{"id":317111,"date":"2026-06-01T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/317111\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:34:09","slug":"ucla-softball-eliminated-from-wcws-by-kaitlyn-terry-texas-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/317111\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA softball eliminated from WCWS by Kaitlyn Terry, Texas Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OKLAHOMA CITY\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Jordan Woolery<\/a> nearly saved UCLA\u2019s season Sunday night at the Women\u2019s College World Series<\/a>. She lined a single up the middle in the ninth inning off former teammate Kaitlyn Terry<\/a> to score Rylee Slimp from second base and pull the Bruins within a run of Texas Tech.<\/p>\n

But Red Raiders ace NiJaree Canady<\/a> replaced Terry in the circle and retired the final two batters, stranding Megan Grant<\/a> at second in UCLA\u2019s 8-7<\/a> season-ending loss.<\/p>\n

Woolery, the nation\u2019s RBIs leader, homered twice and drove in five runs for UCLA (53-10), which got nine innings and 181 pitches from workhorse Taylor Tinsley.<\/p>\n

The Bruins struggled to gain traction against Terry, who joined Texas Tech following last season\u2019s exit from the WCWS. Terry replaced Canady in the third inning and retired 10 of the first 11 batters she faced.<\/p>\n

But in the seventh, UCLA scored three runs to force extra innings. Pinch-hitter Ramsey Suarez ignited the rally with a 270-foot home run to left field off Terry. Facing Canady, pinch-hitter Jazmine Leyva singled down the right-field line. Two batters later, Woolery blasted a 267-foot homer over the center-field wall to tie the score.<\/p>\n

Despite the late heroics, it wasn\u2019t enough to keep UCLA\u2019s season alive. Texas Tech (59-8) will play Alabama (56-7) Monday at 4 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Jordan Woolery nearly saved UCLA\u2019s season Sunday night at the Women\u2019s College World Series. She lined a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113832,15463,84437,113831,90270,113830,111207,35817,113833,113834,15713,19627,27,29,28,1769,113828,63517],"class_list":["post-317111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-9-inning-thriller","tag-batter","tag-bruins","tag-exit","tag-innings","tag-jordan-woolery","tag-kaitlyn-terry","tag-last-season","tag-left-field","tag-pinch-hitter-ramsey-suarez","tag-run","tag-terry","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-tech","tag-ucla-softball","tag-wcws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317111","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=317111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}