OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) \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’s 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 1\/3 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
Coach Mike White led Texas to the school’s 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
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AP college sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) \u2014 Teagan Kavan struck out five in the final two innings to back a strong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25380,557,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-323574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-ap-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323574","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=323574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}