Williams\u2019 26th home run of the season came after Alabama\u2019s Jena Young tied it at 4-all in the top of the seventh inning with a two-run homer.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech (60-8) kept alive its hopes of reaching the finals for a second consecutive season \u2014 both against the Longhorns.<\/p>\n
Alabama (56-8), which had a seven-game winning streak halted, still seeks its first finals appearance since 2014.<\/p>\n
Nijaree Canady (28-6), who picked up the victory with 2 2\/3 innings of work, set an NCAA record with her 18th career appearance in a WCWS game, breaking a tie with UCLA’s Debbie Doom. Canady struck out four, while allowing one earned run and three hits in relief of starter Kaitlyn Terry.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech’s first four runs came with two outs.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech got three hits off Alabama starter Jocelyn Briski in the second to tie it at 1-all. Hailey Toney tied it with a double down the right-field line for the first hit allowed by Briski in the NCAA Tournament with runners in scoring position \u2014 breaking a 0-for-15 streak.<\/p>\n
Lauren Allred, who had a walk-off sacrifice fly in last season\u2019s semifinal, gave Texas Tech a 2-1 lead in the third with a solo home run.<\/p>\n
Freshman Vic Moten (21-5) took the loss after entering with two on and one out in the fourth. She allowed three earned runs in 2 2\/3 innings, while striking out four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams\u2019 26th home run of the season came after Alabama\u2019s Jena Young tied it at 4-all in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[732,27,29,28,89414,88145],"class_list":["post-318518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-article","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-tp-colleges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318518","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=318518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}