May 8, 2026, 12:25 p.m. CT<\/p>\n
The Texas Longhorns<\/a> softball team continues its quest to be back-to-back WCWS national champions tonight in the semifinals of the SEC postseason tournament<\/a>. The Longhorns<\/a> will face No. 13 Georgia at John Cropp Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky.<\/p>\n The Texas-Georgia winner will face the winner between Alabama and Florida. The Longhorns got a bye through the first two rounds based on regular season record. Texas crushed the Ole Miss<\/a> Rebels 6-0 in the Quarterfinals on Thurday night.<\/p>\n Led by junior Randi Roelling, the Georgia pitching staff is stout, with a combined 3.35 ERA and 1.49 WHIP to go with 296 strikeouts and a paultry .258 batting average against.<\/p>\n The defending national champs finished their second year in the SEC with a 39-10 overall record and 16-8 in the conference. conference. The Longhorns capped off the regular season by dropping their final conference series to the Arkansas Razorbacks, but salvaged a win in the last game of the series.<\/p>\n Game day: May 8, 2026Game time:\u00a06:30 p.m. CTLocation:\u00a0Lexington, KentuckyArena:\u00a0John Cropp StadiumNeed a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>What channel is Texas vs. Georgia on?TV:\u00a0ESPNStreaming: ESPN+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 8, 2026, 12:25 p.m. CT The Texas Longhorns softball team continues its quest to be back-to-back WCWS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,103858,16061,16062,7278,45,18103,15781,40673,643,40,184,39,43,46,4928,4929,27,29,28,36],"class_list":["post-284771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-accessfree","tag-sourcelonghorns-wire","tag-sstssportscollegelonghorns","tag-sstsnlonghorns","tag-tagbaseball","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-taggeorgia","tag-taggeorgia-bulldogs-football","tag-tagmississippi-rebels","tag-tagmississippi-rebels-football","tag-tagncaa-southeastern-conference","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsec-conference-football","tag-tagsec-hub","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtexas-longhorns","tag-tagtexas-longhorns-football","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284771","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=284771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}