772,61479,104368,27,29,537,28703,28],"class_list":["post-283983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-softball","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-sec-softball","tag-sec-softball-tournament","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-softball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283983","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=283983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}