{"id":296453,"date":"2026-05-16T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296453\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:40:08","slug":"badgers-fall-to-no-3-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296453\/","title":{"rendered":"Badgers fall to No. 3 Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The Wisconsin softball team fell in the second round of the NCAA Regional to No. 3 Texas, losing in six innings with a 9-0 final score.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the Badgers stranded a runner in scoring position in the first inning, the Longhorns posted three runs in the bottom half of the frame to take an early advantage. Texas&#8217; Reese Atwood provided the highlight of the inning, launching a two-run blast over the left field wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Longhorns went on to add two runs in both the second and third inning, knocking both senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwbadgers.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/shelby-jacobson\/14374\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14374\" target=\"_blank\">Shelby Jacobson<\/a> and freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwbadgers.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/berritt-herr\/14714\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14714\" target=\"_blank\">Berritt Herr<\/a> out of the game with a 7-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UW&#8217;s offense struggled against the likes of All-American Teagan Kavan, as the junior tallied eight strikeouts while working around one walk and one hit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwbadgers.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/alivia-bark\/14366\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14366\" target=\"_blank\">Alivia Bark<\/a> recorded the Badgers&#8217; lone hit of game one of the day, barreling a single up the middle in the top of the fifth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the circle, sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwbadgers.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/jordan-felci\/14372\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14372\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Felci<\/a> quieted the Texas offense for a pair of innings to extend the game. Longhorns&#8217; Kayden Henry capped off the game with a two-run home run to secure the run-rule win and punch the first ticket to the NCAA Regional Final.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Batting Cleanup:&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tWisconsin fell to 14-19 in the NCAA Tournament.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tTexas now owns a 9-3 record over Wisconsin all-time\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Badgers dropped to 1-10 all-time against host seeds in the NCAA Tournament.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwbadgers.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/jordan-felci\/14372\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14372\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Felci<\/a> tossed 2.2 innings in relief, striking out three batters while walking zero. The sophomore allowed two runs in the process.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwbadgers.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/emily-bojan\/14369\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14369\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Bojan<\/a> recorded a double on Saturday, good for her 20th extra base hit of the year.\u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Up Next: The Badgers will await the winner of Baylor and Wagner, looking to extend its season. The game is scheduled for approximately 5:00 p.m. CT and will be streamed on ESPN+ from Red &amp; Charline McCombs Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The Wisconsin softball team fell in the second round of the NCAA Regional to No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-296453","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\/296453","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=296453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}