{"id":323525,"date":"2026-06-05T03:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323525\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T03:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:51:07","slug":"texas-sweeps-texas-tech-for-2nd-straight-ncaa-softball-title-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323525\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas sweeps Texas Tech for 2nd straight NCAA softball title \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Teagan 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<p>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<p>Henry homered off Red Raiders ace NiJaree Canady \u2013 in her final collegiate game \u2013 to begin the seventh and Leighann Goode singled to drive in the final run.<\/p>\n<p>Gutierrez (11-3) allowed one run on three hits in 4\u2153 innings. Kavan notched her fifth save.<\/p>\n<p>Canady (29-7) went the distance and allowed four runs \u2013 two earned \u2013 on eight hits with three walks.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Allred had an RBI single in the third to give Texas Tech its 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Mike White led Texas to the school\u2019s second title in his eighth season.<\/p>\n<p>Second-year coach Gerry Glasgo has led the Red Raiders to their only two WCWS appearances. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/06\/03\/texas-tops-texas-tech-in-game-1-of-wcws-title-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tech lost, 7-3, in the opener on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Texas won the rubber game of the three-game series against Texas Tech last season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2025\/06\/06\/womens-college-world-series-texas-routs-texas-tech-for-1st-national-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to claim its first title<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More to come on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Teagan Kavan struck out five in the final two innings to back a strong start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[416,154,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-323525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-sports","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323525","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=323525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}