{"id":323511,"date":"2026-06-05T03:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323511\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T03:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:38:08","slug":"texas-defeats-texas-tech-to-repeat-as-ncaa-softball-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323511\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas defeats Texas Tech to repeat as NCAA softball champions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OKLAHOMA CITY\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Teagan Kavan struck out five in the final two innings to back a strong start from Citlaly Gutierrez, and Kayden Henry homered to lead Texas to a 4-1 victory over Texas Tech on Thursday night at the Women\u2019s College World Series for a second straight national championship.<\/p>\n

Texas trailed 1-0 after four innings, but a bases-loaded throwing error by shortstop Hailey Toney allowed two unearned runs to score in the fifth for a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Henry homered off Red Raiders ace NiJaree Canady \u2014 in her final collegiate game \u2014 to begin the seventh and Leighann Goode singled to drive in the final run.<\/p>\n

Gutierrez (11-3) allowed one run on three hits in 4\u2153 innings. Kavan notched her fifth save.<\/p>\n

Canady (29-7) went the distance and allowed four runs \u2014 two earned \u2014 on eight hits with three walks.<\/p>\n

Lauren Allred had an RBI single in the third to put Texas Tech up 1-0.<\/p>\n

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Coach Mike White led Texas to the school\u2019s second title in his eighth season.<\/p>\n

Second-year coach Gerry Glasgo has led the Red Raiders to their only two WCWS appearances. Texas Tech fell 7-3 in the opener.<\/p>\n

Texas won the rubber game of the three-game series against Texas Tech last season to claim its first title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Teagan Kavan struck out five in the final two innings to back a strong start from Citlaly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111192,115683,115686,115684,24452,90270,81031,115657,56530,1775,115685,56161,27,29,28,1769,44674,7133],"class_list":["post-323511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-citlaly-gutierrez","tag-college-world-series-champion","tag-fifth-save","tag-final-run","tag-hit","tag-innings","tag-kayden-henry","tag-lauren-allred","tag-nijaree-canady","tag-red-raiders","tag-second-title","tag-teagan-kavan","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-tech","tag-thursday-night","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323511","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=323511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}