{"id":305723,"date":"2026-05-23T08:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/305723\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:34:19","slug":"red-raiders-take-game-one-of-super-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/305723\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Raiders take game one of Super Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 The Red Raiders took game one of the Gainesville Super Regional on Friday afternoon after Mia Williams<\/a> broke an 8-8 tie in the top of the seventh inning with a two-run bomb over the bullpen in left field. Williams, a Florida transfer, shined in her return going 2-for-3 with three RBI and two hit by pitches.<\/p>\n

Lagi Quiroga<\/a> also had a impactful day at the plate at recording just her second start since the Iowa State series back in March. The junior catcher had great at-bats, going 2-for-2 with a walk and a monster home run. Lauren Allred<\/a> also was a big factor on offense, going 3-for-4 with a three-run homer and an RBI double. Hailey Toney<\/a> delivered a big two-out RBI double in the fourth inning to get Tech on the board.<\/p>\n

Kaitlyn Terry<\/a> got the start in the circle and pitched 5.0 solid innings allowing just two earned runs while striking out four batters. NiJaree Canady<\/a> entered the game in relief and recorded her 24th win of the season after going 2.0 innings and striking out three Gators.<\/p>\n

How it Happened:

\nWilliams led off the game by getting hit with first pitch and brushing it off to get the first base runner of the game on. Taylor Pannell<\/a>, who made some excellent plays at third base, drew a two-out walk to get runners on first and second before Terry flew out, missing a home run by a couple of feet, as Tech went scoreless in the opening frame.<\/p>\n

Florida (51-11) worked a lead-off walk and would come around to score on a pair of base hits to take an early 1-0 lead and get the crowd engaged. Both teams traded scoreless innings until the fourth when Texas Tech (56-6) was able to break through on offense after having several hard-hit balls go right at defenders.<\/p>\n

Terry led off the inning by reaching on an error and would steal second two at-bats later with two outs. The Red Raiders have proven anything is possible with two outs and continued that mindset as Toney drove a ball perfectly down the right field line just on the fair side of the first base bag to bring in Terry and tie the game. Quiroga worked a full count and doubled down the left field line before Williams hit a ball in the 5-6 hole and thanks to ricochet off the glove made it to second. Tech hit three-straight two-out doubles to take a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Terry kept the momentum on Tech’s side, striking out two batters to hang a zero on the board. The Gators made a pitching change going into the fifth inning and the Red Raiders jumped all over the new arm with a pair of singles and then a three-run blast off the bat of Allred. That was Allred’s 10th homer of the season making her the eighth Red Raider with double-digit home runs. With two outs, the Red Raider offense wasn’t done as Quiroga smoked a ball over the scoreboard in left-center field to give Tech a commanding 7-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Florida did not quit, however, as they got three runs back on a two-run homer and a solo shot in back-to-back at-bats. All the runs were unearned, but the damage was done as they cut into the Red Raiders lead and gave the Florida faithful some life going into the sixth inning 7-4.<\/p>\n

Allred delivered another two-out RBI on a single through the left side to put Tech back in front by four. The Gators again responded, this time with a solo homer to lead off the inning followed by a two-out three run homer to tie the game 8-8.<\/p>\n

In a game full of punches, the Red Raiders landed the deciding blow on a two-run monster shot by Williams \u2013 her 23rd of the year \u2013 to make it 10-8. Canady gave up a lead-off single in the bottom of the seventh but retired the next three batters on a strikeout and two fly balls to secure the important game one win.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT: Tech will face No. 6 Florida again tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. CT on ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 The Red Raiders took game one of the Gainesville Super Regional on Friday afternoon after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-305723","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\/305723","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=305723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}