{"id":306790,"date":"2026-05-24T08:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306790\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:10:19","slug":"midway-softball-headed-back-to-6a-texas-state-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306790\/","title":{"rendered":"Midway softball headed back to 6A Texas State Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALVARADO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; The defending 6A softball state champions are back in the title game after defeating Flower Mound in the semifinal series for the second year in a row. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After dropping game one of the series on Wednesday, Midway responded with a resounding 15-2 win on Thursday and a dominant 8-0 game three win on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Reigning 6A State Championship MVP Peyton Philipp led the way for the Pantherettes with a complete-game shutout in the circle and a grand slam at the plate in the top of the fifth inning to give Midway a 5-0 lead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Head coach Jordan Williams and her team will play in their third-straight 6A title game with the chance to win back-to-back titles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Midway will play the winner of Pearland and Buda Johnson on Saturday, May 30 at 1:00 PM at Red &amp; Charline McCombs Field (UT) in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALVARADO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; The defending 6A softball state champions are back in the title game after defeating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111123,111125,111122,27,29,28,111124],"class_list":["post-306790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-6a-state-championship","tag-midway-high-school","tag-midway-softball","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-state-softball-championship-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306790","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=306790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}