LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) \u2014 Teagan Kavan struck out 12 batters in a complete-game three-hitter and defending national champion Texas won the SEC Softball Tournament for the first time, defeating Alabama 7-1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Kavan, the pitching star when Texas won the Women’s College World Series in 2025, gave up a first-inning home run by Alexis Pupillo then allowed only four base runners the rest of the game.<\/p>\n
Fourth-seeded Texas (42-10) loaded the bases in the second inning and scored a run on each of two separate infield plays. Victoria Hunter drove in a run with a pinch hit infield single toward second base and the other run scored on a fielder’s choice grounder by Kayden Henry.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns added three runs with two outs in the fourth which included Katie Stewart’s two-out RBI single and a two-run error on a high fly ball that was dropped by the left fielder.<\/p>\n
Alabama (49-7), the No. 2 seed, loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the fourth, but Kavan got out of the jam with back-to-back strikeouts.<\/p>\n
SEC Player of the Year Stewart hit her UT-record 25th home run of the season in the sixth and Reese Atwood added a sacrifice fly later in the inning.<\/p>\n
Alabama starter Jocelyn Briski (21-3) allowed two runs in six innings.<\/p>\n
There were a total of 36 home runs during the tournament, setting a record for the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) \u2014 Teagan Kavan struck out 12 batters in a complete-game three-hitter and defending national champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-286455","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\/286455","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=286455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}