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The Longhorns powered their way back to the WCWS championship series for the third straight year by sweeping No. 8 Tennessee in a Monday doubleheader, winning 5\u20132 and 4\u20130. Texas advanced to their fourth finals appearance in five seasons and remained perfect in elimination games in that time at 6\u20130.<\/p>\n
In the first win-or-go-home against the Vols, senior right\u2011hander Citlaly Gutierrez set the tone early. She retired the first 11 batters she faced and held Tennessee to one earned run across 6 and two-thirds innings. Texas broke a scoreless tie in the fourth when senior catcher Reese Atwood launched her 19th home run. After Tennessee briefly tied it, Texas answered with a three\u2011run fifth, highlighted by Hannah Wells, who knocked in two runs on her single off the center field wall. Teagan Kavan entered with two outs in the seventh and recorded a strikeout to secure the win.<\/p>\n
Kavan started and dominated Game 2, throwing a two\u2011hit shutout with 10 strikeouts to clinch the finals berth. She retired the first 11 batters without allowing a walk or extra\u2011base hit. Texas turned in three runs in the third, sparked by Viviana Martinez\u2019s RBI single and a double\u2011steal sequence that allowed Kayden Henry to score. Atwood added an RBI double, and Katie Stewart crushed her program\u2011record 30th home run in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Texas outhit Tennessee in both games and continued its record\u2011setting power surge, reaching 97 home runs on the season, looking to do more damage in the final series of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TEXAS TECH:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Texas Tech earned its second straight trip to the WCWS Finals by knocking off No.\u202f1 Alabama twice on Monday, capped by a 2\u20130 shutout behind ace NiJaree Canady. The Red Raiders have now won over 60 games this season.<\/p>\n
Texas Tech forced the second semifinal match with a 5\u20134 walk\u2011off win in Game 1. Mia Williams, hitless in her first three at\u2011bats, delivered the game\u2011winner with her 26th home run after Alabama tied the game in the seventh. Tech hit three homers in the opener, including a two\u2011run shot from Taylor Pannell and a solo blast from Lauren Allred. Canady earned the win in relief, striking out four and allowing one run in two and two-thirds innings.<\/p>\n
In Game 2, Canady returned to the circle and dominated. She threw a complete\u2011game two\u2011hit shutout with six strikeouts. Jasmyn Burns provided the early spark, drilling a leadoff home run in the fourth for a 1\u20130 lead. Tech added insurance in the seventh when Allred singled up the middle, scoring Mihyia Davis from first after an errant throw. Davis went 2\u2011for\u20113 and extended her program\u2011record hit total to 100.<\/p>\n
The Red Raiders finished with 10 hits, including two each from Williams, Davis, Allred and Burns. Alabama managed only two hits against Canady, who improved to 29\u20136 after throwing 57 pitches in the first game and returning to finish the night.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns won the 2025 national title over Tech in three games, but the Red Raiders enter this year\u2019s rematch with momentum and an improved pitching staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS: The Longhorns powered their way back to the WCWS championship series for the third straight year by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[226,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-321571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-homepage","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321571","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=321571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}