{"id":318105,"date":"2026-06-01T20:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/318105\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T20:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:50:18","slug":"texas-knocks-off-tennessee-5-2-to-stay-alive-at-wcws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/318105\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas knocks off Tennessee 5-2 to stay alive at WCWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) \u2014 Hannah Wells’ bases-loaded single in the fifth inning broke open a tight game and Texas forced a second semifinal game at the Women’s College World Series, defeating Tennessee 5-2 on Monday.<\/p>\n

Facing elimination for the fifth time in this NCAA Tournament, Texas (50-12) won to set up a win-or-go-home game between the two teams later in the day.<\/p>\n

Tied 1-1 through four innings, the Longhorns added three runs in the fifth. Katie Stewart’s one-out home run to left field made it 2-1, then Texas loaded the bases on a double, a walk and a single. Wells drove a 2-0 pitch off the center field wall<\/a> to score Reese Atwood and Viviana Martinez.<\/p>\n

In the circle, Citaly Gutierrez (10-3) cruised into the seventh inning, holding Tennessee (49-11) to one run. But the Lady Vols rallied and had the bases loaded with one out. With two out, Emma Clarke drove in a run with an infield single, making it 5-2 with the bases still loaded.<\/p>\n

Teagan Kavan, the hero of the Longhorns’ run to the 2025 WCWS championship, relieved Gutierrez and struck out Elsa Morrison to end the game.<\/p>\n

In Tennessee’s 6-3 win over Texas to open the World Series, Gutierrez allowed three runs in four innings. On Monday, she took a no-hitter to the fourth inning before allowing Gabby Leach’s RBI triple.<\/p>\n

Martinez and Stewart had three hits each for Texas, but Stewart struggled at first base, committing three of the Longhorns’ four errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) \u2014 Hannah Wells’ bases-loaded single in the fifth inning broke open a tight game and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[555,557,132,2845,416,223,154,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-318105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-app-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-austin","tag-college-baseball","tag-college-sports","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318105","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=318105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}