{"id":304979,"date":"2026-05-22T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/304979\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:01:08","slug":"texas-tech-softball-red-raiders-beat-ava-brown-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/304979\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech softball: Red Raiders beat Ava Brown, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Tech&#8217;s Mia Williams hit a two-run homer in the top of the seventh to lead Texas Tech to a 10-8 win over Florida in a homer-happy opener to the Super Regional softball tournament in Gainesville, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>The teams combined for seven home runs in a game that saw Texas Tech take a 7-1 lead before Florida rallied to tie in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/texas-sports-nation\/hs-sports\/article\/lake-creek-ava-brown-agh-softball-pitcher-of-year-18152116.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Ava Brown<\/a>, who played at Lake Creek, hit a pair of home runs for Florida and five RBIs to lead the Gators rally.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who started her career at Florida, gave Tech the win with her homer in the seventh after a leadoff walk.<\/p>\n<p>Nijaree Canady, who led Tech to the World Series last season, pitched a scoreless bottom of the seventh for the win. Canady had allowed the three-run homer to Brown in the sixth that tied the game.<\/p>\n<p>The second game of the best-of-three series is at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday. The winner of the series advances to the Women&#8217;s College World Series in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech&#8217;s Mia Williams hit a two-run homer in the top of the seventh to lead Texas Tech&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-304979","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\/304979","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=304979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}