{"id":316926,"date":"2026-05-31T23:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316926\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T23:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:14:13","slug":"katie-stewart-blasts-3-run-home-run-to-send-texas-into-final-four-at-wcws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316926\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Stewart blasts 3-run home run to send Texas into Final Four at WCWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Stewart\u2019s go-ahead three-run home run in the sixth inning lifted defending-champion Texas to a come-from-behind 3-1 victory over Nebraska in an elimination&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>OKLAHOMA CITY(AP) \u2014 Katie Stewart&#8217;s go-ahead three-run home run in the sixth inning lifted defending-champion Texas to a come-from-behind 3-1 victory over Nebraska on Sunday in an elimination game at the Women&#8217;s College World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Held without a hit and trailing 1-0 through five innings, the Longhorns rallied in the sixth with one-out singles by Jaycie Nichols and Kayden Henry followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TexasSoftball\/status\/2061190119126680039\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stewart&#8217;s 250-foot blast toward the left field line.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was Stewart\u2019s eighth go-ahead home run this season and her 28th overall.<\/p>\n<p>No. 2 seed Texas (49-12) advances to the national semifinals against Tennessee on Monday and the Longhorns will have to win twice in order to advance to the championship series. Tennessee defeated Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wcws-tennessee-texas-score-898897765ccc8c0c34fd47b07184a456\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-3<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth-seeded Nebraska (52-8) was eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>The Cornhuskers&#8217; Jordy Frahm (21-6), a two-time national player of the year, dominated the first five innings in the circle and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bigten\/status\/2061166757163762172\" rel=\"nofollow\">it was her leadoff home run in the first inning that had Nebraska in the lead from the start.<\/a> Her 20th home run of the season made her the first player to have back-to-back 20-win, 20 home run seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Texas ace Teagan Kavan (27-6) did not allow a runner past second base after Frahm&#8217;s home run. The 2025 WCWS Most Outstanding Player threw a complete-game four-hitter with three strikeouts and walked none.<\/p>\n<p>Texas reached the championship series in three of the past four seasons, winning for the first time in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska has never played for the championship in 10 total WCWS appearances.<\/p>\n<p>AP college sports: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Stewart\u2019s go-ahead three-run home run in the sixth inning lifted defending-champion Texas to a come-from-behind 3-1 victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-316926","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\/316926","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=316926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}