{"id":323862,"date":"2026-06-05T09:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323862\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:40:14","slug":"texas-women-beat-texas-tech-4-1-to-claim-back-to-back-ncaa-softball-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323862\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas women beat Texas Tech 4-1 to claim back-to-back NCAA softball championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Associated Press;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Associated Press\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"35\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2020-12\/9b2f0f90-355f-11eb-bef3-afd1c608253f.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Updated Fri, June 5, 2026 at 2:42 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>1 \/ 0<\/p>\n<p>NCAA Texas Texas Tech Softball<\/p>\n<p>Texas&#8217; Jaycie Nichols celebrates after scoring during the second game of the NCAA Women&#8217;s College World Series softball finals against Texas Tech in Oklahoma City, Thursday, June 4, 2026. (AP Photo\/Kyle Phillips)<\/p>\n<p> (AP Photo\/Kyle Phillips)<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s 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 \u2014 in her final collegiate game \u2014 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 1\/3 innings. Kavan notched her fifth save.<\/p>\n<p>Canady (29-7) went the distance and allowed four runs \u2014 two earned \u2014 on eight hits with three walks.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Allred had an RBI single in the third to put Texas Tech up 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Mike White led Texas to the school&#8217;s 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. Texas Tech fell 7-3 in the opener.<\/p>\n<p>Texas won the rubber game of the three-game series against Texas Tech last season to claim its first title.<\/p>\n<p>__<\/p>\n<p>AP college sports: <a data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-sports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-sports\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Fri, June 5, 2026 at 2:42 AM UTC 1 \/ 0 NCAA Texas Texas Tech Softball Texas&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,111192,81031,27,1769],"class_list":["post-323862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-citlaly-gutierrez","tag-kayden-henry","tag-texas","tag-texas-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323862","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=323862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}