After three scoreless innings, Texas and Tennessee finally broke through in the fourth, trading runs to enter the fifth inning tied.<\/p>\n
Katie Stewart sparked the Longhorns’ offense with a solo home run to open the fifth, giving Texas its first lead of the game. Moments later, Hannah Wells delivered a clutch RBI single that plated two more runs and stretched the advantage to 4-1.<\/p>\n
Texas added an insurance run in the seventh when Ashton Maloney drove in a run, pushing the lead to 5-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tennessee threatened in the bottom half of the inning, as Emma Clarke brought home a run with the bases loaded, but the Longhorns limited the damage and closed out the 5-2 victory.<\/p>\n
Texas ace Citlaly Gutierrez was steady throughout, allowing just five hits and one earned run over 6 2\/3 innings while striking out three. The senior helped keep Tennessee’s offense in check, surrendering only eight total bases as the Longhorns secured the win.<\/p>\n
Texas left little doubt in the elimination game, rolling to a 4-0 victory behind a dominant performance from Teagan Kavan at the mound.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kavan struck out 10 and allowed just two hits over seven shutout innings, keeping Tennessee’s offense off balance from start to finish.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns provided plenty of support at the plate. Viviana Martinez and Reese Atwood each drove in a run, while Kayden Henry delivered one of the game’s most memorable moments with a daring steal of home. Stewart continued her standout day at the plate, launching her second home run to help power Texas to the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After three scoreless innings, Texas and Tennessee finally broke through in the fourth, trading runs to enter the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-318730","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\/318730","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=318730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}